TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Monday, June 25, the 176th day of 2018. There are 189 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On June 25, 1868, Congress passed an Omnibus Act allowing for the readmission of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to the Union.
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 WhiteSlave 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 personal journal of Anne Frank, a Germanborn Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.
■ In 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South.
■ 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 and cover-up.
■ In 1981, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that male-only draft registration was constitutional.
■ In 1993, Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada’s 19th prime minister, the first woman to hold the post. Ten years ago: A divided 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 death of the victim.
Five years ago: 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.
One year ago: In eastern Pakistan, an overturned oil tanker burst into flames, killing at least 150 people who had rushed to the scene to gather leaking fuel.
Today’s Birthdays: Actress June Lockhart is 93. Civil rights activist James Meredith is 85. Author-activist Larry Kramer is 83. Rhythm and blues singer Eddie Floyd is 81. Actress Mary Beth Peil is 78. Basketball Hall of Famer Willis Reed is
76. Singer Carly Simon is 73. Rock musician Ian McDonald (Foreigner; King Crimson) is
72. Actor-comedian Jimmie Walker is 71. Actor-director Michael Lembeck is 70. TV personality Phyllis George is 69. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 64. Rock musician David Paich (Toto) is
64. Actor Michael Sabatino is
63. Actor-writer-director Ricky Gervais is 57. Actress Erica Gimpel is 54. Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo is 52. Rapper Candyman is 50. Contemporary Actress Angela Kinsey is 47. Actress Linda Cardellini is 43. Actress Busy Philipps is 39. Jazz musician Joey Alexander is 15.
Thought for Today: “The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”—Philip K. Dick, American science-fiction author (1928-1982).