What are the important events that happened on June 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 25: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 25 is the 176^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 12, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,180,160 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontahexagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 237 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,569 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 25 Historical Events

• 524 –
  The Franks defeat the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
• 1906 –
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
• 1910 –
  The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
• 1913 –
  American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
• 1938 –
  Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
• 1949 –
  Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
• 1950 –
  The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
• 1960 –
  Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
• 1976 –
  Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
• 1982 –
  Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.

Who were born on June 25?

• 1560 –
  Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
• 1887 –
  Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1938)
• 1901 –
  Harold Roe Bartle, American lawyer, and politician, mayor of Kansas City, MO (d. 1974)
• 1941 –
  Denys Arcand, Canadian film director
• 1952 –
  Tim Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
• 1964 –
  Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
• 1971 –
  Scott Maslen, English actor
• 1978 –
  Luke Scott, American baseball player
• 1979 –
  Richard Hughes, Scottish footballer
• 1981 –
  Sheridan Smith, English actress

Who died on June 25?

• 1533 –
  Mary Tudor, English-born Queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
• 1868 –
  Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
• 1870 –
  David Heaton, American Congressional Representative (b. 1823)
• 1944 –
  Lucha Reyes, Mexican mariachi singer (b. 1906)
• 1959 –
  Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (b. 1938)
• 1971 –
  John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
• 1984 –
  Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
• 1987 –
  Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
• 1998 –
  Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber Kabyle singer (b. 1956)
• 2009 –
  Anil Wilson, Indian educationist (b. 1947)