June 25

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 25. From 1900 until now. June 25 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include George Michael (1963), Ricky Gervais (1961) and George Orwell (1903). Several movies were released around June 25 over the years, such as Back to the Future in 1985 directed by Robert Zemeckis and The Conformist in 1970 directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
But much more happened on June 25 over the years: find out below

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2019 Yemeni Civil War: Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: Saudi Arabia announces that Abu Usama al-Muhajir, the leader of ISIL's Yemeni branch, has been captured by special forces. (The New York Times)
2018 Following the suicide of a teenage boy from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester in England police issue a public statement and the coroner sends notices to schools warning of the game Doki Doki Literature Club!. (MSN)
2017 Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during the Syrian Civil War: Israel strikes two Syrian Army artillery positions and an ammunition truck in Quneitra Governorate, after stray shells from Syria land in the northern Golan Heights for a second day in a row. (Reuters)
2016 Moro conflict: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant urges its supporters in Indonesia and Malaysia to go to the Philippines and fight against newly-elected president Rodrigo Duterte. (Rappler)
2015 Syrian Civil War: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces re-enter the Kurdish town of Kobanî after a successful large-scale counterattack against the Kurds. (BBC)
2014 2014 Northern Iraq offensive: The Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki calls for national unity as a Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant reaches Yathrib 87 kilometres (54 miles) north of Baghdad. (Washington Post)
2013 War in Afghanistan:: Taliban forces attack near the Presidential Palace in Kabul. (BBC)
2012 Syrian uprising (2011-present):
2011 Arab Spring:
2010 At least 24 people are killed and 50 people injured after an overcrowded bus crashes into a truck in the Patna district of Bihar state in India. (AFP via ''Sydney Morning Herald'')
2009 Iran
2008 EU's representative in Kosovo Pieter Feith says he expects Montenegro will recognize Kosovo's unilateral independence ampquotas soon as possibleampquot, as it would ampquotcontribute to regional stabilityampquot. (B92)
2007 WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy Benoit, and son Daniel, are found dead as the result of a murder-suicide that took place over the previous weekend.
2006 Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.
2005 In Destin, Florida, a 14-year-old Louisiana girl is killed in a shark attack.
2004 After Siemens AG threatens to move thousands of jobs from North Rhine-Westphalia to Hungary, IG Metall (a trade union) agrees to a 40-hour work week for the same pay they currently receive for working 35. The agreement reduces by €5 the cost of each Siemens mobile phone manufactured under the new agreement. IG Metall workers had enjoyed the 35-hour work week since 1984. (Deutsche Welle) (IHT)
2002 Entertainment -
1998 Microsoft releases the Windows 98 operting system. It features integrated Internet Explorer 4.0 Web browser, and Universal Serial Bus support. Code-name during development was Memphis. Total sales on the first day are 271,000 units.
1997 Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby (Orbit 9)
1996 The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills nineteen U.S. servicemen.
1995 Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1994 1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina
1993 New York Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1992 Les Miserables, opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague
1991 Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon
1990 Dave Thomas Comedy Show, last airs on CBS-TV
1989 Day By Day, last airs on NBC-TV
1988 Chess closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 68 performances
1987 Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim.
1986 Former Belgium Premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud
1985 Fireworks factory near Hallett, Oklahoma explodes (21 die).
1984 Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
1983 Evita closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 1568 performances
1982 Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges
1981 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
1980 Fearless Frank closes at Princess Theater NYC after 12 performances
1979 Got Tu Go Disco opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances
1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1977 LBJ denies report he had a cancer during his presidency
1976 Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
1975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France
1972 Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
1971 Madagascar accuses the U.S. of being connected to the plot to oust the current government the U.S. recalls its ambassador.
1969 Longest tennis match in Wimbeldon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game marathon (5 hours 12 minues).
1968 Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his first major league game (San Francisco Giants).
1967 400 million watch Beatles Our World TV special
1966 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
1965 A U.S. Air Force Boeing C135-A bound for Okinawa crashes just after takeoff at MCAS El Toro in Orange County, California, killing all 85 on board.
1964 Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black Methodist Bishop (NJ)
1963 JFK speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt
1962 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
1961 Baltimore Orioles and California Angels use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 innings.
1960 Earthquake in NE Belgium
1957 Jonathan Winters Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1956 51 die in collision of Andrea Doria andStockholm (Cape Cod)
1955 Can Can closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 892 performances
1952 Wish You Were Here opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 597 performances
1951 First color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from New York City to four cities.
1950 Johnny Pramesa (Reds) and Hank Thompson (Giants) hit inside the park HRs
1949 Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)
1948 Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
1947 Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello
1946 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) (World Bank) begins operations.
1945 Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas
1944 British assault at Caen Normandy
1943 Crematory III at Birkenau is finished
1942 British Premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London
1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1940 Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower and grave of Napoleon in France
1938 A Tisket A Tasket by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
1935 Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera in boxing at Yankee Stadium, New York.
1934 Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets vs. Australia (7-61 & 8-43)
1933 Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegates convene in Berlin to protest against the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany.
1932 36th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows, New York
1929 President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam in Colorado.
1928 New York Giants' Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader.
1927 WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout
1926 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham
1923 Rapid Bucureşti is formed on the initiative of the Griviţa railroad workers (first named CFR Bucureşti).
1921 56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St. Andrews
1920 League of Nations places International head of Justice in Hague
1919 Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg
1918 Baku-Turkish communist party forms
1916 Tsar Nicolaas II fires Minister of Foreign Affairs Sasonov
1913 Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
1910 Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1909 George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament
1906 Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
1905 Warsaw and Lodz revolt against Russian occupation
1903 Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 and 5-3
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