History for June 25

History for June 25 - On-This-Day.com:
Henry "Hap" Arnold 1886, Lord Louis Mountbatten (Burma) 1900, George Orwell 1903


June Lockhart 1925, Carly Simon 1945, Phyllis George 1949


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.


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.


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