June 25

1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the protestant Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and electors of Germany.

1788 – Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the Constitution.

1876 – At the Battle of the Little Bighorn, troops of the 7th Cavalry under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne tribesmen led by Sioux Chiefs; Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Gall and Cheyenne Chiefs; Lame White Man and Two Moons

1901 – H.R.-Chief Lone Bear- Bartle is born in Richmond, Virginia.

1910 – Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes” which is not further defined.

1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at Gettysburg for the Great Reunion of 1913, the 50th anniversary of the battle.

1940 – The French armistice with Germany comes into effect.

1943 – Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis

1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is published.

1948 – Due to the blockade of travel from West Germany into Berlin by the Soviets, a supply airlift campaign – Operation VITTLES – from airbases in West Germany and elsewhere, to Tempelhof airfield in Berlin is organized

1950 – North Korean troops begin an invasion of South Korea

1960 – 2 cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency, William H. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell  leave for vacation to Mexico, and from there defect to the Soviet Union.

1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1996 – The Khobar Towers apartments in Saudi Arabia is truck-bombed, killing 19 U.S. servicemen.

1998 – In the case of Clinton v. City of New York, the Supreme Court rules the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

2009 – Actress Farrah Fawcett dies, age 62 of cancer and singer Michael Jackson dies, age 50 of a drug overdose.