June 25

June 25 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian
Calendar, with 190 days remaining.

Events

   * 1788 - Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted
     as the 10th state of the United States.
   * 1950 - The beginning of the Korean War.
   * 1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia
   * 1993 - Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative
     Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
   * 1998 - Microsoft Windows 98 is released.

Births

   * 1852 - Antoni Gaudi, architect (+ 1926)
   * 1858 - Georges Courteline, dramatist (+ 1929)
   * 1864 - Walther Nernst, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
     physics 1920 (+ 1941)
   * 1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, Montparnasse art promoter (+ 1979)
   * 1887 - George Abbott, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director,
     actor (+ 1995)
   * 1894 - Hermann Oberth, physicist (+ 1989)
   * 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of
     Burma, Viscount Mountbatten of India (+ 1979)
   * 1903 - George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), writer (+ 1950)
   * 1915 - Peter Lind Hayes, actor (+ 1998)
   * 1924 - Sidney Lumet, actor, director
   * 1925 - June Lockhart, actress (Lassie's "mother")
   * 1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer (+ 1973)
   * 1932 - Peter Blake, artist
   * 1933 - James Meredith, civil rights activist
   * 1945 - Carly Simon, singer
   * 1963 - George Michael, singer
   * 1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player

Deaths

   * 1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, composer
   * 1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, composer
   * 1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman sultan
   * 1964 - Gerrit Rietveld, architect
   * 1976 - Johnny Mercer, composer
   * 1995 - Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court justice
   * 1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, explorer, scientist, inventor

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