June 25 Events 524 - The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce . 841 - In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye , forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine . 1258 - War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Acre , the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet sailing to relieve Acre . 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 is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua . 1741 - Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary . 1786 - Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea . 1788 - Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution . 1848 - A photograph of the June Days uprising becomes the first known instance of photojournalism . 1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer . 1900 - The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts , a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang , China. 1906 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White . 1910 - The United States Congress passes the Mann Act , which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come. 1910 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer. 1913 - American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913 . 1935 - Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established. 1938 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland . 1940 - World War II: The French armistice with Germany comes into effect. 1943 - The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis. 1943 - The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz . 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala , the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries , begins. 1944 - World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg . 1944 - The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died. 1947 - The Diary of a Young Girl is published. 1950 - The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea . 1960 - Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union . 1975 - Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal . 1975 - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India. 1976 - Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order , formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . 1978 - The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade . 1981 - Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington . 1991 - Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence by referendum from Yugoslavia . 1993 - Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada . 1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen. 1997 - An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir . 1997 - The National Hockey League approved expansion franchises for Nashville , Atlanta , Columbus , and Minneapolis-Saint Paul . 1998 - In Clinton v. City of New York , the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional . 2017 - The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has over 200,000 cases of cholera.Births 1242 - Beatrice of England 1328 - William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury , English commander 1371 - Joanna II of Naples 1484 - Bartholomeus V. Welser, German banker 1526 - Elisabeth Parr, Marchioness of Northampton 1560 - Wilhelm Fabry , German surgeon 1568 - Gunilla Bielke , Queen of Sweden 1612 - John Albert Vasa , Polish cardinal 1709 - Francesco Araja , Italian composer 1715 - Joseph Foullon de Doué , French soldier and politician, Controller-General of Finances 1755 - Natalia Alexeievna of Russia 1799 - David Douglas , Scottish-English botanist and explorer 1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée , French geologist and engineer 1825 - James Farnell , Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales 1852 - Antoni Gaudí , Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell 1858 - Georges Courteline , French author and playwright 1860 - Gustave Charpentier , French composer and conductor 1863 - Émile Francqui , Belgian soldier and diplomat 1864 - Walther Nernst , German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate 1866 - Eloísa Díaz , Chilean doctor and Chile's first female physician 1874 - Rose O'Neill , American cartoonist , illustrator, artist, and writer 1884 - Géza Gyóni , Hungarian soldier and poet 1884 - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler , German-French art collector and historian 1886 - Henry H. Arnold, American general 1887 - George Abbott , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1887 - Frigyes Karinthy , Hungarian author, poet, and journalist 1892 - Shirō Ishii , Japanese microbiologist