TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2018

On this day in history: 1580 - The Book of Concord was first published. The book is a collection of doctrinal standards of the Lutheran Church.

1767 - Mexican Indians rioted as Jesuit priests were ordered home.

1847 - Melbourne is proclaimed a city.

1852 - 89 people die as the town of Gundagai, NSW is inundated by floods.

1870 - In Spain, Queen Isabella abdicated in favour of Alfonso XII.

1920 - The Greeks took 8000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna. 1921 - Samuel Gompers was elected head of the AFL for the 40th time.

1938 - Gaelic scholar Douglas Hyde was inaugurated as the first president of the Irish Republic.

1941 - Finland declared war on the Soviet Union.

1946 - Ho Chi Minh travelled to France for talks on Vietnamese independence. 1948 - The Soviet Union tightened its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city. 1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.

1959 - Eamon De Valera became president of Ireland at the age of 76.

1973 - Erskine Childers Jr. became president of Ireland after the retirement of Eamon De Valera.

1975 - Mozambique became independent. Samora Machel was sworn in as president after 477 years of Portuguese rule.

1987 - Austrian President Kurt Waldheim visited Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. The meeting was controversial due to allegations that Waldheim had hidden his Nazi past. 1991 - The last Soviet troops left Czechoslovakia 23 years after the Warsaw Pact invasion.

1991 - The Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.

1993 - Kim Campbell took office as Canada’s first woman prime minister. She assumed power upon the resignation of Brian Mulroney.

1999 - Germany’s parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to be built in Berlin.