June 25th
Holidays and Festivals
Mozambique Independence Day * (see below)
Arbor Day (the Philippines) * CLICK HERE
Flag Day (LGBT)
Statehood Day (Croatia)
Statehood Day (Slovenia)
Statehood Day (Virginia)
National Catfish Day (United States)
Penzance, the Golowan Festival (Cornwall, UK), also known as Penzance Golowan June 23rd through 28th.
Log Cabin Day
Christian Feast Day of Eurosia
Christian Feast Day of Prosper of Aquitaine
Christian Feast Day of Prosper of Reggio
Christian Feast Day of William of Montevergine
* Glastonbury Festival 2010 Glastonbury, UK June 23 – 27 (3of5) (2010) End of June (2-5)
* Mozambique Independence Day, celebrate the independence of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975.
Fête de la Concombre Translation: Cucumber Day (French Republican) The Seventh day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"A drink, my lass, in a deep clear glass,
Just properly tempered by ice,
And here’s to the lips mine have kissed,
And if they were thine, here’s twice."
- Anonymous
Drink of The Day
Fruit Tingle
1/2 Shot Blue Curacao
1 Shot vodka
1/2 Shot raspberry syrup
Build over ice, top with soda
Wine of The Day
Renteria (2007) Crinella Vineyard
Style - Pinot Noir
Sonoma Coast
$45
Beer of The Day
Hazelnut Brown Nectar
Brewer - Rogue Ales, Ashland, Oregon, USA
Style - American Brown Ale
ABV - 6.2%
Joke of The Day
An American guy travels to Japan on business. After 3 days of intense meetings, he's exhausted.
After work he decides to go out and get some dinner, and maybe have a few drinks. Well, after a few beers and some saki, he's feeling a little horny. He decides to go down the street to a geisha bar. After a few more drinks he hires one of the women to go back to his hotel
for some action.
They go back, begin to fool around, and eventually end up on the bed. As they start to have sex, she begins moaning . . . then screaming. As she catches her breath, she begins shouting, "Shin-Wa!
Shin-Wa!"
The guy doesn't speak any Japanese, but is having the best sex of his life, and he's pretty proud of himself for giving the Geisha such a great time. After they're done, he pays her, and she leaves, barely able to walk out of the room.
The next day, the businessman has to play golf with the CEO of the Japanese company he had been meeting with. Everything goes great . . . they get to the 18th hole, and the CEO has a 40 ft. putt to make par, and have the best round of his life. He takes his time, lines it up, and sinks it!
The American is so thrilled, he decides to impress the CEO with the Japanese he's learned and starts shouting, "Shin-Wa! Shin-Wa!"
The CEO turns to him and says, "What do mean, wrong hole?
Quote of The Day
"Every time I start thinking too much about how I look,
I just find a Happy Hour and by the time I leave, I look just fine."
- Unknown
Whiskey of The Day
Price: $20
- In Celebration of Virginia's Admission to Union on June 25th, 1788
June Observances
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month
Aquarium Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Black Music Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Corn and Cucumber Month
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dairy Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
Home Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month
Lane Courtesy Month
Lemon and Mango Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Candy Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Family Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Awareness Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Lady Lawyers Month
National Migraine Awareness Month
National Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
National R.O.S.E. Month
National Rescue a Cat Month
National Rivers Month
National Safety Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Student Safety Month
National Tire Safety Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son, Thursday before the Second Saturday in March through Second Saturday in June
Okra & Pluot and Aprium Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Turkey Lovers' Month
Vision Research Month
Women's Golf Month
World Infertility Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere)
Observances this Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week, Last Full Week in June
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week, Last Full Week in June
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week, Week of June 26th
Appreciate Your Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling Professionals Week, Fourth Week in June
Eye Safety Awareness Week, Last Week in June
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week, Last Week in June
Historical Events on June 25th
253 St Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
524 Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians.
841 Battle of Fontenay.
1080 Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clemens III
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
1500 Pope Alexander VI accept Treaty of Granada
1530 At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1580 Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1606 Alkmaarse clergy asks "Great Dertelheyt"
1606 St Jansday is forbidden
1607 Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary & Moravia
1621 French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle
1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Gov 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
1672 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass
1675 Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden
1678 Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
1716 Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands
1741 Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned King of Hungary.
