history at a glance
TODAY is Sunday June 25 the 176th day of the year. There are 189 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:
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. 1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect
Stanford White. 1910 – Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence
as a composer. 1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913. 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. 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland. 1940 – World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany at 01:35. 1943 – The Holocaust: Jews in the Czestochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the
Nazis. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic
countries, begins. 1944 – World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to
support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg. 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published. 1948 – The Berlin airlift begins. 1949 – Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters. 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. 1975 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has a state of internal Emergency 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 during the San
Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. 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. 1993 – Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada. 1993 – Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action is adopted by World Conference on
Human Rights. 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 US servicemen. 1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir. 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line
Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional. 1999 – United Nations Security Council: Resolutions 1248 and 1249 are adopted. 2013 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes the eighth Emir of Qatar.