TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Sunday, June 25, the 176th day of 2017. There are 189 days left in the year. 1530 At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany. 1658 Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War. 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. 1786 Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. 1900 The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. 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. 1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane. 1935 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established. 1943 The Holocaust: Jews in the Czestochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis. 1950 The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India. 1978 The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. 1981 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington. 1984 Singer Prince releases his most successful studio album Purple Rain. 1993 Kim Campbell is sworn in as 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. 1998 The United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.