WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. JUNE
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Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae. (25. June 253)

The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce. (25. June 524)

In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine. (25. June 841)

At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany. (25. June 1530)

Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War. (25. June 1658)

Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua. (25. June 1678)

Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary. (25. June 1741)

Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. (25. June 1786)

Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution. (25. June 1788)

Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. (25. June 1876)

The Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. (25. June 1900)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White. (25. June 1906)

The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come. (25. June 1910)

Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer. (25. June 1910)

American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913. (25. June 1913)

Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane (25. June 1923)

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established. (25. June 1935)

Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland. (25. June 1938)

World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany at 01:35. (25. June 1940)

The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis. (25. June 1943)

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