June 25th in History

Michael Dobson | June 25

General Custer’s Death Struggle: The Battle of Little Bighorn, by Henry Steinegger, 1878.

Today in History

  • The Battle of Little Bighorn takes place (1876)
  • The US Congress passes the Mann Act, forbidding the interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes” (1910)
  • Stravinsky’s The Firebird premiers (1910)
  • The first aerial refueling takes place (1923)
  • The comic strip Krazy Kat comes to an end two months after the death of its creator, George Herriman (1944)
  • The Diary of Anne Frank (officially The Diary of a Young Girl) is published (1947)
  • The Berlin Airlift begins (1948)
  • The Korean War begins (1950)

Birthdays

  • Antoni Gaudi, architect (1852)
  • Hap Arnold, general (1886)
  • Hermann Oberst, rocket scientist (1894)
  • Louis Montbatten, governor-general of India (1900)
  • George Orwell, author (1903)
  • Sidney Lumet, filmmaker (1924)
  • June Lockhart, actress (1925)
  • Peyo, creator of The Smurfs (1928)
  • Alex Toth, animator and comics artist (1928)
  • James Meredith, civil rights activist (1933)
  • Charles Sheffield, scientist and science fiction writer (1935)
  • Willis Reed, basketball player (1942)
  • Carly Simon, singer-songwriter (1945)
  • Jimmy “J. J.” Walker, actor and comedian (1947)
  • Sonia Sotomayor, jurist (1954)
  • Ricky Gervais, comedian and actor (1961)
  • George Michael, singer-songwriter (1963)

Deaths

  • Georg Philip Telemann, composer (1767)
  • E. T. A. Hoffman, author of The Nutcracker (1822)
  • George Armstrong Custer, general (1876) + others who died at Little Bighorn
  • Stanford White, architect (1906)
  • Thomas Eakins, artist (1916)
  • Colin Clive, actor (1937)
  • Alfred Noyes, poet (1958)
  • Charles Starkweather, spree killer (1959)
  • Johnny Mercer, singer-songwriter (1976)
  • Dave Fleischer, animator (1979)
  • Jacques Cousteau, oceanographer (1997)
  • Lester Maddox, politician (2003)
  • Farrah Fawcett, actress (2009)
  • Michael Jackson, singer-songwriter and dancer (2009)

Holidays and Celebrations

  • Arbor Day (Phillipines)
  • Color TV Day
  • Day of the Seafarer
  • Global Beatles Day
  • Independence Day (Mozambique)
  • National Catfish Day (United States)
  • Statehood Day (Croatia)
  • Statehood Day (Slovenia)
  • Statehood Day (Virginia)
  • Teacher’s Day (Guatemala)
  • World Vitiligo Day

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