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Events on June 25

• 1530 At the Diet of Augsburg, representatives of the Protestant estates present the Confessio Augustana to Emperor Charles V.
• 1876 In the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Seventh U.S. Cavalry Regiment under George A. Custer is decisively defeated by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians under their leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
• 1891 A Scandal in Bohemia by British author Arthur Conan Doyle appears in The Strand Magazine. It is the first Sherlock Holmes story following two earlier novels.
• 1930 Following the opening of the Brig–Visp railway line, the Glacier Express runs between Zermatt and St. Moritz for the first time.
• 1937 Ewald Rohlfs reaches a height of 2,339 m in his Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter.
• 1948 General Lucius D. Clay orders the establishment of the Berlin Airlift to supply West Berlin. The victorious Soviet Union has imposed a blockade on the divided city.
• 1950 With the crossing of the 38th parallel by troops of the North Korean People's Army, the Korean War begins.
• 1953 In Germany, a nationwide five-percent threshold is introduced for Bundestag elections.
• 1967 The BBC program Our World is the first television program worldwide to be broadcast via satellite. It includes the Beatles song All You Need Is Love, composed especially for the program.
• 1978 In the final of the FIFA World Cup, host Argentina defeats the Dutch team after extra time 3:1.
• 1998 Microsoft releases the Windows 98 operating system.
• 2009 At the annual meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, the Dresden Elbe Valley is stripped of its World Heritage status because of the controversial construction of the Waldschlösschen Bridge.

Born on June 25

• 1852 Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect
• 1864 Walther Nernst, German physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1878 Marie-Elisabeth Lüders, German politician and women's rights activist
• 1894 Hermann Oberth, German physicist and spaceflight pioneer
• 1940 Peer Augustinski, German actor, voice-over artist, radio drama performer and audiobook narrator
• 1961 Ricky Gervais, British comedian, radio presenter and actor
• 1970 Erki Nool, Estonian track and field athlete
• 1981 Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
• 1982 Michail Michailowitsch Juschny, Russian tennis player
• 2002 Benson Boone, American singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „25. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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