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June 25 is the 176th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 189 days remaining until the end of the year.
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1115 St. Bernard, Abbot, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church, founded a monastery in Clairvaux, France. It afterward became a strategic center for the Cistercians, a religious order that flourished up until the Reformation.
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1494 The first hurricane ever observed by Europeans strikes the Spanish settlement of La Isabela, on Hispaniola.
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Diet of Augsburg by Christian Beyer.
1530 At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
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1580 The German 'Book of Concord' was published in Dresden, the fiftieth anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg. The authoritative Latin edition was published in 1584 in Leipzig. It contained all the official confessions of the Lutheran Church. (English translations of the entire work were not available before 1851.)
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Assorted forks. From left to right: dessert fork, relish fork, salad fork, dinner fork, cold cuts fork, serving fork, carving fork
1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop. Using forks did not become popular until the time of the American Revolution.
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1672 First recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Massachusetts. The meeting is said to be the oldest Friends meeting on the North American mainland. It was founded in the winter of 1656-'57 under the influence of Nicholas Upsall. Early Friends in Sandwich worshipped at first in William Allen's home and possibly other venues for the first fifteen years. On 25 Fourth Month [June] 1672 the minutes mention that construction of a meeting house was under way. The minutes also mention that the roof was thatched. Upsall, a former Puritan, joined the
Quakers after witnessing how they were persecuted.
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1678 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, a Venetian philosopher of noble descent, is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy. The degree was conferred on 25 June 1678, in the cathedral of Padua in the presence of the University authorities, the professors of all the faculties, the students, and most of the Venetian Senators, together with many invited guests from the Universities of Bologna, Perugia, Rome, and Naples. The Lady Elena spoke for an hour in classical Latin, explaining difficult passages selected at random from the works of Aristotle. She was listened to with great attention, and when she had finished, she received plaudits as Professor Rinaldini proceeded to award her with the insignia of the Doctorate, placing the wreath of laurel on her head, the ring on her finger, and over her shoulders the ermine mozetta. This scene is illustrated in the Cornaro Window in the West Wing of the Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College.
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1741 Maria Theresa (Walburga Amalia Christina) of Austria is crowned King of Hungary. She was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Holy Roman Empress.
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1744 The first Methodist conference convened, in London. This new society within Anglicanism imposed strict disciplines upon its members, formally separating from the Established Church in 1795.
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1749 A general fast was called on account of drought in Massachusetts. It was the year of the famous dry spring in which fields and villages burned. (David Ludlum)
Pribylov discovered the islands of St. George and St. Paul in 1786–87; they and surrounding small islets were later named after him.
1786 Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
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1788 Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
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1845 The Lutheran Buffalo Synod was organized in Milwaukee.
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1864 Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables was added to the Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books.
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1865 English pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission. Its headquarters moved to the US in 1901, and in 1965 its name became Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) International.
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1867 Barbed wire was patented by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio (U.S. No. 66,182). His simple idea that was an artificial "thorn hedge" consisting of wire with short metal spikes twisted on by hand at regular intervals. For prairie farmers and cattlemen natural fencing materials were scarce, so the invention met the need to keep their cattle safely away from crops. The barbs were set on spools threaded on and spaced along the fence-wire. Four projecting nail-like points radiated from the spools of the at right angles to each other and the fence-wire. The spools were spaced 2 to 3 feet apart, and could revolve loosely on the wire. It is not known if this variety of barbed wire was actually manufactured; simpler twisted wire forms followed.
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1868 Florida is readmitted to the Union. After losing the Civil War, the former Confederate state adopts a new state constitution and ratifies amendments to the U.S. Constitution. They were readmitted to Congress and fully restored to the U.S.
1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. On this day in 1876, Native American forces led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River.
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, leaders of the Sioux tribe on the Great Plains, strongly resisted the mid-19th-century efforts of the U.S. government to confine their people to reservations. In 1875, after gold was discovered in South Dakota's Black Hills, the U.S. Army ignored previous treaty agreements and invaded the region. This betrayal led many Sioux and Cheyenne tribesmen to leave their reservations and join Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Montana. By the late spring of 1876, more than 10,000 Native Americans had gathered in a camp along the Little Bighorn River--which they called the Greasy Grass--in defiance of a U.S. War Department order to return to their reservations or risk being attacked.
In mid-June, three columns of U.S. soldiers lined up against the camp and prepared to march. A force of 1,200 Native Americans turned back the first column on June 17. Five days later, General Alfred Terry ordered Custer's 7th Cavalry to scout ahead for enemy troops. On the morning of June 25, Custer drew near the camp and decided to press on ahead rather than wait for reinforcements.
At mid-day, Custer's 600 men entered the Little Bighorn Valley. Among the Native Americans, word quickly spread of the impending attack. The older Sitting Bull rallied the warriors and saw to the safety of the women and children, while Crazy Horse set off with a large force to meet the attackers head on. Despite Custer's desperate attempts to regroup his men, they were quickly overwhelmed. Custer and some 200 men in his battalion were attacked by as many as 3,000 Native Americans; within an hour, Custer and every last one of his soldier were dead.
The Battle of Little Bighorn--also called Custer's Last Stand--marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The gruesome fate of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty. Meanwhile, the U.S. government increased its efforts to subdue the tribes. Within five years, almost all of the Sioux and Cheyenne would be confined to reservations.
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1903 Marie Skodowska-Curie went before the examination committee for her Ph.D. Later in this same year she was awarded a Nobel Prize for her research.
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1906 Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw, in a jealous rage, shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White, who was having an affair with Thaw's wife, actress Evelyn Nesbit.
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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.
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For the Webb/Pickett flag ceremony, two 1863 units advanced about 50 ft (15 m)--Union from the North, Confederate from the South--to flags at the The Angle stone wall where they "clasped hands and buried their faces on each other's shoulders".
1913 American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
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1937 Cubs switch-hitter Augie Galan becomes the first NL player to hit HRs from both sides of the plate in the same game as Chicago beats Brooklyn 11-2.
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A sweatshop in Chicago, Illinois in 1903
1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour.
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1940 Second World War - The evacuation of nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers from French ports was completed.
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1942 U.S. Army Gen. Dwight Eisenhower took command of the U.S. World War II forces in Europe.
