About June 25
June 25, 2024 is the 177th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 218 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 25
- 253 –Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae.
- 524 –The Franks defeat 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.
- 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.
- 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 females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
- 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 –The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
- 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.
- 1991 –Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
- 1993 –Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1997 –An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
- 1998 –In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
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