and general 1894 - Hermann Oberth , Romanian-German physicist and engineer 1898 - Kay Sage , American painter and poet 1900 - Marta Abba , Italian actress 1900 - Zinaida Aksentyeva , Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer 1900 - Georgia Hale , American silent film actress and real estate investor 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma , English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India 1901 - Harold Roe Bartle , American businessman and politician, 47th Mayor of Kansas City 1902 - Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu of Japan 1903 - George Orwell , British novelist, essayist, and critic 1903 - Anne Revere , American actress 1905 - Rupert Wildt , German-American astronomer and academic 1907 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1908 - Willard Van Orman Quine , American philosopher and academic 1911 - William Howard Stein , American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1912 - William T. Cahill, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey 1913 - Cyril Fletcher , English actor and screenwriter 1915 - Whipper Billy Watson , Canadian-American wrestler and trainer 1917 - Nils Karlsson , Swedish skier 1917 - Claude Seignolle , French author 1918 - P. H. Newby, English soldier and author 1920 - Lassie Lou Ahern , American actress 1921 - Celia Franca , English-Canadian ballerina and choreographer, founded the National Ballet of Canada 1922 - Johnny Smith , American guitarist and songwriter 1923 - Sam Francis , American soldier and painter 1923 - Dorothy Gilman , American author 1923 - Jamshid Amouzegar , 43rd Prime Minister of Iran 1924 - Sidney Lumet , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1924 - Dimitar Isakov , Bulgarian football player 1924 - Madan Mohan , Iraqi-Indian composer and director 1924 - William J. Castagna, American lawyer and judge 1925 - Clifton Chenier , American singer-songwriter and accordion player 1925 - June Lockhart , American actress 1925 - Clay Evans , American Baptist pastor 1925 - Robert Venturi , American architect and academic 1925 - Virginia Patton , American actress and businesswoman 1926 - Margaret Anstee , English diplomat 1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann , Austrian author and poet 1926 - Kep Enderby , Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia 1926 - Stig Sollander , Swedish Alpine skier 1927 - Antal Róka , Hungarian runner 1927 - Chuck Smith , American pastor, founded the Calvary Chapel 1927 - Arnold Wolfendale , English astronomer and academic 1928 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov , Russian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1928 - John A. Wickham Jr., United States Army general 1928 - Michel Brault , Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter 1928 - Peyo , Belgian author and illustrator, created The Smurfs 1928 - Bill Russo , American pianist and composer 1928 - Alex Toth , American animator and screenwriter 1929 - Eric Carle , American author and illustrator 1929 - Francesco Marchisano , Italian cardinal 1931 - V. P. Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of India 1932 - Peter Blake , English painter and illustrator 1932 - Tim Parnell , English race car driver 1932 - George Sluizer , French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter 1933 - Álvaro Siza Vieira , Portuguese architect, designed the Porto School of Architecture 1934 - Jean Geissinger , American baseball player 1934 - Jack W. Hayford, American minister and author 1934 - Beatriz Sheridan , Mexican actress and director 1935 - Ray Butt , English television producer and director 1935 - Salihu Ibrahim , Nigerian Army Officer 1935 - Taufiq Ismail , Indonesian poet and activist 1935 - Larry Kramer , American author, playwright, and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis 1935 - Don Demeter , American professional baseball player 1935 - Tony Lanfranchi , English race car driver 1935 - Judy Howe , American artistic gymnast 1935 - Charles Sheffield , English-American mathematician, physicist, and author 1936 - B. J. Habibie, Indonesian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Indonesia 1936 - Bert Hölldobler , German biologist and entomologist 1937 - Eddie Floyd , American R&B/soul singer-songwriter 1937 - Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland , English politician 1937 - Doreen Wells , English ballerina and actress 1939 - Allen Fox , American tennis player and coach 1940 - Judy Amoore , Australian runner 1940 - Mary Beth Peil , American actress and singer 1940 - A. J. Quinnell, English-Maltese author 1940 - Clint Warwick , English bass player 1941 - Denys Arcand , Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter 1941 - John Albert Raven , Scottish academic and ecologist 1942 - Nikiforos Diamandouros , Greek academic and politician 1942 - Willis Reed , American basketball player, coach, and manager 1942 - Michel Tremblay , Canadian author and playwright 1944 - Robert Charlebois , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1944 - Gary David Goldberg , American screenwriter and producer 1945 - Carly Simon , American singer-songwriter 1945 - Baba Gana Kingibe , Nigerian politician 1945 - Harry Womack , American singer 1946 - Roméo Dallaire , Dutch-Canadian general and politician 1946 - Allen Lanier , American guitarist and songwriter 1946 - Ian McDonald , English guitarist and saxophonist 1947 - John Hilton , English table tennis player 1947 - John Powell , American discus thrower 1947 - Jimmie Walker , American actor and comedian 1949 - Richard Clarke , Irish archbishop 1949 - Patrick Tambay , French race car driver 1949 - Yoon Joo-sang , South Korean actor 1950 - Marcello Toninelli , Italian author and screenwriter 1951 - Eva Bayer-Fluckiger , Swiss mathematician and academic 1952 - Péter Erdő , Hungarian cardinal 1952 - Tim Finn , New Zealand singer-songwriter 1952 - Martin Gerschwitz , German singer-songwriter and keyboard player 1952 - Alan Green , Northern Irish sportscaster 1952 - Kristina Abelli Elander , Swedish artist 1953 - Olivier Ameisen , French-American cardiologist and educator 1953 - Ian Davis , Australian cricketer 1954 - Mario Lessard , Canadian ice hockey player 1954 - David Paich , American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer 1954 - Lina Romay , Spanish actress 1954 - Daryush Shokof , Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter 1954 - Sonia Sotomayor , American lawyer and judge 1955 - Vic Marks , English cricketer and sportscaster 1956 - Anthony Bourdain , American chef and author 1956 - Frank Paschek , German long jumper 1956 - Boris Trajkovski , Macedonian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Macedonia 1956 - Craig Young , Australian rugby player and coach 1957 - Greg Millen , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster 1958 - George Becali , Romanian businessman, politician 1959 - Lutz Dombrowski , German long jumper and educator 1959 - Jari Puikkonen , Finnish ski jumper 1959 - Bobbie Vaile , Australian astrophysicist and astronomer 1960 - Alastair Bruce of Crionaich , English-Scottish journalist and author 1960 - Brian Hayward , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster 1960 - Craig Johnston , South African-Australian footballer and photographer 1960 - Laurent Rodriguez , French rugby player 1961 - Timur Bekmambetov , Kazakh director, producer, and screenwriter 1961 - Ricky Gervais , English comedian, actor, director, producer and singer 1963 - John Benjamin Hickey , American actor 1963 - Yann Martel , Spanish-Canadian author 1963 - Doug Gilmour , Canadian ice hockey player and manager 1963 - George Michael , English singer-songwriter and producer 1963 - Mike Stanley , American baseball player 1964 - Dell Curry , American basketball player and coach 1964 - Phil Emery , Australian cricketer 1964 - Johnny Herbert , English race car driver and sportscaster 1964 - John McCrea , American singer-songwriter and musician 1964 - Greg Raymer , American poker player and lawyer 1965 - Napole Polutele , French politician 1965 - Kerri Pottharst , Australian beach volleyball player 1965 - Joseph Hii Teck Kwong , Malaysian bishop 1966 - Dikembe Mutombo , Congolese-American basketball player 1967 - Tracey Spicer , Australian journalist 1968 - Adrian Garvey , Zimbabwean-South African rugby player 1968 - Vaios Karagiannis , Greek footballer and manager 1969 - Hunter Foster , American actor and singer 1969 - Zim Zum , American guitarist and songwriter 1970 - Ariel Gore , American journalist and author 1970 - Roope Latvala , Finnish guitarist 1970 - Erki Nool , Estonian decathlete and politician 1970 - Aaron Sele , American baseball player and scout 1971 - Karen Darke , English cyclist and author 1971 - Jason Gallian , Australian-English cricketer and educator 1971 - Rod Kafer , Australian rugby player and sportscaster 1971 - Neil Lennon , Northern Irish-Scottish footballer and manager 1971 - Michael Tucker , American baseball player 1972 - Carlos Delgado , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach 1972 - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , Libyan engineer and politician 1973 - René Corbet , Canadian ice hockey player 1973 - Milan Hnilička , Czech ice hockey player 1973 - Jamie Redknapp , English footballer and coach 1974 - Nisha Ganatra , Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter 