Today's
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25: Color TV Day: -- Watching color
television is something most of us take for granted these days,
but this wasn't always the case. The first television programs we
saw were in black and white, and that was the only way we could
watch them. It wasn't until the middle of the 20th century that
color television watching became the standard in the United
States. It is only fair that color televisions should be
celebrated on their unique day, which is Color TV Day. This event
commemorates the birth of color television and the role it has
played in our culture since its inception. The development of
fully colored television systems changed the face of television
forever, and the world of television as we know it would be
considerably different. Even though they were far more challenging
to manufacture, numerous innovators across the globe worked hard
to develop such a gadget that would allow millions of people to
see wireless broadcasts that were replicated in vivid color. Such
attempts began in the experimental stage during the late 19th
century. The first prototype appeared in 1928, public broadcasting
in 1940, and black and white transmissions' extinction began in
the mid-70s. Following the tremendous success of black and white
television broadcasting in the United States, CBS researchers,
under the direction of Peter Goldmark, approved a heavy and
massive mechanical television system in 1950, with the first color
transmission taking place in June of the following year. Because
of the expensive cost of color television sets and the limited
quantity of color television material available, black and white
television sets remained popular until the mid-1960s, even though
many American television stations began broadcasting in color as
early as 1954. Color television quickly gained popularity in the
United States and eventually expanded around the globe. While
Europe awaited the solidification of American standards and a
solution to their early technological challenges, they introduced
the color PAL format in 1967, which was eventually adopted
worldwide. It wasn't until 1972 that sales of color television
sets in the United States overtook black and white television sets
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25: Global Beatles Day (World
Beatles Day): -- June 25, 1967: The Beatles perform "All You
Need Is Love" to 400 million people worldwide via the BBC
television show "Our World" the first global live TV
link, with the broadcast reaching 26 different countries
simultaneously. This huge moment in pop culture history is
celebrated as Global Beatles Day annually on June 25, and further
honors and celebrates the ideals of the Beatles. The event is
celebrated with music and a variety of events celebrating peace
and harmony and the impact they had on both music history and pop
culture. Known as the "Fab Four", the initial beginnings
of the band actually happened in 1957, but they went through a few
name changes before settling on The Beatles in 1960. The band's
work throughout the decade of the 1960s remains unparalleled in
pop music. Global Beatles Day was founded in 2009, and we use it
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25: National Camp Counts Day: -- A
day that seeks to offer children, especially underprivileged ones,
the chance to take part in an ongoing tradition. For most kids,
life-changing, exciting experiences are mostly gotten from summer
camps. Mention summer camp, even overseas, and the idea of
s'mores, campfire stories and canoeing comes up. The day strives
to ensure that underprivileged children can also have summer
camps. It is meant to make camping accessible to children. Camp
offers them recreational fun and the chance to meet and make new
friends. The outdoor experience allows children to have other
real-life fun aside from the one technology gives. National Camp
Counts Day was created in 2019 by Camp Ralph S. Mason. It is
popularly known simply as Camp Mason. The holiday was created as a
part of Mason's initiative of Camp Counts! This fundraising
project ensures that no child is denied a camping experience due
to financial restraints. The day consolidates the fundraising
project and creates more awareness for it. The Y.M.C.A. Camp Mason
project has been around for over a century. The camps encourage no
tech, high fun, and adventure days. Many friendships are forged at
camp. Camp Mason hosts themed camps, and day camps generally build
confidence and enjoyment for children. Camp has been an American
way of life in summer since the 1900s. As early as the Industrial
Revolution, kids would be bored during summer break. Summer camps
were established across the country. Parents felt it was crucial
to develop boys into men. Summer activities such as climbing,
rowing, and swimming were a big priority. Emphasis was also placed
on behavior and values. Camp became a place to protect standards
and develop children into productive adults. In the first decade
of the twentieth century, more than 1,000 camps were created.
Girls came to camps for teaching sewing and home-making. Many
minority groups had camps that protected their culture. Boys
climbed, rowed, and became better men. This all changed with World
War II when the emphasis became protecting childhood instead of
trying to get out of it. Modern summer camps often center around
kayaking, swimming, water slides, and other kinds of summery
recreation. Rock climbing, hiking, and riding are also popular.
There are camps for creative children, where artistic endeavors
are encouraged. Acting, drama, pottery, and even cooking could be
the focus for you! There is a spy camp, "Lord of the Rings"
Camp, robotics camp, and even a Fiji sharks study camp. Nike has a
basketball camp in England, and there are European football
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25: International Day Of The
Seafarer: -- Get ready to set sail, because this is a day for
seafarers of all stripes, from Coast Guards, to Navies, to every
fisherman and marine biologist and cruise ship captain. If your
job involves a large quantity of salt water, then this day is
dedicated to you. The first documented sea voyage was made around
3200 BCE, and was bankrolled by the Egyptian Pharaoh Snefru (he
also built at least three pyramids during his reign). Today, over
90% of global trade is done by sea, since it is still the most
cost-effective way to transport goods. Marine biologists and
oceanographers from every country have dedicated their lives to
learning more about the ocean depths, and humans from every walk
of life keep going to the sea to explore the planet. he
International Maritime Organization (IMO), which is a specialized
agency of the United Nations, founded the International Day of the
Seafarer, the first of which occurred in 2011. The day was started
with the purpose of urging people to support and promote seafarers
and sailors as people who are essential to the industry of global
trade and transport. It is meant to be a reminder that many of the
items and products that people use on a daily basis have arrived
to them because of the work of sailors and seafarers. Its origins
come from the year prior, in 2010, when a resolution was adopted
by the Conference of Parties to the International Convention on
Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for
Seafarers (STCW). Following its adoption, the International Day of
the Seafarer was included in the United Nations list of Annual
Observances. This day is set aside for the discussion of topics
such as the rights, health and safety of sailors and seafarers.
Each year the theme for the International Day of the Seafarer
changes, with past themes including, "Seafarers: at the core
of shipping's future"; "Faces of the Sea" and "A
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25: Croatia Independence Day
(Croatia): Statehood Day (Slovenia): -- June 25, 1991: The
Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991)
(The End Of The Cold War): The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union:
The Revolutions Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of
Nations, The Fall Of Communism): The Eastern Bloc (The Communist
Bloc, The Socialist Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): The Breakup Of
Yugoslavia: Croatia Independence Day (Croatia): Statehood Day
(Slovenia): -- Following the collapse of Soviet rule in Eastern
Europe, the republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their
independence from Yugoslavia. Ethnic rivalries between Serbians
and Croatians soon erupted. In 1992, fighting erupted in
Bosnia-Herzegovina between Serbians and ethnic Muslims. A campaign
of terrorism and genocide, termed 'ethnic cleansing,' was started
by the Serbs against the Muslims. At least two million people
became refugees, and about 200,000 were missing and presumed dead.
Violence in the region raged on through 1995 despite economic
sanctions and the efforts of U.N. peacekeeping forces in the area,
and the ultimate conclusion of this strife was The Kosovo War
(February 28 1998 - June 11, 1999). Croatia Independence Day is
celebrated every year on June 25 to commemorate when Croatia
proclaimed its intentions to sever its ties with the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Did you know that Croatia became
an independent country after breaking away from Yugoslavia in
1991? Croatia is one of the youngest independent countries in the
world. Croatia Independence Day is known as 'Dan neovisnosti' in
Croatia. It was previously celebrated on October 8, which is now
marked as the Day of the Croatian Parliament. Once a national
public holiday, Croatia Independence Day is no longer an off-day
and has become a memorial day purely. Croatia Independence Day was
celebrated for the first time in 2002. Croatia's main history
dates back to 9 A.D. when sections of what is now Croatia were
absorbed into the Roman Empire. Diocletian was the first Roman
Emperor from the region, and his palace was built in Split. After
his abdication in 305 A.D., this palace became his retirement
residence, as well as a shelter for the last de jure Western Roman
Emperor Julius Nepos, who fled Italy in the fifth century. Croats
arrived in the Roman province of Dalmatia during the sixth and
ninth centuries. They then established the Duchy of Croatia, which
spanned parts of modern-day Croatia. The Croats accepted
Christianity between the seventh and ninth centuries, and Pope
John VIII recognized Duke Branimir as Croatia's first ruler on
June 7, 879. Tomislav became the first king of Croatia in 925,
taking Croatia into its golden age. This golden age ended in 1102
when Croatia was absorbed into the Hungarian empire. Although it
still retained its autonomy, the ruler of Croatia (Ban) was
appointed by the Hungarian King. After World War I, in 1918,
Croatia declared independence and joined the newly formed States
of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs. On December 4, 1918, they became
the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. In 1921, a new
constitution that legally binds the kingdom as a unified state
came into effect, and Croatia lost its independence. In 1931, King
Alexander changed the kingdom's name to Yugoslavia. On June 25,
1991, after World War II, Croatia declared its independence. On
October 8, 1991, the declaration came into implementation.
