| 841 |
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Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat Lothar at Fontenay. |
| 1658 |
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Aurangzeb proclaims himself emperor of the Moghuls in India. |
| 1767 |
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Mexican Indians riot as Jesuit priests are ordered home. |
| 1857 |
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Gustave Flaubert goes on trial for public immorality regarding his novel, Madame Bovary. |
| 1862 |
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The first day of the Seven Days’ campaign begins with fighting at Oak Grove, Virginia. |
| 1864 |
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Union troops surrounding Petersburg, Virginia, begin building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines. |
| 1868 |
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The U.S. Congress enacts legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the federal government. |
| 1876 |
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General George A. Custer and over 260 men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. |
| 1903 |
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Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium. |
| 1920 |
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The Greeks take 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna. |
| 1921 |
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Samuel Gompers is elected head of the American Federation of Labor for the 40th time. |
| 1941 |
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Finland declares war on the Soviet Union. |
| 1946 |
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Ho Chi Minh travels to France for talks on Vietnamese independence. |
| 1948 |
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The Soviet Union tightens its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city. |
| 1950 |
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North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War. |
| 1959 |
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The Cuban government seizes 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law. |
| 1962 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court bans official prayers in public schools. |
| 1964 |
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President Lyndon Johnson orders 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers. |
| 1973 |
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White House Counsel John Dean admits President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up. |
| 1986 |
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Congress approves $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua. |
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Born on June 25 |
| 1881 |
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Crystal Eastman, suffragist. |
| 1886 |
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Henry (Hap) Arnold, U.S. Army Air Force general during World War II. |
| 1887 |
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George Abbott, American playwright, director and producer (Three Men on a Horse, Damn Yankees). |
| 1903 |
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George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), novelist, essayist and critic (Animal Farm, 1984). |
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