About June 25

June 25, 2025 is the 176th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 237 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 25

  • 253 –
    Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae.
  • 1530 –
    At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
  • 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 of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
  • 1786 –
    Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
  • 1876 –
    Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
  • 1913 –
    American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
  • 1938 –
    Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
  • 1947 –
    The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
  • 1948 –
    The Berlin airlift begins.
  • 1949 –
    Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
  • 1950 –
    The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
  • 1967 –
    Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World
  • 1975 –
    Mozambique achieves independence.
  • 1978 –
    The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
  • 1982 –
    Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
  • 1991 –
    Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
  • 1997 –
    An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
  • 2006 –
    Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.

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