Sunday, June 25, 2000
History today -- 9:39 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1788: Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.
- 1862: Seven Days Battles begin at Oak Grove (French's Field), Virginia.
- 1868: Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were re-admitted to the Union.
- 1876: Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.
- 1942: General Dwight D. Eisenhower first showed his skills in coordinating Anglo-American forces in North Africa. On this day Churchill and Roosevelt placed him in charge of European operations. In addition, ~1,000 British Royal Air Force bombers raided Bremen, Germany.
- 1950: Forces from the communist North Korea invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War.
- 1951: CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities in the first commercial color telecast.
- 1956: The last 1956 Packard automobile was produced, marking the end of production at Packard’s Connor Avenue plant in Detroit, Michigan. Packard would continue to manufacture cars in South Bend, Indiana until 1958, but for those familiar with Packard, the last 1956 model is considered the last true Packard car.
- 1962: The Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, non-denominational prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional.
- 1973: Former White House Counsel John W. Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.
- 1975: The People's Republic of Mozambique came into being, ending nearly five centuries of Portuguese rule.
- 1988: American-born Mildred Gillars, better known during World War II as "Axis Sally" for her Nazi propaganda broadcasts, died in Columbus, Ohio, at age 87. (Gillars had served 12 years in prison for treason.)
- 1995: Warren Burger, 15th chief justice of the United States, died in Washington of congestive heart failure at age 87.
- 1998: The Supreme Court rejected a 1997 line-item veto law as unconstitutional, and ruled that HIV-infected people are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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