TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT June 25, 1967

The Beatles performed their new song “All You Need Is Love” during the closing segment of “Our World,” the first-ever live international telecast which was carried by satellite from 14 countries.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1530

The Augsburg Confession, a statement outlining the articles of faith of the Lutheran Church, was presented to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg.

1788

Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.

1867

Barbed wire was patented by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio.

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.

1910

President William Howard Taft signed the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for “immoral” purposes.

1938

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938was enacted.

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.