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1942 Some 1,000 British Royal Air Force bombers raided Bremen, Germany, during World War II
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Finnish 7,5 cm Pak 40 antitank gun in action
Finnish StuG III Ausf. G assault guns.
Finnish soldiers in a foxhole. One of the soldiers is holding a Panzerfaust
1944 World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was fought in a small area (100 km²) between the northern tip of the Viipuri Bay and the River Vuoksi around the villages of Tali and Ihantala, 8–14 km north-east from Viipuri.
The Soviet forces were concentrated on the area east of the city of Viipuri, from where the attack started, through the southern village of Tali, northwards to Ihantala (Petrovka). This was the only suitable exit terrain for armoured forces out of the Karelian Isthmus, 10 km wide, broken by small lakes and limited by Saimaa Canal on the west and the River Vuoksi on the east.
According to historians Jowett & Snodgrass, Mcateer, Lunde, and Alanen & Moisala, the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, along with other Finnish victories (Battle of Vyborg Bay (1944), Battle of Vuosalmi, Battle of Nietjärvi, and Battle of Ilomantsi) achieved during the period, finally convinced the Soviet leadership that conquering Finland was proving difficult, and not worth the cost; the battle was possibly the single most important battle fought in the Continuation War, as it largely determined the final outcome of the war, allowing Finland to conclude the war with relatively favorable terms and continue its existence as an autonomous, democratic and independent nation. Finnish researchers state that Soviet sources – like POW interviews – prove that the Soviets intended on advancing all the way to Helsinki. There also existed an order from Stavka to advance far beyond the borders of 1940.
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1944 World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
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1944 The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died. Krazy Kat is an American comic strip created by cartoonist George Herriman, published daily in newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal, whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run. The characters had been introduced previously in a side strip with Herriman's earlier creation, The Dingbat Family. The phrase "Krazy Kat" originated there, said by the mouse by way of describing the cat. Set in a dreamlike portrayal of Herriman's vacation home of Coconino County, Arizona, Krazy Kat's mixture of offbeat surrealism, innocent playfulness and poetic, idiosyncratic language has made it a favorite of comics aficionados and art critics for more than 80 years.
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1947 The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
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Loading milk on a West Berlin-bound aircraft, Germans watching supply planes at Tempelhof, a C-74 Globemaster plane at Gatow airfield on August 19 with more than 20 tons of flour from the United States.
1948 The Berlin airlift begins.
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Bugs Bunny Ep 75 Long Haired Hare bugs bunny full episodes in english ,
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1949 Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
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1949 Neomycin, scientists in New York announced that the anti-tuberculosis drug Neomycin had been fully tested on animals. It was first isolated by the American microbiologist Selman Waksman from a strain of the bacterial species Streptomyces fradiae which produces it naturally. It is now used mainly topically (because of renal toxicity) in the treatment of skin and mucous membrane infections, wounds, and burns. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 for his earlier isolation and development of the antibiotic Streptomycin. The term "antibiotic" in the medical context was defined by Waksman, and he discovered an impressive number of them.
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Territory often changed hands early in the war, until the front stabilized.
1950 The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
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1951 Color TV at 4:35 pm, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) televised the one-hour premiere of commercial colour television with a program named Premiere. It was transmitted, using the CBS Field Sequential System (not Compatible Color), from New York to four other cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. The show included entertainment by leading personalities such as Arthur Godfrey, Faye Emerson, Sam Levenson, Robert Alda, Ed Sullivan, Isabel Bigley and Garry Moore, and statements by CBS executives William S. Paley and Dr. Frank Stanton. This system was not compatible with existing black-and-white TV sets and failed commercially; CBS colour broadcasts ended on 20 Oct 1951.
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1953 - The temperature at Anchorage soared to 86 degrees, their hottest reading of record. (The Weather Channel)
1956 - Last Packard produced--the classic American luxury car with the famously enigmatic slogan "Ask the Man Who Owns One"--rolls off the production line at Packard's plant in Detroit, Michigan on this day in 1956.
Mechanical engineer James Ward Packard and his brother, William Dowd Packard, built their first automobile, a buggy-type vehicle with a single cylinder engine, in Warren, Ohio in 1899. The Packard Motor Car Company earned fame early on for a four-cylinder aluminum speedster called the "Gray Wolf," released in 1904. It became one of the first American racing cars to be available for sale to the general public. With the 1916 release of the Twin Six, with its revolutionary V-12 engine, Packard established itself as the country's leading luxury-car manufacturer. World War I saw Packard convert to war production earlier than most companies, and the Twin Six was adapted into the Liberty Aircraft engine, by far the most important single output of America's wartime industry.
Packards had large, square bodies that suggested an elegant solidity, and the company was renowned for its hand-finished attention to detail. In the 1930s, however, the superior resources of General Motors and the success of its V-16 engine pushed Cadillac past Packard as the premier luxury car in America. Packard diversified by producing a smaller, more affordable model, the One Twenty, which increased the company's sales. The coming of World War II halted consumer car production in the United States. In the postwar years, Packard struggled as Cadillac maintained a firm hold on the luxury car market and the media saddled the lumbering Packard with names like "bathtub" or "pregnant elephant."
With sales dwindling by the 1950s, Packard merged with the much larger Studebaker Corporation in the hope of cutting its production costs. The new Packard-Studebaker became the fourth largest manufacturer of cars in the nation. Studebaker was struggling as well, however, and eventually dropped all its own big cars as well as the Packard. In 1956, Packard-Studebaker's then-president, James Nance, made the decision to suspend Packard's manufacturing operations in Detroit. Though the company would continue to manufacture cars in South Bend, Indiana, until 1958, the final model produced on June 25, 1956, is considered the last true Packard. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-packard-produced
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1957 - During a convention in Cleveland, Ohio, the United Church of Christ (UCC) was formed by a merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
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1960 Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
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Moody River ♥ Pat Boone
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1961 Pat Boone spent this day at number one for one last time with "Moody River" In 1959 and 1960 Pat Boone continued to sell many records, although his production of top ten songs slowed down a bit. Some of his songs during this period included With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair and Twixt Twelve and Twenty. In 1961 he came back with Moody River, which was to be his fifth and final number one song. His final top forty song was a novelty record, Speedy Gonzalez in 1962.
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1962 Yankee Jack Reed's 22nd inning HR wins a 7 hour game
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1962 The Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, ruled that recital of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional
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1966 Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
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1967 First live global satellite television programme – Our World
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1969 Longest tennis match in Wimbeldon history until 2010, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon.
