DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Saturday, June 25, the 176th day of 2022. There are 189 days left in the year.
On this date in:
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.
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 state-sponsored 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, California, 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.
2016: Pope Francis visited Armenia, where he recognized the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians as a genocide, prompting a harsh rebuttal from Turkey.
2021: Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 221⁄2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin’s knee led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations.
Actor June Lockhart is 97. Singer Eddie Floyd is 85. Actor Barbara Montgomery (“Amen,” “The Women of Brewster Place”) is 83. Actor Mary Beth Peil (“The Good Wife,” “Dawson’s Creek”) is 82. Singer Carly Simon is 79. Keyboardist-saxophonist Ian Mcdonald of Foreigner and King Crimson is 76. Actor-comedian Jimmie Walker is 75. Singer Tim Finn of Split Enz and Crowded House is 70. Keyboardist David Paich of Toto is 68. Actor Michael Sabatino (“NYPD Blue”) is 67. Actor Ricky Gervais is 61. Actor Erica Gimpel is 58. Rapper Richie Rich is 55. Guitarist Sean Kelly (Sixpence None The Richer) is 51. Actor Angela Kinsey (“The Office”) is 51. Bassist Mike Kroeger of Nickelback is 50.