On this day in History - Jun 25

0841 - Battle of Fontenay
1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, dies (b. 1160). Norman crusader.

1535 - Sebastián Belalcázar funda Guayaquil, a segunda cidade mais importante de Equador atualmente.
1579 - Hatano Hideharu dies (b. 1541) Japanese daimyo and samurai.
1634 - John Marston, dies (b. 1576). English playwright.
1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, dies. Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1767- Georg Philipp Telemann, dies. German composer.
1788 - Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, dies (b. 1776). German writer, composer, and painte.
1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, dies. Ottoman Sultan
1852 - Antoni Gaudi, was born (d. 1926). Architect.
1858 - Georges Courteline, was born (d. 1929). Dramatist.
1864 - Walther Nernst, was born (d. 1941). German physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry
1865 - Robert Henri, was born (d. 1929). Painter.
1876 - Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

1882 - François Jouffroy, dies (b. 18906)French sculptor.
1884 - Hans Rott, dies. Composer
1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, was born (d. 1979). Art promoter.

1887 - Um comboio descarrila entre o caminho Bilbao-Zaragoza. Morrem 40 pessoas e inúmeras ficam feridas.
1887 - George Abbott, was born (d. 1995). Playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, actor
1894 - Hermann Oberth, was born (d. 1989). Physicist.
1900 - Louis Mountbatten, was born (d. 1979). 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
1903 - George Orwell, was born (d. 1950). Writer.

1906 - Pedro Montt vence as eleições presidenciais no Chile.

1909 - Nasce no Cairo Eva Nil (Eva Comello), actriz do cinema brasileiro.

1911 - Nasce William Howard Stein, bioquímico norte-americano.

1912 - William T. Cahill, was born. Governor of New Jersey
1913 - Cyril Fletcher, was born (d. 2005). British comedia.
1915 - Peter Lind Hayes, was born (d. 1998). Actor.
1916 - Thomas Eakins, dies. Artist .

1925 - Nasce John Briley, novelista norte-americano.

1925 - Golpe Militar na Grécia encabeçado pelo general Pangalos.

1936 - Nasce Yusuf Habibie Bachadurin, presidente de Indonésia.
1937 - Colin Clive, dies (b. 1900). British actor.
1923 - Nicholas Mosley, was born. British writer
1924 - Sidney Lumet, was born. Actor, director
1925 - June Lockhart, was born. American actress
1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, was born (d. 1973). Writer.

1927 - Em Portugal, foi fundada a Associação de Cegos Luis Braille
1929 - Eric Carle, was born. Children's author
1930 - Mary Beth Peil, was born. American opera singer and actress
1932 - Peter Blake, was born. Artist
1933 - James Meredith, was born. American civil rights activist
1938 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.

1941 - Nascimento em Deschambault, Quebec- Canadá de Denys Arcand. Actor.

1945 - Seán T. O'Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
1945 - Carly Simon, was born. Singer
1948 - William C. Lee, dies (b. 1895). U.S. general.

1948 - Morre o professor, escritor e político português Bento de Jesus Caraça, fundador da Biblioteca Cosmos.
1950 - The beginning of the Korean War.

1954 - Nascimento, em Umbuzeiro - PB, de Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos . Actor brasileiro.

1955 - Terry Chimes, was born. Musician
1956 - Boris Trajkovski, was born (d. 2004). President of the Republic of Macedonia
1959 - Eamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland.
1960 - Tommy Corcoran, dies (b, 1869). Baseball player
1963 - George Michael, was born. Singer
1963 - Yann Martel, was born. Author
1966 - Dikembe Mutombo,was born. Bbasketball player
1967 - First global satellite television programme - "Our World"
1970 - Lucy Benjamin, was born. British actress
1972 - Carlos Delgado, was born. Baseball player
1973 - Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
1974 - Karisma Kapoor, was born. Indian actress
1975 - Linda Cardellini, was born. American actress
1975 - Albert Costa, was born. Spanish tennis player
1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, was born. Russian chess player.

1975 - Proclamada a independência de Moçambique
1976 - Johnny Mercer, dies. American songwriter
1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
1982 - Mikhail Youzhny, was born. Russian tennis player
1983 - Nargis Farahmand, was born. Afghani poet.
1983 - Alberto Ginastera, dies (b. 1916). Argentine composer.
1985 - Hanna Perez Moza, was born. Mexican singer (Ha*Ash) .

1985 - Em Portugal, Mário Soares demitiu-se do cargo de Primeiro-Ministro
1986 - Aya Matsuura, was born. Japanese singer
1988 - Hillel Slovak, dies. Guitarist
1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 - David Letterman airs his last episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
1993 - Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.

1994 - Morre Michel Foucault, filósofo francês.
1995 - Warren Burger, dies. United States Supreme Court justice

1995 - A Frente Nacional para o Câmbio e para a Democracia triunfa nas eleições presidenciais no Haiti.

1995 - Falece William Layton, dramaturgo norte-americano.

1995 - Falece Ernest Walton, físico irlandês e Prêmio Nobel em 1951.
1996 - Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, dies. French explorer, scientist, and inventor.
1998 - Microsoft Windows 98 is released.
1998 - In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
1999 - The American soap opera Another World airs its 8891st and final episode. ]
2003 - Lester Maddox,dies. Segregationist Governor of Georgia
Statehood day in Slovenia and Croatia
Antichristmas celebrated by some Satanists (see also Midsummer)
National Catfish Day
Spain - Fiesta of Santa Orosia
National Strawberry Parfait Day
Mozambique - Independence Day