Today in History - History - June 25th

1995Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic

1947Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello

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

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

1991Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon

1993Kim Campbell becomes the 19th Prime Minister of Canada (although she would remain in office for less than five months)

1941FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination

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

1990African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George Bush at the White House

1987Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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