It happened on this day, June 25
events:
1678 – Italian Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman in the world to earn a doctorate in philosophy.
1788 β Virginia becomes the tenth state to join the United States.
1804 – Georges Cadoudal is executed for attempting to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte and restore the monarchy to France.
1898 β Creation of the National Bank of Egypt.
1920 β The Hague is chosen as the permanent seat of the International Court of Justice.
1921 β The βJerusalem Conferenceβ takes place, demanding the abolition of the British mandate over Palestine and the declaration of its independence.
1950 β Armed clashes begin on the border between North and South Korea.
1965 β President Gamal Abdel Nasser wins a second term as president of Egypt.
1975 β Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency in the country and suspends the provisions of the Constitution and elections.
1975 β Independence of Mozambique from Portugal.
1984 β Death of French philosopher Michel Foucault.
1985 – Thirteen people are arrested on suspicion of involvement in an Irish Republican Army bombing two days earlier. After an investigation among inmates, a bomb in a London hotel was foiled.
1988 – The Netherlands national football team wins the European Nations Cup held in West Germany after defeating the Soviet Union national football team by two goals to nil.
1991 β Croatia and Slovenia declare independence from Yugoslavia.
1996 – 16 American soldiers are killed in the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia.
1998 – Microsoft launches the Windows 98 operating system. Signing of the Aarhus Agreement.
2006 β Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is kidnapped by Palestinian militants.
2009 – The Lebanese Parliament elects Nabih Berri as president for the fifth consecutive time with a majority of 90 votes, and Farid Makari as his deputy with a majority of 74 votes.
2013 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani leaves the Emirate of Qatar and Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani is declared Emir of the country.
2014 β Closure of the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Doha (Qatar), adding 26 new sites and extending four others.
2017 – At least 150 people were killed and more than 100 injured in an oil tanker explosion near East Ahmedpur in Pakistan.
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Births:
1852 β Antonio Gaudi, Spanish architect.
1864 – Walter Hermann Nernst, German physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1920.
1865 β Douglas Gilfillan, South African lawyer and botanist.
1894 – Queen Nazli, wife of King Fouad and mother of King Farouk.
1900 β Louis Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India.
1901 β Chester Arnold, American paleontologist and botanist.
1903 β George Orwell, British novelist.
1905 – Ihsan Al-Jazairli, Egyptian actress.
1907 – Hans Jensen, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963.
1911 – William Stein, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972.
1926 β Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer.
1928 – Alexei Alekseevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003.
1934 β Muharram Fouad, Egyptian singer.
1936 β Jusuf Habibie, third president of Indonesia.
1937 – Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait.
1948 β Baruri Marantika, Indonesian singer and actor.
1954 – Fawzia Al-Duraie, Kuwaiti doctor.
1956 β Boris Trajkovski, second president of the Republic of Macedonia.
1958 β Serik Akhmetov, Minister of Defense and former Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.
1963 George Michael, British singer. Yann Martel, Canadian writer.
1965 – Nihal Anbar, Egyptian actress.
1968 β Dorinel Munteanu, Romanian footballer and coach.
1972 – Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, president of the Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity and Development, son of the late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi.
1975 β Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player.
1976 β Habib Al Habib, Saudi actor.
1979 – Richard Hughes, Scottish footballer.
1981 – Wassim Abdel Majeed, Syrian actor.
1982 – Alaa Hubail, Bahraini footballer.
1985 β Fadwa Al-Maliki, Moroccan singer.
1989 – Walid Al-Anzi, Kuwaiti broadcaster.
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Death:
1533 – Queen Marie Tudore, wife of Louis XII of France.
1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German musician.
1861 β Sultan Abdul Majid I, Ottoman sultan.
1894 β Sadi Carnot, fourth president of the French Third Republic.
1937 β Colin Clive, British actor.
1964 β Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect.
1971 – John Boyd, Scottish nutritionist and physiologist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949.
1982 – Youssef Ibrahim Yazbek, Lebanese historian.
1984 β Michel Foucault, French philosopher.
1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951.
1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer.
1998 – Matoub Lounes, Algerian Amazigh singer, poet and activist.
2005 – Hussein bin Muhammad Al-Khalifa, Jaafari jurist and Saudi professor of religion.
2009 β Farrah Fawcett, American actress. Michael Jackson, American singer.
2013 – Tayseer Al-Adinat, Jordanian poet.
2015 – Abdulaziz Al-Adsani, Chairman of the Kuwait Audit Office.
2019 – Kamal Al-Sheikh, Palestinian politician.
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Holidays and Occasions:
β¬ οΈ Independence Day in Mozambique.
β¬ οΈ Independence Day in Croatia.
β¬ οΈ Independence Day in Slovenia.