June 25
| 841 | Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat Lothar at Fontenay. | |
| 1658 | Aurangzeb proclaims himself emperor of the Moghuls in India. | |
| 1767 | Mexican Indians riot as Jesuit priests are ordered home. | |
| 1857 | Gustave Flaubert goes on trial for public immorality regarding his novel, Madame Bovary. | |
| 1862 | The first day of the Seven Days' campaign begins with fighting at Oak Grove, Virginia. | |
| 1864 | Union troops surrounding Petersburg, Virginia, begin building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines. | |
| 1868 | The U.S. Congress enacts legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the federal government. | |
| 1876 | General George A. Custer and over 260 men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. | |
| 1903 | Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium. | |
| 1920 | The Greeks take 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna. | |
| 1921 | Samuel Gompers is elected head of the American Federation of Labor for the 40th time. | |
| 1941 | Finland declares war on the Soviet Union. | |
| 1946 | Ho Chi Minh travels to France for talks on Vietnamese independence. | |
| 1948 | The Soviet Union tightens its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city. | |
| 1950 | North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War. | |
| 1959 | The Cuban government seizes 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law. | |
| 1962 | The U.S. Supreme Court bans official prayers in public schools. | |
| 1964 | President Lyndon Johnson orders 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers. | |
| 1973 | White House Counsel John Dean admits President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up. | |
| 1986 | Congress approves $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua. |
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