The 175th day of 2025 is today, Tuesday, June 24. The year has 190 days remaining.
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, was aboard the space shuttle Challenger when it coasted to a safe landing at California’s Edwards Air Force Base on June 24, 1983.
Henry VIII became king of England in 1509, and Catherine of Aragon became queen consort.
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The Southeast Asian nation of Siam was renamed Thailand in 1939. (In 1945, it changed back to Siam, then in 1949, it changed back to Thailand.)
The Berlin Airlift was organized by the Western allies after Communist forces cut off all land and water links between West Germany and West Berlin in 1948.
In Roth v. United States, decided 6-3 in 1957, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that pornographic works were not First Amendment protected.
In a 1973 speech broadcast on American television, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev praised the summit that President Richard Nixon had just wrapped up with him.
In a 5-4 ruling in 1992, the Supreme Court upheld its 30-year ban on officially sanctioned worship in public schools, which forbade prayer during commencement exercises.
The longest professional tennis match in history was won by American John Isner in the first round of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. He defeated Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68; the match lasted 11 hours, 5 minutes over three days.
For the 2013 terror acts, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was formally sentenced to death by a federal judge in 2015. (The Supreme Court affirmed the sentence after a federal appeals court later overturned it.)
The world’s last remaining prohibition on female drivers was officially repealed in 2018, marking the first time Saudi Arabian women were permitted behind the wheel.
In Surfside, Florida, a 12-story condominium complex fell in 2021, killing 98 people.
The Supreme Court decided 6-3 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2022 to eliminate the constitutional safeguards for abortion that had existed since Roe v. Wade in 1973.
- Author Anita Desai is 88.
- Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro is 85.
- Actor Michele Lee is 83.
- Actor-director Georg Stanford Brown is 82.
- Musician Mick Fleetwood is 78.
- Actor Peter Weller is 78.
- Golf Hall of Famer Juli Inkster is 65.
- Actor Iain Glen is 64.
- Musician Curt Smith (Tears for Fears) is 64.
- Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum is 63.
- Singer Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star) is 59.
- Actor Sherry Stringfield ( ER ) is 58.
- Actor-producer Mindy Kaling is 46.
- Actor Minka Kelly is 45.
- Singer Solange Knowles is 39.
- Soccer player Lionel Messi is 38.
- Actor Beanie Feldstein is 32.
- Actor Harris Dickinson is 29.
