June 25
1788
Virginia became the 10th state in the Union.
1876
Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyanne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.
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, Boston, and Washington, DC.
1991
Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
1997
Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.
2009
Michael Jackson, lifelong musician, pop singer, and superstar, dies at age 50.
Birthdays
George Orwell
pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair
1903–50, British novelist and essayist, born in India.
Antonio Gaudí
architect (1852)
Robert Henri
painter (1865)
George Abbott
theatrical producer (1887)
James Meredith,
civil-rights leader (1933)