Historical Events on June 25

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• 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 Henriques (later Afonso I of Portugal) defeats Moors

• 1243 Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV
• 1266 Siege of Kenilworth Castle begins by forces of King Henry III - at 172 day one of the longest sieges in English medieval history [1]
• 1298 Rindfleisch Persecutions, 250 Jews killed in Rothenburg, Germany

• 1500 Pope Alexander VI accept Treaty of Granada
• 1526 Diet of Speyer convenes, resulting in the Edict of Speyer, which temporarily suspends the 1521 Edict of Worms (a Papal ban on Luther's teachings); allows Lutheranism and other "reforms" to propagate unimpeded throughout Germany

• 1580 Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
• 1607 Mentally ill Emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary and Moravia
• 1621 French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle
• 1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Governor 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 and English
• 1672 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held at Sandwich, Massachusetts
• 1675 Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden

• 1716 Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands
• 1749 General fast because of drought in Massachusetts

• 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 San Francisco)
• 1862 Battle of Oak Grove, Virginia (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 Battle of Petersburg: Union forces begin digging tunnels under Confederate lines
• 1864 Horse tramway in The Hague, Netherlands opens
• 1867 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B. Smith of Ohio
• 1868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina readmitted to US
• 1868 US President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day

• 1894 American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike

• 1900 Dunhuang manuscripts, including the Diamond Sutra, world's oldest surviving dated book, discovered by Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu in the Mogao Caves, China
• 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 Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 & 5-3
• 1903 NY Yanks & Chicago White Sox end deadlocked game at 6-6 in 18
• 1905 Tsarist Russian troops in Łódź, Congress Poland crush workers' militia insurrection against Russian occupation; 151-200 workers killed and over 1,000 injured

• 1910 US Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
• 1913 American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913
• 1913 Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
• 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 Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 mins Aust v Notts
• 1925 Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece
• 1927 WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout
• 1928 NY Giants future Baseball HOF third baseman Freddie Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader in 12-4 & 8-2 wins over Philadelphia Phillies at the Baker Bowl

• 1932 Commencement of India's 1st cricket Test v England at Lord's, London (England initially rattled but go on to win)
• 1934 Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets for England v Australia (7-61 & 8-43)
• 1934 NY Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times

• 1934 Previously unknown Winchester Manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" (1485) announced discovered in the library of Winchester College, England

• 1937 Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit HRs in a game

• 1938 US federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
• 1941 -26] Soviet counterattack at Rovno, Ukraine
• 1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
• 1941 Finland declares war on Soviet Union
• 1941 Finland enters WW2 against the USSR following a massive airstrike the previous day
• 1941 Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there

• 1942 British RAF stages a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen, Germany (WWII)

• 1943 Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommissar in the Netherlands, orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
• 1943 Crematorium 3 at Birkenau is finished
• 1943 Racial unrest in Detroit
• 1944 British assault at Caen, Normandy
• 1945 Allied landing at Ternate, capital of the Maluku Islands in modern day Indonesia
• 1945 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa

• 1947 Heavyweight boxer Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello

• 1948 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title, at Yankee Stadium, NYC
• 1949 "Long-Haired Hare", animated short starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters
• 1949 Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)
• 1950 Israeli airline El Al begins service
• 1950 Johnny Pramesa (Reds) and Hank Thompson (Giants) hit inside the park HRs

• 1952 Dutch General Election: social democratic party wins elections 30% to help form a four-party coalition
• 1953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
• 1953 86°F in Anchorage, Alaska
• 1955 "Imogene Coca Show" last airs on NBC-TV

• 1956 WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1960 Earthquake in NE Belgium
• 1960 Madagascar gains independence from France
• 1960 South Africa beats New Zealand 13-0 in the first rugby test of the series in Johannesburg
• 1961 Baltimore and 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)
• 1961 Iraq Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim demands dominion over Kuwait and the end of the British protectorate
• 1962 İnönü government forms in Turkey
• 1962 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
• 1962 Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
• 1963 Curnick Ndlovu, South African worker's union leader and African National Congress Leader, is arrested for acts of sabotage
• 1963 Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies

• 1964 Prince A Taylor becomes first African American 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 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
• 1967 First global satellite television program: "Our World" broadcast features 19 acts representing 19 nations including The Beatles singing "All You Need Is Love"
• 1967 KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1969 American Pancho González (41) beats Puerto Rican Charlie Pasarell (25) in 5 hour and 12 minute, 112-game marathon at Wimbledon

• 1973 John Dean begins testifying before Senate Watergate Committee

• 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 Soweto Uprising: in South Africa leaves an estimated 200 to 700 blacks and 2 whites dead following 10 days of rioting

• 1976 Texas Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
• 1977 Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time!
• 1978 FIFA World Cup Final, El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Striker Mario Kempes scores 2 goals as Argentina beats the Netherlands, 3-1 after extra time
• 1978 First use of the rainbow flag, symbol of gay pride, made by Gilbert Baker at a march in San Francisco

• 1981 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington
• 1981 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration as constitutional
• 1982 Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military
• 1982 Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges
• 1982 San Francisco holds its 1st County Fair

• 1983 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Lord's, London: India beats West Indies by 43 runs to win their first trophy; Player of Match: Mohinder Amarnath (IND) 3/12 from 7 overs
• 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, Oklahoma, explodes killing 21
• 1985 Thurman v City of Torrington decides in favor of Tracey Thurman, 1st woman to sue a police department for violating her civil rights (not protecting against abusive husband)
• 1986 Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud

• 1988 104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
• 1988 Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs
• 1988 Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss

• 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 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 Anti-government riots break out in Lusaka, Zambia
• 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
• 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 Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores in the US
• 1992 STS 50 launches (Columbia)

• 1993 NY Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame
• 1993 Parliamentary election in Morocco
• 1994 105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
• 1994 111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas
• 1994 Cleveland Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6
• 1994 FIFA World Cup: 1,500th goal in Cup'd history scored by Caceres of Argentina
• 1994 Gay Games close in NYC
• 1994 Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
• 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 Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby (Orbit 9)
• 1997 Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch is successful
• 1997 Jamaica issues warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop

• 1997 NHL approves franchises in Nashville, Atlanta, Columbus, and Minnesota-St Paul
• 1997 Progress M-34 Collides with and damages Mir Space Station
• 1998 In Clinton v. City of New York, the US Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional

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