1749 General fast because of drought in MA
1786 Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
1788 Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States 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
1835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
1861 Western Virginia campaign
1862 Battle of Oak Grove, VA (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days
1863 US General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive
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 FL, AL, LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to US
1868 Pres Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1870 Opera "Die Walkure" is produced (Munich)
1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne at Little Big Horn
1888 Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison
1894 American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
1903 Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 & 5-3
1903 Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18
1905 Warsaw & Lodz revolt against Russian occupation
1906 Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
1909 George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament
1910 Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1913 American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1913 Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
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
1920 League of Nations places Intl head of Justice in Hague
1921 56th British Golf Open, Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St Andrews
1921 Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 mins Aust v Notts
1925 Military putsch under Gen Theodorus Pangulos in Greece
1926 61st British Golf Open, Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham
1927 WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout
1928 NY Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader
1929 Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1932 36th US Golf Open, Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY
1932 Commencement of India's 1st Test cricket, v England at Lord's
1934 Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets v Australia (7-61 & 8-43)
1934 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2
1934 Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times
1935 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
1935 Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium
1937 Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit HRs in a game
1938 "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
1938 Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated the first President of Ireland.
1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
1940 Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in France
1941 Russian counter attack at Rovno
1941 FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1941 Finland declares war on Soviet Union
1941 Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there
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 Europe
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
1944 The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins, World War II.
1945 Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas
1945 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
1947 Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello
1947 Tennis shoe introduced
1947 The Diary of Anne Frank is published, "The Back of House".
1948 Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
1948 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1948 The Berlin Airlift begins.
1949 Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
1949 Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)
1950 Israeli airline El Al begins service
1950 Johnny Pramesa (Reds) & Hank Thompson (Giants) hit inside the park HRs
1950 The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
1950 UN member states begin using integrated forces against N Korea
1951 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
1952 "Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 597 perfs
1952 34th PGA Championship, Jim Turnesa at Big Spring CC Louisville
1952 Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
1953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1953 86°F in Anchorage Alaska
1955 "Can Can" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 892 performances
1955 "Imogene Coca Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)
1956 WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 "Jonathan Winters Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1960 Earthquake in NE Belgium
1960 Madagascar gains independence of France
1961 Balt & California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns
1961 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1962 Inonu government forms in Turkey
1962 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
1962 Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
1963 Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies
1963 JFK speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt
1963 South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested
1964 Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ)
1964 WMCA (NYC) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th
1965 Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kádár as premier of Hungary
1966 Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1966 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1966 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
1967 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special
1967 Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1967 First live global satellite television programme Our World
1967 KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years
1968 Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants)
1969 Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon
1971 Stevie Wonder releases "Where I'm Coming From"
1972 Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
1972 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
1973 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee
1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France
1973 Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
1975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1976 Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints.
1976 Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
1977 LBJ denies report he had a cancer during his presidency
1977 Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightning for 7th time!
1978 Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires
1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1979 "Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances
1979 Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium
1980 "Fearless Frank" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 12 performances
1981 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1981 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
1982 Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.
1982 Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges
1982 SF holds its 1st County Fair
1982 Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns, replaced by Schultz
1983 "Evita" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 1568 performances
1983 India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1983 Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m
1984 Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
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
1986 Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release
1987 Pope John Paul II receives Austrian Pres Kurt Waldheim
1988 "Chess" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 68 performances
1988 104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1988 Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game
1988 Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs
1988 Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadóttirelected (90+%)
1988 Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss
1988 Neth soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against USSR)
1988 Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
1989 "Day By Day," last airs on NBC-TV
1989 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)
1989 Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1989 Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils
1990 "Dave Thomas Comedy Show," last airs on CBS-TV
1990 120°F in Phoenix Arizona
1990 NBC decides to air episodes of "Quantum Leap" for 5 straight days
1990 Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known
1991 Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon
1991 Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
1992 "Les Miserables," opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague
1992 Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores
1992 STS 50 launches (Columbia)
1993 Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1993 NY Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1993 Parliamentary election in Morocco
1994 1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina
1994 105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
1994 111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas
1994 Cleve Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6
1994 Gay Games close in NYC
1994 Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
1995 Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1995 Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to HR in 3 consecutive innings
1996 The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
1997 An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station, Mir.
1997 Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million
1997 Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby (Orbit 9)
1997 Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
1997 J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game
1997 Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop
1997 NHL approves franchises in Nash, Atlanta, Columbus, & Minn-St Paul
1997 Progress M-34 Collides with & damages Mir Space Station
1997 The Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat erupts resulting in the deaths of 19 people.
1998 In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
2006 Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip.