However, that led to war between the Croatians and the Serbians.
The war lasted until August 1995, with the victory going to
Croatia. In 2002, the Government of Ivica Racan moved the Croatia
Independence Day to October 8, and June 25 became known as
Statehood Day. However, on November 14, 2019, the Croatian
Parliament moved Croatia Independence Day back to June 25, and
October 8 became the Day of the Croatian Parliament. =========
June 25: National Croatian Wine Day: -- Celebrated annually in the
United States, and founded by Anna M. Viducic, founder of Aroma
Wine Co., the holiday celebrates the unique and excellent wines
produced in Croatia, some of which have a history dating back
2,500 years. Speaking of her love for wine, Viducic said, "Born
into a Croatian family and raised in Paris, France, I have spent
most of my summer vacations in Croatia, enjoying everything that
the country has to offer, including working in my family's
vineyards. Wine is in my D.N.A., and I am making it my mission to
promote Croatian wines globally." As Croatia has about 120
indigenous grape varieties and four key wine regions, namely
Croatian Uplands, Dalmatia, Istria and Kvarner, and Slavonia and
Croatian Danube, wine may truly be in Viducic's blood. Viducic
professed her passion for spreading Croatian wine awareness in
another interview, "As I moved my focus into wine brand
strategies and education, I could make a significant impact by
creating an ongoing recognition among the American wine lovers to
recognize Croatia and its indigenous wines." This passion led
her to declare June 25 as National Croatian Wine Day. During its
first-ever observance, the holiday kicked off with masterclasses
that highlighted the various Croatian wine regions and indigenous
wine varieties. The morning session was specifically tailored to
the media, while the evening session was for lovers of wine.
Partnering with a company called Croatian Premium Wine Imports,
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1852: #BOTD: #HBD! Antoni Gaudi,
nicknamed "God's Architect, Catalan architect and designer
from Spain whose masterpiece Sagrada Familia is the world's
tallest church and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984,
known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism (d. June 10,
1926) is #born Antoni Gaudi I Cornet in Catalonia, Spain in either
Riudoms or Reus. Gaudi's works have a highly individualized, sui
generis style. Most are located in Barcelona, including his main
work, the church of the Sagrada Familia. Gaudi's work was
influenced by his passions in life: architecture, nature, and
religion. He considered every detail of his creations which he
integrated into his architecture crafts such as ceramics, stained
glass, wrought ironwork forging, and carpentry. He also introduced
new techniques in the treatment of materials, such as trencadis
which used waste ceramic pieces. Under the influence of neo-Gothic
art and Oriental techniques, Gaudi became part of the Modernista
movement which was reaching its peak in the late 19th and early
20th centuries. His work transcended mainstream Modernisme,
culminating in an organic style inspired by natural forms. Gaudi
rarely drew detailed plans of his works, instead preferring to
create them as three-dimensional scale models and moulding the
details as he conceived them. Gaudi's work enjoys global
popularity and continuing admiration and study by architects. His
masterpiece, the still-incomplete Sagrada Familia, is the
most-visited monument in Spain. Between 1984 and 2005, seven of
his works were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. Gaudi's
Catholic faith intensified during his life and religious images
appear in many of his works. This earned him the nickname "God's
Architect". His cause for canonization was opened in the
Archdiocese of Barcelona in 2003. On April 14, 2025, Pope Francis
declared Gaudi venerable after recognizing what the Vatican
described as his heroic virtue. There are multiple steps in the
process of being recognised as a saint, including beatification,
which Gaudi has not yet achieved, although advocates are confident
that the official status of "blessed" is forthcoming as
of June 2025. Antoni Gaudi died when he was run down by a tram in
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, aged 73. He is buried in the Sagrada
Familia. His death date is commemorated as World Art Nouveau Day
(WAND). On October 30, 2025, Sagrada Familia became the world's
tallest church after a part of its central tower was lifted into
place and reached 162.91 m (534.48 ft) , surpassing Ulm Minster
(161.53 m [529.95 ft]). The tower reached its full height of 172.5
m (565.94 ft) on February 20, 2026. The tallest central spire
(reaching 172.5 meters [565.94 ft}) represents Jesus Christ. Gaudi
specifically designed this tower to be one metre shorter than
Barcelona's Montjuic hill, believing that his man-made creation
should not surpass God's natural work. On June 10, 2026, Pope Leo
XIV blessed and inaugurated the completed Tower of Jesus Christ at
the basilica during his visit to Spain, coinciding with the
centenary of Antoni Gaudi's death {World Art Nouveau Day [WAND]).
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1862: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater
Of The American Civil War: The Peninsula Campaign (The Peninsular
Campaign): The Seven Days Battles (The Seven Days Campaign): The
Battle Of Oak Grove (The Battle Of French's Field, The Battle Of
King's School House): -- The Seven Days Battles begins as
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched a series of assaults to
prevent a Union attack on Richmond, Virginia at the Battle Of Oak
Grove. The Campaign included battles at Oak Grove, Gaine' Mills,
Garnett' Farm, Golding' Farm, Savage' Station, White Oak Swamp and
Malvern Hill, resulting in over 36,000 casualties on both sides.
Despite losing the final assault at Malvern Hill, the Confederates
succeeded in preventing the Union Army from taking Richmond. The
Seven Days began on Wednesday, June 25, 1862, with a Union attack
in the minor Battle Of Oak Grove, but McClellan quickly lost the
initiative as Lee began a series of attacks at Beaver Dam Creek
(Mechanicsville) on June 26, Gaines's Mill on June 27, the minor
actions at Garnett's and Golding's Farm on June 27 and 28, and the
attack on the Union rear guard at Savage's Station on June 29.
McClellan's Army Of The Potomac continued its retreat toward the
safety of Harrison's Landing on the James River. Lee's final
opportunity to intercept the Union Army was at the Battle of
Glendale on June 30, but poorly executed orders and the delay of
Stonewall Jackson's troops allowed his enemy to escape to a strong
defensive position on Malvern Hill. At the Battle of Malvern Hill
on July 1, Lee launched futile frontal assaults and suffered heavy
casualties in the face of strong infantry and artillery defenses.
The Seven Days ended with McClellan's army in relative safety next
to the James River, having suffered almost 16,000 casualties
during the retreat. Lee's army, which had been on the offensive
during the Seven Days, lost over 20,000. As Lee became convinced
that McClellan would not resume his threat against Richmond, he
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1868: The Reconstruction Era
(Reconstruction): The Southern States Admission Bill: -- In a
series of events that took place on this single day, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida
are readmitted to the Union after Congress, without further
debate, overides by a 108 to 32 vote with 54 members abstaining in
the House, and by the necessary two-thirds margin in the Senate,
to override President Andrew Johnson's veto of The Omnibus
Southern States Admission Bill. A key provision allowed southern
states to rejoin the Union and re-enter Congress only after they
ratified the 14th Amendment, which extended citizenship rights to
African Americans, and only after they guaranteed that former
slaves would enjoy full voting rights, specifically "that the
constitutions of said states shall never be amended or changed as
to deprive any citizen or class of citizens or the United States
of the right to vote in said states who are entitled to vote by
the constitutions thereof herein recognized." When the act
took force, seven states met its requirements and were readmitted
to the Union: Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
North Carolina and South Carolina. Georgia, however, reverted to
federal military rule when all of its black representatives were
removed from the state Legislature. It was allowed to return to
self-rule only when the state ratified the 15th Amendment,
guaranteeing equality for the freed slaves, and when it allowed
the elected blacks to return. Congress sought to bar Johnson from
nominating justices to the U.S. Supreme Court and deprived him of
the title commander in chief of the armed forces. Four months
before his Omnibus bill veto, the House, by a vote of 126 to 47,
had called for Johnson's impeachment. Despite repeated conflicts
with Congress, Johnson faithfully executed Congress' decisions. He
appointed military commanders who led some 20,000 troops,
including black militiamen, into the South. In all, 703,000 blacks
and 627,000 whites were registered as new voters. In Alabama,
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, black voters
were in the majority. In other states, black-white governing
coalitions formed under the Radical Republican banner. Altogether,
Johnson vetoed 29 bills in his struggles with congressional
Radical Republicans over the shape of Reconstruction policies
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25-26, 1876: The American Indian
Wars (The American Frontier Wars, The Indian Wars): The Sioux
Wars: The Great Sioux War Of 1876 (The Great Sioux War, The Great
Sioux War Of 1876-1877, The Black Hills War): The Battle Of The
Little Bighorn (The Battle Of Little Bighorn, The Battle Of The
Greasy Grass, Custer's Last Stand: -- #DOTD: #RIP: General George
Armstrong Custer, leading 250 men, attack an encampment of Sioux
Indians near Little Bighorn River in Montana. Custer and his men
were then attacked by 2,000-4,000 Indian braves. Only one scout
and a single horse survived 'Custer's Last Stand' on the Little
Bighorn Battlefield. News of the humiliating defeat infuriated
Americans and led to all out war. Though it was the most
significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876, within a year
the Sioux Indians were a broken and defeated nation. The Battle Of
The Little Bighorn involved the combined forces of the Lakota
Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry
Regiment of the United States Army along the Little Bighorn River
in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory.
