25 Juin

The 25t o Juin is the 176t day o the year (177t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 189 days ti come.

Events

1788: Banner o Virginie

1876: Battle o Little Bighorn

1975: Banner o Mozambique

• 253 – Pape Cornelius is executit (beheadit) at Centumcellae.
• 1741 – Maria Theresa o Austrick is crouned Queen o Hungary.
• 1788 – Virginie becomes the 10t state tae ratify the Unitit States Constitution.
• 1876 – A force o Lakota, Northren Cheyenne, Arapaho defeat Unitit States cavalrymen in the Battle o Little Bighorn in Montana.
• 1938 – Douglas Hyde becomes the first Preses o Ireland.
• 1940 – Warld War II: Fraunce offeecially surrenders tae Germany at 01:35.
• 1948 – The Berlin Airlift begins.
• 1950 – The Korean War begins wi the invasion o Sooth Korea bi North Korea.
• 1975 – Mozambique achieves unthirldom frae Portugal.
• 1975 – Prime meenister o Indie Indira Gandhi declares a state o emergency.
• 1978 – Argentinae wins the 1978 FIFA Warld Cup in Buenos Aires, defeatin the Netherlands 3-1 in extra time.
• 1982 – 1982 FIFA Warld Cup in Spain: Wast Germany beat Austrick 1-0 in a result baith teams hae fixed, leadin tae controversy an Algerie bein knockit oot.
• 1984 – Prince releases his successful studio album "Purple Rain".
• 1988 – The Netherlands wins UEFA Euro 1988, defeatin the Soviet Union 2-0 in the feenal.
• 1991 – Croatie an Slovenie declare thair unthirldom frae Yugoslavie.
• 1993 – Kim Campbell becomes the first female Prime meenister o Canadae.
• 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombin in Saudi Arabie kills 19 US servicemen.
• 2001 – A typhoon hits Fujian province, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, killin ower 100 fowk.
• 2007 – Breetish sodgers leave Northren Ireland efter 37 year.
• 2009 – The daith o pop starn Michael Jackson causes widespread reaction on social media.
• 2013 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Emir o Qatar.
• 2014 – A splosion in Abuja, Nigerie, kills 20 fowk.
• 2016 – Fitbaa: Wales defeat Northren Ireland 1-0 (bi an ain-goal) at the seicont roond o UEFA Euro 2016 in the first aw-Unitit Kinrick major toornament clash withoot Inglis involvement.
• 2020 – Liverpool F.C. secures the Inglis Premier League teetle we seiven gemmes tae spare; it is thair first League teetle in 30 year.

Births

George Orwell

George Michael

• 1803 – Robert Scott Lauder, Scots airtist (d. 1869)
• 1842 – Eloy Alfaro, Preses o Ecuador (d. 1912)
• 1852 – Antoni Gaudi, Catalan airchitect (d. 1926)
• 1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist (d. 1941)
• 1903 – George Orwell, Inglis author (d. 1950)
• 1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German nuclear pheesicist (d. 1973)
• 1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Sidney Lumet, American film director (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Roushie-American theoretical pheesicist (d. 2017)
• 1936 – B. J. Habibie, 3rd Preses o Indonesie (d. 2019)
• 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef an writer (d. 2018)
• 1961 – Ricky Gervais, Inglis actor an comedian
• 1963 – George Michael, Inglis sangster (d. 2016)
• 1985 – Scott Brown, Scots fitbawer

Daiths

• 253 – Pape Cornelius
• 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German componer (b. 1681)
• 1822 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
• 1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scots medicinar (b. 1880)
• 1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Ernest Walton, Erse pheesicist (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Jacques Cousteau, French marine biologist, splorer an filmmaker (b. 1910)
• 2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Michael Jackson, American sangster-sangwriter, producer, dancer, an actor (The Jackson 5) (b. 1958)
• 2017 – Gordon Wilson, Scots politeecian (b. 1938)

Halidays

• Independence Day (Mozambique)
• Statehood Day (Slovenie, Croatie)
• Statehood Day (Virginie)
• Teachers' Day (Guatemala)
• Arbor Day (Philippines)