Custer’s Last Stand, 1876
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June 25th, 1876: George Armstrong Custer and more than 200 soldiers of the 7th Calvary were defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against a coalition of Native American tribes composed almost exclusively of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors, and led by the Sioux warrior Crazy Horse and the Sioux leaders Gall and Sitting Bull. This confrontation has come to be popularly known in American history as Custer’s Last Stand. More >
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – June 25th
- 1798: U.S. passes the Alien Act, allowing the President to deport dangerous aliens
- 1835: The town of Pueblo is founded with construction of first building (later called Yerba Buena, still later San Francisco)
- 1929: President Hoover authorizes the construction of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
- 1938: Federal minimum wage law goes into effect, guaranteeing workers 40¢ per hour
- 1951: The first commercial color TV broadcast: CBS’ Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
- 1962: The U.S. Supreme Court rules NY public school prayer is unconstitutional
- 1973: Former Nixon aide John Dean tells a Senate committee that he and others did attempt to coverup White House involvement in the Watergate break-in
- 1991: Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
- 1996: A truck bomb kills 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia
- 1998: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that persons infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act
- 2001: New York legislators pass a bill to ban hand-held cell phone use by automobile drivers
- 2005 Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran’s presidential runoff election.
BORN ON THIS DAY – June 25th
- 1903: George Orwell, satirist/author
- 1924: Sydney Lumet, director
- 1945: Carly Simon, singer
- 1949: Brenda Sykes, actress/comedian
- 1961: Ricky Gervais, actor
- 1963: George Michael, rocker
- 1963: Mike Myers, comedian
- 1968: Jackie Swanson, actress
- 1969: Stephanie Cameron, actress
- 1975: Linda Cardellini, actress
DIED ON THIS DAY – June 25th
- 635: Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)
- 1134: King Niels of Denmark
- 1593: Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
- 1798: Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
- 1822: E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
- 1876: George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (b. 1839)
- 1876: Thomas Custer, Brother of George A. Custer & 2-time Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1845)
- 1876: Boston Custer, Brother of George A. Custer (b. 1848)
- 1876: James C. Calhoun, Brother-in-Law of George Armstrong Custer & U.S. Soldier (b. 1845)
- 1876: Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier & Irish Soldier of Fortune (b. 1840)
- 1882: François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
- 1974: Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
- 1976: Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
- 1979: Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
- 1983: Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
- 1984: Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