Most battles in the Great Sioux War, including the Battle of the
Little Bighorn, were on lands those natives had taken from other
tribes since 1851. The Lakotas were there without consent from the
local Crow tribe, which had a treaty on the area. Already in 1873,
Crow chief Blackfoot had called for U.S. military actions against
the native intruders. The steady Lakota invasion (a reaction to
white encroachment into the Black Hills) into treaty areas
belonging to the smaller tribes ensured the United States a firm
Indian alliance with the Arikaras and the Crows during the Lakota
Wars. The fight was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota,
Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, who were led by several major war
leaders, including Crazy Horse and Chief Gall, and had been
inspired by the visions of Sitting Bull (T?at?a?ka Iyotake). The
U.S. 7th Cavalry, a force of 700 men, commanded by Lieutenant
Colonel George Armstrong Custer (a brevetted major general during
the American Civil War), suffered a major defeat. Five of the 7th
Cavalry's twelve companies were wiped out, and Custer was killed,
as were two of his brothers, his nephew, and his brother-in-law.
The total U.S. casualty count included 268 dead and 55 severely
wounded (6 died later from their wounds), including 4 Crow Indian
scouts and at least 2 Arikara Indian scouts. Public response to
the Great Sioux War varied in the immediate aftermath of the
battle. Custer's widow Libbie Custer soon worked to burnish her
husband's memory and during the following decades, Custer and his
troops came to be considered heroic figures in American history.
The battle and Custer's actions in particular have been studied
extensively by historians. Little Bighorn Battlefield National
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1876: #DOTD: #RIP: George
Armstrong Custer, American general and cavalry commander in the
American Civil War and the American Indian Wars (b. December 5,
1839) #dies at The Battle Of The Little Bighorn. Raised in
Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1857,
where he graduated last in his class in 1861. With the outbreak of
the Civil War, Custer was called to serve with the Union Army.
Custer developed a strong reputation during the Civil War. He
participated in the first major engagement, the First Battle Of
Bull Run on July 21, 1861, near Washington, D.C. His association
with several important officers helped his career as did his
success as a highly effective cavalry commander. Custer was
brevetted to brigadier general at age 23, less than a week before
the Battle Of Gettysburg, where he personally led cavalry charges
that prevented Confederate cavalry from attacking the Union rear
in support of Pickett's Charge. He was wounded in the Battle of
Culpeper Court House in Virginia on September 13, 1863. In 1864,
Custer was awarded another star and brevetted to major general
rank. At the conclusion of the Appomattox Campaign, in which he
and his troops played a decisive role, Custer was present at
General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant, on
April 9, 1865. After the Civil War, Custer remained a major
general in the United States Volunteers until they were mustered
out in February 1866. He reverted to his permanent rank of captain
and was appointed a lieutenant colonel in the 7th Cavalry Regiment
in July 1866. He was dispatched to the west in 1867 to fight in
the American Indian Wars. On June 25, 1876, while leading the 7th
Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana
Territory against a coalition of Native American tribes, he and
all of his detachment-which included two of his brothers-were
killed. The battle is popularly known in American history as
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1884: #BOTD: #HBD! Daniel-Henry
Kahnweiler, German-French art historian, art collector, and one of
the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century (d.
January 11, 1979) is #born in Mannheim, Baden, Germany to a
prosperous Jewish family. He became prominent as an art gallery
owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and was among the first champions
of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubist movement in art.
Although revered by artists for his business and aesthetic sense
and respected by art dealers and art historians, the true impact
of his life and work has yet to be recognized, despite a 1988
biography by Pierre Assouline. Kahnweiler grew up in Stuttgart and
was trained to study finance and philosophy. His upbringing and
education at a German Gymnasium prepared him for his life as an
art connoisseur and pragmatic businessman. Early employment in the
family business of stock brokerage in Germany and Paris gave way
to an interest in art collecting while Kahnweiler was still in his
twenties. He opened his first small art gallery (4 by 4 meters) in
Paris in 1907 at 28 rue Vignon, at age 23. There was a family
precedent for such an enterprise, since his uncle, who ran a
famous stock brokerage house in London, was a major art collector
of traditional English art works and furniture. Kahnweiler is
considered to have been one of the greatest supporters of the
Cubist art movement through his activities as an art dealer and
spokesman for artists. He was among the first people to recognize
the importance and beauty of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
and immediately wanted to buy it along with all of Picasso's
works. Picasso wrote of Kahnweiler, "What would have become
of us if Kahnweiler hadn't had a business sense?"
Kahnweiler's appreciation of Picasso's talents was especially
gratifying to the artist, since he was largely unknown and
destitute at the time when many of his most famous works were
created. In his gallery, Kahnweiler supported many of the great
artists of his time who found themselves without adequate
recognition and little or no interest among collectors. Initial
purchases included works by Kees van Dongen, Andre Derain, Andre
Masson, Fernand Leger, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Maurice de
Vlaminck and several other artists of the same generation. To use
his own word, Kahnweiler wanted to "defend" great
artists, but only those who had no dealers and of whose talents he
was convinced. Rather than exhibiting appealing works by
established artists from the past and present, Kahnweiler
championed burgeoning artists who had come from all over the globe
to live and work in Montparnasse and Montmartre at the time. Thus
Paul Cezanne, although a great artist, was considered too old to
be represented, and his work was already represented by the dealer
Ambroise Vollard in any case. Along with such men as Alfred
Flechtheim, Paul Cassirer, Daniel Wildenstein, Leonce Rosenberg
and Paul Rosenberg, Kahnweiler was one of the influential art
connoisseurs of the 20th century. As a businessman, Kahnweiler
pioneered many new methods of working with artists and art
dealing; these are now established practices in the industry. In
1907, when there were only half a dozen viable galleries in Paris,
he made contracts with artists to buy all of their work in order
to free them from financial worries and permit them to concentrate
on their creative work. He met with them daily to discuss their
work, photographed each work they produced (he felt it imperative
to have a record), held exhibitions of their work and promoted
their work internationally. Since he considered himself friends
with many of them, he co-owned little sailing boats with his
artists. As part of his activities in promoting the work of
emerging artists, Kahnweiler sponsored the first exhibition of the
work of Georges Braque. He encouraged the practice of publishing
Beaux Livres (beautiful books), in which a contemporary artist
would illustrate a work of a contemporary writer. He expanded his
presentations by bringing together artists, writers and poets to
produce their works as a joint project in more than 40 books.
Picasso, for example, illustrated the works of Max Jacob. As a
publisher of art with literary works, he had no equal, and was the
first to sponsor publications by Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire,
Andre Masson, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, and many others. In
doing so, he launched many literary careers. Kahnweiler's
entrepreneurial abilities were so acute that by the 1950s his art
gallery was among the top 100 French companies in terms of export
figures. Although the financial support for artists was an
important contribution to art history, he was also a significant
figure for his work as an art historian and eyewitness to the
emergence of Cubism during the period 1907-1914. When working in
Paris, his spare time was devoted to reading and understanding the
history of art and aesthetics. He also spent his time visiting the
city's museums and art galleries. Besides the museums in Paris, he
took trips around the European continent to see what was being
shown in museums and art galleries outside France. He gave his
first interview on Cubism in 1912, and it was actual historical
events that led to his career as a historian. There is a view that
Kahnweiler's sensibility was such that his gallery, and the way he
styled and developed it, was as much a Cubist gallery as were the
paintings by Picasso and the other Cubist painters. The gallery
had a clear aesthetic position, uncompromising integrity,
financial stability and creative development. During the years
1907-1914 his gallery was a central cradle for Cubism, not only to
display the works, but where one also met the artists.
Concurrently, the primary means for avant-garde painters and
sculptors to show their works to a wider audience remained the
Salon des Independants and the Salon d'Automne. Kahnweiler forbade
his 'gallery Cubists' from exhibiting at these major Salons, and
by so doing, actually removed them from public view. From the
viewpoint of the general public, Cubism came to be more associated
with the 'Salon Cubists', such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes,
Fernand Leger, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, Marcel
Duchamp and Francis Picabia. The outbreak of World War I in 1914
not only ruptured the Cubist experiments in art, but also forced
Kahnweiler to live in exile in Switzerland; due to his German
citizenship, he was considered an alien under French law. Many
German nationals living in France had their possessions
sequestered by the French state, and as a result, Kahnweiler's
collection was confiscated in 1914 and sold by the government in a
series of auctions at the Hotel Drouot between 1921 and 1923.
