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Other Notable Events, June 25
In 1942, U.S. Army Gen. Dwight Eisenhower took command of the U.S. World War II forces in Europe.
In 1950, North Korean forces invaded South Korea.
In 1951, CBS aired the first color television broadcast. At the time, no color TV sets were owned by the public.
In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision interpreted as barring prayer in public schools.
In 1967, with Mick Jagger, Keith Richard and others singing backup, the Beatles recorded "All You Need Is Love" before an international television audience estimated at 400 million people.
In 1973, White House attorney John Dean told a U.S. Senate committee that U.S. President Richard Nixon joined in a plot to cover up the Watergate break-in.
In 1991, Slovenia and Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia, sparking civil war.
In 1993, Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's first woman prime minister.
In 1994, Japan's Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata resigned two months after taking office rather than face a no-confidence vote by parliament.
In 1996, a truck bomb killed 19 U.S. military personnel in Saudi Arabia. Several hundred more people were injured.
In 1997, about half of Mir's power supply was knocked out when an unmanned cargo ship collided with the Russian space station and put a hole in it.
Also in 1997, Montserrat's Soufriere Hills Volcano, after lying dormant for 400 years, erupted -- wiping out two-thirds of the Caribbean island and forcing most of the population to relocate.
In 1998, U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived in China for a much-debated visit.
In 2003, the Federal Reserve Board lowered the key federal funds rate, the overnight loan rate between banks, to 1.0 percent, lowest since 1958.
In 2004, the film "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's critical view of the invasion of Iraq, broke box office records for a documentary in its first few days.
In 2005, religious conservative Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president of Iran in a landslide.
In 2006, Warren Buffett announced plans to give away 85 percent of his shares in his company, about $37 billion, to charity. Most of that -- some $31 billion -- was earmarked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In 2007, a North Korea official said his country was ready to close its nuclear program.
Also in 2007, suicide bombers killed more than 40 people in Iraq, including a tribal chief and 11 others in a five-star Baghdad hotel.
In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional for child rape.
Also in 2008, North Korean officials destroyed a cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear facility as part of the country's pledge to end its nuclear weapons program.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 06/25/2009
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