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A manuscript discovered at Dunhuang
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Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript
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George Armstrong Custer
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Igor Stravinsky
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Indira Gandhi
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British soldiers evacuating from France
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Rainbow flag for LGBT pride
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| ; Independence Day in Mozambique (1975) | unreferenced section |
| 1530 – The Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church, was presented to the Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, at the Diet of Augsburg. | needs more footnotes |
| 1876 – Black Hills War: United States Army Colonel George Armstrong Custer was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in present-day Big Horn County, Montana. | Custer: refimprove section; Battle: refimprove sections |
| 1900 – A Taoist monk discovered the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of documents from the 5th to 11th centuries, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. | refimprove section |
| 1910 – The Firebird, the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, made its premiere in Paris. | unreferenced section |
| 1938 – Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland after the office was established by the Constitution of Ireland in 1937. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, began in the Karelian Isthmus of Finland. | refimprove sections |
| 1975 – Citing threats to national security, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi unilaterally had a state of emergency declared across the nation that lasted nearly two years. | refimprove sections |
| 1993 – Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada. | refimprove section |
| 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, left 19 American servicemen and one Saudi dead and 372 of many nationalities wounded. | refimprove section |
| 1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivered its decision in Clinton v. City of New York, ruling that the line-item veto as granted in the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 violated the Constitution. | refimprove section |
| 2013 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani became the eighth Emir of Qatar. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| Raymond Leane (d. 1962) | TFA for 2019 |
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- 1910 – The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes".
- 1913 – More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the largest combined reunion of American Civil War veterans ever held.
- 1944 – World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
- 1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
- 1967 – More than an estimated 400 million people viewed Our World, the first live international satellite television production.
- 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride first flew in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
- 2006 – Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip on the crossing Kerem Shalom, and was held hostage by Hamas until 2011.
- 2013 – In response to a Freedom of Information request, the CIA admitted the existence of Area 51, the secretive military airfield in Nevada that has become a focus of various UFO and conspiracy theories.
- Born/died: Niels, King of Denmark (d. 1134) · Juliana Morell (d. 1653) · David Douglas (b. 1799) · Antoni Gaudí (b. 1852) · Louis Mountbatten (b. 1900) · Sonia Sotomayor (b. 1954) · Michel Foucault (d. 1984)
June 25: Statehood Day in Croatia and Slovenia
- 1658 – Anglo-Spanish War: the three-day Battle of Rio Nuevo began, the largest ever fought on the island of Jamaica, in which English colonial forces repelled a Spanish attack.
- 1678 – Venetian mathematician Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
- 1940 – World War II: The evacuation of nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers from French ports was completed.
- 1950 – The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea.
- 2009 – Singer Michael Jackson (pictured) died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body.
Giovanni Battista Riccioli (d. 1671) · Ebenezer Pemberton (d. 1835) · Margaret Anstee (b. 1926)