June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of the year.
Railways
- 25 June 1920 Nazilli 6 machine and 150 wagon is emptied.
- 25 June 1927 Law No. 1375 on the construction of the Ankara-Ereğli railway.
Events
- 1678 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Ph. She was the first woman to earn a D. (PhD) degree.
- 1788 - Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1801 - French occupation armies in Cairo surrender to the Turkish army.
- 1876 – In the Battle of Little Bighorn, Indians destroy the US 7th Cavalry Regiment, their Commander Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer dies in action.
- 1903 - Marie Curie announced the discovery of radium in her thesis to the University of Paris.
- 1917 – The first Press Society was established in Turkey. The first President of the Association was Mahmut Sadık.
- 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Pasha was elected as a Member of Parliament from Izmir.
- 1925 – In Greece, General Thedoros Pangalos seizes power in a coup.
- 1940 – As a result of the Battle of France, the armistice agreement signed on 22 June 1940 came into effect and France surrendered to the Germans.
- 1947 – II. The Jewish girl Anne Frank, who was hiding from German soldiers for 2 years in the attic of a house in the Netherlands during World War II, wrote here. Anne Frank's Diary published.
- 1948 – An airlift is established with US planes over West Berlin to break the Berlin Blockade.
- 1950 - North Korean Armies supported by the Soviet Union attack South Korea. The Korean War has begun.
- 1963 – The Constitutional Court started its duty with the first hearing.
- 1965 – Cyclist Rıfat Caliskan came first in the 3rd International Marmara Tour.
- 1967 – US-made first global satellite television program Our World (Our World) has been published.
- 1969 – In the events that took place in the 3rd League match played between MKE Kırıkkalespor and Tarsus İdman Yurdu in Kırıkkale; 4 people were killed and more than 100 injured.
- 1971 – The first Turkish destroyer “Berk”, built in Gölcük Shipyard, was launched with a ceremony.
- 1975 - Mozambique declared its independence from Portugal.
- 1981 - Microsoft is restructured to be a joint stock company in its home state of Washington.
- 1982 – In Greece, conscripts are banned from shaving their hair.
- 1985 – The foundation of Eskişehir Aircraft Factory was laid by President Kenan Evren.
- 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
- 1993 – Tansu Çiller became the first female Prime Minister of Turkey.
- 1998 – Microsoft released Windows 98.
- 2018 – Turkey's Automobile Enterprise Group was established.
Births
- 1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
- 1722 – Erik Brahe, Swedish noble count (d. 1756)
- 1848 Arthur Balfour, English politician (d. 1930)
- 1852 – Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (pioneer of the Art Nouveau movement in Spain) (d. 1926)
- 1855 – William Alexander Forbes, English zoologist (d. 1883)
- 1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
- 1898 - Kay Sage, American poet and painter (d. 1963)
- 1900 – Louis Mountbatten, British soldier, Commander of the Royal Marines of the United Kingdom (d. 1979)
- 1903 – George Orwell, English writer (d. 1950)
- 1907 – Sona Hajiyeva, Azerbaijani actress (d. 1979)
- 1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
- 1920 – Lassie Lou Ahern, American actress (d. 2018)
- 1924 – Sidney Lumet, American actor and director (d. 2011)
- 1925 - William Stoddart, English writer
- 1927 – Süheyl Eğriboz, Turkish theater, TV series and movie actor (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Peyo, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1992)
- 1932 - Peter Blake, English painter
- 1933 – Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
- 1935 – Hacı Sabancı, Turkish businessman (d.1998)
- 1936 – BJ Habibie, Indonesian statesman, politician, and engineer (d. 2019)
- 1937 – Eddie Floyd, American soul/R&B singer and songwriter
- 1937 – Keizo Obuchi, Japanese politician
- 1942 - Willis Reed, American professional basketball player
- 1943 – Füsun Erbulak, Turkish cinema and theater artist
- 1945 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's writer
- 1946 – Roméo Dallaire, Canadian soldier and writer
- 1946 – Ulrik le Fevre, Danish former international football player
- 1949 – Brigitte Mohnhaupt, German journalist, Marxist philosopher, member of the Red Army Faction
- 1950 – Michel Côté, Canadian actor
- 1954 – Sonia Sotomayor, American lawyer who served as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice since August 8, 2009
- 1955 – Maxime Bossis, French former football player
- 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American writer
- 1961 – Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakh director of feature films and commercials
- 1961 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, filmmaker and broadcaster
- 1963 – George Michael, English singer (d. 2016)
- 1963 – Müge Akyamaç, Turkish theater and film actress
- 1963 – Yann Martel, Canadian writer
- 1964 – Johnny Herbert, British racer
- 1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American former basketball player
- 1968 – Dorinel Munteanu, Romanian former football player and manager
- 1968 – Kayra Şenocak, Turkish actress and presenter
- 1970 – Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete and politician
- 1971 – Ayhan Taş, Turkish theater actor
- 1971 – Tarkan Koç, Turkish theater actor
- 1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian film actress
