June 25

June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

• 253 – Pope Cornelius is executed by beheading.
• 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vezeronce.
• 841 – Battle of Fontenay: Forces lead by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
• 1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg, the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and electors of Germany.
• 1658 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
• 1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to get a Doctorate of Philosophy, graduating from the University of Padua.
• 1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
• 1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers Saint George Island in the Pribilof Islands (now belonging to Alaska, US) in the Bering Sea.
• 1788 – Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
• 1876 – Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
• 1888 – Fire destroys Sundsvall, Sweden.
• 1900 – Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts of great historical significance, in the Magao Caves at Dunhuang, China.

1901 – 2000

• 1903 – Marie Curie announces the discovery of radium.
• 1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" is first performed in Paris.
• 1935 – Colombia and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
• 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.
• 1940 – World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Jews in the Czestochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
• 1944 – World War II: The Nordic countries' biggest battle of the war, of Tali-Ihantala, begins.
• 1945 – Seán T. O'Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
• 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (Diary of Anne Frank) is first published.
• 1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
• 1949 – "Long-Haired Hare", starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theatres.
• 1950 – The beginning of the Korean War.
• 1953 – In the UK, the murderer John Christie is sentenced to death.
• 1959 – Éamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland.
• 1960 – Two cryptographers working on the US National Security Agency leave for vacation in Mexico, and from there they defect to the Soviet Union.
• 1967 – First global satellite television programme – "Our World".
• 1973 – Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
• 1975 – Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
• 1975 – A State of Emergency is declared in India.
• 1976 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in New Guinea kills 422 people.
• 1978 – The Rainbow flag for Gay pride is flown for the first time in San Francisco.
• 1978 – Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, beating the Netherlands 3–1 in extra time.
• 1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
• 1982 – A match-fixing scandal erupts after West Germany and Austria both qualify from the group stage of the 1982 FIFA World Cup in a very slow-paced match, at Algeria's expense.
• 1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
• 1988 – In West Germany, the Netherlands wins the UEFA European Championship, defeating the Soviet Union 2–0. In the game, Dutch striker Marco van Basten scores a goal that is widely considered to be the best in European Championship history.
• 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
• 1993 – David Letterman airs his last episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
• 1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1993 – Tansu Ciller becomes the first female Prime Minister of Turkey.
• 1993 – Vienna Declaration is adopted by World Conference on Human Rights.
• 1996 – Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
• 1997 – The Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat erupts, killing 19 people.
• 1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides 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.

From 2001

• 2001 – A typhoon strikes Fujian province of China, killing over 100 people.
• 2006 – Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is kidnapped by Palestinian militants.
• 2007 – British soldiers leave Northern Ireland after 37 years.
• 2009 – Pop star Michael Jackson dies suddenly, aged 50, leading to a worldwide outpouring of grief.
• 2013 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes the 8th Emir of Qatar.
• 2014 – An explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, kills over 20 people.

Births

Up to 1900

• 1242 – Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1275)
• 1328 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
• 1373 – Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435)
• 1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
• 1568 – Gunilla Bielke, Queen of Sweden (d. 1597)
• 1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
• 1646 – Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, Italian philosopher (d. 1684)
• 1715 – Jean-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
• 1726 – Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798)
• 1755 – Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
• 1768 – Lazare Hoche, French general (d. 1797)
• 1799 – David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
• 1821 – Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina (d. 1906)
• 1825 – James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1888)
• 1842 – Eloy Alfaro, 15th President of Ecuador (d. 1912)
• 1852 – Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
• 1858 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
• 1860 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
• 1863 – Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935)
• 1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1941)
• 1865 – Robert Henri, painter (d. 1929)
• 1870 – Yi Jun-yong, Korean Joseon Dynasty politician (d. 1917)
• 1884 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
• 1886 – Henry H. Arnold, American general (d. 1950)
• 1887 – Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1938)
• 1887 – George Abbott, American playwright, screenwriter, producer, director and actor (d. 1995)
• 1894 – Hermann Oberth, physicist (d. 1989)
• 1896 – Alfred Anderson, Scottish centenarian and World War I veteran (d. 2005)
• 1900 – Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (d. 1979)