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1973 White House attorney John Dean told a U.S. Senate committee that U.S. President Richard Nixon joined in a plot to cover up the Watergate break-in
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Lilburn Boggs, who issued Missouri Executive Order 44, the so-called "Extermination Order".
1976 Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints.
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1973 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee.
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1981 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1981 In Clinton v. City of New York, the Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
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1982 - Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns, replaced by Schultz
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1990 120o F in Phoenix Arizona. On June 26, 1990, Phoenix reached its all-time record of 122-degrees. On July 28, 1995, the temperature streaked to 121-degrees. And on the day before the all-time record, June 25, 1990, the temperature reached 120-degrees. But, it's a dry heat.
1993 Avril Phædra Douglas "Kim" Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
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1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia by Muslim Hezbollah Al-Hejaz kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
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1996 The music industry threatened to sue hundreds of individual computer users who were illegally sharing music files online.
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1997 The Supreme Court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, designed to limit government's ability to regulate religious practices.
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1997 An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station, Mir.
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1998 SOHO accident, contact was lost with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). It was positioned in a "halo" orbit around L-1, a gravitational balance point between Earth and the Sun about 1.5 million km (930,000 mi) away from Earth. Fortunately, a major blow to the field of Solar studied was avoided. Contact was reestablished 16 Sep 1998, and by mid-October scientists were reactivating the science instruments. Since its launch on 2 Dec 1995, SOHO gave solar science a new ability to observe simultaneously the interior and atmosphere of the Sun, and particles in the solar wind and the heliosphere. Observation of eruptions of hot, electrically charged gas, provided early warning of interactions that could affect the Earth.
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1999 United Nations Security Council: Resolutions 1248 and 1249 are adopted, after examining the application of the Republic of Kiribati for membership in the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly that Kiribati be admitted, bringing total membership of the United Nations to 186. Then, after examining the application of the Republic of Nauru for membership in the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly that Nauru be admitted, bringing total membership of the United Nations to 187.[
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1998 In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional and ruled that HIV-infected people are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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1998 President Clinton began a nine-day trip to China in the city of Xi'an.
Zacarias Moussaoui
2002 A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., refused to accept a no-contest plea from Zacarias Moussaoui, accused of conspiracy in the Sept. 11 attacks, and instead entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
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2003 The Federal Reserve Board lowered the key federal funds rate, the overnight loan rate between banks, to 1.0 percent, lowest since 1958.
2005: Ahmadinejad wins Iran's presidential election. The hardliner mayor of Tehran wins 62 percent of the votes to defeat the more liberal ex-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
2006 Practitioners of that "religion of peace" kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. He was finally released Oct. 18, 2011.
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2006 Warren Buffett announced plans to give away 85 percent of his shares in his company, about $37 billion, to charity. Most of that -- some $31 billion -- was earmarked for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
2007 A judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of a dry cleaner sued by a dissatisfied customer who was demanding $54 million for his missing pants.
2009 North Korea vowed to enlarge its atomic arsenal and warned of a "fire shower of nuclear retaliation" in the event of a U.S. attack, as the regime marked the 1950 outbreak of the Korean War.
2011 What's believed to be the only surviving authenticated portrait of Billy the Kid sold at auction in Denver for $2.3 million.
Births:
1745 - Thomas Tudor Tucker, South Carolina Patriot, Born in Port Royal, Bermuda. After completing medical studies at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Tucker spent time in Virginia before opening a practice in Charleston, South Carolina--a city favored by the Bermudan elite. He was elected to the state assembly in 1776, where he took the Patriot side, and continued to serve intermittently in that body until 1788. As South Carolina became the major theater of the war, Dr. Tucker served the Southern Department of the Continental Army as a hospital surgeon and continued in that capacity until 1783. South Carolina sent Tucker to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788, as the states began to redefine themselves as a federal union.
Tucker, however, was an anti-Federalist who believed that the Constitution had given the central government too much weight when it established the tenuous balance between state and federal authority. Nonetheless, he held prominent positions in the new national government. From 1789 to 1793, he served in the United States House of Representatives. Eight years later, Tucker accepted Thomas Jefferson s appointment as the treasurer of the United States. He remained in the position under four presidents: Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and John Quincy Adams, and died while holding the office in 1828, establishing a record as the longest-serving Treasurer. From 1809 to 1817, he managed to hold the treasurer s post while also serving as President James Madison's personal physician.
1773 Eliphalet Nott, (d 1866) born in Ashford Connecticut. He became an educator and clergyman, one of the greatest pulpit orators of the day. He also amassed a large fortune through patents on his heating inventions (including a stove that burned anthracite coal). As president of Union College, Schenectady, New York, he rehabilitated the institution, raising funds through a lottery, and bequeathed it $500,000 of his fortune.
Around 1802 he was called to the Presbyterian Church at Albany, where he took a prominent position as a preacher, and was listened to by large congregations. Among his successful pulpit efforts while at Albany, was a sermon on the death of Alexander Hamilton. An oration condemning the practice of dueling, it was delivered in the wake of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton's passing. On the Death of Hamilton (1804), had profound influence in curtailing the custom and remains recognized to this day as an exemplary period example of the eloqutor's art.
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1857 Carl Aaron Swensson, founder of Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kansas), was born in Sugar Grove, Warren County, Pennsylvania (d. 16 February 1904).
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1865 Robert Henri, (d 1929) American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art.
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1886 Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, (d 1950) American Army Air Force commander, only officer to ever hold a five-star grade in two different U.S. military services.
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1887 George Abbott, (d 1995) American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than nine decades.
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1887 Alfred M. Rehwinkel was born in Merrill, Wisconsin (d. 15 October 1979). He graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1910 and served as a pastor in Pincher Creek and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 1910 to 1922. He then became a professor at Concordia College in Edmonton. He later served as president of Saint John's College (Winfield, Kansas) and as a professor at Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis).
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1901 Harold Roe Bennett Sturdevant Bartle (d May 9, 1974) businessman, philanthropist, Boy Scout executive, and professional public speaker who served two terms as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. After Bartle helped lure the Dallas Texans American Football League team to Kansas City in 1962, owner Lamar Hunt renamed the franchise the Kansas City Chiefs after Bartle's nickname, "The Chief."
