June 25

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[edit] Events

• 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.
• 1940 - France formally surrenders to Germany.
• 1944 - The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries begins.
• 1948 - The Berlin Airlift begins.
• 1950 - The beginning of the Korean War, with the invasion of the South by the North.
• 1975 - Mozambique achieved independence.
• 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.
• 1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.

[edit] Births

• 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
• 1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
• 1933 - James Meredith, American civil rights activist
• 1956 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)

[edit] Deaths

• 1533 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
• 1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (b. 1839)
• 1995 - Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1907)
• 2003 - Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)