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.
1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
1678 Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is awarded a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Padua, 1st woman to receive a university doctoral degree or PhD
1767 Mexican Indians riot as Jesuit priests are ordered home.
1798 US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1857 Gustave Flaubert goes on trial for public immorality regarding his novel, Madame Bovary.
1862 The first day of the Seven Days’ campaign begins with fighting at Oak Grove, Virginia.
1868 The U.S. Congress enacts legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the federal government.
1868 FL, AL, LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to US
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.
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.
1929 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 per hour
1941 FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
1950 North Korea invades 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.
1961 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1962 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
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.
1981 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
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.
1993 Kim Campbell took office as Canada’s first woman prime minister. She assumed power upon the resignation of Brian Mulroney.
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.
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.
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