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1905 Rupert Wildt (d 1976) German-American astronomer who studyied atmospheres of planets. He identified (1932) certain absorption bands (observed by Slipher) in the spectra of Jupiter and the outer planets as indicative of ammonia and methane as minor components of these planets which are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium. He speculated (1937) that droplets of formaldehyde formed the clouds of Venus, since water was not detected. (In fact, surface water is absent on Venus, but the clouds do contain water with sulphur and sulphuric acid.) In 1939, he realized the importance of the negative hydrogen ion for stellar opacity. By the 1940s, he proposed the greenhouse theory to explain how atmospheric gases produced unexpectedly high temperatures of Venus.
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1911 William Howard Stein, (d 1980) American chemist, (with Stanford Moore and Christian B. Anfinsen) was a cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1972 for their studies of the pancreatic enzyme ribonuclease. Stein, with Moore, investigated the connection between its chemical structure and the catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule. Between 1949 and 1963, they developed methods for the analysis of amino acids and peptides obtained from proteins, determined the structure of ribonuclease, and it catalyzes the digestion of food. By 1972, they had also worked out the complete sequence of deoxyribonuclease, a molecule twice as complex as ribonuclease.
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1912 William Thomas Cahill (d Jul 1, 1996) American Republican Party politician who served as the 46th Governor of New Jersey, from 1970 to 1974, and who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1967 and the state's 6th district from 1967 to 1970.
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1924 Sidney Lumet, American film director, (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Verdict ).
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1925 June Lockhart American actress, primarily in 1950s and 1960s television. She is remembered as the mother in two TV series, Lassie and Lost in Space. She also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–70).
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1945 Carly Simon, American singer, songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work. Throughout her career, she has amassed 13 Top 40 hits including "You're So Vain", "Nobody Does It Better", and "Coming Around Again".
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1954 Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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1600 David Chytraeus, a Lutheran theologian who played an important role in the writing of the Formula of Concord, died (b. 26 February 1531, Ingelfingen, Württemberg).
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1876 George Armstrong Custer, (b 1839) U.S. Army officer
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1876 Thomas Custer, (b 1845) brother of George A. Custer & 2-time Medal of Honor recipient.
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1876 Boston Custer, (b 1848) brother of George A. Custer
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1876 James C. Calhoun, (b 1845) brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer and U.S. soldier.
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1876 Myles Keogh, (b 1840) U.S. soldier and Irish soldier of fortune.
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1904 Edward Frederick Moldehnke, first professor at the Wisconsin Synod's theological seminary in Watertown, Wisconsin, died (b. 10 August 1836, Insterburg, East Prussia).
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1918 James Douglas (b 4 Nov 1837) Canadian-American metallurgist, mining engineer and philanthropist who developed the copper mining industry in the U.S. Southwest. He was co-inventor of the Hunt-Douglas process for copper extraction, which brought him to the attention of the Phelps-Dodge Corp. In 1881, he examined copper ore deposits in Arizona for the company which then from 1885 operated the Copper Queen Mine, at Bisbee, Arizona. Under Douglas, it became one of the top copper producing mines in the U.S. He grew wealthy, and became the president of Phelps-Dodge 1908-18. The company built the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad (from 1887) to transport its ore. He founded a huge smelting centre at the town of Douglas, Ariz., named for him.
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1916 Thomas Eakins, (b 1844) American realist painter, photographer[2], sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history.
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1948 William C. Lee, (b 1895) U.S. general and father of the American Airborne.
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1959 Charles Starkweather, (b 1938) spree killer, executed.
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1972 Jan Matulka, (b 1890) Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia. Matulka's style would range from Abstract expressionism to landscapes, sometimes in the same day.
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1976 Johnny Mercer, (b 1909) American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others. From the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s, many of the songs Mercer wrote and performed were among the most popular hits of the time. He wrote the lyrics to more than fifteen hundred songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He received nineteen Academy Award nominations, and won four. Mercer was also a co-founder of Capitol Records.
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1987 Boudleaux Bryant, (b 1920) American songwriter (Rocky Top, All I Have to Do Is Dream, Bye, Bye, Love)
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1992 Jerome Brown, (b 1965) American football player
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2003 Lester Maddox, (b 1915) American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia.
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2007 J. Fred Duckett, (b 1933) American sports announcer and teacher.
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2009 Farrah Fawcett, (b 1947) American actress
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2009 Michael Jackson, (b 1958) American singer, pop icon.
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2010 Richard B. Sellars, (b 1915) American business executive, former chairman and CEO of Johnson and Johnson.
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2011 Annie Easley, American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist (b. 1933)
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2012 George Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman (b. 1927)
2012 Lucella MacLean, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2012 Edgar Ross, American boxer (b. 1949)
2013 George Burditt, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923)
2013 Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist (b. 1916)
2013 Harry Parker, American rower and coach (b. 1935)
2013 Mildred Ladner Thompson, American journalist (b. 1918)
2013 Green Wix Unthank, American soldier and judge (b. 1923)
2014 Paul Patterson, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1943)
2015 Lou Butera, American pool player and actor (b. 1937)
2015 Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1940)
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Christian Feast Day:
Eurosia
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Prosper of Aquitaine
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Prosper of Reggio
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William of Montevergine
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Adalbert of Egmond, Dutch saint who died in 741. He was a companion of Saint Willibrord and preached in the area around Haarlam, the Netherlands.
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June 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Virgin-martyr Febronia of Nisibis (304)
Venerable Peter of Murom (tonsured David), Wonderworker (1228)
Venerable Febronia of Murom (tonsured Euphrosyne), Wonderworker (1228)
Venerable Leonis, Libye, and Eutropia of Syria (310), virgin-martyrs
Venerable Symeon of Sinai (5th century)
Venerable Dionysius and Dometrius of the Monastery of the Forerunner on Mount Athos (1380)
Martyr Procopius of Mt. Athos, who suffered at Smyrna (1810)
Venerable George of Attalia
Other commemorations
Repose of Hierodeacon Serapion (1859)
Repose of Schemaarchimandrite Heliodorus of Glinsk Hermitage (1879)
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1115 St. Bernard, Abbot, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church, founded a monastery in Clairvaux, France. It afterward became a strategic center for the Cistercians, a religious order that flourished up until the Reformation.