- 1975 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
- 1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
- 1978 – Layla El, British professional wrestler
- 1979 – Aydilge, Turkish writer, musician and radio host
- 1979 – Daniel Jensen, Danish national football player
- 1979 - Haddy N'jie, Norwegian singer, songwriter, author and journalist
- 1982 – Rain, South Korean singer, dancer, songwriter, actor, and producer
- 1982 – Mikhail Yuzhny, Russian tennis player
- 1983 - Cristian Baroni, Brazilian football player
- 1983 – Marc Janko, Austrian football player
- 1984 – Fatih Atik, French-Turkish football player
- 1984 – Ufuk Bayram, economy journalist, writer, actor, television programmer, academician, non-governmental organization leader
- 1985 – Karim Matmour, Algerian national football player
- 1986 – Charlie Davies, American football player
- 1986 – Seda Tokatlıoğlu, Turkish volleyball player
- 1991 – Soner Demirtaş, Turkish freestyle wrestler
- 1991 – Victor Wanyama, Kenyan national football player
- 1991 – Simone Zaza, Italian football player
- 1992 - Kelsey Robinson, American national volleyball player
- 1997 – Rodrigo Bentancur, Uruguayan national football player
Deaths
- 1533 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496)
- 1587 – Kılıç Ali Pasha, Ottoman sailor and Admiral Admiral (b. 1500)
- 1671 – Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer and priest (b. 1598)
- 1673 – D'Artagnan, French soldier and XIV. Commander of Louis' musketeers (b. 1611)
- 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
- 1784 – Caesar Rodney, American politician and lawyer (b. 1728)
- 1822 – ETA Hoffmann, German composer, music critic, short story writer, and cartoonist (b. 1776)
- 1835 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (b. 1771)
- 1827 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German historian and theologian, covenant critic (b. 1752)
- 1863 – Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, German agricultural scientist (b. 1784)
- 1864 – William I, king of Württemberg, reigning from 30 October 1816 until his death (b. 1871)
- 1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian neurophysiologist and politician (b. 1811)
- 1876 – George Armstrong Custer, American soldier (b. 1839)
- 1894 – Sadi Carnot, French politician (b. 1837)
- 1898 – Ferdinand Cohn, Jewish biologist (b. 1828)
- 1912 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch Poet (b. 1836)
- 1925 – Josef Breuer, Austrian physiologist (b. 1843)
- 1949 – Alejandro Lerroux, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1864)
- 1956 - Ernest King, II. Fleet admiral who served as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy and Chief of Naval Operations during World War II (b.
- 1960 – Walter Baade, German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959 (b. 1893)
- 1960 – Otto Ender, Austrian politician (b. 1875)
- 1960 – Walter Baade, German astronomer (b. 1893)
- 1964 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect and furniture designer (b. 1888)
- 1971 – John Boyd Orr, Scottish teacher, biologist, and politician (b. 1880)
- 1973 – Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American philosopher (b. 1901)
- 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
- 1977 – Olave Baden-Powell, first president of the UK Girl Scouts and wife of Baden Powell, founder of Scouting (b. 1889)
- 1982 – Ferhan Onat, Turkish soprano and State Opera singer
- 1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
- 1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born American guitarist (b. 1962)
- 1992 – James Stirling, one of the UK's most influential architects in the 20th century architecture (b. 1926)
- 1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish Nobel Prize-winning scientist (b. 1903)
- 1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanographer, naval officer, and film director (b. 1910)
- 2005 – John Fiedler, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2005 – Kazım Koyuncu, Turkish musician (b. 1971)
- 2006 – Arif Mardin, Turkish-American album producer (b. 1932)
- 2008 – Ahmed Yüksel Özemre, Turkish atomic engineer and writer (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (Charlie's Angels) (b. 1947)
- 2009 – Michael Jackson, American singer (b. 1958)
- 2013 – Lau Kar-leung, Chinese screenwriter and filmmaker (b. 1934)
- 2014 – Eli Wallach, American actress (b. 1915)
- 2015 – Patrick Macnee, English actor (b. 1922)
- 2016 – Nicole Courcel, French actress (b. 1931)
- 2017 – Elsa Daniel, Argentine actress (b. 1936)
- 2018 – Costance Adams, American architect and author (b. 1964)
- 2018 – Jesús Cardenal, Spanish lawyer (b. 1930)
- 2018 – Štefka Drolc, Slovenian stage and film actress (b. 1923)
- 2018 – Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television personality (b. 1941)
- 2018 – Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer and trumpeter (b. 1937)
- 2019 – Ringaudas Songaila, Lithuanian communist politician, veterinarian who held various positions in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1929)
- 2019 – Bruno de Keyzer, French cinematographer (b. 1949)
- 2019 – Bryan Marshall, English actor (b. 1938)
- 2019 – Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)
- 2020 – Suzana Amaral, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
- 2020 – Kilasu Massamba, Democratic Congolese national football player (b. 1950)
- 2020 – Papaleo Paes, Brazilian politician (b. 1952)
- 2020 – Ionuţ Popa, Romanian former football player and manager (b. 1953)
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