June 25
1788 - Virginia became the 10th state.
1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1876 - Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all of his men of the 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana.
1942 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was designated Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations during World War II.
1942 - Some 1,000 British Royal Air Force bombers raided Bremen, Germany during World War II.
1947 - “The Diary of a Young Girl,” the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.
1950 - North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1951 - The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, non-denominational prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional.
1973 - Former White House counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.
1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that male-only draft registration was constitutional.
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in its first “right-to-die” decision, ruled that family members could be barred from ending the lives of persistently comatose relatives who had not made their wishes known conclusively.
1991 - Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
1995 - Warren E. Burger, the 15th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died at age 87.
1996 - A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
1997 - Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.
1997 - An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional.
2003 - The Recording Industry Association of America threatened to sue hundreds of individual computer users who were illegally sharing music files online.
2005 - Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential runoff election.
2009 - Pop superstar Michael Jackson died at age 50 from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. (The singer's doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.)
2015 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in a 6-3 ruling that preserved health insurance for millions of Americans.
2016 - Pope Francis visited Armenia, where he recognized the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians as a genocide, prompting a harsh rebuttal from Turkey.
2020 - A government watchdog found that nearly 1.1 million relief payments totaling some $1.4 billion in the government’s coronavirus aid program went to dead people.
2020 - Two U.S. warships, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS San Jacinto, notched their 161st consecutive day at sea, breaking the previous Navy record, as ships were ordered to avoid port visits because of the coronavirus.
2020 - Census Bureau figures showed that for the first time, nonwhites and Hispanics were a majority of people under age 16 in 2019.
Birthdays
40 - Sheridan Smith (actress)
42 - Busy Philipps (actress)
44 - Layla El (professional wrestler)
46 - Linda Cardellini (actress)
49 - Mike Kroeger (musician)
50 - Angela Kinsey (actress)
54 - Richie Rich (rapper)
55 - Dikembe Mutombo (basketball player)
57 - Erica Gimpel (actress)
57 - Dell Curry (basketball player)
58 - John Benjamin Hickey (actor)
60 - Ricky Gervais (actor/comedian)
66 - Michael Sabatino (actor)
67 - Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court justice)
69 - Tim Finn (singer)
73 - Michael Lembeck (actor)
74 - Jimmie Walker (actor/comedian)
76 - Carly Simon (singer)
79 - Willis Reed (basketball player)
81 - Mary Beth Peil (actress)
82 - Barbara Montgomery (actress)
84 - Eddie Floyd (singer)
88 - James Meredith (civil rights activist)
96 - June Lockhart (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 25
1918 - Babe Ruth became the second American League player to hit a home run in four consecutive games.
1921 - Jock Hutchinson became the first U.S. citizen to win the British Open.
1968 - Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.
1978 - Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3-1 to win the World Cup in Argentina.
1985 - The New York Yankees became the first major league team to require all bat boys to wear protective helmets during all games.
1997 - The NHL officially approved expansion to 30 teams by the year 2000 with the announcement of new teams in Atlanta, Columbus, Minnesota and Nashville.
1997 - The San Antonio Spurs selected Wake Forest forward Tim Duncan with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1999 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the New York Knicks in five games to win the first NBA championship in franchise history.
2003 - Todd McFarlane bought Barry Bonds 73rd home run ball at auction for $517,500.
2009 - The Los Angeles Clippers select Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2015 - The Minnesota Timberwolves select Kentucky center Karl-Anthony Towns with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1788 - Virginia became the 10th state.
1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1876 - Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all of his men of the 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana.
1942 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was designated Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations during World War II.
1942 - Some 1,000 British Royal Air Force bombers raided Bremen, Germany during World War II.
1947 - “The Diary of a Young Girl,” the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.
1950 - North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1951 - The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, non-denominational prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional.
1973 - Former White House counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.
1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that male-only draft registration was constitutional.
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in its first “right-to-die” decision, ruled that family members could be barred from ending the lives of persistently comatose relatives who had not made their wishes known conclusively.
1991 - Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
1995 - Warren E. Burger, the 15th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, died at age 87.
1996 - A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
1997 - Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.
1997 - An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional.
2003 - The Recording Industry Association of America threatened to sue hundreds of individual computer users who were illegally sharing music files online.
2005 - Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential runoff election.
2009 - Pop superstar Michael Jackson died at age 50 from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. (The singer's doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.)
2015 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in a 6-3 ruling that preserved health insurance for millions of Americans.
2016 - Pope Francis visited Armenia, where he recognized the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians as a genocide, prompting a harsh rebuttal from Turkey.
2020 - A government watchdog found that nearly 1.1 million relief payments totaling some $1.4 billion in the government’s coronavirus aid program went to dead people.
2020 - Two U.S. warships, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS San Jacinto, notched their 161st consecutive day at sea, breaking the previous Navy record, as ships were ordered to avoid port visits because of the coronavirus.
2020 - Census Bureau figures showed that for the first time, nonwhites and Hispanics were a majority of people under age 16 in 2019.
Birthdays
40 - Sheridan Smith (actress)
42 - Busy Philipps (actress)
44 - Layla El (professional wrestler)
46 - Linda Cardellini (actress)
49 - Mike Kroeger (musician)
50 - Angela Kinsey (actress)
54 - Richie Rich (rapper)
55 - Dikembe Mutombo (basketball player)
57 - Erica Gimpel (actress)
57 - Dell Curry (basketball player)
58 - John Benjamin Hickey (actor)
60 - Ricky Gervais (actor/comedian)
66 - Michael Sabatino (actor)
67 - Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court justice)
69 - Tim Finn (singer)
73 - Michael Lembeck (actor)
74 - Jimmie Walker (actor/comedian)
76 - Carly Simon (singer)
79 - Willis Reed (basketball player)
81 - Mary Beth Peil (actress)
82 - Barbara Montgomery (actress)
84 - Eddie Floyd (singer)
88 - James Meredith (civil rights activist)
96 - June Lockhart (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 25
1918 - Babe Ruth became the second American League player to hit a home run in four consecutive games.
1921 - Jock Hutchinson became the first U.S. citizen to win the British Open.
1968 - Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.
1978 - Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3-1 to win the World Cup in Argentina.
1985 - The New York Yankees became the first major league team to require all bat boys to wear protective helmets during all games.
1997 - The NHL officially approved expansion to 30 teams by the year 2000 with the announcement of new teams in Atlanta, Columbus, Minnesota and Nashville.
1997 - The San Antonio Spurs selected Wake Forest forward Tim Duncan with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1999 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the New York Knicks in five games to win the first NBA championship in franchise history.
2003 - Todd McFarlane bought Barry Bonds 73rd home run ball at auction for $517,500.
2009 - The Los Angeles Clippers select Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2015 - The Minnesota Timberwolves select Kentucky center Karl-Anthony Towns with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
