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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
- 1944 –World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
- 1950 –The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
- 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.
- 1978 –The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
- 1991 –Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
- 1993 –Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1996 –The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
- 1997 –An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
- 2006 –Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.
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