During the years of exile (until 1920), Kahnweiler studied and
wrote works such as the Der Weg zum Kubismus and Confessions
esthetiques. Writing becoming a passion he continued over his
lifetime, and he authored hundreds of books and major articles.
The second period of enforced writing came during a period of
internal exile caused by the events of World War II. As a Jew, the
Nazis forced him to flee Paris. He remained in France, in hiding.
"Under the clouds from the gas chambers," as he put it
in his seminal work on Juan Gris. Kahnweiler was very prolific as
an author, but never produced a full autobiography. There was,
however, a series of interviews first aired on French television,
then published and translated as a book under the title Mes
galleries et mes peintres ("My galleries and my painters").
For his 80th birthday, a Festschrift was published with
contributions by the world's leading philosophers, art historians,
and artists, all of whom emphasized the vital importance of his
unique contribution to art history - an importance still not yet
fully appreciated, probably due to the fact that he has been
viewed mostly as an art dealer and not as an art historian. This
situation has been aggravated because some of his major works on
aesthetics were either never translated into English or badly
translated. The omission of key elements of a proper understanding
of Cubism and focus on small and sensational elements of his
complex relationship with Picasso has led to a flawed
understanding of the ideas he put forward in these writings.
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June 25, 1892: #BOTD: Shiro Ishii,
Japanese microbiologist, army Surgeon General medical officer and
war criminal, director of the infamous Unit 731 biological warfare
unit of the Imperial Japanese Army (d. October 9, 1959) is #born
Ishii Shiro in Chiyoda Mura (now Shibayama) in Chiba Prefecture,
Japan. Ishii led the development and application of biological
weapons at Unit 731 in Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese
War from 1937 to 1945, including the bubonic plague attacks at
Chinese cities of Changde and Ningbo, and planned the Operation
Cherry Blossoms at Night biological attack against the United
States. Ishii and his colleagues also engaged in human
experimentation, resulting in the deaths of over 10,000 people,
most of them civilians or prisoners of war. Ishii was later
granted immunity in the International Military Tribunal for the
Far East by the United States government in exchange for
information and research for the U.S. biological warfare program.
The Ishii family was the community's largest landholder and
exercised a feudal dominance over the local village and
surrounding hamlets. Ishii attended the Chiba Middle School (now
Chiba Prefectural Chiba High School) in Chiba City and the Fourth
Higher School (now Kanazawa University), a higher school in
Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. Some of his classmates regarded him
as brash, abrasive and arrogant. His daughter Harumi felt that
Shiro had been "unjustly condemned", saying "my
father was a very warm-hearted person...he was so bright that
people sometimes could not catch up with the speed of his thinking
and that made him irritated, and he shouted at them." In
1916, Ishii enrolled at Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto Imperial
University. He graduated in 1920, and married the daughter of
Akari Torasaburo, the university's president, in the same year. In
1921, Ishii was commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Army as a
military surgeon with the rank of Army Surgeon, First Class
(surgeon lieutenant). In 1922, Ishii was assigned to the 1st Army
Hospital and Army Medical School in Tokyo, where his work
impressed his superiors enough to enable him to return to Kyoto
Imperial University to pursue post-graduate medical schooling in
1924. During his studies, Ishii would often grow bacteria "pets"
in multiple petri dishes, and his odd practice of raising bacteria
as companions rather than as research subjects made him notable to
the staff of the university. He did not get along well with his
classmates; they would become infuriated as a result of his "pushy
behaviour" and "indifference". One of his mentors,
Professor Ren Kimura, recalled that Ishii had an odd habit of
doing his laboratory work in the middle of the night, using
laboratory equipment that had been carefully cleaned by his
classmates earlier. His classmates would "really be mad when
they came in and found the laboratory equipment dirty the next
morning". In 1925, Ishii was promoted to Army Surgeon, Second
Class (surgeon captain). By 1927, Ishii was advocating for the
creation of a Japanese bio-weapons program, and in 1928 began a
two-year tour of the West, where he did extensive research on the
effects of biological warfare and chemical warfare developments
from World War I onwards. Ishii's travels were highly successful
and helped win him the patronage of Sadao Araki, the Japanese
Minister of the Army. Ishii also received the backing of Araki's
ideological rival in the army, Major-General Tetsuzan Nagata, who
was later considered Ishii's "most active supporter" at
the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials. In January 1931, Ishii received
promotion to Senior Army Surgeon, Third Class (surgeon major).
According to Ishii's followers, Ishii was extremely loyal to the
Emperor and had an "enthusiastic personality" and
"daring and carefree attitude", with eccentric work
habits such as working late at night in the lab after hanging out
with friends at town. He was also known for his heavy drinking,
womanizing and embezzling habits, which were tolerated by his
colleagues. Ishii was described as a vehement nationalist, and
this helped him gain access to the people who could provide him
funds. In 1935, Ishii was promoted to Senior Army Surgeon, Second
Class (surgeon lieutenant-colonel). On August 1, 1936, Ishii would
be given formal control over Unit 731 and its research facilities.
A former member of Unit 731 recalled in 1998 that when he first
met Ishii in Tokyo, he was surprised at his commander's
appearance: "Ishii was slovenly dressed. His uniform was
covered with food stains and ashes from numerous cigarettes. His
officer's sword was poorly fastened and dragged on the floor".
However, in Manchuria, Ishii would transform into a different
character: "he was dressed immaculately. His uniform was
spotless, and his sword was tied correctly". As the leader of
Unit 731, Ishii conducted a variety of experiments, including
vivisections, testing biological weapons on Chinese villages,
poisoning by toxins and gases and forcing inmates to inflict
syphilis on each other. Ishii's first facility was in the city of
Harbin; however, the need for secrecy made it necessary for Ishii
to relocate his group to a prison camp 60 miles away. After this
camp was blown up by escapees, an installation called Ping Fan was
constructed about 14 miles from Harbin. When completed in 1940,
what became known as Unit 731 housed some 3,000 personnel. At a
ceremony honoring the event, the now General Ishii made the
facility's purpose crystal clear. A doctor's "god-given
mission," Ishii said, was to block and treat disease, but the
work "upon which we are now about to embark is the complete
opposite of these principles." In the name of defeating
Japan's enemies, Ishii and his staff spent the next five years
mixing witch's brews of pathogens that cause some of the world's
most horrific diseases: anthrax, plague, gas gangrene, smallpox,
and botulism, among others. They then used Chinese prisoners as
guinea pigs, forcing them to breathe, eat, and receive injections
of deadly pathogens. Allied POWs were also allegedly targeted.
Victims were often killed before the diseases had run their
course, so autopsies could show their progress through the body.
Ishii's men also supplied the Japanese Army with typhoid, cholera,
plague, and dysentery bacteria for battlefield use. In addition,
they contaminated water sources, released disease-carrying fleas,
and dropped contaminated wheat from airplanes. Ishii also
reportedly showed Hideki Tojo, who would later become Prime
Minister in 1941, films of the experiments over several years.
Tojo considered them "unpleasant" and eventually stopped
watching them. Although dissolution of Unit 731 in 1945 led to the
destruction of many of its records, there is no doubt that Ishii
and his men had caused the death of many thousands of Chinese, and
possibly hundreds of Russian and Allied prisoners of war. Further
promotions for Ishii would follow: he was promoted to Senior Army
Surgeon, First Class (surgeon colonel) on 1 March 1938, Assistant
Surgeon General (surgeon Major General) on 1 March 1941, and
Surgeon General (surgeon Lieutenant General) on 1 March 1945.
Emperor Showa rewarded him with a special service medal. Towards
the end of the war, Ishii developed a plan to spread plague fleas
along the populated west coast of the US, known as Operation
Cherry Blossoms at Night. This was targeted for September 22 but
the plan was not realized due to the surrender of Japan on August
15, 1945. Ishii and the Japanese government attempted to cover up
the facilities and experiments, but ultimately failed with their
secret university lab in Tokyo and their main lab in Harbin,
China. The Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit
731 of the Japanese Imperial Army (731?????) in Harbin stands as a
museum to the unit and the atrocities they committed. Estimates
for the number of people killed by Japanese biological warfare
range as high as 300,000. Ishii was later granted immunity in the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East by the United
States government in exchange for information and research for the
U.S. biological warfare program. Ishii was arrested by United
States authorities during the Occupation of Japan at the end of
World War II and, along with other leaders, was supposed to be
thoroughly interrogated by Soviet authorities. Instead, Ishii and
his team managed to negotiate and receive immunity in 1946 from
Japanese war crimes prosecution before the Tokyo tribunal in
exchange for their full disclosure. Although the Soviet
authorities wished the prosecutions to take place, the United
States objected after the reports of a team of military
microbiologists headed by Lieutenant Colonel Murray Sanders stated
that the information was "absolutely invaluable"; it
"could never have been obtained in the United States because
of scruples attached to experiments on humans" and "the
information was obtained fairly cheaply." On May 6, 1947,
Douglas MacArthur wrote to Washington that "additional data,
possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by
informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in
intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes'
evidence." Ishii's immunity deal was concluded in 1948 and he
was never prosecuted for any war crimes or crimes against
humanity. After being granted immunity, Ishii was hired by the
U.S. government to lecture American officers at Fort Detrick on
the uses of bioweapons and the findings made by Unit 731. During
the Korean War, Ishii reportedly traveled to Korea to take part in
the U.S. Army's alleged biological warfare activities. On February
22, 1952, Ishii was explicitly named in a statement made by North
Korean Foreign Minister Pak Hon-yong, claiming that he, along with
other "Japanese bacteriological war criminals", had been
involved in "systematically spreading large quantities of
bacteria-carrying insects by aircraft in order to disseminate
contagious diseases over our frontline positions and our rear".
