TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 25
1580 The Book of Concord was first published. The book is a collection of doctrinal standards of the Lutheran Church.
1658 Aurangzeb proclaims himself emperor of the Moghuls in India.
1767 Mexican Indians riot as Jesuit priests are ordered home.
1788 Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution and became the 10th state of the United States.
1857 Gustave Flaubert goes on trial for public immorality regarding his novel, Madame Bovary.
1868 The U.S. Congress enacts legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the federal government.
1868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1876 General George A. Custer and over 260 men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Bighorn in Montana.
1903 Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium.
1906 Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White. White, a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit before she married Thaw. The shooting took place at the premeire of Mamzelle Champagne in New York.
1938 Problems with Native American Indian businesses using the Swastika which is an Indian symbol of good luck and predates the modern world including the use of the swastika buy the Nazi Party in Germany is causing those Indian businesses to stop displaying the sign due to people believing it stands for the Nazis.
1941 Finland declares war on the Soviet Union.
1950 North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1962 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
1964 President Lyndon Johnson orders 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
1967 The world’s first live global satellite TV program is aired The BBC program “Our World” featured artists from 19 countries. The Beatles premiered their song “All You Need Is Love” on the show. Some 400 million viewers tuned in.
1970 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.
1973 White House Counsel John Dean admits President Richard Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
1986 Congress approves $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.
1990 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. “The right to die” decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.
1991 Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
1996 A truck loaded with high explosives is detonated at a U.S. military housing complex killing 19 Americans and injuring hundreds more.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
2000 A Florida judge approved a class-action lawsuit to be filed against America Online (AOL) on behalf of hourly subscribers who were forced to view “pop-up” advertisements.
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