June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining.
Events
- 841 - Battle of Fontenay
- 1530 - The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
- 1678 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
- 1788 - Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
- 1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of General George Armstrong Custer.
- 1905 - Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond known, is discovered by Frederick Wells.
- 1938 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated the first President of Ireland.
- 1945 - Seán T. O'Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
- 1950 - The beginning of the Korean War.
- 1959 - Eamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland.
- 1961 - Pianist Bill Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian give their final performances as a trio, at the Village Vanguard in New York City. (LaFaro would die in an automobile accident on July 6.)
- 1967 - First global satellite television programme – "Our World"
- 1973 - Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
- 1975 - State of Emergency in India declared.
- 1975 - Mozambique achieved independence.
- 1976 - Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints.
- 1978 - Argentina wins the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
- 1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
- 1983 - India wins the Cricket World Cup.
- 1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
- 1993 - Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1993 - After 11 years at NBC, David Letterman airs his final Late Night with David Letterman and leaves NBC for CBS.
- 1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
- 1997 - An unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian Space station, Mir.
- 1998 - Microsoft Windows 98 is released.
- 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 - The American soap opera Another World airs its 8891st and final episode.
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Births
- 1328 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
- 1560 - Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
- 1612 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
- 1715 - Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
- 1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
- 1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
- 1858 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
- 1860 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
- 1864 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
- 1865 - Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
- 1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
- 1887 - George Abbott, American playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, and actor (d. 1995)
- 1894 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
- 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
- 1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
- 1903 - Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1907 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1908 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
- 1911 - William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
- 1912 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
- 1913 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
- 1921 - Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer
- 1923 - Nicholas Mosley, British writer
- 1924 - Sidney Lumet, American actor and director
- 1925 - June Lockhart, American actress
- 1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
- 1928 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1928 - Peyo, Belgian illustrator (The Smurfs) (d. 1992)
- 1929 - Eric Carle, American children's author
- 1930 - Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
- 1932 - Peter Blake, English artist
- 1933 - James Meredith, American civil rights activist
- 1933 - Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
- 1935 - Eddie Floyd, American R&B singer
- 1939 - Harold Melvin, American drummer and singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
- 1940 - A.J. Quinnell, English thriller and mystery writer (d. 2005)
- 1941 - Denys Arcand, Quebec film director
- 1942 - Michel Tremblay, Quebec playright and novelist
- 1944 - Robert Charlebois, Quebec singer and composer
- 1945 - Carly Simon, American singer
- 1946 - Roméo Dallaire, Canadian General
- 1946 - Ian McDonald, keybord player and composer (King Crimson and Foreigner)
- 1954 - David Paich, keybord player and composer (Toto)
- 1956 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
- 1957 - John Porcerelli, Former Professional Boxer, Preeminent Psychologist and Doctor
- 1963 - George Michael, English singer
- 1963 - Yann Martel, Canadian author
- 1963 - Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1964 - Johnny Herbert, British Formula One driver
- 1966 - Dikembe Mutombo, Congan basketball player
- 1969 - Matt Gallant, U.S. television host
- 1969 - Zim Zum, American musician/songwriter
- 1970 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress
- 1970 - Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete, Olympian
- 1971 - Angela Kinsey, American actress
- 1971 - Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
- 1972 - Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
- 1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- 1975 - Linda Cardellini, American actress
- 1975 - Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
- 1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
- 1975 - Tatiana Lysenko, Russian gymnast
- 1976 - José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
- 1981 - Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
- 1982 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
- 1983 - Nargis Farahmand, Afghan poet
- 1984 - Amrita Hunjan, British RnB Singer
- 1986 - Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
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Deaths
- 1134 - King Niels of Denmark
- 1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
- 1483 - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
- 1522 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
- 1533 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
- 1579 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
- 1593 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
- 1634 - John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
- 1638 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
- 1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
- 1669 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
- 1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
- 1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
- 1798 - Thomas Sandby, English cartographer and architect (b. 1721)
- 1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776)
- 1838 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
- 1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
- 1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
- 1875 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
- 1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (killed in battle) (b. 1839)
- 1882 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
- 1884 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
- 1916 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
- 1937 - Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
- 1948 - William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
- 1960 - Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869)
- 1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
- 1974 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
- 1976 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
- 1983 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
- 1987 - Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
- 1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (b. 1962)
- 1992 - Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
- 1995 - Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1907)
- 1995 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- 1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, and inventor (b. 1910)
- 2002 - Jean Corbeil, Quebec politician (b. 1934)
- 2003 - Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
- 2005 - John Fiedler, voice of Piglet in many Winnie the Pooh productions (b. 1925)
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Holidays and Observances
- Statehood Day in Slovenia and Croatia
- Antichristmas celebrated by some Satanists (see also Midsummer)
- National Catfish Day
- Spain – Fiesta of Santa Orosia
- Mozambique – Independence Day