Today in History
June 25
Thomas Fairfax
George Orwell
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| 1080 Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clemens III |
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| 1096 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany | ||
| 1139 Battle of Ourique: Afonso I defeats Moors | ||
| 1178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon | ||
| 1183 Peace of Konstanz | ||
| 1243 Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV | ||
| 1298 Rindfleish Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany | ||
| 1373 Johanna II, Queen of Naples (1414-35) was born | ||
| 1500 Pope Alexander VI accept Treaty of Granada | ||
| 1580 Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published | ||
| 1606 St Jansday is forbidden | Thomas Fairfax |
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| 1621 French governament army occupies Fort St Jean d'Ang‚ly at La Rochelle | ||
| 1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Governator Winthrop | ||
| 1638 Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in US | ||
| 1646 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Oxford | ||
| 1658 Spanish garrison at Duinkerk surrenders to French & British | ||
| 1667 Dr Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion | ||
| 1675 Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden | ||
| 1716 Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands | ||
| 1788 Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution | ||
| 1794 French troops occupy Charleroi | ||
| 1798 US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens | ||
| 1834 Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published |
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| 1835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF) | ||
| 1864 Horse tramway at the Hague, opens | ||
| 1864 Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines | ||
| 1867 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio | ||
| 1868 President Andrew Johnson passes a law that govt workers would work 8 hr day | ||
| 1894 American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike | ||
| 1903 George Orwell, [Eric A Blair], British writer (Animal Farm, 1984) was born | ||
| 1905 Warsaw & Lodz revolt against Russian occupation | ||
| 1907 J Hans D Jensen, Germany, physicist (atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963) | ||
| 1916 Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov | ||
| 1918 Baku-Turkish communist party forms | ||
| 1919 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13) | ||
| 1919 Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg | George Orwell |
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| 1920 League of Nations places Intl head of Justice in Hague | ||
| 1932 Commencement of India's 1st Test cricket, v England at Lord's | ||
| 1940 Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in France | ||
| 1941 FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination | ||
| 1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established | ||
| 1941 Finland declares war on Soviet Union | ||
| 1942 British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) | ||
| 1942 British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London | ||
| 1942 Maj Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europ | ||
| 1943 Crematory III at Birkenau is finished | ||
| 1943 Racial unrest in Detroit | ||
| 1943 Seyss-Inquart orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians | ||
| 1944 British assault at Caen Normandy | ||
| 1945 Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas | ||
| 1945 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa | ||
| 1947 1st edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published | ||
| 1949 Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote) | ||
| 1950 Israeli airline El Al begins service | ||
| 1950 Korean conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea | ||
| 1950 UN member states begin using integrated forces against N Korea |
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| 1953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours | ||
| 1956 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" (Cape Cod) | ||
| 1960 Earthquake in NE Belgium | ||
| 1960 Madagascar gains independence of France | ||
| 1961 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees) | ||
| 1962 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms | ||
| 1963 JFK speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt | ||
| 1963 South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested | ||
| 1966 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad | ||
| 1966 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched | ||
| 1972 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina | ||
| 1973 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee | ||
| 1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France | Book of Concord |
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| 1975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day) | ||
| 1984 STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem | ||
| 1985 Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes (21 die) | ||
| 1986 Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud | ||
| 1987 Pope John Paul II receives Austrian Pres Kurt Waldheim | ||
| 1991 Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon | ||
| 1991 Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia | ||
| 1992 Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores | ||
| 1993 Parliamentary election in Morocco | ||
| 1994 Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns | ||
| 1997 Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful | ||
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