Today in History - History - June 25th

1947Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello

1991Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon

19471st version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands

192661st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham

1938"A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1

1987Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim

1948Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)

1989Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship

1942British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London

1995Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic

1963George Michael [Panos], London, British rock vocalist (Wham-I Want Your Sex)

1903George Orwell, [Eric A Blair], Bihar, British India, British writer (Animal Farm, 1984), (d. 1950)

1942Willis Reed, Hico Louisiana, NBA hall of fame MVP center/coach (NY Knicks)

1961Ricky Gervais, Reading England, actor and comedian (The Office)

1999Business magnate Rupert Murdoch (68) weds businesswoman Wendi Deng (30) at the yacht Morning Glory in New York harbor

2006Actress Nicole Kidman (45) weds country music singer-songwriter Keith Urban (44) at Cardinal Ceretti Memorial Chapel in Manly, Australia

1938Economist Milton Friedman (25) weds Rose Friedman at the Jewish Seminary in New York City

1987Actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus (26) weds actor Brad Hall (29)

1960NBA player Oscar Robertson (21) weds teacher Yvonne Crittenden in Cincinnati, Ohio

1927Pediatrician Benjamin Spock (24) weds civil liberties advocate Jane Cheney

1967MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan (20) weds his high school sweetheart Ruth Holdorff (18)

1983Actor Denzel Washington (28) weds actress Pauletta Pearson (33)

1968Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43

2009Michael Jackson, American recording artist, entertainer and King of Pop music (The Jackson 5, Thriller, Dangerous) dies of cardiac arrest at 50

1976Johnny Mercer, US songwriter (That old Black Magic), dies at 66

2009Farrah Fawcett, American actress and pop culture figure (b.1947)

1997Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer, dies of heart attack at 87

1876George Armstrong Custer, US General, dies at the Battle of Little Bighorn aged 36