2007 2007 United Kingdom floods, parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire flood including Louth, Horncastle and worst affected, Hull.
2008 Atlantis Plastics shooting, An employee shot and killed five people after an argument, which ended in the gunman's suicide in Henderson, Kentucky
2012 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
2013 37 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in the Central African Republic
2014 Luis Suárez is charged with biting at the 2014 FIFA World Cup
2014 The US Supreme Court rules that police cannot examine the digital contents of a cell phone without a court order
2015 Karl-Anthony Towns is chosen by the Minnesota Timberwolves as the first draft pick in the 2015 NBA draft
2015 Obamacare subsidies in The Affordable Care Act preserved by US Supreme Court Ruling in King v Burwell 6-3
Born on June 25th
1242 Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1275)
1328 William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
1373 Johanna II, Queen of Naples (1414-35)
1560 Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1612 John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1709 Francesco Araja, composer
1715 Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
1726 Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798)
1735 Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer
1755 Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1796 Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer
1813 William Hugh Keim, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1862)
1814 Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
1823 James Dunwody Bulloch, Capt (Confederate Navy) (d. 1901)
1852 Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (d. 1926)
1858 Georges Courteline (Moineaux), French playwright (d. 1929)
1860 Gustave Charpentier, French composer (opera Louise) (d. 1956)
1862 Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer
1863 Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier (d. 1935)
1864 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist and chemist (Nobel laureate 1920) (d. 1941)
1865 Robert Henri, American painter, leader of Ashcan school (d. 1929)
1878 Jean Gallon, composer
1884 Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
1886 Henry H "Hap" Arnold, American Army, Air Force commander (WW II) (d. 1950)
1887 George Abbott, American playwright (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game) (d. 1995)
1889 Ethel Glenn Hier, composer
1889 Margriet M C Baers, Flemish philosopher
1890 Marchwitza, writer
1893 Charlotte Greenwood, Phila, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami)
1894 Hermann Oberth, German physicist, founded modern astronautics (V2/Redstone) (d. 1989)
1897 Basil Radford, Chester England, actor (Whiskey Galore, Night Train)
1897 Hans Barth, composer
1900 Izak D du Plessis, South African writer/director (3rd World)
1900 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, admiral (d. 1979)
1901 Adolf Brunner, composer
1901 H. Roe Bartle, scout executive and former mayor of Kansas City, MO (d. 1974)
1902 Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, brother of Emperor Showa (d. 1953)
1903 Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1903 Arthur Tracy, Russian street singer (Vincent Lopez Show, Limelight)
1903 George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (Animal Farm, 1984) (d. 1950)
1904 Jan van Axel (Johannes P Kraakman), Dutch director (Overschotje)
1905 Ian Cromb, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in the early 1930's)
1906 Roger Livesey, Barry Wales, actor (Drums, Life & Death of Col Blimp)
1907 J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (atomic nucleus) (Nobel laureate 1963) (d. 1973)
1908 Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1909 Daniel Fuchs, US writer (Summer in Williamsburg)
1911 Reed Hadley, Petrolia Tx, actor (Racket Squad, Shock, Grand Canyon)
1911 William H(oward) Stein, American chemist (Nobel laureate 1972) (d. 1980)
1912 Virginia Lacy Jones, US librarian/presidential advisor
1912 William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1913 Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
1915 Peter Lind Hayes, SF California, comedian/singer (Peter Lind Hayes Show)
1916 Theodore P Toynbee, British journalist/writer (Savage Days, Barricade)
1921 Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
1921 Peter Charles Arthur Wishart, composer
1923 Dorothy Gilman, mystery writer
1923 Jack Hill, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner of mid 50's)
1923 Nicholas Mosley, British writer
1923 Samuel Lewis Francis, painter
1923 Tony Parker, oral historian
1924 Sidney Lumet, American film director (Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe)
1925 Clifton Chenier, Opelousas La, blues singer (Bayou Blues)
1925 June Lockhart, American actress (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction)
1925 Robert Venturi, Phila, architect (Levittown NY, Las Vegas)
1925 Ted Stepien, American business (d. 2007)
1925 Ziggy Talent, Manchester NH, singer (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1926 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author, poet (d. 1973)
1926 Pierre "Peyo" Culliford, Brussels Belgium, cartoonist (Smurfs)
1928 Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 Bill Russo, American jazz composer (d. 2003)