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1494 The first hurricane ever observed by Europeans strikes the Spanish settlement of La Isabela, on Hispaniola.
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Diet of Augsburg by Christian Beyer.
1530 At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
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1580 The German 'Book of Concord' was published in Dresden, the fiftieth anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg. The authoritative Latin edition was published in 1584 in Leipzig. It contained all the official confessions of the Lutheran Church. (English translations of the entire work were not available before 1851.)
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Assorted forks. From left to right: dessert fork, relish fork, salad fork, dinner fork, cold cuts fork, serving fork, carving fork
1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop. Using forks did not become popular until the time of the American Revolution.
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1672 First recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Massachusetts. The meeting is said to be the oldest Friends meeting on the North American mainland. It was founded in the winter of 1656-'57 under the influence of Nicholas Upsall. Early Friends in Sandwich worshipped at first in William Allen's home and possibly other venues for the first fifteen years. On 25 Fourth Month [June] 1672 the minutes mention that construction of a meeting house was under way. The minutes also mention that the roof was thatched. Upsall, a former Puritan, joined the
Quakers after witnessing how they were persecuted.
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1678 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, a Venetian philosopher of noble descent, is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy. The degree was conferred on 25 June 1678, in the cathedral of Padua in the presence of the University authorities, the professors of all the faculties, the students, and most of the Venetian Senators, together with many invited guests from the Universities of Bologna, Perugia, Rome, and Naples. The Lady Elena spoke for an hour in classical Latin, explaining difficult passages selected at random from the works of Aristotle. She was listened to with great attention, and when she had finished, she received plaudits as Professor Rinaldini proceeded to award her with the insignia of the Doctorate, placing the wreath of laurel on her head, the ring on her finger, and over her shoulders the ermine mozetta. This scene is illustrated in the Cornaro Window in the West Wing of the Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College.
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1741 Maria Theresa (Walburga Amalia Christina) of Austria is crowned King of Hungary. She was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Holy Roman Empress.
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1744 The first Methodist conference convened, in London. This new society within Anglicanism imposed strict disciplines upon its members, formally separating from the Established Church in 1795.
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1749 A general fast was called on account of drought in Massachusetts. It was the year of the famous dry spring in which fields and villages burned. (David Ludlum)
Pribylov discovered the islands of St. George and St. Paul in 1786–87; they and surrounding small islets were later named after him.
1786 Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
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1788 Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
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1845 The Lutheran Buffalo Synod was organized in Milwaukee.
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1864 Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables was added to the Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books.
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1865 English pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission. Its headquarters moved to the US in 1901, and in 1965 its name became Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) International.
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1867 Barbed wire was patented by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio (U.S. No. 66,182). His simple idea that was an artificial "thorn hedge" consisting of wire with short metal spikes twisted on by hand at regular intervals. For prairie farmers and cattlemen natural fencing materials were scarce, so the invention met the need to keep their cattle safely away from crops. The barbs were set on spools threaded on and spaced along the fence-wire. Four projecting nail-like points radiated from the spools of the at right angles to each other and the fence-wire. The spools were spaced 2 to 3 feet apart, and could revolve loosely on the wire. It is not known if this variety of barbed wire was actually manufactured; simpler twisted wire forms followed.
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1868 Florida is readmitted to the Union. After losing the Civil War, the former Confederate state adopts a new state constitution and ratifies amendments to the U.S. Constitution. They were readmitted to Congress and fully restored to the U.S.
1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. On this day in 1876, Native American forces led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River.
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, leaders of the Sioux tribe on the Great Plains, strongly resisted the mid-19th-century efforts of the U.S. government to confine their people to reservations. In 1875, after gold was discovered in South Dakota's Black Hills, the U.S. Army ignored previous treaty agreements and invaded the region. This betrayal led many Sioux and Cheyenne tribesmen to leave their reservations and join Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Montana. By the late spring of 1876, more than 10,000 Native Americans had gathered in a camp along the Little Bighorn River--which they called the Greasy Grass--in defiance of a U.S. War Department order to return to their reservations or risk being attacked.
In mid-June, three columns of U.S. soldiers lined up against the camp and prepared to march. A force of 1,200 Native Americans turned back the first column on June 17. Five days later, General Alfred Terry ordered Custer's 7th Cavalry to scout ahead for enemy troops. On the morning of June 25, Custer drew near the camp and decided to press on ahead rather than wait for reinforcements.
At mid-day, Custer's 600 men entered the Little Bighorn Valley. Among the Native Americans, word quickly spread of the impending attack. The older Sitting Bull rallied the warriors and saw to the safety of the women and children, while Crazy Horse set off with a large force to meet the attackers head on. Despite Custer's desperate attempts to regroup his men, they were quickly overwhelmed. Custer and some 200 men in his battalion were attacked by as many as 3,000 Native Americans; within an hour, Custer and every last one of his soldier were dead.
The Battle of Little Bighorn--also called Custer's Last Stand--marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The gruesome fate of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty. Meanwhile, the U.S. government increased its efforts to subdue the tribes. Within five years, almost all of the Sioux and Cheyenne would be confined to reservations.
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1903 Marie Skodowska-Curie went before the examination committee for her Ph.D. Later in this same year she was awarded a Nobel Prize for her research.
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1906 Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw, in a jealous rage, shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White, who was having an affair with Thaw's wife, actress Evelyn Nesbit.
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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.
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For the Webb/Pickett flag ceremony, two 1863 units advanced about 50 ft (15 m)--Union from the North, Confederate from the South--to flags at the The Angle stone wall where they "clasped hands and buried their faces on each other's shoulders".
1913 American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
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1937 Cubs switch-hitter Augie Galan becomes the first NL player to hit HRs from both sides of the plate in the same game as Chicago beats Brooklyn 11-2.
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A sweatshop in Chicago, Illinois in 1903
1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour.
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1940 Second World War - The evacuation of nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers from French ports was completed.
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1942 U.S. Army Gen. Dwight Eisenhower took command of the U.S. World War II forces in Europe.
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1942 Some 1,000 British Royal Air Force bombers raided Bremen, Germany, during World War II
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Finnish 7,5 cm Pak 40 antitank gun in action
Finnish StuG III Ausf. G assault guns.
