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 177th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 12, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,654,560 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 ‘hectaheptacontaheptagon’ 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 218 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 4,204 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 25 Historical Events
- 1530 –At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
- 1788 –Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1876 –Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
- 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.
- 1935 –Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
- 1978 –The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
- 1981 –Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
- 1996 –The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
- 2006 –Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.
Who were born on June 25?
- 1726 –Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798)
- 1894 –Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
- 1901 –Harold Roe Bartle, American lawyer, and politician, mayor of Kansas City, MO (d. 1974)
- 1925 –June Lockhart, American actress
- 1940 –A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005)
- 1964 –Greg Raymer, American professional poker player
- 1970 –Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete
- 1974 –Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- 1978 –Layla El, British dancer, model and professional wrestler
- 1985 –Daniel Bard, American baseball player
Who died on June 25?
- 253 –Pope Cornelius
- 1671 –Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
- 1838 –François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
- 1944 –Lucha Reyes, Mexican mariachi singer (b. 1906)
- 1950 –Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish author (b. 1904)
- 1960 –Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
- 1988 –Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born American guitarist (Anthym, What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
- 1990 –Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer (b. 1940)
- 1999 –Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
- 2011 –Goff Richards, British brass band music composer/arranger
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