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June 25
1788 - Virginia became the 10th state.
1876 - Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all his men of the 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.
1867 - Barbed wire was patented by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio.
1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1910 - President William Howard Taft signed the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for "immoral" purposes.
1942 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was designated Commanding General of the European Thetaer of Operations during World War II.
1947 - "The Diary of a Young Girl," the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.
1950 - Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1951 - The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
1962 - The Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional.
1967 - The Beatles performed a new song, "All You Need is Love" during a live international telecast.
1973 - Former White House counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.
1990 - The Supreme Court, in its first "right-to-die" decision, ruled that family members could be barred from ending the lives of persistently comatose relatives who had not made their wishes known conclusively.
1991 - Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
1995 - Warren E. Burger, the 15th chief justice of the United States, died at age 87.
1996 - A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
1997 - An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.
1997 - Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.
1998 - The Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional.
2003 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) threatened to sue hundreds of individual computer users who were illegally sharing music files online.
2005 - Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential runoff election.
2009 - Michael Jackson died at age 50 from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. (The singer's doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.)
2009 - Actress Farrah Fawcett died in Santa Monica, California at age 62.
2015 - The Supreme Court upheld nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in a 6-3 ruling that preserved health insurance for millions of Americans.
2019 - San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes.
Birthdays
39 - Sheridan Smith (actress)
41 - Busy Philipps (actress)
45 - Linda Cardellini (actress)
48 - Mike Kroeger (musician)
49 - Angela Kinsey (actress)
53 - Richie Rich (rapper)
54 - Dikembe Mutombo (basketball player)
56 - Erica Gimpel (actress)
57 - John Benjamin Hickey (actor)
59 - Ricky Gervais (actor/comedian)
65 - Michael Sabatino (actor)
66 - Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court justice)
68 - Tim Finn (singer)
72 - Michael Lembeck (actor)
73 - Jimmie Walker (actor)
74 - Ian McDonald (musician)
75 - Carly Simon (singer)
78 - Willis Reed (basketball player)
95 - June Lockhart (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 25
1918 - Babe Ruth became the second American League player to hit a home run in four consecutive games.
1921 - Jock Hutchinson became the first U.S. citizen to win the British Open.
1968 - Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.
1978 - Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3-1 in extra time to win the World Cup.
1997 - The NHL officially approved expansion to 30 teams by the year 2000 with the announcement of new teams in Atlanta, Columbus, Nashville and Minnesota.
1997 - The San Antonio Spurs select Wake Forest power forward Tim Duncan with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1999 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the New York Knicks in five games to win the NBA championship.
2003 - Todd McFarlane bought Barry Bonds' record 73rd home run ball at auction for $517,500.
2009 - The Los Angeles Clippers select Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2015 - The Minnesota Timberwolves select Kentucky center Karl-Anthony Towns with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2018 - Pitcher Edwin Jackson takes the mound for the Oakland Athletics, tying a record by appearing for his 13th MLB baseball club.
1788 - Virginia became the 10th state.
1876 - Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all his men of the 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.
1867 - Barbed wire was patented by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio.
1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1910 - President William Howard Taft signed the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for "immoral" purposes.
1942 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was designated Commanding General of the European Thetaer of Operations during World War II.
1947 - "The Diary of a Young Girl," the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.
1950 - Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1951 - The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
1962 - The Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional.
1967 - The Beatles performed a new song, "All You Need is Love" during a live international telecast.
1973 - Former White House counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.
1990 - The Supreme Court, in its first "right-to-die" decision, ruled that family members could be barred from ending the lives of persistently comatose relatives who had not made their wishes known conclusively.
1991 - Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
1995 - Warren E. Burger, the 15th chief justice of the United States, died at age 87.
1996 - A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
1997 - An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.
1997 - Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.
1998 - The Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional.
2003 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) threatened to sue hundreds of individual computer users who were illegally sharing music files online.
2005 - Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential runoff election.
2009 - Michael Jackson died at age 50 from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. (The singer's doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.)
2009 - Actress Farrah Fawcett died in Santa Monica, California at age 62.
2015 - The Supreme Court upheld nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in a 6-3 ruling that preserved health insurance for millions of Americans.
2019 - San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes.
Birthdays
39 - Sheridan Smith (actress)
41 - Busy Philipps (actress)
45 - Linda Cardellini (actress)
48 - Mike Kroeger (musician)
49 - Angela Kinsey (actress)
53 - Richie Rich (rapper)
54 - Dikembe Mutombo (basketball player)
56 - Erica Gimpel (actress)
57 - John Benjamin Hickey (actor)
59 - Ricky Gervais (actor/comedian)
65 - Michael Sabatino (actor)
66 - Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court justice)
68 - Tim Finn (singer)
72 - Michael Lembeck (actor)
73 - Jimmie Walker (actor)
74 - Ian McDonald (musician)
75 - Carly Simon (singer)
78 - Willis Reed (basketball player)
95 - June Lockhart (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 25
1918 - Babe Ruth became the second American League player to hit a home run in four consecutive games.
1921 - Jock Hutchinson became the first U.S. citizen to win the British Open.
1968 - Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.
1978 - Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3-1 in extra time to win the World Cup.
1997 - The NHL officially approved expansion to 30 teams by the year 2000 with the announcement of new teams in Atlanta, Columbus, Nashville and Minnesota.
1997 - The San Antonio Spurs select Wake Forest power forward Tim Duncan with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1999 - The San Antonio Spurs defeat the New York Knicks in five games to win the NBA championship.
2003 - Todd McFarlane bought Barry Bonds' record 73rd home run ball at auction for $517,500.
2009 - The Los Angeles Clippers select Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2015 - The Minnesota Timberwolves select Kentucky center Karl-Anthony Towns with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2018 - Pitcher Edwin Jackson takes the mound for the Oakland Athletics, tying a record by appearing for his 13th MLB baseball club.
