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.
- 524 –The Franks defeat the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
- 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.
- 1786 –Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
- 1788 –Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1906 –Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
- 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.
- 1913 –American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
- 1935 –Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
- 1944 –The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
- 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.
- 1967 –Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World
- 1975 –Mozambique achieves independence.
- 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.
- 1997 –The Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat erupts resulting in the death of 19 people.
- 1998 –In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
- 2006 –Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.
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