On this day, June 25
1876 Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the 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. Some 1,000 British Royal Air Force bombers raided Bremen, Germany.
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. 1962 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that recitation of a statesponsored 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 persistently comatose relatives who had not made their wishes known conclusively.
1993 Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada’s 19th prime minister, the first woman to hold the post.
1996 A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia. 2009 Death claimed Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” in Los Angeles at age 50 and actor Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, Calif., 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. 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. Democratic Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis began a one-woman filibuster to block a GOP-led effort to impose stringent new abortion restrictions across the nation’s second-most populous state. (Republicans voted to end the filibuster minutes before midnight, sparking a chaotic scene with demonstrators who succeeded in forcing lawmakers to miss the deadline for passing the bill.) 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. 2016 Pope Francis visited Armenia, where he recognized the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians as a genocide, prompting a harsh rebuttal from Turkey.
2018 Facing rising costs from new tariffs, HarleyDavidson announced that it would begin shifting the production of motorcycles sold in Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas; President Donald Trump accused the company of waving a “White Flag” in the tariff dispute between the U.S. and the European Union. Britain’s Prince William arrived in Israel for the first-ever official visit there by a member of the British royal family, ending the monarchy’s mostly hands-off approach to one of the world’s most sensitive regions.
Today’s birthdays: Actor June Lockhart, 98. Civil rights activist James Meredith, 90. R&B singer Eddie Floyd, 86. Actor Barbara Montgomery, 84. Actor Mary Beth Peil, 83. Singer Carly Simon, 78. Actor-comedian Jimmie Walker, 76. Actor-director Michael Lembeck, 75. Rock singer Tim Finn, 71. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 69. Rock musician David Paich (Toto), 69. Actor Michael Sabatino, 68. Actor-writer-director Ricky Gervais, 62. Actor John Benjamin Hickey, 60. Actor Erica Gimpel, 59. Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, 57. Rapper-producer Richie Rich, 56. Actor Angela Kinsey, 52. Rock musician Mike Kroeger (Nickelback), 51. Rock musician Mario Calire, 49. Actor Linda Cardellini, 48.