Today in History - History - June 25th

1934NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2

1989Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship

1948Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1942British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London

1888Republican Convention in Chicago nominates Benjamin Harrison

1988Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game

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

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

1995Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic

1876Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel (sometime Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, Custer killed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1999"Sudden Death" action star Jean-Claude Van Damme (38) weds Gladys Portugues in Knokke-Heist, Belgium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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