1928 Michel Brault, Quebec film director, screenwriter and producer
1928 Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)
1928 William Joseph Russo, composer
1929 Eric Carle, American author
1930 George Murdock, American actor
1930 Hugo Gabriel Gryn, rabbi
1930 Mary Beth Peil, American singer
1932 Peter Blake, British artist
1933 Gary Crosby, California, actor (Bill Dana Show, Adam 12, Chase)
1933 James Meredith, American civil rights activist
1933 Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian artist (glass painter)
1933 Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
1934 Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (d. 2006)
1934 Willy Rodriguez, cricketer (occasional leg-spin bat for WI in 60's)
1935 Eddie Floyd, American singer and composer (California Girl, Falcons)
1935 Kurt Schwertsik, composer
1935 Wynand Breytenbach, South African under minister of Defense (1986)
1936 Harold Melvin, US singer (Blue Notes-My Hero)
1936 Jusuf Habibie, President of Indonesia
1936 Paul Nowee, Dutch western writer (Eagle's Eye)
1937 Mirabel Morgan, author (Total Woman)
1939 Allen Fox, American Tennis Player
1939 Clint Warwick, English musician (The Moody Blues) (d. 2004)
1939 Harold Melvin, American musician (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
1940 A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005)
1940 Clint Warwick (Eccles), Birmingham England, bassist (Moody Blues)
1941 Denys Arcand, Canadian film director (Jesus of Montreal)
1942 Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
1942 Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greek academic and European Ombudsman
1942 Patrick Michael Mitchell, Ottawa, one of FBI's most wanted
1942 Wilbert Bank, actor/director (On Hope of Blessing)
1942 Willis Reed, American basketball player, NBA hall of fame MVP center/coach (NY Knicks)
1943 Gerrit "Ger" Zijlstra, sculptor
1944 Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
1945 Carly Simon, American singer (Anticipation, You're So Vain)
1946 Allen Lanier, rock keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult)
1946 Ian McDonald, English musician (King Crimson, Foreigner)
1946 Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator
1947 Jimmie Walker, American actor, comedian (JJ-Good Times, At Ease)
1948 Michael Lembeck, Bkln, actor (Max-One Day at a Time)
1949 Brenda Sykes, Shreveport La, actress (Ozzie's Girls, Getting Straight)
1949 Kene Holliday, NYC, actor (Tyler-Matlock, Carter Country)
1949 Phyllis George-Brown, Denton Tx, Miss America (1971)/sportscaster (CBS)
1950 Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33)
1950 Nitza Saul, Israeli actress
1950 Tatyana Averina, USSR, speed skater 1K, 3K (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 Lee Wilkof, Canton Ohio, actor (WEB, Delta House, Elliot-Newhart)
1951 Michael Francis, rocker
1952 Alan Green, Northern Irish BBC sports broadcaster/commentator
1952 Brian MacLeod, rock guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist (Chilliwack)
1952 Tim Finn, Kiwi singer and songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House, Puberty Blues)
1953 Ian Davis, cricketer (Australian batsman 1973-77)
1954 Daryush Shokof, Iranian filmmaker
1954 David Paich, composer, keyboardist (Toto)
1954 John Kimmel, horse trainer
1954 Lina Romay, Barcelona Spain, actress (Conan the Barbarian)
1954 Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1955 Michael Sabatino, California, actor (Days of Our Life, Bold & Beautiful)
1956 Anthony Bourdain, Chef and author
1956 Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1958 Debbie Green, South Korea, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1959 Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper, Winter Olympics medalist
1959 Paris Themmen, American actor
1960 Craig Johnston, Australian soccer player
1961 Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, writer (The Office, the Ricky Gervais Show)
1962 Dan Turk, NFL center (Washington Redskins)
1962 Phill Jupitus, English comedian and broadcaster
1963 Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1963 George Michael (Panos), British musician (Wham-I Want Your Sex)
1963 John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
1963 Mike Myers, Canada, comedian (SNL-Wayne's World) [or May 25]
1963 Mike Stanley, Fort Lauderdale FL, catcher (NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox)
1963 Si-An Deng, Shanghai China, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96)
1963 Yann Martel, Canadian author
1964 Dell Curry, American basketball player, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets)
1964 Emma Suárez, Spanish actress
1964 Greg Raymer, Professional poker player
1964 Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
1964 Phil Emery, cricketer (NSW wicket-keeper, Australia 1994)
1966 Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese (DRC) basketball player, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets)
1967 Brian Wanek, Mequon Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1967 Joan Smith, Rochester NY, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 Roshan Jurangpathy, cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka 1985-86)
1968 Oleg Taktarov, Russian martial artist
1968 Vaios Karagiannis, Greek footballer
1969 Alina Ivanova, Ukraine, race walker (indoor 3K world record)
1969 Armand Benneker, Dutch soccer player (MVV)
1969 Jurgen Streppel, soccer player (Telstar/RKC)