Finnish soldiers in a foxhole. One of the soldiers is holding a Panzerfaust
1944 World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was fought in a small area (100 km²) between the northern tip of the Viipuri Bay and the River Vuoksi around the villages of Tali and Ihantala, 8–14 km north-east from Viipuri.
The Soviet forces were concentrated on the area east of the city of Viipuri, from where the attack started, through the southern village of Tali, northwards to Ihantala (Petrovka). This was the only suitable exit terrain for armoured forces out of the Karelian Isthmus, 10 km wide, broken by small lakes and limited by Saimaa Canal on the west and the River Vuoksi on the east.
According to historians Jowett & Snodgrass, Mcateer, Lunde, and Alanen & Moisala, the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, along with other Finnish victories (Battle of Vyborg Bay (1944), Battle of Vuosalmi, Battle of Nietjärvi, and Battle of Ilomantsi) achieved during the period, finally convinced the Soviet leadership that conquering Finland was proving difficult, and not worth the cost; the battle was possibly the single most important battle fought in the Continuation War, as it largely determined the final outcome of the war, allowing Finland to conclude the war with relatively favorable terms and continue its existence as an autonomous, democratic and independent nation. Finnish researchers state that Soviet sources – like POW interviews – prove that the Soviets intended on advancing all the way to Helsinki. There also existed an order from Stavka to advance far beyond the borders of 1940.
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1944 World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
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1944 The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died. Krazy Kat is an American comic strip created by cartoonist George Herriman, published daily in newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal, whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run. The characters had been introduced previously in a side strip with Herriman's earlier creation, The Dingbat Family. The phrase "Krazy Kat" originated there, said by the mouse by way of describing the cat. Set in a dreamlike portrayal of Herriman's vacation home of Coconino County, Arizona, Krazy Kat's mixture of offbeat surrealism, innocent playfulness and poetic, idiosyncratic language has made it a favorite of comics aficionados and art critics for more than 80 years.
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1947 The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
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Loading milk on a West Berlin-bound aircraft, Germans watching supply planes at Tempelhof, a C-74 Globemaster plane at Gatow airfield on August 19 with more than 20 tons of flour from the United States.
1948 The Berlin airlift begins.
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1949 Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
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1949 Neomycin, scientists in New York announced that the anti-tuberculosis drug Neomycin had been fully tested on animals. It was first isolated by the American microbiologist Selman Waksman from a strain of the bacterial species Streptomyces fradiae which produces it naturally. It is now used mainly topically (because of renal toxicity) in the treatment of skin and mucous membrane infections, wounds, and burns. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 for his earlier isolation and development of the antibiotic Streptomycin. The term "antibiotic" in the medical context was defined by Waksman, and he discovered an impressive number of them.
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Territory often changed hands early in the war, until the front stabilized.
1950 The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
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1951 Color TV at 4:35 pm, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) televised the one-hour premiere of commercial colour television with a program named Premiere. It was transmitted, using the CBS Field Sequential System (not Compatible Color), from New York to four other cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. The show included entertainment by leading personalities such as Arthur Godfrey, Faye Emerson, Sam Levenson, Robert Alda, Ed Sullivan, Isabel Bigley and Garry Moore, and statements by CBS executives William S. Paley and Dr. Frank Stanton. This system was not compatible with existing black-and-white TV sets and failed commercially; CBS colour broadcasts ended on 20 Oct 1951.
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1953 - The temperature at Anchorage soared to 86 degrees, their hottest reading of record. (The Weather Channel)
1956 - Last Packard produced--the classic American luxury car with the famously enigmatic slogan "Ask the Man Who Owns One"--rolls off the production line at Packard's plant in Detroit, Michigan on this day in 1956.
Mechanical engineer James Ward Packard and his brother, William Dowd Packard, built their first automobile, a buggy-type vehicle with a single cylinder engine, in Warren, Ohio in 1899. The Packard Motor Car Company earned fame early on for a four-cylinder aluminum speedster called the "Gray Wolf," released in 1904. It became one of the first American racing cars to be available for sale to the general public. With the 1916 release of the Twin Six, with its revolutionary V-12 engine, Packard established itself as the country's leading luxury-car manufacturer. World War I saw Packard convert to war production earlier than most companies, and the Twin Six was adapted into the Liberty Aircraft engine, by far the most important single output of America's wartime industry.
Packards had large, square bodies that suggested an elegant solidity, and the company was renowned for its hand-finished attention to detail. In the 1930s, however, the superior resources of General Motors and the success of its V-16 engine pushed Cadillac past Packard as the premier luxury car in America. Packard diversified by producing a smaller, more affordable model, the One Twenty, which increased the company's sales. The coming of World War II halted consumer car production in the United States. In the postwar years, Packard struggled as Cadillac maintained a firm hold on the luxury car market and the media saddled the lumbering Packard with names like "bathtub" or "pregnant elephant."
With sales dwindling by the 1950s, Packard merged with the much larger Studebaker Corporation in the hope of cutting its production costs. The new Packard-Studebaker became the fourth largest manufacturer of cars in the nation. Studebaker was struggling as well, however, and eventually dropped all its own big cars as well as the Packard. In 1956, Packard-Studebaker's then-president, James Nance, made the decision to suspend Packard's manufacturing operations in Detroit. Though the company would continue to manufacture cars in South Bend, Indiana, until 1958, the final model produced on June 25, 1956, is considered the last true Packard. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-packard-produced
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1957 - During a convention in Cleveland, Ohio, the United Church of Christ (UCC) was formed by a merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
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1960 Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
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Moody River ♥ Pat Boone
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1961 Pat Boone spent this day at number one for one last time with "Moody River" In 1959 and 1960 Pat Boone continued to sell many records, although his production of top ten songs slowed down a bit. Some of his songs during this period included With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair and Twixt Twelve and Twenty. In 1961 he came back with Moody River, which was to be his fifth and final number one song. His final top forty song was a novelty record, Speedy Gonzalez in 1962.
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1962 Yankee Jack Reed's 22nd inning HR wins a 7 hour game
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1962 The Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, ruled that recital of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional
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1966 Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
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1967 First live global satellite television programme – Our World
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1969 Longest tennis match in Wimbeldon history until 2010, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon.
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1973 White House attorney John Dean told a U.S. Senate committee that U.S. President Richard Nixon joined in a plot to cover up the Watergate break-in
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Lilburn Boggs, who issued Missouri Executive Order 44, the so-called "Extermination Order".
