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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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Mozambique (1975) | refimprove |
| 1530 – The Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church, was presented to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg. | no footnotes |
| 1678 – Venetian mathematician Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a doctor of philosophy degree. | single source, no footnotes, short |
| 1938 – Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland after the office was established by the Constitution of Ireland in 1937. | 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 section |
| 1950 – The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea. | needs expansion |
| 1975 – More than a year after the Carnation Revolution, a bloodless coup against the Estado Novo regime, Mozambique officially gained independence from Portugal. | refimprove |
| 1993 – Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada. | unreferenced section, needs expansion |
| 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 |
| 2006 – Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip on the crossing Kerem Shalom, and was held hostage by Hamas until 2011. | outdated |
| 2009 – Swedish authorities removed eight-year-old Domenic Johansson from the custody of his parents on the grounds that he was not being properly educated. | neutrality issues |
Eligible
- 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.
- 1910 – The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes".
- 1910 – The Firebird, the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, made its premiere in Paris.
- 1940 – Second World War – The evacuation of nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers from French ports was completed.
- 1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
- 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 United States Constitution.
- 2009 – Singer Michael Jackson died after suffering cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home, which authorities later declared a homicide caused by the combination of drugs in his body.
June 25: Croatian Statehood Day and Slovenian Statehood Day
- 1900 – A Taoist monk discovered the Dunhuang manuscripts (sample pictured), a cache of documents from the 5th to 11th centuries, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
- 1913 – More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the largest combined reunion of American Civil War veterans ever held.
- 1944 – World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
- 1967 – More than 400 million people viewed Our World, the first live, international satellite television production.
- 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride first flew in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.