On this day, June 25

1863 Pittsburgh militia and home guard prepared for an attack after receiving a telegraphic message that Confederate Army Gen. Jeb Stuart’s troops had occupied McConnellsburg and were moving toward the city.

1929 The Pittsburgh Metropolitan District Charter, which would have made Pittsburgh the country’s fifth-largest city, goes down to defeat in a vote by Allegheny County residents. City voters favored the bill by an 8-1 margin, but only 47 of the 62 municipalities in the county acquired the two-thirds majority needed in each suburb.

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 War broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South.

1980 The Pittsburgh Board of Education announced a layoff of 141 teachers as a result of declining enrollment, low attrition and the pending desegregation plan.

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.

2015 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in a 6-3 ruling that preserved health insurance for millions of Americans.

Some items are from Stefan Lorant’s “Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City” (digital.library.pitt.edu/chronology).