1974 - Glen Metropolit , Canadian ice hockey player 1975 - Kiur Aarma , Estonian journalist and producer 1975 - Linda Cardellini , American actress 1975 - Albert Costa , Spanish tennis player and coach 1975 - Vladimir Kramnik , Russian chess player 1975 - Michele Merkin , American model and television host 1976 - José Cancela , Uruguayan footballer 1976 - Iestyn Harris , Welsh rugby player and coach 1976 - Carlos Nieto , Argentinian-Italian rugby player 1976 - Neil Walker , American swimmer 1978 - Aramis Ramírez , Dominican-American baseball player 1978 - Luke Scott , American baseball player 1978 - Marcus Stroud , American football player 1979 - Marko Albert , Estonian swimmer and triathlete 1979 - Richard Hughes , Scottish footballer 1979 - Busy Philipps , American actress 1981 - Simon Ammann , Swiss ski jumper 1982 - Rain , South Korean singer and actor 1982 - Mikhail Youzhny , Russian tennis player 1983 - Todd Cooper , English swimmer 1983 - Marc Janko , Austrian footballer 1984 - Lauren Bush , American model and fashion designer 1985 - Karim Matmour , Algerian footballer 1986 - Aya Matsuura , Japanese singer and actress 1986 - Seda Tokatlıoğlu , Turkish volleyball player 1988 - Jhonas Enroth , Swedish ice hockey player 1988 - Miguel Layún , Mexican footballer 1988 - Therese Johaug , Norwegian cross-country skier 1989 - Jack Cork , English footballer 1989 - Edgar Morais , Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1989 - Rafael Morais , Portuguese actor, director, and screenwriter 1990 - Andi Eigenmann , Filipino actress 1991 - Liisi Rist , Estonian cyclist 1991 - Anna Zaja , German tennis player 1996 - Pietro Fittipaldi , Brazilian-American race car driver 1996 - Sione Mata'utia , Australian rugby league player 1996 - Lele Pons , Latina-American Internet personality 1998 - Kyle Chalmers , Australian swimmer 2006 - Mckenna Grace , American actressDeaths 635 - Gao Zu , Chinese emperor 841 - Gerard of Auvergne , Frankish nobleman 841 - Ricwin of Nantes , Frankish nobleman 891 - Sunderolt , German archbishop 931 - An Chonghui , Chinese general 1014 - Æthelstan Ætheling , son of Æthelred the Unready 1031 - Sheng Zong , Chinese emperor 1134 - Niels , king of Denmark 1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester , French politician, Lord High Steward 1291 - Eleanor of Provence , queen of England 1337 - Frederick III , king of Sicily 1394 - Dorothea of Montau , German hermitess 1483 - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers , English courtier and translator 1483 - Richard Grey , half brother of Edward V of England 1522 - Franchinus Gaffurius , Italian composer and theorist 1533 - Mary Tudor , queen of France 1579 - Hatano Hideharu , Japanese warlord 1593 - Michele Mercati , Italian physician and archaeologist 1634 - John Marston , English poet and playwright 1638 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán , Spanish author, poet, and playwright 1665 - Sigismund Francis , archduke of Austria 1669 - François de Vendôme , duke of Beaufort 1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli , Italian priest and astronomer 1673 - Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan , French captain 1686 - Simon Ushakov , Russian painter and educator 1715 - Jean-Baptiste du Casse , French admiral and politician 1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann , German composer and theorist 1798 - Thomas Sandby , English cartographer, painter, and architect 1822 - E. T. A. Hoffmann, German composer, critic, and jurist 1835 - Ebenezer Pemberton , American educator 1838 - François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo , French general and engineer 1861 - Abdülmecid I , Ottoman sultan 1866 - Alexander von Nordmann , Finnish biologist and paleontologist 1868 - Carlo Matteucci , Italian physicist and neurophysiologist 1870 - David Heaton , American lawyer and politician 1875 - Antoine-Louis Barye , French sculptor 1876 - James Calhoun , American lieutenant 1876 - Boston Custer , American civilian army contractor 1876 - George Armstrong Custer, American general 1876 - Thomas Custer , American officer, Medal of Honor recipient 1876 - Myles Keogh , Irish-American officer 1882 - François Jouffroy , French sculptor 1884 - Hans Rott , Austrian organist and composer 1886 - Jean-Louis Beaudry , Canadian businessman and politician, 11th Mayor of Montreal 1894 - Marie François Sadi Carnot , French engineer and politician, 5th President of France 1906 - Stanford White, American architect, designed the Washington Square Arch 1912 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema , Dutch-British painter 1916 - Thomas Eakins , American painter, photographer, and