Monday, June 25, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

June 25

1788:Virginia became the 10th state in the Union.
1876:Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyanne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.
1950:Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1951:The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC.
1991:Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
1997:Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.
2009:Michael Jackson, lifelong musician, pop singer, and superstar, dies at age 50.

1947:The Diary of Anne Frank is published.

1638:A lunar eclipse becomes the first astronomical event recorded in US

1630:The fork is introduced to American dining
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