However, whether the U.S. Army actually used biological weapons
against Chinese or North Korean forces, or whether such
allegations were mere propaganda, is disputed by historians. After
returning to Japan, Ishii opened a clinic, performing examinations
and treatments for free. He kept a diary, but it did not make
reference to any of his wartime activities with Unit 731. In his
last years, Ishii could not speak clearly; he was uncomfortable
and on pain medication, speaking in a harsh voice. He died from
laryngeal cancer at the age of 67 at a hospital in Shinjuku,
Tokyo, Japan. Ishii's funeral was chaired by Masaji Kitano, his
second-in-command at Unit 731. His burial details are not publicly
disclosed. Ishii's daughter, Harumi Ishii, recalled in an
interview shortly before his death "One day he took some
sample tissue from himself to the University of Tokyo's Faculty of
Medicine and asked one of his former subordinates to examine it,
without telling him to whom it belonged. When he was told that the
tissue was riddled by cancer, he proudly shouted that he had
thought so too. No doctor had dared tell him he was suffering from
cancer of the throat. He eventually underwent surgery and lost his
voice. He was an earnest student of medicine to his last day,
taking notes on his physical condition. He told his old professor
Ren Kimura who came to visit him at that time: "it's all over
now", writing the message because he could no longer speak.
Shortly before his death, he asked to be baptised by the late Dr
Herman Heuvers, former President of Sophia University in Tokyo. Dr
Heuvers and my father were acquainted with each other since before
the war. My father had much respect for the German people and
their culture. He was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church and
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1894: #BOTD: Hermann Oberth,
Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian-German physicist, engineer and
rocket scientist, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and
astronautics (d. December 28, 1989) is #born Hermann Julius Oberth
into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt),
Kingdom of Hungary (today Sibiu in Romania). He was a pioneer of
modern rocketry, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin
Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard and Herman Potocnik. During World War
II, he worked on Nazi Germany's Aggregat rocket program, a set of
ballistic missile designs developed in 1933-1945 whose greatest
success was the V-2, the world's first long-range guided ballistic
missile. Later he worked on solid-propellant anti-aircraft rockets
at the German WASAG military organization near Wittenberg,
Germany. After the war, he went on to work on the American space
program, eventually working under his former student Wernher von
Braun on such progjects as the Atlas missile. He was a supporter
of the extraterrestrial hypothesis for the origin of Unidentified
Flying Objects (UFOs). that were seen from Earth. In an article in
The American Weekly magazine of October 24, 1954, Oberth wrote "It
is my thesis that flying saucers are real, and that they are space
ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are
manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may
have been investigating our earth for centuries..." He also
wrote an article in the second edition of Flying Saucer Review
titled "They Come From Outer Space". He discussed the
history of reports of "strange luminous objects" in the
sky, mentioning that the earliest historical case is of "Shining
Shields" reported by Pliny the Elder. He wrote, "Having
weighed all the pros and cons, I find the explanation of flying
discs from outer space the most likely one. I call this the
"Uraniden" hypothesis, because from our viewpoint the
hypothetical beings appear to come from the sky (from the Greek
"Uranos" (English: Uranus), meaning "Sky")."
Hermann Oberth died in Nuremberg, West Germany, just shortly after
the fall of the Iron Curtain, aged 95.He is buried at Neuer
Friedhof Feucht cemetery in Feucht, Nurnberger Land, Bavaria,
Germany. According to an obituary by Stille Hilfe, a relief
organization for arrested, condemned and fugitive SS members,
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1900: #BOTD: #HBD! Admiral Of
The Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st
Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG GCB OM GCSI GCIE GCVO DSO PC FRS,
British naval officer, statesman, prolific inventor, author and
polo player, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command
(1943-46) during the Second World War, last Viceroy of India
(1947) and the first Governor-General of independent India
(1947-48). From 1954 until 1959 he was First Sea Lord, a position
that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some
forty years earlier, Chief of the Defence Staff from 1959 until
1965, making him the longest serving professional head of the
British Armed Forces to date, during which time Mountbatten also
served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee for a year,
uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, second cousin once
removed of Elizabeth II (born Prince Louis of Battenberg, June 25
1900) (d. August 27, 1979) is #born Prince Louis of Battenberg at
Frogmore House in the Home Park, Windsor, Berkshire, South East
England. He was an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and
second cousin once removed of Elizabeth II. During the Second
World War, he was Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia
Command (1943-46). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the
first Governor-General of independent India (1947-48). From 1954
until 1959 he was First Sea Lord of the British Navy, a position
that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some
forty years earlier. Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence
Staff until 1965, making him the longest serving professional head
of the British Armed Forces to date. During this period
Mountbatten also served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
for a year. Lord Louis Mountbatten died when he, his grandson
Nicholas, and two others were killed by the Provisional Irish
Republican Army (IRA), which had placed a bomb in his fishing
boat, Shadow V, in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, aged 79. He
is buried at Romsey Abbey in Romsey, Test Valley Borough,
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June 25, 1900: Archaelogy (Archeology):
Great Discoveries Of Archaeology: Ancient China: Manuscripts:
Ancient Manuscripts: Religious Manuscripts: The Dunhuang
Manuscripts: -- The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang
Manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical
and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
The Dunhuang manuscripts are a cache of important religious and
secular documents discovered in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang,
China, in the early 20th century. Dating from late 4th to early
11th centuries, the manuscripts include works ranging from history
and mathematics to folk songs and dance. There are also many
religious documents, most of which are Buddhist, but other
religions including Daoism, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism
are also represented. The majority of the manuscripts are in
Chinese. Other languages represented are Khotanese, Sanskrit,
Sogdian, Tangut, Tibetan, Old Uyghur language, Hebrew and Old
Turkic. The manuscripts are a major resource for academic studies
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June 25, 1903: #BOTD: #HBD! George
Orwell, English novelist, essayist, satirist, journalist and
critic (d. January 21, 1950) is #born Eric Arthur Blair at
Montihari in Motihari, Bengal, British India. He is best known for
the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His work is marked by lucid prose,
awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and
outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell wrote literary
criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His
non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937),
documenting his experience of working class life in the north of
England; and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his
experiences in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed as are
his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. In 2008,
The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest
British writers since 1945". Orwell's work continues to
influence popular and political culture and the term
"Orwellian"-descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian
social practices-has entered the language together with many of
his neologisms, including "Big Brother", "Thought
Police", "Room 101", "memory hole",
"newspeak", "doublethink", "proles",
"unperson" and "thoughtcrime". George Orwell
died early in the morning from a burst artery in Orwell's lungs
caused by tuberculosis, killing him at age 46. Orwell had
requested to be buried in accordance with the Anglican rite in the
graveyard of the closest church to wherever he happened to die.
The graveyards in central London had no space, and so in an effort
to ensure his last wishes could be fulfilled, his widow appealed
to his friends to see whether any of them knew of a church with
space in its graveyard. David Astor lived in Sutton Courtenay,
Oxfordshire, and arranged for Orwell to be interred in the
churchyard of All Saints' there. Orwell's gravestone bears the
epitaph: "Here lies Eric Arthur Blair, born June 25th 1903,
died January 21st 1950"; no mention is made on the gravestone
of his more famous pen name. Orwell's adopted son, Richard Horatio
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June 25, 1905: #BOTD: #HBD! Mary
Livingstone, American radio comedienne, actress and beauty, wife
and radio partner of comedian Jack Benny (d. June 30, 1983) is
#born Sadya Marcowitz in Seattle, Washington to a Romanian Jewish
immigrant father and a mother of mixed German Jewish and Polish
Jewish ancestry. Her family changed their surname to Marks several
years after Sadya's birth, and Sadya changed her name to Sadie.
