Today’s highlight in history

On June 25, 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South.

On this date

In 1876, Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.

In 1910, President William Howard Taft signed the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for “immoral” purposes.

In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted.

In 1947, “The Diary of a Young Girl,” the journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was published.

In 1967, the Beatles performed and recorded their new song “All You Need Is Love” during the closing segment of “Our World,” in the first-ever live international telecast.

John W. Dean III testifies before the Senate Watergate committee on June 25, 1973.

In 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.

In 2009, death claimed Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 62.

Ten years ago: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that allowed capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under 12; the ruling also invalidated laws in five other states that allowed executions for child rape that did not result in the victim’s death.

Five years ago: Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the whereabouts of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden at a Moscow airport but promptly rejected a U.S. plea to turn him over.

One year ago: Tens of thousands of people waving rainbow flags lined streets for gay pride parades in coast-to-coast events.