On this day: June 25

Events on June 25

• 1530 At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany. Wikipedia
• 1658 Anglo-Spanish War: The largest battle ever fought on Jamaica, the three-day Battle of Rio Nuevo, began. Wikipedia
• 1788 Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution. Wikipedia
• 1876 American Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho, led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Wikipedia
• 1910 The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes". Wikipedia
• 1910 Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer. Wikipedia
• 1926 French police arrested Los Errantes, while they were preparing to assassinate Spanish king Alfonso XIII, as part of a mass raid against Spanish immigrants in Paris. Wikipedia
• 1938 Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland. Wikipedia
• 1940 Second World War: Operation Aerial, an evacuation of nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers from French ports, was completed. Wikipedia
• 1940 World War II: The French armistice with Nazi Germany comes into effect. Wikipedia
• 1941 World War II: The Continuation War between the Soviet Union and Finland, supported by Nazi Germany, began. Wikipedia
• 1944 World War II: U.S. Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg. Wikipedia
• 1947 The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published. Wikipedia
• 1950 The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea. Wikipedia
• 1950 The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. Wikipedia
• 1960 Two cryptographers working for the U.S. National Security Agency left on vacation to Mexico, and proceeded to defect to the Soviet Union. Wikipedia
• 1967 More than an estimated 400 million people viewed Our World, the first live international satellite television production. Wikipedia
• 1978 The rainbow flag representing gay pride was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade. Wikipedia
• 1978 Hosts Argentina defeat the Netherlands by a score of 3–1 in the final to win their first ever FIFA World Cup. Wikipedia
• 1981 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington. Wikipedia
• 1991 The breakup of Yugoslavia begins when Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence from Yugoslavia. Wikipedia
• 1993 Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada. Wikipedia
• 2009 Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body. Wikipedia
• 2013 In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51, a secretive U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada and a subject of various UFO, and other, conspiracy theories. Wikipedia
• 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian forces captured the city of Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine, after six weeks of fighting. Wikipedia
• 2022 Two people are killed and 21 more injured after a gunman opens fire at three sites in Oslo in a suspected Islamist anti-LGBTQ+ attack. Wikipedia

Born on June 25

• 1852 Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell and the Sagrada Família (died 1926) Wikipedia
• 1864 Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941) Wikipedia
• 1894 Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (died 1989) Wikipedia
• 1900 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (died 1979) Wikipedia
• 1903 George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic (died 1950) Wikipedia
• 1907 J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973) Wikipedia
• 1908 Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic (died 2000) Wikipedia
• 1911 William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1980) Wikipedia
• 1924 Sidney Lumet, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2011) Wikipedia
• 1925 Robert Venturi, American architect and academic (died 2018) Wikipedia
• 1926 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian author and poet (died 1973) Wikipedia
• 1928 Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017) Wikipedia
• 1931 V. P. Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (died 2008) Wikipedia
• 1936 B. J. Habibie, Indonesian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (died 2019) Wikipedia
• 1954 Sonia Sotomayor, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Wikipedia
• 1956 Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author (died 2018) Wikipedia
• 1961 Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, director, producer and singer Wikipedia
• 1963 George Michael, English singer-songwriter and producer (died 2016) Wikipedia
• 1963 Yann Martel, Spanish-born Canadian author Wikipedia
• 1966 Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American basketball player (died 2024) Wikipedia
• 1972 Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan engineer and politician (died 2026) Wikipedia
• 1975 Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player Wikipedia

Died on June 25

• 635 Gao Zu, Chinese emperor (born 566) Wikipedia
• 1533 Mary Tudor, queen of France (born 1496) Wikipedia
• 1767 Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer and theorist (born 1681) Wikipedia
• 1822 E. T. A. Hoffmann, German composer, critic, and jurist (born 1776) Wikipedia
• 1861 Abdülmecid I, Ottoman sultan (born 1823) Wikipedia
• 1876 George Armstrong Custer, American general (born 1839) Wikipedia
• 1894 Sadi Carnot, French engineer and politician, 5th President of France (born 1837) Wikipedia
• 1916 Thomas Eakins, American painter, photographer, and sculptor (born 1844) Wikipedia
• 1971 John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1880) Wikipedia
• 1984 Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (born 1926) Wikipedia
• 1995 Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903) Wikipedia
• 1997 Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (born 1910) Wikipedia
• 2009 Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (born 1958) Wikipedia
• 2009 Farrah Fawcett, American actress and producer (born 1947) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Arbor Day (Philippines) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: David of Munktorp Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Dorothea of Montau Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Eurosia Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Maximus (Massimo) of Turin Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Moluag Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Our Lady of Medjugorje Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Philipp Melanchthon (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (Lutheran) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Prosper of Aquitaine Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Prosper of Reggio Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: William of Montevergine Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: June 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975. Wikipedia
• Independence Day (Croatia) Wikipedia
• National Catfish Day (United States) Wikipedia
• Statehood Day (Slovenia) Wikipedia
• Statehood Day (Virginia) Wikipedia
• Teacher's Day (Guatemala) Wikipedia
• World Vitiligo Day Wikipedia

Sources

• Wikipedia — “June 25” — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/June 25” — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikidata — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “June 25” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for June 25 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.