The 176th day of 2025 is today, Wednesday, June 25. The year has 189 days remaining.
In his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee, former White House Counsel John Dean began on June 25, 1973, accusing himself and other senior administration officials, including President Richard Nixon, of being involved in the Watergate crisis and cover-up.
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly referred to as Custer’s Last Stand, started in the southeast Montana Territory in 1876. The conflict claimed the lives of 268 members of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, including George Armstrong Custer and Mark Kellogg, the first Associated Press reporter to be killed in the line of duty, as well as up to 100 Native Americans.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 into law, establishing a minimum wage, ensuring overtime compensation, and outlawing repressive child labor.
The Diary of a Young Girl, written by Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl who spent World War II in Amsterdam hiding from the Nazis with her family, was originally published in 1947.
When soldiers from the communist North invaded the South in 1950, war broke out in Korea. An estimated 4 million people would die throughout the more than three-year conflict, with an estimated 3 million of those casualties being civilians.
In its first right-to-die ruling, Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, decided 5-4 in 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court held that family members may not take the life of relatives who were habitually unconscious and had not expressly expressed their desire to do so.
Kim Campbell became Canada’s first female prime minister when she was sworn in as the country’s 19th prime minister in 1993.
A vehicle bomb at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia in 1996 killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds more.
In the 2015 King v. Burwell case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of maintaining health insurance for millions of Americans by upholding national tax subsidies under President Barack Obama’s health care reform.
For the murder of George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was given a 22 1/2-year jail sentence in 2021. Floyd’s death sparked the largest protest against racial injustice in American history.
- Actor June Lockhart is 100.
- Civil rights activist James Meredith is 92.
- Singer Carly Simon is 82.
- Actor-comedian Jimmie Walker is 78.
- Musician Tim Finn is 73.
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 71.
- Actor-writer-comedian Ricky Gervais is 64.
- Hockey Hall of Famer Doug Gilmour is 62.
- Author Yann Martel ( Life of Pi ) is 62.
- Actor Angela Kinsey ( The Office ) is 54.
- Actor Linda Cardellini is 50.
- Actor Busy Philipps is 46.
