Reference for Today

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 On This Day: Sunday June 25, 2006

This is the 176th day of the year, with 189 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: Custer's Last Stand

The Battle of Little Bighorn, otherwise known as Custer's Last Stand, was fought at the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory between federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and band of combined Indian tribes. Custer and all of his men were killed. The outcome of the battle was so upsetting to Americans that government troops flooded the area, forcing the Indians to surrender.

Holidays

• Feast day of St. Adalbert, St. Febronia, St. Maximus of Turin, St. Eurosia, St. Gohard, St. Gallicanus, St. Prosper of Reggio, St. Prosper of Aquitaine, St. Moloc, St. Thea, and St. William of Vercelli.
• Mozambique: Independence Day.
• Slovenia: Independence Day.
• Bhutan: National Day.

Events

• 1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
• 1868 - The U.S. Congress enacted legislation setting an eight-hour day for federal government employees.
• 1876 - Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were killed by Sioux Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.
• 1906 - A love triangle came to a violent end on top of New York's Madison Square Garden as architect Stanford White, the building's designer, was shot to death by Harry Thaw, the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit.
• 1942 - Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of U.S. forces in Europe in World War II.
• 1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
• 1951 - The first color commercial television broadcast took place, on CBS from New York.
• 1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a prayer read aloud in public schools violated the 1st Amendment's separation of church and state.
• 1966 - "Dark Shadows" began its popular run as a daily serial on ABC television.
• 1973 - White House Counsel John Dean admitted President Richard Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
• 1975 - Mozambique achieved independence from Portugal.
• 1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment.
• 1991 - The republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia.
• 1993 - Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's 19th prime minister, becoming the first woman to hold that office.
• 1997 - After lying dormant for 400 years, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupted on Montserrat.

Births

• 1887 - George Abbott, American playwright, director, actor, producer.
• 1900 - Lord Louis Mountbatten, English statesman, naval leader and last viceroy of India.
• 1903 - George Orwell (Eric Blair), American author.
• 1924 - Sidney Lumet, American film director.

Deaths

• 1876 - George Armstrong Custer, United States cavalry officer who died leading his troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
• 1995 - Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court chief justice 1969-86.
• 1997 - Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer.

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huh..seems like some people had a busy day today..

MM