1901 – 1950

• 1902 – Prince Chichibu of Japan (d. 1953)
• 1903 – George Orwell, English writer (d. 1950)
• 1903 – Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
• 1903 – Bob Skelton, American swimmer (d. 1977)
• 1904 – Vladimir Kokkinaki, Russian test pilot (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer (d. 1976)
• 1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (d. 1973)
• 1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
• 1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist (d. 1980)
• 1912 – William T. Cahill, American politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Peter Lind Hayes, actor (d. 1998)
• 1917 – Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Claude Seignolle, French author (d. 2018)
• 1921 – Heinrich Windelen, German politician (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Nicholas Mosley, British writer (d. 2017)
• 1923 – Sam Francis, American painter (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Sidney Lumet, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011)
• 1925 – June Lockhart, American actress
• 1925 – Robert Venturi, American architect (d. 2018)
• 1926 – Margaret Anstee, British diplomat (d. 2016)
• 1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann, writer (d. 1973)
• 1926 – Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge and politician (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Antal Roka, Hungarian athlete (d. 1970)
• 1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist (d. 2017)
• 1928 – Peyo, Belgian comic book artist (d. 1992)
• 1928 – Alex Toth, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Eric Carle, American children's writer (d. 2021)
• 1929 – Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
• 1930 – George Murdock, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Mrunalini Devi Puar, Indian educator (d. 2015)
• 1931 – V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
• 1932 – George Sluizer, Dutch filmmaker (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Peter Blake, British artist
• 1933 – James Meredith, American civil rights activist
• 1935 – Charles Sheffield, English mathematician, physicist and science fiction author (d. 2002)
• 1935 – Larry Kramer, American writer and activist
• 1936 – Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia, 1998 – 1999
• 1937 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
• 1940 – Denys Arcand, French-Canadian movie director, screenwriter and producer
• 1940 – Peer Augustinski, German actor (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
• 1942 – Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
• 1945 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
• 1945 – Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (d. 2019)
• 1946 – Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator
• 1946 – Ian McDonald, British musician
• 1949 – Brigitte Bierlein, Austrian jurist and Chancellor of Austria

1951 – 1975

• 1952 – Martin Gerschwitz, German singer-songwriter, musician and composer
• 1954 – Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• 1954 – Mario Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1954 – David Paich, American singer-songwriter
• 1954 – Alison Leslie, British diplomat
• 1955 – Terry Chimes, musician
• 1956 – Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
• 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef and writer (d. 2018)
• 1957 – Greg Millen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
• 1960 – Aldo Serena, Italian footballer
• 1960 – Brian Hayward, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Ricky Gervais, British comedian and actor
• 1961 – Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakhstani producer and director
• 1962 – Phill Jupitus, British comedian and broadcaster
• 1963 – George Michael, British singer (d. 2016)
• 1963 – Yann Martel, Spanish-Canadian writer
• 1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 – John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
• 1964 – Johnny Herbert, British Formula One driver
• 1964 – Greg Raymer, American poker player
• 1966 – Richard Matt, American murderer and prison escapee (d. 2015)
• 1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
• 1969 – Zim Sum, American guitarist
• 1970 – Lucy Benjamin, British actress
• 1971 – Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
• 1971 – Scott Maslen, English actor
• 1971 – Jason Lewis, American actor
• 1972 – Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1972 – Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan politician
• 1973 – Milan Hnilicka, Czech ice hockey player
• 1973 – Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
• 1973 – Sunetra Sarker, English actress
• 1974 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
• 1975 – Derek Adams, Scottish footballer and coach
• 1975 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
• 1975 – Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
• 1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player

From 1976

• 1976 – José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
• 1976 – Carlos Niesto, Argentine-Italian rugby player
• 1976 – Iestyn Harris, Welsh rugby player
• 1976 – Gavin Williamson, English politician
• 1977 – Lola Ponce, Argentine-born Italian singer, actress and model
• 1979 – Daniel Jensen, Danish footballer
• 1979 – La La, American actress and TV host
• 1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
• 1981 – Sheridan Smith, English actress and singer
• 1981 – Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress
• 1982 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
• 1982 – Rain, Korean singer and actor
• 1982 – Cécile Cassel, French actress and singer
• 1983 – Marc Janko, Austrian footballer
• 1984 – Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer
• 1985 – Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
• 1985 – Hanna Pérez Moza, Mexican singer (Ha*Ash)
• 1985 – Karim Matmour, Algerian footballer
• 1986 – Gabriele Grunewald, American runner (d. 2019)
• 1986 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
• 1986 – Charlie Davies, American soccer player
• 1987 – Claudio Corti, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1987 – Alissa Czisny, American figure skater
• 1988 – Jhonas Enroth, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1989 – Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor, director, producer and screenwriter
• 1989 – Rafael Morais, Portuguese actor, director and screenwriter
• 1991 – Kyousuke Hamao, Japanese actor, singer and model
• 1991 – Victor Wanyama, Kenyan footballer
• 1991 – Simone Zaza, Italian footballer
• 1993 – Barney Clark, English actor
• 1997 – Rodrigo Bentancur, Uruguayan footballer
• 2002 – Mason Vale Cotton, American actor