Sadya Marks' brother, Hilliard Marks, was a radio and television
producer who worked primarily for his future brother-in-law, Jack
Benny. She first met her future husband Jack Benny in Vancouver at
a Passover seder in her family home in 1922, when Benny was
playing the Orpheum Theatre. Benny accompanied his friend Zeppo
Marx of The Marx Brothers, where they enjoyed a quiet and
comfortable gathering. Sadie was very impressed by this comedian
who played a violin as part of his act. By her own testimony she
made up her mind that she would grow up and marry Jack Benny
someday. Enlisted casually to perform on her husband's program,
she proved a talented and popular comedian. However, she was one
of the rare performers to experience severe stage fright years
after her career was established, so much so that she retired from
show business completely, after two decades in the public eye,
almost three decades before her death and at the height of her
husband and partner's fame. Jack Benny was far more concerned
about her well being than their act, and supported her decision;
in his will, he arranged for a single long-stemmed red rose to be
delivered to her every day for the rest of her life. After writing
a biography of her husband, Livingstone - whose surname is often
misspelled without the 'e', as with her star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame for her contribution to radio, Livingstone died of heart
disease at her home in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California,
eight and a half years after Jack's passing and five days after
her 78th birthday. She is buried at Hillside Memorial Park, Culver
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June 25, 1913: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater
Of The American Civil War: The Gettysburg Campaign: The Battle Of
Gettysburg: The Great Reunion (The Great Reunion Of 1913, The 1913
Gettysburg Reunion): -- American Civil War veterans begin arriving
at the Great Reunion Of 1913. It was a Gettysburg Battlefield
encampment of American Civil War veterans for the Battle Of
Gettysburg' 50th anniversary. The June 29: July 4 gathering of
53,407 veterans (44,657 Union 8,750 Confederate) was the largest
ever Civil War veteran reunion. All honorably discharged veterans
in the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate
Veterans were invited, and veterans from 46 of the 48 states
attended. Despite concerns that there might be unpleasant
differences, the peaceful reunion was repeatedly marked by events
of Union-Confederate camaraderie. President Woodrow Wilson' July 4
reunion address summarized the spirit: "We have found one
another again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer,
generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel
forgotten: except that we shall not forget the splendid valor.".
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! June
Lockhart, American actress of stage, film and television, and
beauty, best known for two television series, Lassie and Lost in
Space, in both of which she played mother roles in, is #born in
New York City, New York. Seh began her film career in the 1930s
and 1940s in such films as A Christmas Carol and Meet Me in St.
Louis. She primarily acted in 1950s and 1960s television, and with
performances on stage and in film. She portrayed Dr. Janet Craig
on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968-70). She is
a two-time Emmy Award nominee and a Tony Award winner. With a
career spanning 90 years, she is as of 2023 one of the last
surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood. To most people,
June Lockhart was a Donna Reed-like image of the 50s ideal
housewife. In reality, she was a rock & roll girl! She used to
take her Lost In Space costars Bill Mumy and Angela Cartwright to
the Whisky A Go-Go, the historic nightclub in West Hollywood,
California, to hang out and listen to the Allman Brothers back in
the day, and during the 70s, according to Bill Mumy, she was a
hardcore David Bowie fan, so much so that the only picture she
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The Prize II: America At The Racial Crossroads DVD MP4 USB
Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! James
Meredith, African American civil rights activist, writer,
political adviser, and Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the
first African American student admitted to the racially segregated
University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal
government (an event that was a flashpoint in the civil rights
movement) is #born James Howard Meredith in Kosciusko, Mississippi
into a family of African American, English Canadian, Scots and
Choctaw heritage. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's
inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional
rights and apply to the University of Mississippi. His goal was to
put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights
for African Americans. In 1966, Meredith planned a solo 220-mile
March Against Fear from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson,
Mississippi; he wanted to highlight continuing racism in the South
and encourage voter registration after passage of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965. He did not want major civil rights
organizations involved. The second day, he was shot by a white
gunman and suffered numerous wounds. Leaders of major
organizations vowed to complete the march in his name after he was
taken to the hospital. While Meredith was recovering, more people
from across the country became involved as marchers. He rejoined
the march and when Meredith and other leaders entered Jackson on
June 26, they were leading an estimated 15,000 marchers, in what
was the largest civil rights march in Mississippi. During the
march, more than 4,000 African Americans registered to vote, and
it was a catalyst to continued community organizing and additional
registration. In 2002 and again in 2012, the University of
Mississippi led year-long series of events to celebrate the 40th
and 50th anniversaries of Meredith's integration of the
institution. He was among numerous speakers invited to the campus,
where a statue of him commemorates his role. The Lyceum-The Circle
Historic District at the center of the campus has been designated
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1934: #BOTD: #HBD! Ron Lundy,
popular radio announcer in New York City from the mid 1960s to his
retirement from WCBS-FM in 1997 (d. March 15, 2010) is #born Fred
Ronald Lundy in Memphis, Tennessee. With his best friend, "Big
Dan" Ingram, he hosted "The Last Show", the last
broadcast of WABC' Top 40 MusicRadio format, before WABC' format
conversion from music to talk radio, at noon on May 10, 1982. In
February 1984, Lundy resurfaced at New York' oldies station
WCBS-FM in the mid-morning slot, following former WABC colleague
Harry Harrison. In June 1997, Lundy' WCBS-FM show was awarded the
1997 "BronzeWorld Medal" at the New York Festivals Radio
Programming Awards for the "best local personality".
Lundy retired from WCBS-FM on September 18, 1997. Ron Lundy died
of a heart attack at age 75 at a hospital in Oxford, Mississippi.
He had recently been recovering from a previous heart attack after
being dehydrated. His burial details are not publicly disclosed.
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD! Eddie Floyd,
African American soul and R & B singer and songwriter, best
known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s
including the No. 1 R & B hit song "Knock On Wood",
is #born Edward Lee Floyd in Montgomery, Alabama, and grew up in
Detroit, Michigan. He founded The Falcons, which also featured
Mack Rice. They were forerunners to future Detroit vocal groups
such as The Temptations and The Four Tops. Their most successful
songs included "You're So Fine" and later, when Wilson
Pickett was recruited into the group as the lead singer, "I
Found a Love". Pickett then embarked on a solo career, and
The Falcons disbanded. Floyd signed a contract with the
Memphis-based Stax Records as a songwriter in 1965. He wrote a hit
song, "Comfort Me", recorded by Carla Thomas. He then
teamed with Stax's guitarist Steve Cropper to write songs for
Wilson Pickett, now signed to Atlantic Records. Atlantic
distributed Stax and Jerry Wexler brought Pickett from New York
City to work with Booker T. & the MGs. The Pickett sessions
were successful, yielding several pop and R & B hits,
including the Floyd co-written "Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't
Do)" and "634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)". In 1966,
Floyd recorded a song initially written for Otis Redding. Wexler
convinced Stax president Jim Stewart to release Floyd's version.
The Steve Cropper-Eddie Floyd "Knock on Wood" launched
Floyd's solo career, and has been covered by over a hundred
different artists from David Bowie to Count Basie. Eventually,
Redding would cut an R & B hit version of the song in 1967 as
a duet with Carla Thomas. It became a disco hit for Amii Stewart
in 1979. Floyd was one of Stax's most consistent and versatile
artists. He scored several more hits on his own, including "I've
Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)" and "Raise
Your Hand", which was covered by both Janis Joplin and Bruce
Springsteen. The song "Big Bird" (featuring Booker T.
Jones on organ and guitar, Al Jackson, Jr. on drums, and Donald
"Duck" Dunn on bass) was written while Floyd waited in a
London airport for a plane back to the United States for Otis
Redding's funeral. Floyd's career did not keep him from being one
of the label's most productive writers. Almost every Stax artist
recorded Floyd material, often co-written with either Cropper or
Jones, including Sam & Dave ("You Don't Know What You
Mean to Me"), Rufus Thomas ("The Breakdown"), Otis
Redding ("I Love You More Than Words Can Say"), and
Johnnie Taylor's "Just the One (I've Been Looking For)".
The latter played during the opening credits of director Harold
Ramis's film Bedazzled. In 1980, Floyd released material on the UK
record label I-Spy Records, owned and created by the UK band
Secret Affair. He joined old Stax collaborators Cropper and Dunn,
and fronted The Blues Brothers Band on a series of world tours,
and in 1998, Floyd and former Falcon Wilson Pickett appeared on
screen dueting on "634-5789" in Blues Brothers 2000. As
well as singing with The Blues Brothers Band, Floyd has been the
special guest with former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
on several dates in the US and the UK. In 2008, Floyd returned to
Stax Records, which was owned by Concord Music Group since 2004.
His first new album in six years, Eddie Loves You So, was released
in July 2008. In November 2012, Floyd was inducted into the
Carolina Beach Music Hall of Fame as a Pioneer Award Recipient. In
December 2012, Floyd released a new album at Christmas time.