1976 Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints.
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1973 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee.
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1981 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1981 In Clinton v. City of New York, the Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
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1982 - Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns, replaced by Schultz
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1990 120o F in Phoenix Arizona. On June 26, 1990, Phoenix reached its all-time record of 122-degrees. On July 28, 1995, the temperature streaked to 121-degrees. And on the day before the all-time record, June 25, 1990, the temperature reached 120-degrees. But, it's a dry heat.
1993 Avril Phædra Douglas "Kim" Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
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1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia by Muslim Hezbollah Al-Hejaz kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
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1996 The music industry threatened to sue hundreds of individual computer users who were illegally sharing music files online.
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1997 The Supreme Court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, designed to limit government's ability to regulate religious practices.
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1997 An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station, Mir.
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1998 SOHO accident, contact was lost with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). It was positioned in a "halo" orbit around L-1, a gravitational balance point between Earth and the Sun about 1.5 million km (930,000 mi) away from Earth. Fortunately, a major blow to the field of Solar studied was avoided. Contact was reestablished 16 Sep 1998, and by mid-October scientists were reactivating the science instruments. Since its launch on 2 Dec 1995, SOHO gave solar science a new ability to observe simultaneously the interior and atmosphere of the Sun, and particles in the solar wind and the heliosphere. Observation of eruptions of hot, electrically charged gas, provided early warning of interactions that could affect the Earth.
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1999 United Nations Security Council: Resolutions 1248 and 1249 are adopted, after examining the application of the Republic of Kiribati for membership in the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly that Kiribati be admitted, bringing total membership of the United Nations to 186. Then, after examining the application of the Republic of Nauru for membership in the United Nations, the Council recommended to the General Assembly that Nauru be admitted, bringing total membership of the United Nations to 187.[
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1998 In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional and ruled that HIV-infected people are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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1998 President Clinton began a nine-day trip to China in the city of Xi'an.
Zacarias Moussaoui
2002 A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., refused to accept a no-contest plea from Zacarias Moussaoui, accused of conspiracy in the Sept. 11 attacks, and instead entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
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2003 The Federal Reserve Board lowered the key federal funds rate, the overnight loan rate between banks, to 1.0 percent, lowest since 1958.
2005: Ahmadinejad wins Iran's presidential election. The hardliner mayor of Tehran wins 62 percent of the votes to defeat the more liberal ex-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
2006 Practitioners of that "religion of peace" kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. He was finally released Oct. 18, 2011.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Summer_Rains
2006 Warren Buffett announced plans to give away 85 percent of his shares in his company, about $37 billion, to charity. Most of that -- some $31 billion -- was earmarked for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
2007 A judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of a dry cleaner sued by a dissatisfied customer who was demanding $54 million for his missing pants.
2009 North Korea vowed to enlarge its atomic arsenal and warned of a "fire shower of nuclear retaliation" in the event of a U.S. attack, as the regime marked the 1950 outbreak of the Korean War.
2011 What's believed to be the only surviving authenticated portrait of Billy the Kid sold at auction in Denver for $2.3 million.
Births:
1745 - Thomas Tudor Tucker, South Carolina Patriot, Born in Port Royal, Bermuda. After completing medical studies at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Tucker spent time in Virginia before opening a practice in Charleston, South Carolina--a city favored by the Bermudan elite. He was elected to the state assembly in 1776, where he took the Patriot side, and continued to serve intermittently in that body until 1788. As South Carolina became the major theater of the war, Dr. Tucker served the Southern Department of the Continental Army as a hospital surgeon and continued in that capacity until 1783. South Carolina sent Tucker to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788, as the states began to redefine themselves as a federal union.
Tucker, however, was an anti-Federalist who believed that the Constitution had given the central government too much weight when it established the tenuous balance between state and federal authority. Nonetheless, he held prominent positions in the new national government. From 1789 to 1793, he served in the United States House of Representatives. Eight years later, Tucker accepted Thomas Jefferson s appointment as the treasurer of the United States. He remained in the position under four presidents: Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and John Quincy Adams, and died while holding the office in 1828, establishing a record as the longest-serving Treasurer. From 1809 to 1817, he managed to hold the treasurer s post while also serving as President James Madison's personal physician.
1773 Eliphalet Nott, (d 1866) born in Ashford Connecticut. He became an educator and clergyman, one of the greatest pulpit orators of the day. He also amassed a large fortune through patents on his heating inventions (including a stove that burned anthracite coal). As president of Union College, Schenectady, New York, he rehabilitated the institution, raising funds through a lottery, and bequeathed it $500,000 of his fortune.
Around 1802 he was called to the Presbyterian Church at Albany, where he took a prominent position as a preacher, and was listened to by large congregations. Among his successful pulpit efforts while at Albany, was a sermon on the death of Alexander Hamilton. An oration condemning the practice of dueling, it was delivered in the wake of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton's passing. On the Death of Hamilton (1804), had profound influence in curtailing the custom and remains recognized to this day as an exemplary period example of the eloqutor's art.
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1857 Carl Aaron Swensson, founder of Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kansas), was born in Sugar Grove, Warren County, Pennsylvania (d. 16 February 1904).
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1865 Robert Henri, (d 1929) American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art.
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1886 Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, (d 1950) American Army Air Force commander, only officer to ever hold a five-star grade in two different U.S. military services.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_H._Arnold
1887 George Abbott, (d 1995) American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than nine decades.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Abbott
1887 Alfred M. Rehwinkel was born in Merrill, Wisconsin (d. 15 October 1979). He graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1910 and served as a pastor in Pincher Creek and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 1910 to 1922. He then became a professor at Concordia College in Edmonton. He later served as president of Saint John's College (Winfield, Kansas) and as a professor at Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis).
