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Birthday June 25, 1745 South Carolina Patriot Thomas Tudor Tucker born in Bermuda |
Birthday June 25, 1886 Henry (Hap) Arnold, commanding general, US Army Air Force in WW II |
Birthday June 25, 1887 George Abbott, Broadway luminary |
Birthday June 25, 1894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics |
Birthday June 25, 1900 Lord Louis Mountbatten is born |
Birthday June 25, 1900 Earl Mountbatten, of Burma, royal relative |
Birthday June 25, 1903 George Orwell, English satirist, author (Animal Farm, 1984) |
Birthday June 25, 1907 J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (atomic nuclei) (Nobel 1963) |
Birthday June 25, 1924 Sidney Lumet, movie director |
Birthday June 25, 1925 Robert Venturi, American architect |
Birthday June 25, 1925 June Lockhart, in NYC - Lassie's mom |
Birthday June 25, 1942 Willis Reed, Basketball hall-of-famer |
Birthday June 25, 1945 Carly Simon, NYC (You're So Vain) |
Birthday June 25, 1949 Phyllis George, in Denton Tx - Miss America |
Birthday June 25, 1963 George Michael,in England |
Birthday June 25, 1984 Hermann Oberth, father of German rocketry |
History June 25, 1178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon |
History June 25, 1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop |
History June 25, 1638 A lunar eclipse becomes the known astronomical event recorded |
History June 25, 1788 Va becomes 10th state |
History June 25, 1835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF) |
History June 25, 1857 Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal is published |
History June 25, 1864 Union begins tunneling toward Rebels at Petersburg |
History June 25, 1868 FL AL LA GA NC SC readmitted to US |
History June 25, 1876 Lt Col Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne |
History June 25, 1876 Indians defeat Custer at Little Big Horn |
History June 25, 1903 Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18 |
History June 25, 1906 Architect Stanford White shot dead atop Madison Square Garden (which he designed) by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit |
History June 25, 1910 Congress passes Mann Act |
History June 25, 1915 Germans release statement on use of poison gas at Ypres |
History June 25, 1919 1st flight Junkers F13 advanced monoplane airliner |
History June 25, 1929 Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) |
History June 25, 1934 Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times |
History June 25, 1938 federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40› per hour |
History June 25, 1942 Eisenhower takes command |
History June 25, 1942 Eisenhower assumes command of U.S. troops in Europe |
History June 25, 1942 British RAF staged a thousand-bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) |
History June 25, 1948 Joe Louis defeats Jersey Joe Walcott |
History June 25, 1950 Korean War begins |
History June 25, 1950 El Al begins air service |
History June 25, 1950 Korean Conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea |
History June 25, 1950 U.S. World Cup team wins unlikely victory over England |
History June 25, 1951 1st color TV broadcast - CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities |
History June 25, 1953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours |
History June 25, 1956 Last Packard produced |
History June 25, 1957 Hurricane Audrey hits Gulf Coast |
History June 25, 1960 Walter Baade - astronomer - dies |
History June 25, 1961 Yankee's Roger Maris hits his 40th of 61 HRs |
History June 25, 1962 Yankee Jack Reed's 22nd inning HR wins a 7 hour game |
History June 25, 1962 Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional |
History June 25, 1965 Viet Cong blow up a floating restaurant |
History June 25, 1969 U.S. Navy turns boats over to South Vietnamese Navy |
History June 25, 1973 Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m |
History June 25, 1973 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee |
History June 25, 1975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day) |
History June 25, 1977 Report of LBJ having cancer operation while Pres denied |
History June 25, 1977 Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightening for 7th time! |
History June 25, 1981 Supreme Court held male-only draft registration - constitutional |
History June 25, 1982 SF holds its 1st County Fair |
History June 25, 1982 Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns Schultz replaces |
History June 25, 1988 Teenager Debbie Gibson earns a #1 hit with Foolish Beat |
History June 25, 1993 Kim Campbell takes office |
History June 25, 2009 “King of Pop†Michael Jackson dies at age 50 |