1906<\/strong> – Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White. White, a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit before she married Thaw. The shooting took place at the premiere of Mamzelle Champagne<\/i>\u00a0in New York.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – The first American fighting troops landed in France.<\/p>\n 1920<\/strong> – The Greeks took 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – Samuel Gompers was elected head of the AFL for the 40th time.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – Gaelic scholar Douglas Hyde was inaugurated as the first president of the Irish Republic.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Finland declared war on the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – Ho Chi Minh traveled to France for talks on Vietnamese independence.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – The Soviet Union tightened its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city.<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own color TV at the time.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – Eamon De Valera became president of Ireland at the age of 76.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Lyndon Johnson\u00a0ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand slam.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Erskine Childers Jr. became president of Ireland after the retirement of Eamon De Valera.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – White House Counsel John Dean admitted that U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – Mozambique became independent. Samora Machel was sworn in as president after 477 years of Portuguese rule.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court decided that male-only draft registration was constitutional.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – ABC’s “Monday Night Football” began with a new line-up. The trio was Frank Gifford, Joe Namath, and O.J. Simpson.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – New York Yankees officials enacted the rule that mandated that the team’s bat boys were to wear protective helmets during all games.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress approved $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – Austrian President Kurt Waldheim visited Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. The meeting was controversial due to allegations that Waldheim had hidden his Nazi past.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. “The right to die” decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The last Soviet troops left Czechoslovakia 23 years after the Warsaw Pact invasion.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Kim Campbell took office as Canada’s first woman prime minister. She assumed power upon the resignation of Brian Mulroney.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – The Russian space station Mir was hit by an unmanned cargo vessel. Much of the power supply was knocked out and the station’s Spektr module was severely damaged.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – U.S. air pollution standards were significantly tightened by U.S. President Clinton.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Microsoft’s “Windows 98” was released to the public.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Germany’s parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to be built in Berlin.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – U.S. and British researchers announced that they had completed a rough draft of a map of the genetic makeup of human beings. The project was 10 years old at the time of the announcement.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – A Florida judge approved a class-action lawsuit to be filed against America Online (AOL) on behalf of hourly subscribers who were forced to view “pop-up” advertisements.<\/p>\n 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0World Health Organization\u00a0estimates that\u00a0Yemen\u00a0has over 200,000 cases of cholera.<\/p>\n History of 25 June 1906 – Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White. White, a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit before she married Thaw. 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