Deaths

Up to 1900

• 253 – Pope Cornelius
• 635 – Emperor Gaozu, 1st Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 566)
• 1134 – King Niels of Denmark (b. 1034)
• 1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Norman crusader (b. 1160)
• 1291 – Eleanor of Provence (b. 1223)
• 1533 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496)
• 1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1541)
• 1593 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician (b. 1541)
• 1634 – John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
• 1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
• 1665 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1630)
• 1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
• 1686 – Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
• 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
• 1792 – Thomas Peters, Sierra Leone founding father (b. 1738)
• 1822 – E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776)
• 1857 – Langdon Cheves, American politician (b. 1776)
• 1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
• 1864 – King William I of Württemberg (b. 1781)
• 1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
• 1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
• 1876 – George Armstrong Custer, American army officer (b. 1839)
• 1876 – Thomas Custer, American army officer (b. 1845)
• 1876 – Boston Custer, American guide, forager, packer and scout (b. 1848)
• 1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
• 1884 – Hans Rott, composer (b. 1858)
• 1886 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, 11th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1809)
• 1889 – Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (b. 1831)
• 1898 – Ferdinand Julius Cohn, German botanist and microbiologist (b. 1828)

1901 – 2000

• 1906 – Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853)
• 1916 – Thomas Eakins, artist (b. 1844)
• 1922 – Satyendranath Dutta, Bengali poet (b. 1882)
• 1929 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist and novelist (b. 1858)
• 1932 – Howard Valentine, American track and field athlete (b. 1881)
• 1933 – Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter (b. 1868)
• 1937 – Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
• 1939 – Dick Seaman, English racing driver (b. 1913)
• 1944 – Dénes Berinkey, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871)
• 1944 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
• 1948 – William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
• 1949 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
• 1960 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
• 1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician (b. 1880)
• 1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
• 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Bob Skelton, American swimmer (b. 1903)
• 1979 – Dave Fleischer, American animator, director and producer (b. 1894)
• 1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
• 1983 – Oddbjorn Hagen, Norwegian skier (b. 1908)
• 1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
• 1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (b. 1962)
• 1992 – James Stirling, British architect (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Warren E. Burger, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice (b. 1907)
• 1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (b. 1905)
• 1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, movie maker and inventor (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Tommy Ivan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)

From 2001

• 2003 – Lester Maddox, segregationist Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Kenneth Griffith, British actor and director (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Erika Crusardson, artist and actress (b. 1975)
• 2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Michael Jackson, American entertainer and singer (b. 1958)
• 2009 – Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1937)
• 2011 – Margaret Tyzack, British actress (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist (b. 1916)
• 2014 – Ana Maria Matute, Spanish writer (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Nigel Calder, English science writer (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Arvid Jacobsen, Norwegian newspaper editor (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Patrick Macnee, English-American actor (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Bill Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1929)
• 2016 – Giuseppe Ferrara, Italian movie director (b. 1932)
• 2016 – Patrick Mayhew, British politician, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (b. 1929)
• 2016 – Nicole Courcel, French actress (b. 1931)
• 2016 – Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo, Indian writer (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Elsa Daniel, Argentine actress (b. 1938)
• 2017 – K. R. Mohanan, Indian film director (b. 1947)
• 2017 – José Manuel Mourinho Félix, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Walter Fillmore, American general (b. 1933)
• 2018 – Paul Gérin-Lajoie, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
• 2018 – Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television presenter (b. 1941)
• 2018 – David Goldblatt, South African photographer and critic of Apartheid (b. 1930)
• 2018 – James M. Keck, American lieutenant general (b. 1921)
• 2019 – Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (b. 1945)
• 2019 – Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)

Observances

• Independence Day (Mozambique)
• National Day of Slovenia and Croatia
• Statehood Day (Virginia)
• National Catfish Day (United States)
• Arbor Day (Philippines)