About June 25
June 25, 2024 is the 177th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 218 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 25
- 253 –Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae.
- 841 –In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
- 1530 –At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
- 1678 –Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
- 1741 –Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
- 1935 –Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
- 1938 –Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
- 1944 –World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
- 1948 –The Berlin airlift begins.
- 1950 –The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
- 1960 –Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
- 1975 –Mozambique achieves independence.
- 1975 –The State of Emergency is declared in India.
- 1976 –Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
- 1981 –Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
- 1982 –Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
- 1991 –Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
- 1997 –An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
- 1997 –The Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat erupts resulting in the death of 19 people.
- 2006 –Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.
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