June 25

June 25 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining.

Events

1788 - Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
1950 - The beginning of the Korean War.
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.
1998 - Microsoft Windows 98 is released.

1852 - Antoni Gaudi, architect (+ 1926)
1858 - Georges Courteline, dramatist (+ 1929)
1864 - Walther Nernst, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1920 (+ 1941)
1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, Montparnasse art promoter (+ 1979)
1887 - George Abbott, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, actor (+ 1995)
1894 - Hermann Oberth, physicist (+ 1989)
1900 - Louis Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viscount Mountbatten of India (+ 1979)
1903 - George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), writer (+ 1950)
1915 - Peter Lind Hayes, actor (+ 1998)
1924 - Sidney Lumet, actor, director
1925 - June Lockhart, actress (Lassie's "mother")
1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer (+ 1973)
1932 - Peter Blake, artist
1933 - James Meredith, civil rights activist
1945 - Carly Simon, singer
1962 - Colin Vearncombe (Black), singer
1963 - George Michael
1972 - Scott Leff, slow white guy
1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player

See Also:

June 24 - June 26 - May 25 - July 25 -- listing of all days