sculptor 1917 - Géza Gyóni, Hungarian soldier and poet 1918 - Jake Beckley , American baseball player and coach 1922 - Satyendranath Dutta , Indian poet and author 1937 - Colin Clive , British actor 1939 - Richard Seaman , English race car driver 1943 - Arthur Goldstein, German Jewish left-wing activist 1944 - Dénes Berinkey , Hungarian jurist and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary 1944 - Lucha Reyes , Mexican singer and actress 1947 - Jimmy Doyle , American boxer 1948 - William C. Lee, American general 1949 - Buck Freeman , American baseball player 1949 - James Steen , American water polo player 1950 - Maurice O'Sullivan , Irish police officer and author 1958 - Alfred Noyes , English author, poet, and playwright 1959 - Charles Starkweather , American spree killer 1960 - Tommy Corcoran , American baseball player and manager 1968 - Tony Hancock , English comedian and actor 1971 - John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr , Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate 1972 - Jan Matulka , Czech-American painter and illustrator 1974 - Cornelius Lanczos , Hungarian mathematician and physicist 1976 - Johnny Mercer , American singer-songwriter, co-founded Capitol Records 1977 - Olave Baden-Powell , British Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting leader 1977 - Endre Szervánszky , Hungarian pianist and composer 1979 - Dave Fleischer , American animator, director, and producer 1979 - Philippe Halsman , Latvian-American photographer 1981 - Felipe Cossío del Pomar , Peruvian painter and political activist 1983 - Alberto Ginastera , Argentinian pianist and composer 1984 - Michel Foucault , French historian and philosopher 1988 - Hillel Slovak , Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter 1990 - Ronald Gene Simmons , American sergeant and murderer 1992 - Jerome Brown , American football player 1995 - Warren E. Burger, Fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States 1995 - Ernest Walton , Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1996 - Arthur Snelling , English civil servant and diplomat, British Ambassador to South Africa 1997 - Jacques Cousteau , French oceanographer and explorer 2002 - Jean Corbeil , Canadian politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Labour 2003 - Lester Maddox , American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia 2004 - Morton Coutts , New Zealand inventor 2005 - John Fiedler , American actor and voice artist 2005 - Kâzım Koyuncu , Turkish singer-songwriter and activist 2006 - Jaap Penraat , Dutch-American humanitarian 2007 - J. Fred Duckett, American journalist and educator 2007 - Jeeva , Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter 2008 - Lyall Watson , South African anthropologist and ethologist 2009 - Farrah Fawcett , American actress and producer 2009 - Michael Jackson , American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor 2009 - Sky Saxon , American singer-songwriter 2010 - Alan Plater , English playwright and screenwriter 2010 - Richard B. Sellars, American businessman and philanthropist 2011 - Annie Easley , American computer scientist and mathematician 2011 - Goff Richards , English composer and conductor 2011 - Margaret Tyzack , English actress 2012 - Shigemitsu Dandō , Japanese academic and jurist 2012 - Campbell Gillies , Scottish jockey 2012 - George Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman 2012 - Lucella MacLean , American baseball player 2012 - Edgar Ross , American boxer 2013 - George Burditt , American screenwriter and producer 2013 - Catherine Gibson , Scottish swimmer 2013 - Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist 2013 - Harry Parker , American rower and coach 2013 - Mildred Ladner Thompson , American journalist 2013 - Green Wix Unthank , American soldier and judge 2014 - Nigel Calder , English journalist, author, and screenwriter 2014 - Ana María Matute , Spanish author and academic 2014 - Ivan Plyushch , Ukrainian agronomist and politician 2015 - Patrick Macnee , English actor 2015 - Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni , Egyptian-Armenian patriarch 2016 - Adam Small , South African writer of apartheid-period 2018 - Richard Benjamin Harrison , American businessman and reality television personality 2018 - David Goldblatt , South African photographer of apartheid-periodHolidays and observances Arbor Day Christian feast day: *David of Munktorp *Eurosia *Maximus of Turin *Philipp Melanchthon *Presentation of the Augsburg Confession *Prosper of Aquitaine *Prosper of Reggio *William of Montevergine *June 25 Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975. 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