TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 25
1178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon
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
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.
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.
1864 Union troops surrounding Petersburg, Virginia, begin building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.
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 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as “Custer’s Last Stand”
1903 Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium.
1928 The Jewish community in the United States has pledged to raise $3,000,000 each year for the next 5 years to rebuild Palestine as a Jewish National Home.
1946 Ho Chi Minh travels to France for talks on Vietnamese independence.
1950 North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1956 The last 1956 Packard was produced, marking the end of production at Packard’s Connor Avenue plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1962 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
1967 First global satellite television programme “Our World” broadcast featuring 19 acts representing 19 nations including The Beatles singing “All You Need is Love”
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
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 Saudi Arabia US Base Attacked. 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.
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, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
