Notable Historical Events on June 25th
June 25th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
253 |
St Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
524 |
Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians. |
841 |
Battle at Fontenay: Louis & Charles beat their brother Lotharius I |
1080 |
Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clemens III |
1096 |
1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany |
1139 |
Battle of Ourique: Afonso I defeats Moors |
1178 |
5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon |
1183 |
Peace of Konstanz |
1243 |
Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV |
1298 |
Rindfleisch Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany |
1500 |
Pope Alexander VI accept Treaty of Granada |
1580 |
Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published |
1606 |
Alkmaarse clergy asks "Great Dertelheyt" |
1606 |
St Jansday is forbidden |
1607 |
Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary & Moravia |
1621 |
French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle |
1630 |
Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop |
1638 |
Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies |
1646 |
Thomas Fairfax's New Model Army occupies Oxford |
1658 |
Spanish garrison at Dunkirk surrenders to French & British |
1667 |
Dr Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion |
1672 |
1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass |
1675 |
Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden |
1678 |
Elena Cornaro Piscopia, a Venetian, is awarded a doctorate of philosophy - first women to receive a university doctoral decree |
1716 |
Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands |
1749 |
General fast because of drought in MA |
1788 |
Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution |
1794 |
French troops occupy Charleroi |
1798 |
US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens |
1834 |
Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published |
1835 |
1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF) |
1861 |
Western Virginia campaign |
1862 |
Battle of Oak Grove, VA (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days |
1863 |
US General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive |
1864 |
Horse tramway at the Hague, opens |
1864 |
Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines |
1867 |
1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio |
1868 |
FL, AL, LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to US |
1868 |
US President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day |
1870 |
Opera "Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)" is produced (Munich) |
1876 |
Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel (sometime Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, Custer killed |
1888 |
Republican Convention in Chicago nominates Benjamin Harrison |
1894 |
American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike |
1894 |
Boer leader Paul Kruger meets the British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station in South Africa and accompanies him to his hotel to discuss the grievances of the Uitlanders (Foreigners) |
1900 |
Russia mobilizes its army in eastern Siberia preparatory to acting against the Chinese, but also in an attempt to diminish the influence of Japan on the Asian mainland |
1903 |
Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18 |
1903 |
Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 & 5-3 |
1905 |
Warsaw & Lodz revolt against Russian occupation |
1909 |
George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament |
1910 |
Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes) |
1913 |
Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority) |
1913 |
American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913. |
1916 |
Russian Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov |
1918 |
Baku-Turkish communist party forms |
1919 |
1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13) |
1919 |
Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg |
1920 |
League of Nations places Internationall Court of Justice in Hague |
1921 |
56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St Andrews |
1921 |
Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 mins Aust v Notts |
1925 |
Military putsch under Gen Theodorus Pangulos in Greece |
1926 |
61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham |
1927 |
WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout |
1928 |
NY Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader |
1929 |
President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) |
1932 |
36th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY |
1932 |
Commencement of India's 1st cricket Test v England at Lord's |
1934 |
Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets v Australia (7-61 & 8-43) |
1934 |
NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2 |
1934 |
Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times |
1935 |
Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium |
1937 |
Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit HRs in a game |
1938 |
"A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1 |
1938 |
Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week |
1940 |
Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in France |
1941 |
-26] Russian counter attack at Rovno |
1941 |
FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination |
1941 |
Fair Employment Practices Commission established |
1941 |
Finland declares war on Soviet Union |
1941 |
Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there |
1942 |
British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) |
1942 |
British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London |
1942 |
Maj Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe |
1943 |
Crematorium 3 at Birkenau is finished |
1943 |
Racial unrest in Detroit |
1943 |
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommissar in the Netherlands, orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians |
1944 |
British assault at Caen, Normandy |
1945 |
Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas |
1945 |
Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa |
1947 |
1st version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands |
1947 |
Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello |
1948 |
Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
1948 |
Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US) |
1949 |
Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote) |
1949 |
Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny. |
1950 |
Israeli airline El Al begins service |
1950 |
Johnny Pramesa (Reds) & Hank Thompson (Giants) hit inside the park HRs |
1950 |
Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea |
1950 |
UN member states begin using integrated forces against North Korea |
1951 |
1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities |
1952 |
"Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 597 perfs |
1952 |
34th PGA Championship: Jim Turnesa at Big Spring CC Louisville |
1952 |
Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election |
1953 |
1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours |
1953 |
86°F in Anchorage Alaska |
1955 |
"Can Can" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 892 performances |
1955 |
"Imogene Coca Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
1956 |
51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" (Cape Cod) |
1956 |
WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
"Jonathan Winters Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
1960 |
Earthquake in NE Belgium |
1960 |
Madagascar gains independence from France |
1960 |
Somaliland is granted independence by British government |
1960 |
South Africa beats New Zealand 13-0 in the first rugby test of the series in Johannesburg |
1961 |
Balt & California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns |
1961 |
Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees) |
1962 |
Inonu government forms in Turkey |
1962 |
Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms |
1962 |
Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional |
1963 |
Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies |
1963 |
JFK speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt |
1963 |
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested |
1963 |
Curnick Ndlovu, South African Trade Unionist and African National Congress Leader, is arrested |
1964 |
Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ) |
1964 |
WMCA (NYC) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th |
1965 |
Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kádár as premier of Hungary |
1966 |
Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
1966 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad |
1966 |
Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched |
1967 |
400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special |
1967 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
1967 |
KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years |
1967 |
First global satellite television programme - Our World |
1968 |
Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants) |
1969 |
Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon |
1971 |
Stevie Wonder releases "Where I'm Coming From" |
1972 |
Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball |
1972 |
Juan Peron elected president of Argentina |
1973 |
John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee |
1973 |
Russian communist party leader Brezhnev visits France |
1973 |
Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m |
1975 |
After a prolonged liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rulers, Mozambique becomes independent as People Republic of Mozambique. |
1976 |
Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader |
1976 |
The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting |
1977 |
Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightning for 7th time! |
1978 |
Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires |
1978 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1979 |
"Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances |
1979 |
Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium |
1980 |
"Fearless Frank" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 12 performances |
1981 |
Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional |
1981 |
Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington. |
1982 |
Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges |
1982 |
San Francisco holds its 1st County Fair |
1982 |
US Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns, replaced by Schultz |
1982 |
Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military. |
1982 |
South African President P.W. Botha issues a new Proclamation again placing Ingwavuma under government control |
1983 |
"Evita" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 1568 performances |
1983 |
India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
1983 |
Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m |
1984 |
Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America |
1984 |
STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem |
1985 |
Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK, explodes (21 die) |
1986 |
Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud |
1986 |
Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release |
1987 |
Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim |
1988 |
"Chess" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 68 performances |
1988 |
104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June |
1988 |
Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game |
1988 |
Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs |
1988 |
Iceland's President Vigdis Finnbogadóttir elected (90+%) |
1988 |
Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1988 |
Neth soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against USSR) |
1988 |
Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" |
1989 |
"Day By Day" last airs on NBC-TV |
1989 |
1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC) |
1989 |
Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
1989 |
Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils |
1990 |
"Dave Thomas Comedy Show" last airs on CBS-TV |
1990 |
120°F in Phoenix Arizona |
1990 |
NBC decides to air episodes of "Quantum Leap" for 5 straight days |
1990 |
Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known |
1990 |
Anti-government riots break out in Lusaka, Zambia |
1990 |
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George Bush at the White House |
1991 |
Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon |
1991 |
Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia |
1991 |
Japan lifts its call for voluntary restraint on expanding trade with South Africa |
1991 |
Six persons are killed and eighteen injured when gunmen open fire on a crowded commuter train in Soweto, South Africa |
1992 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague |
1992 |
Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores |
1992 |
STS 50 launches (Columbia) |
1993 |
NY Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame |
1993 |
Parliamentary election in Morocco |
1993 |
Kim Campbell becomes the 19th Prime Minister of Canada (although she would remain in office for less than five months) |
1994 |
1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina |
1994 |
105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico |
1994 |
111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas |
1994 |
Cleve Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6 |
1994 |
Gay Games close in NYC |
1994 |
Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns |
1995 |
Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic |
1995 |
Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to HR in 3 consecutive innings |
1996 |
The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen. |
1997 |
Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million |
1997 |
Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby (Orbit 9) |
1997 |
Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful |
1997 |
J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game |
1997 |
NHL approves franchises in Nash, Atlanta, Columbus, & Minn-St Paul |
1997 |
Progress M-34 Collides with & damages Mir Space Station |
1997 |
Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop |
1998 |
In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional. |
1999 |
53rd NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1 |
1999 |
In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime; the nation's murder rate is the third highest in the world and more than 49,000 cases of rape were reported in 1998 |
2000 |
46th LPGA Championship won by Juli Inkster |
2007 |
2007 United Kingdom floods, parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire flood including Louth, Horncastle and worst affected, Hull. |
2008 |
Atlantis Plastics shooting, An employee shot and killed five people after an argument, which ended in the gunman's suicide in Henderson, Kentucky. |
2009 |
Colombia enters into recession after witnessing 0.7% contraction in the last quarter of 2008 and 0.6% in the following quarter |
2012 |
33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey |
2013 |
37 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in the Central African Republic |
2014 |
Luis Suárez is charged with biting at the 2014 FIFA World Cup |
2016 |
Obama says US special relationship with Britain will endure |
2016 |
Gold races to 2-year high as investors seek refuge from Brexit |
2017 |
Hopes fading in China for 118 still missing day after landslide |
2017 |
15 bodies found after landslide buries scores in China |
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