www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/alfred-m-rehwinkel
1901 Harold Roe Bennett Sturdevant Bartle (d May 9, 1974) businessman, philanthropist, Boy Scout executive, and professional public speaker who served two terms as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. After Bartle helped lure the Dallas Texans American Football League team to Kansas City in 1962, owner Lamar Hunt renamed the franchise the Kansas City Chiefs after Bartle's nickname, "The Chief."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Roe_Bartle
1905 Rupert Wildt (d 1976) German-American astronomer who studyied atmospheres of planets. He identified (1932) certain absorption bands (observed by Slipher) in the spectra of Jupiter and the outer planets as indicative of ammonia and methane as minor components of these planets which are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium. He speculated (1937) that droplets of formaldehyde formed the clouds of Venus, since water was not detected. (In fact, surface water is absent on Venus, but the clouds do contain water with sulphur and sulphuric acid.) In 1939, he realized the importance of the negative hydrogen ion for stellar opacity. By the 1940s, he proposed the greenhouse theory to explain how atmospheric gases produced unexpectedly high temperatures of Venus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Wildt
1911 William Howard Stein, (d 1980) American chemist, (with Stanford Moore and Christian B. Anfinsen) was a cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1972 for their studies of the pancreatic enzyme ribonuclease. Stein, with Moore, investigated the connection between its chemical structure and the catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule. Between 1949 and 1963, they developed methods for the analysis of amino acids and peptides obtained from proteins, determined the structure of ribonuclease, and it catalyzes the digestion of food. By 1972, they had also worked out the complete sequence of deoxyribonuclease, a molecule twice as complex as ribonuclease.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Stein
1912 William Thomas Cahill (d Jul 1, 1996) American Republican Party politician who served as the 46th Governor of New Jersey, from 1970 to 1974, and who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1967 and the state's 6th district from 1967 to 1970.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Cahill
1924 Sidney Lumet, American film director, (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Verdict ).
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1925 June Lockhart American actress, primarily in 1950s and 1960s television. She is remembered as the mother in two TV series, Lassie and Lost in Space. She also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–70).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Lockhart
1945 Carly Simon, American singer, songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work. Throughout her career, she has amassed 13 Top 40 hits including "You're So Vain", "Nobody Does It Better", and "Coming Around Again".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Simon
1954 Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Deaths:
1600 David Chytraeus, a Lutheran theologian who played an important role in the writing of the Formula of Concord, died (b. 26 February 1531, Ingelfingen, Württemberg).
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1876 George Armstrong Custer, (b 1839) U.S. Army officer
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1876 Thomas Custer, (b 1845) brother of George A. Custer & 2-time Medal of Honor recipient.
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1876 Boston Custer, (b 1848) brother of George A. Custer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Custer
1876 James C. Calhoun, (b 1845) brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer and U.S. soldier.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Calhoun_(soldier)
1876 Myles Keogh, (b 1840) U.S. soldier and Irish soldier of fortune.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myles_Keogh
1904 Edward Frederick Moldehnke, first professor at the Wisconsin Synod's theological seminary in Watertown, Wisconsin, died (b. 10 August 1836, Insterburg, East Prussia).
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1918 James Douglas (b 4 Nov 1837) Canadian-American metallurgist, mining engineer and philanthropist who developed the copper mining industry in the U.S. Southwest. He was co-inventor of the Hunt-Douglas process for copper extraction, which brought him to the attention of the Phelps-Dodge Corp. In 1881, he examined copper ore deposits in Arizona for the company which then from 1885 operated the Copper Queen Mine, at Bisbee, Arizona. Under Douglas, it became one of the top copper producing mines in the U.S. He grew wealthy, and became the president of Phelps-Dodge 1908-18. The company built the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad (from 1887) to transport its ore. He founded a huge smelting centre at the town of Douglas, Ariz., named for him.
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1916 Thomas Eakins, (b 1844) American realist painter, photographer[2], sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eakins
1948 William C. Lee, (b 1895) U.S. general and father of the American Airborne.
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1959 Charles Starkweather, (b 1938) spree killer, executed.
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1972 Jan Matulka, (b 1890) Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia. Matulka's style would range from Abstract expressionism to landscapes, sometimes in the same day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Matulka
1976 Johnny Mercer, (b 1909) American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others. From the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s, many of the songs Mercer wrote and performed were among the most popular hits of the time. He wrote the lyrics to more than fifteen hundred songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He received nineteen Academy Award nominations, and won four. Mercer was also a co-founder of Capitol Records.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer
1987 Boudleaux Bryant, (b 1920) American songwriter (Rocky Top, All I Have to Do Is Dream, Bye, Bye, Love)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudleaux_Bryant
1992 Jerome Brown, (b 1965) American football player
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Brown
2003 Lester Maddox, (b 1915) American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Maddox
2007 J. Fred Duckett, (b 1933) American sports announcer and teacher.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Duckett
2009 Farrah Fawcett, (b 1947) American actress
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett
2009 Michael Jackson, (b 1958) American singer, pop icon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson
2010 Richard B. Sellars, (b 1915) American business executive, former chairman and CEO of Johnson and Johnson.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Sellars
Cover of Science and Engineering Newsletter featuring Easley at the Lewis Research Center
2011 Annie Easley, American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist (b. 1933)
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2012 George Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman (b. 1927)
2012 Lucella MacLean, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2012 Edgar Ross, American boxer (b. 1949)
2013 George Burditt, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923)
2013 Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist (b. 1916)
2013 Harry Parker, American rower and coach (b. 1935)
2013 Mildred Ladner Thompson, American journalist (b. 1918)
2013 Green Wix Unthank, American soldier and judge (b. 1923)
2014 Paul Patterson, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1943)
2015 Lou Butera, American pool player and actor (b. 1937)
2015 Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1940)
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Christian Feast Day:
Eurosia
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Prosper of Aquitaine
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Prosper of Reggio
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William of Montevergine
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Adalbert of Egmond, Dutch saint who died in 741. He was a companion of Saint Willibrord and preached in the area around Haarlam, the Netherlands.
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June 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Virgin-martyr Febronia of Nisibis (304)
Venerable Peter of Murom (tonsured David), Wonderworker (1228)
Venerable Febronia of Murom (tonsured Euphrosyne), Wonderworker (1228)
Venerable Leonis, Libye, and Eutropia of Syria (310), virgin-martyrs
Venerable Symeon of Sinai (5th century)
Venerable Dionysius and Dometrius of the Monastery of the Forerunner on Mount Athos (1380)
Martyr Procopius of Mt. Athos, who suffered at Smyrna (1810)
Venerable George of Attalia
Other commemorations
Repose of Hierodeacon Serapion (1859)
Repose of Schemaarchimandrite Heliodorus of Glinsk Hermitage (1879)
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www.history.com/this-day-in-history/6/25
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www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih0625.htm
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