Updated June 24, 2012, 2:28 pm
On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana.
On June 25, 1887, George Abbott, American playwright, director, actor and producer, was born. Following his death on Jan. 31, 1995, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1788 Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution. 1868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union. 1950 War broke out on the Korean peninsula as forces from the communist North invaded the South. 1951 The first commercial color telecast took place as CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities. 1962 The Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional. 1967 The Beatles performed a new song, “All You Need Is Love,” during a live international telecast. 1973 Former White House Counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee. 1991 The Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence. 1995 Warren E. Burger, the 15th chief justice of the United States, died at age 87. 1996 A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia. 1997 An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia’s Mir space station, knocking out half of the station’s power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory. 1998 The Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional. 2005 Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran’s presidential runoff election. 2009 Michael Jackson died from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. (The 50-year-old singer’s doctor, Conrad Murray, has pleaded innocent to involuntary manslaughter.) Current Birthdays
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor turns 58 years old today.
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Actor-writer Ricky Gervais (“The Office”) turns 51 years old today.
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1925 June Lockhart, Actress (“Lassie,” “Lost in Space”), turns 87 1942 Willis Reed, Basketball hall of famer, turns 70 1944 Gary David Goldberg, Writer, producer (“Family Ties,” “Spin City”), turns 68 1945 Carly Simon, Singer, turns 67 1947 Jimmie Walker, Actor, comedian (“Good Times”), turns 65 1949 Phyllis George, TV personality, turns 63 1952 Tim Finn, Rock singer (Crowded House), turns 60 1963 George Michael, Singer, turns 49 1966 Dikembe Mutombo, Basketball player, turns 46 1967 Richie Rich, Rapper, producer, turns 45 1971 Angela Kinsey, Actress (“The Office”), turns 41 1972 Carlos Delgado, Baseball player, turns 40 1972 Mike Kroeger, Rock musician (Nickelback), turns 40 1975 Linda Cardellini, Actress (“ER”), turns 37 1978 Aramis Ramirez, Baseball player, turns 34 1979 Busy Philipps, Actress (“Cougar Town”), turns 33
Historic Birthdays
George Abbott 6/25/1887 – 1/31/1995 American theatrical director, producer, playwright and actor.Go to obituary »
79 Edward Holyoke 6/25/1689 – 1/1/1769
American educator; president of Harvard University (1737-69)73 Antonio Gaudi 6/25/1852 – 6/10/1926
Spanish (Catalan) architect64 Robert Henri 6/25/1865 – 7/12/1929
American painter47 Crystal Eastman 6/25/1881 – 7/8/1928
American lawyer, suffragist and writer66 Benito Lynch 6/25/1885 – 12/23/1951
Argentine novelist and short story writer63 Henry Harley Arnold 6/25/1886 – 1/15/1950
American military strategist95 Hermann Oberth 6/25/1894 – 12/29/1989
Austrian-born German scientist79 Lord Louis Mountbatten 6/25/1900 – 8/27/1979
English statesman, naval leader and last viceroy of India68 William H. Stein 6/25/1911 – 2/2/1980
American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1972)
