June 25
1788 - Virginia became the 10th state.
1876 - Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all of his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.
1938 - The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted.
1942 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was designated Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations during World War II.
1947 - "The Diary of a Young Girl," the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.
1950 - Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1951 - The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C.
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional.
1973 - Former White House Counsel John W. Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in its first "right-to-die" decision, ruled that family members could be barred from ending the lives of permanently comatose relatives who had not made their wishes known conclusively.
1991 - Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
1993 - Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's first female prime minister.
1996 - A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds more at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
1997 - Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.
2009 - Pop superstar Michael Jackson died at age 50 from an accidental drug overdose.
2009 - Actress Farrah Fawcett died at age 62.
2013 - President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete as he announced at Georgetown University a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming.
2015 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul in a 6-3 ruling that preserved health insurance for millions of Americans.
2016 - Pope Francis visited Armenia, where he recognized the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians as a genocide, prompting a harsh rebuttal from Turkey.
2021 - Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin's knee led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations.
Birthdays
20 - Madison Reyes (actress)
24 - Natalie Kuckenburg (model)
25 - Renee Herbert (model/actress)
30 - Chiara Parravicini (actress)
45 - Busy Philipps (actress)
49 - Linda Cardellini (actress)
53 - Angela Kinsey (actress)
58 - Dikembe Mutombo (basketball player)
60 - Erica Gimpel (actress)
63 - Ricky Gervais (actor)
70 - Sonia Sotomayor (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
77 - Jimmie Walker (actor/comedian)
81 - Carly Simon (singer)
85 - Barbara Montgomery (actress)
91 - James Meredith (civil rights activist)
99 - June Lockhart (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 25
1921 - Jock Hutchinson became the first American golfer to win the British Open.
1968 - Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.
1978 - Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3-1 in extra time to win the World Cup.
1985 - The New York Yankees enacted a rule that all bat boys were to wear protective helmets at all times during games.
1997 - The NHL officially approved expansion to 30 teams by the year 2000 with the announcement of new franchises in Atlanta, Columbus, Minneapolis and Nashville.
1999 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the New York Knicks in five games to win their first NBA championship.
2003 - Todd McFarlane bought Barry Bonds 73rd home run ball at auction for $517,500.
2009 - The Los Angeles Clippers select Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2015 - The Minnesota Timberwolves select Kentucky center Karl-Anthony Towns with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2021 - Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola ties Tom Seaver's 51-year-old MLB record of 10 consecutive strikeouts in a game against the New York Mets.
1788 - Virginia became the 10th state.
1876 - Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all of his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.
1938 - The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted.
1942 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was designated Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations during World War II.
1947 - "The Diary of a Young Girl," the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.
1950 - Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1951 - The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C.
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional.
1973 - Former White House Counsel John W. Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in its first "right-to-die" decision, ruled that family members could be barred from ending the lives of permanently comatose relatives who had not made their wishes known conclusively.
1991 - Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
1993 - Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's first female prime minister.
1996 - A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds more at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
1997 - Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.
2009 - Pop superstar Michael Jackson died at age 50 from an accidental drug overdose.
2009 - Actress Farrah Fawcett died at age 62.
2013 - President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete as he announced at Georgetown University a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming.
2015 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul in a 6-3 ruling that preserved health insurance for millions of Americans.
2016 - Pope Francis visited Armenia, where he recognized the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians as a genocide, prompting a harsh rebuttal from Turkey.
2021 - Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin's knee led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations.
Birthdays
20 - Madison Reyes (actress)
24 - Natalie Kuckenburg (model)
25 - Renee Herbert (model/actress)
30 - Chiara Parravicini (actress)
45 - Busy Philipps (actress)
49 - Linda Cardellini (actress)
53 - Angela Kinsey (actress)
58 - Dikembe Mutombo (basketball player)
60 - Erica Gimpel (actress)
63 - Ricky Gervais (actor)
70 - Sonia Sotomayor (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
77 - Jimmie Walker (actor/comedian)
81 - Carly Simon (singer)
85 - Barbara Montgomery (actress)
91 - James Meredith (civil rights activist)
99 - June Lockhart (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 25
1921 - Jock Hutchinson became the first American golfer to win the British Open.
1968 - Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.
1978 - Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3-1 in extra time to win the World Cup.
1985 - The New York Yankees enacted a rule that all bat boys were to wear protective helmets at all times during games.
1997 - The NHL officially approved expansion to 30 teams by the year 2000 with the announcement of new franchises in Atlanta, Columbus, Minneapolis and Nashville.
1999 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the New York Knicks in five games to win their first NBA championship.
2003 - Todd McFarlane bought Barry Bonds 73rd home run ball at auction for $517,500.
2009 - The Los Angeles Clippers select Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2015 - The Minnesota Timberwolves select Kentucky center Karl-Anthony Towns with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2021 - Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola ties Tom Seaver's 51-year-old MLB record of 10 consecutive strikeouts in a game against the New York Mets.
