History for June 25

History for June 25 - On-This-Day.com
Henry "Hap" Arnold 1886, George Abbott 1887, Lord Louis Mountbatten (Burma) 1900 


George Orwell 1903, Sidney Lumet 1924, June Lockhart 1925 


Carly Simon 1945, Phyllis George 1949, George Michael 1963 


1867 - Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire. 


1876 - Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand." 



1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France. 


1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War. 


1951 - In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own color TV's at the time. 


1959 - The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law. 


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. 



1985 - ABC's "Monday Night Football" began with a new line-up. The trio was Frank Gifford, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson. 


1986 - The U.S. Congress approved $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. 


1991 - The Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia. 



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. 


1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act. 

1998 - Microsoft's "Windows 98" was released to the public.