1969 Matt Gallant, American television host
1969 Zim Zum, American musician (former Marilyn Manson guitarist)
1970 Aaron Sele, Golden Valley MN, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1970 Ana Rosa Brito, Miss Puerto Rico Universe (1997)
1970 Ariel Gore, American journalist and author
1970 Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete
1970 Lucy Benjamin, British actress
1970 Roope Latvala, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
1971 Angela Kinsey, American actress
1971 Michael Tucker, American baseball player, outfielder (KC Royals)
1971 Mike Sutherland, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1971 Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
1971 Robert Reichel, Litinov CZE, hockey forward (NY Islanders, Oly-G-98)
1971 Ryan Carey, CFL safety (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 Santiago de Tezanos, Uruguayan architect
1971 Scott Maslen, Actor
1971 Steve Tikolo, cricketer (outstanding Kenyan batsman in 1996 World Cup)
1972 Amy Wickus, Baraboo Wisconsin, 800m/1500m runner
1972 Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1972 Mike Kroeger, Canadian musician (Nickelback)
1973 Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
1973 Milan Hnilicka, hockey goaltender (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1973 Rene Corbet, Victoriaville, NHL left wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1973 Whitney Post, Wayland Mass, rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Jim LaMarca, American bass guitarist (Chimaira)
1974 Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
1974 Lee Cole, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1974 Leeland McElroy, running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 Nisha Ganatra, Canadian film director
1974 Vernon Crawford, linebacker (New England Patriots)
1975 Alberto Costa, Spanish tennis player
1975 Chenoa, Spanish singer
1975 Linda Cardellini, American actress
1975 Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress
1975 Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
1976 Dubravka Vukotić, Montenegrin female actor
1976 José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
1976 Marina Alofagia McCartney, Miss New Zealand Universe (1997)
1978 Aftab Shivdasani, Bollywood actor
1978 Aramis Ramirez, Dominican baseball player
1978 Layla El, 2006 WWE Diva Search winner
1978 Luke Scott, American baseball player
1978 Marcus Stroud, American football player
1979 Brandi Lynn Burkhardt, American vocalist, theater actress, and beauty queen, Miss Maryland Teen USA (1997)
1979 Busy Philipps, American actress
1979 Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
1979 Katie Doyle, American actress and reality television star
1979 Kelli Jones, Miss Kentucky Teen USA (1997)
1979 Richard Hughes, Scottish footballer
1980 Maja Latinović, Serbian model
1980 Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
1981 Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress
1981 Sheridan Smith, British actress
1981 Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1982 Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
1982 Rain, Korean singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)
1983 Todd Cooper, British swimmer
1984 Indigo, American actress
1985 Daniel Bard, American baseball player
1986 Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
1986 Charlie Davies, American soccer player
1986 Megan Burns, British actress and singer
1993 Barney Clark, English actor
2002 Mason Vale Cotton, American child actor
Died on June 25th
635 Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)
1134 King Niels of Denmark (b. 1064)
1142 Gulielmus of Vercelli, Italian hermit/monastery founder/saint
1218 Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusade leader (b. 1160)
1423 Reinald IV, duke of Gelre & Gulik (Reinoud I)
1483 Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
1483 Edward V, king of England (Apr 9-Jun 25, 1483), murdered
1514 Berta Jacobsdr (Suster Bertken), Dutch hermit
1522 Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
1533 Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
1579 Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
1593 Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
1634 John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
1638 Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
1665 Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
1669 François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
1671 Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
1673 Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France (b. 1611)
1686 Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
1710 Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian
1715 Jean du Casse, French admiral (b. 1646)
1767 Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
1785 Pierre Talon, composer
1785 Pieter Kintsius, VOC-supercarga/chief on Macau
1792 Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738)
1798 Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
1822 E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
1822 Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer
1838 François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
1840 Leopold count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician
1861 Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1866 Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868 Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1870 David Heaton, American Congressional Representative (b. 1823)
1875 Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
1876 Boston Custer, brother of George A. Custer, dies at Little Bighorn (b. 1848)
1876 George A(rmstrong) Custer, U.S. Army officerr, US general (b. 1839)
1876 James C. Calhoun, U.S. soldier,, brother-in-law of George A Custer, dies at Little Bighorn (b. 1845)
1876 John Patton, trumpeter, dies at Little Bighorn
1876 Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at Little Bighorn
1876 Myles Keogh, U.S. soldier and Irish soldier of fortune, dies at Little Bighorn (b. 1840)
1876 Thomas W Custer, 2-time Medal of Honor recipient, brother of George A. Custer, dies at Little Bighorn (b. 1845)
1882 François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1884 Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
1896 Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters
1898 Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist, publicist
1906 Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
1912 Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader
1916 Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
1918 Jake Beckley, baseball player (b. 1867)
1926 Symon Petljoera, pres Ukraine (pogroms), murdered
1929 Georges Courteline (Moineaux), French playwright
1937 Colin Clive, British actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Jane Eyre) (b. 1900)
1942 Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian
1943 Spencer Charters, actor (Big Town Girl, St Louis Kid)
1944 Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
1948 William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
1949 Buck Freeman, baseball player (b. 1871)
1953 Algy Gehrs, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia 1904-11)
1954 Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Civil Code)
1956 Ernest J King, US fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations
1959 Charles Starkweather, spree killer (b. 1938)
1960 Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869)
1960 WH Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda)
1962 Ephraim Lisitsky, Hebrew poet
1964 Gerrit T Rietveld, Dutch architect (Sonsbeekpaviljoen)
1968 Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel)
1971 Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright
1971 John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)
1972 Jan Matulka, American painter, (b. 1890)
1974 Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
1976 Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (That old Black Magic) (b. 1909)
1977 Endre Szervanszky, composer
1977 Petko Staynov, composer
1978 Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered
1979 Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
1983 Alberto Evaristo Ginastera, Argentine composer (Panambi) (b. 1916)
1984 Michel Foucault, French philosopher (History of Sexuality) (b. 1926)
1985 Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
1986 Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet
1987 Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (Everly Brothers) (b. 1920)
1988 Axis Sally (Mildred E Gillars), US nazi propagandist (WW II)
1988 Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
1990 Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Australian composer (Triad), dies at 77
1990 Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer (b. 1940)
1992 James Stirling, Scottish D-Day parachutist/architect
1992 Jerome Brown, American football player, defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles) (b. 1965)
1992 William E Harris, entertainer
1994 Louis-Robert Casterman, Belgian publisher (Kuifje)
1994 Robert Millar, journalist
1995 Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1995 Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice
1996 Nicholas John, dramaturge
1996 Ray Howard-Jones, artist
1996 Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (b. 1914)
1997 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, oceanographer (b. 1910)
1997 William Lyle Woratzeck, convicted killer, executed
1998 Lounès Matoub, Berber Kabyle singer (b. 1956)
1999 Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
2002 Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2003 Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
2005 John Fiedler, American Actor (b. 1925)
2006 Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect (b. 1918)
2007 J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer and teacher (b. 1933)
2007 Mahasti, Persian singer (b. 1946)
2008 Lyall Watson, South African anthroplogist and author (b.1939)
2009 Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
2009 Michael Jackson, American recording artist, entertainer and King of Pop music (The Jackson 5, Thriller, Billy Jean) (b. 1958)
2009 Sky Saxon, American rock and roll musician, leader and singer of The Seeds (b. 1937)
2010 Alan Plater, English playwright (b. 1935)
2010 Richard B. Sellars, American business executive (b. 1915)
2011 Goff Richards, British brass band music composer/arranger
2011 Margaret Tyzack, English actress (b. 1931)
2015 Patrick Macnee, British actor (John Steed - The Avengers)
2016 Bill Cunningham, American fashion photographer (New York Times)
2016 Peter Hutton, American filmmaker
2016 Jim Hickman, American baseball player (Mets, Dodgers, Cubs)