Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 25

This is a list of selected June 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  A manuscript discovered at Dunhuang
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  Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript
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  1978 rainbow flag
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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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  Royal Air Force personnel being evacuated from Brest, France
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  CIA diagram of Area 51

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Independence Day in Mozambique (1975)	unreferenced section
; Statehood Day in Slovenia (1991)	stub
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 section
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)
Æthelstan Ætheling |d|1014	death date not referenced (and also might be a different year); plus a cite needed and no lede
Crystal Eastman |b|1881	POTD for 2022
Alan Plater |d|2010	inadequate lead; refimprove section
* 1678 – Venetian philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.	Large parts uncited
* 2006 – Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured in a cross-border raid near the Kerem Shalom crossing with the Gaza Strip, and held hostage by Hamas until 2011.	15 citation needed tags
Niels, King of Denmark |d|1134|	Death not cited

Eligible

• 1940 – Second World War: Operation Aerial, an 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.
• 1960 – Two cryptographers working for the U.S. National Security Agency left on vacation to Mexico, and proceeded to defect 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 flagrepresenting gay pride was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade.
• 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.
• 2022 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian forces captured the city of Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine, after six weeks of fighting.
• Born/died: | Girolamo Corner|b|1632|David Douglas |b|1799| Ebenezer Pemberton |d|1835| Rose O'Neill|b|1874 | Henry H. Arnold |b|1886| Louis Mountbatten |b|1900| George Orwell |b|1903| Margaret Anstee |b|1926| Sonia Sotomayor |b|1954| Raymond Leane |d|1962|Michel Foucault |d|1984|Hillel Slovak |d|1988|Ernest Walton|d|1995

June 25: Eid al-Ghadir (Shia Islam, 2024)

Michael Jackson in 1993

• 1658 – Anglo-Spanish War: The largest battle ever fought on Jamaica, the three-day Battle of Rio Nuevo, began.
• 1910 – The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes".
• 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.
• 1950 – The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea.
• 2009 – Singer Michael Jackson (pictured) died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body.

• Giovanni Battista Riccioli (d. 1671)
• Eloísa Díaz (b. 1866)
• George Michael (b. 1963)
• Farrah Fawcett (d. 2009)

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