Eddie's son, Anthony Floyd, sings with him in the single, Don't
Forget About James Brown, and the album, Tonight's The Night. In
2016 he was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of
Fame. Eddie Floyd was named to the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in
2018. On September 1, 2017, at age 80, Floyd performed live at the
Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms with Jools Holland and his Rhythm &
Blues Orchestra, in a tribute concert to 50 years of Stax Records
synonymous with Southern soul music. On February 28, 2020, Rock
House Records released Eddie Floyd's 1979 recording "Guess It
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German:
Westfeldzug], The French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug;
French: Campagne De France], The Fall Of France): Fall Rot
(German: "Case Red"): The Armistice Of 22 June 1940 (The
Second Armistice At Compiegne, The Second Compiegne Armistice): --
France officially surrenders to Germany at 01:35. On June 22,
1940: France was forced to sign the Second Compiegne armistice
with Germany. It did not come into effect until after midnight on
June 25. Hitler decided that the signing should take place in the
same rail carriage, the Compiegne Wagon, where the Germans had
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1941: Civil Rights Movements:
The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): The March On
Washington Movement (MOWM) (1941-1946): Executive Order 8802: --
Under pressure from A. Philip Randolph and other leaders of the
March On Washington Movement, President Franklin Roosevelt acceeds
to Randolph's demand for an executive order that would prohibit
ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry
as well as in companies, unions, and federal agencies by issuing
Executive Order 8802 to those effects. Accordingly, The March On
Washington was suspended after Executive Order 8802 was issued.
Two weeks prior, on June 18, 1941, President Roosevelt met with
MOWM leaders to urge them to call off their planned March Of
Washington demonstration scheduled for July 1, 1941. Randolph
leader of the large Black railroad workers union The Brotherhood
Of Sleeping Car Porters, refused to call it off, forcing President
Roosevelt's hand. Randolph was concerned by the discrimination
against Black workers in defense industry hiring. In a 1940 issue
of The Pittsburgh Courier, Randolph demanded the right for Black
Americans "to work and fight for [their] country." In
January 1941, Randolph formed The March On Washington Movement
(MOWM). The first objective of the movement was to bring 10,000
Black Americans to gather at the Lincoln Memorial on July 1, 1941
to protest racial discrimination in the military and defense
industries. Later, the target size of the march was increased
ten-fold to a march of 100,000 Black Americans. Other Black
leaders of the MOWM included secretary of the NAACP Walter White,
leader of the National Urban League T. Arnold Hill, the leader of
the National Council of Negro Women Mary McLeod Bethune, and more.
With the stated July 1 date for the MOWM impending, the Roosevelt
administration rushed to negotiate with the MOWM's leaders.
First-lady Eleanor Roosevelt sent Randolph a letter stating that
the planned march was a "grave mistake," but she
received no reply from Randolph. Other members of the Roosevelt
administration urged defense industry factories to stop
discrimination against Black workers, but Randolph stated that he
would only call off the march if an executive order was issued.
Anxious to stop the march, Roosevelt enlisted the help of civil
rights activist during the New Deal Aubrey Williams and labor
expert Anna M. Rosenberg. They helped organize a meeting of the
leaders of the MOWM with Roosevelt at the White House. The meeting
quickly came to an impasse. In response to Randolph's demand for
an executive order, Roosevelt replied: "Well Phil, you know I
can't do that. If I issue an executive order for you, then
there'll be no end to other groups coming in here and asking me to
issue executive orders for them too." On the other hand, the
MOWM leaders refused to settle for any action short of an
executive order. Eventually, the Roosevelt administration
acquiesced. A series of meetings in both New York and Washington
resulted in the draft order. These meetings involved Randolph and
White discussing with Williams, Rosenberg, and New York Mayor
Fiorello La Guardia. The order was drafted by Joseph Rauh. The
March on Washington was suspended after Executive Order 8802 was
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1943: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Holocaust In Poland: The
Czestochowa Ghetto Uprising: -- Jews in the Czestochowa Ghetto in
Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis, resulting in some
2,000 Jews being killed. The Ghetto was established following a
day known as Bloody Monday, a day in which the Nazis killed 300
Jewish citizens in its occupation of the city of Czestochowa. The
ghetto lasted from its inception on September 3rd, 1939 to its
liberation by the Soviet Red Army in January of 1945. The
prisoners of the Ghetto were forced to work in slave labor
factories. Throughout the life of this site, it housed 48,000
Polish Jews- of which, 40,000 were deported to Treblinka
extermination camp. The first instance of armed resistance took
place on January 4, 1943, at the so-called Large Ghetto
established by the Germans in April 1941. During the 'selection'
of some 500 Jews to be deported to the ghetto in Radomsko,
shooting broke out at the Warsaw Square (now, Ghetto Heroes
Square) in which Mendel Fiszelewicz (Fiszelowicz) along with Isza
Fajner were killed. 50 young Jews were executed in reprisal. The
final liquidation of the so-called Small Ghetto (work camp for
munitions factory) commenced in June 1943, after four months of
mass executions at the Cemetery (Jewish elders, children,
intellectuals) and 'selections' of Jews for deportations to slave
labour camps including in Blizyn.[On June 25 (or 26), 1943 a full
uprising broke out, organized by the Organisation of Jewish
Fighters, even though the insurgents were weakly armed. They
barricaded themselves in bunkers along the Nadrzeczna Street. In
the fighting and subsequent massacres 1,500 Jews died. The leader
of the uprising, Mordechaj Zylberberg, committed suicide as the
Germans were about to capture his bunker on Nadrzeczna. The
uprising was suppressed on June 30, 1943 with additional 500 Jews
burned alive or buried beneath the rubble of the Small Ghetto. The
remaining 3,900 fugitives were rounded up and sent to camp in
Warta or incarcerated at the nearby work prisons, Hasag Pelcery
and Huta Czestochowa. However, the Czestochowa Ghetto was not
liquidated. Some 10,000 Jews were brought in from
Skarzysko-Kamienna in 1944. Around 5,200 of them were liberated by
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1944: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II: The Great
Patriotic War (The German-Soviet War): The Continuation War (The
Second Soviet-Finnish War): The Battle of Tali-Ihantala: -- The
largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries begins between
Finnish forces - using war materiel provided by Germany - and
Soviet forces. The Finns, though outnumbered 3 to 1, inflicted
more than three times as many casualties on the Soviet forces as
they received. However, with just 50,000 men to the Soviets
150,000, the Finnish forces took proportionally more casualties.
It marked a point in the Soviet offensive when the Finnish forces
first prevented the Soviets from making any significant gains.
Earlier at Siiranmaki and Perkjarvi the Finns had halted advancing
Soviet forces. The Finnish forces achieved a defensive victory
against overwhelming odds. After the Soviets had failed to create
any breakthroughs at Tali-Ihantala, Vyborg Bay, or Vuosalmi, the
Soviet Leningrad Front started the previously planned transfer of
troops from the Karelian Isthmus to support Operation Bagration,
where they were encountering particularly fierce resistance.
Though the Leningrad Front failed to advance into Finland as
ordered by the Stavka, some historians state that the offensive
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Jimmie
Walker, African American actor and comedian, is #born James Carter
Walker Jr. in Brooklyn, New York City. Walker is best known for
portraying James Evans Jr. ("J.J."), the oldest son of
Florida and James Evans Sr. on the CBS television series Good
Times, which ran from 1974 to 1979. Walker was nominated for
Golden Globe awards Best Supporting Actor In A Television Series
in 1975 and 1976 for his role. While on the show, Walker's
character was known for the catchphrase "Dy-no-mite!"
which he also used in his mid-1970s TV commercial for a Panasonic
line of cassette and 8-track tape players. He also starred in
Let's Do It Again with John Amos, and The Greatest Thing That
Almost Happened with James Earl Jones. Walker continues to tour
the country with his stand-up comedy routine. On Sale @ 15% Off
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1948: The Age Of Enlightenment
(The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The
Revolutions Of 1848 (The Springtime Of The Peoples, The Springtime
Of Nations): France: The History Of France: The Modern History Of
France: Rebellions In France: Labor Disputes In France: The June
Days Uprising: Photojournalism: The History Of Photojournalism:
The Barricades On Rue Saint-Maur-Popincour (The Barricades On Rue
Saint-Maur) [French: La Barricade De La Rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt,
La Barricade De La Rue Saint-Maur] (The Barricades On The Rue
Faubourg-Du-Temple [French: La Barricade De La Rue
Faubourg-Du-Temple]): -- "The Barricades On Rue
Saint-Maur-Popincourt" ("The Barricades On The Rue
Faubourg-Du-Temple"), the first photo used to illustrate a
newspaper story, is published as an engraving in the July 1-8,
1848 edition of L'Illustration, a French illustrated weekly
newspaper published in Paris, France. This marked the beginning of
the history of photojournallism, a form of journalism that uses
images to tell a news story. The term usually only refers to still
images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism.
Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of
photography (such as documentary photography, social documentary
photography, war photography, street photography and celebrity
photography) by having a rigid ethical framework which demands an
honest and impartial approach that tells a story in strictly
journalistic terms. The June Days Uprising (French: Les Journees
De Juin) was an uprising staged by French civilians from June 22
to 26, 1848 in response to plans to close the National Workshops,
created by the Second Republic in order to provide work and a
minimal source of income for the unemployed. The National Guard,
led by General Louis-Eugene Cavaignac, was called out to quell the
rebellion. Over 10,000 people were either killed or injured, while
4,000 insurgents were deported to French Algeria. The uprising
marked the end of the hopes of a "Democratic and Social
Republic" (Republique democratique et sociale) and the
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1947: First Publications: -- The
Diary Of A Young Girl, better known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is
published by Contact Publishing in Amsterdam. It is a book of the
writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while
she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi
occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944,
and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration
camp in 1945. The diary was retrieved by Miep Gies, who gave it to
Anne's father, Otto Frank, the family's only known survivor, just
after the war was over. The diary has since been published in more
than 60 languages. The diary received widespread critical and
popular attention on the appearance of its English language
translation Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Doubleday and
Company (United States) and Valentine Mitchell (United Kingdom) in
1952. Its popularity inspired the 1955 play The Diary of Anne
Frank by the screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett,
which they adapted for the screen for the 1959 movie version. The
book is included in several lists of the top books of the 20th
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1950: Korea: The History Of
Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Korean
Conflict: The Korean War: -- The Korean War begins as North Korean
troops, led by Soviet-built tanks, cross the 38th parallel and
launch a full scale invasion of South Korea following a series of
clashes along the border. Five days later, U.S. ground forces
would enter the conflict. The Korean War was a war between North
Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South
Korea (with the principal support of the United States). The
United Nations, with the United States as the principal force,
came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North
Korea, and the Soviet Union also gave some assistance to the
North. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and
the United States, Korea was split into two regions with separate
governments. Both claimed to be the legitimate government of all
of Korea, and neither accepted the border as permanent. When the
conflict escalated into open warfare when North Korea invaded
South Korea, the United Nations Security Council authorized the
formation and dispatch of UN forces to Korea to repel what was
recognized as a North Korean invasion. Twenty-one countries of the
United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force, with the
United States providing around 90% of the military personnel.
After the first two months of war, South Korean and U.S. forces
rapidly dispatched to Korea were on the point of defeat, forced
back to a small area in the south known as the Pusan Perimeter. In
September 1950, an amphibious UN counter-offensive was launched at
Incheon, and cut off many North Korean troops. Those who escaped
envelopment and capture were forced back north. UN forces rapidly
approached the Yalu River-the border with China-but in October
1950, mass Chinese forces crossed the Yalu and entered the war.
The Chinese intervention triggered a retreat of UN forces which
continued until mid-1951. After these reversals of fortune, which
saw Seoul change hands four times, the last two years of fighting
became a war of attrition, with the front line close to the 38th
parallel. The war in the air, however, was never a stalemate.
North Korea was subject to a massive bombing campaign. Jet
fighters confronted each other in air-to-air combat for the first
time in history, and Soviet pilots covertly flew in defense of
their communist allies. The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when
an armistice was signed. The agreement created the Korean
Demilitarized Zone to separate North and South Korea, and allowed
the return of prisoners. However, no peace treaty has been signed
at Panmunjon, and according to some sources the two Koreas are
technically still at war, engaged in a frozen conflict. In April
2018, the leaders of North and South Korea met at the
demilitarized zone and agreed to sign a treaty by the end of the
year to formally end the Korean War. As a war undeclared by all
participants, the conflict helped bring the term "police
action" into common use. It also led to the permanent
alteration of the balance of power within the United Nations,
where Resolution 377-passed in 1950 to allow a bypassing of the
Security Council if that body could not reach an agreement-led to
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1955: #BOTD: #HBD! Kevin Seal,
American actor, musician, improvisational comedian, voice actor,
television presenter and MTV VJ, is #born Kevin Michael Seal in
Newton, New Jersey where he was raised. Kevin Seal was an MTV VJ
in the late 1980s, the host of the pilot of Club MTV (according to
an MTV special) and one of the hosts of the influential
alternative-music program 120 Minutes, which debuted in 1986.
After leaving the program, he hosted MTV's Headbangers Ball from
1987 to 1988 and Kevin Seal: Sporting Fool for which he won a
Cable Ace Award in 1990. Since leaving MTV, he made occasional TV
and movie appearances, including a starring role in the 1992
interactive cinema film I'm Your Man. In 2000, he was cast as
voice talent for both the lead character and primary antagonist in
the Cartoon Network series Sheep in the Big City. Seal was also
the host for the pilot episode of the Nickelodeon game show,
Figure it Out in 1996 before Summer Sanders took over as the
series host when the show officially premiered a year later. After
going to school for industrial design, he began designing and
building furniture. Seal lives in Seattle. He was married to
director Lynn Shelton. He does voiceover work and is a
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1963: #BOTD: #HBD! George
Michael, English singer, songwriter, record producer, and
philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham!
and later embarked on a solo career (d. December 25, 1963) is
#born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in East Finchley, Middlesex,
England. Michael sold over 80 million records worldwide making him
one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He achieved
seven number one songs on the UK Singles Chart and eight number
one songs on the US Billboard Hot 100. He was widely known for his
success in the 1980s and 1990s, including Wham! singles such as
"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Last Christmas"
and solo singles such as "Careless Whisper" and "Faith".
Michael formed the duo Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. The
band's first two albums, Fantastic (1983) and Make It Big (1984),
reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard
200. Michael's first solo single "Careless Whisper"
reached number one in over 20 countries, including the UK and US.
Michael's debut solo album, Faith, was released in 1987, topping
the UK Albums Chart and staying at number one on the Billboard 200
for 12 weeks. Four singles from the album--"Faith",
"Father Figure", "One More Try", and
"Monkey"-reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Faith was named Album of the Year at the 31st Grammy Awards. Three
years after the release of Faith, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
(1990) was released; that album included the Billboard Hot 100
number one "Praying for Time". "Don't Let the Sun
Go Down on Me", a 1991 duet with Elton John, was also a
transatlantic number one. Michael, who came out as gay in 1998,
was an active LGBT rights campaigner and HIV/AIDS charity
fundraiser. Michael's personal life and legal troubles made
headlines during the late 1990s and 2000s, as he was arrested for
public lewdness in 1998 and was arrested for multiple drug-related
offences after that time. The 2005 documentary A Different Story
covered his career and personal life. Michael's first tour since
1991, the 25 Live tour, spanned three tours over the course of
three years; 2006, 2007, and 2008. Four years later, he performed
his final concert at London's Earls Court in 2012. In the early
hours of Christmas Day 2016, Michael was found dead at his home in
Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire aged 53. A coroner's report
attributed his death to natural causes (dilated cardiomyopathy
with myocarditis [both diseases of an enlarged heart) and a fatty
liver). He is buried at Highgate Cemetery West in Highgate, London
Borough of Camden, Greater London, England. Michael won various
music awards including two Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three
American Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards and six Ivor
Novello Awards. In 2004, the Radio Academy named Michael the most
played artist on British radio during the period 1984-2004. In
2008, he was ranked 40th on Billboard's list of the Greatest Hot
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Before
Stonewall The Making Of A Gay And Lesbian Community DVD MP4 USB
Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1978: Sexuality: Homosexuality:
LGBT Pride (Gay Pride, Pride, LGBTQ Pride, LGBTQ+ Pride): The
Rainbow Flag (The Pride Flag): -- The Rainbow Flag, representing
gay pride, is flown for the first time during the San Francisco
Gay Freedom Day Parade. The Rainbow Flag, also known as the Gay
Pride Flag or simply Pride Flag, is a symbol of lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) pride and LGBT social movements.
The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBT community and the
spectrum of human sexuality and gender. Using a rainbow flag as a
symbol of gay pride began in San Francisco, California, but
eventually became common at LGBT rights events worldwide.
Originally devised by artist Gilbert Baker, Lynn Segerblom, James
McNamara and other activists, the design underwent several
revisions after its debut in 1978, and continues to inspire
variations. Although Baker's original rainbow flag had eight
colors, from 1979 to the present day the most common variant
consists of six stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and
violet. The flag is typically displayed horizontally, with the red
stripe on top, as it would be in a natural rainbow. LGBT people
and allies currently use rainbow flags and many rainbow-themed
items and color schemes as an outward symbol of their identity or
support. There are derivations of the rainbow flag that are used
to focus attention on specific causes or groups within the
community (e.g. transgender people, fighting the AIDS epidemic,
inclusion of LGBT people of color). In addition to the rainbow,
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25, 1981: The Industrial Revolution:
The Third Industrial Revolution (1947-Present) (The Information
Age, The Computer Age, The Digital Age, The Digital Electronics
Revolution, The Silicon Age, The New Media Age, The Media Age):
The Computer: The History Of The Computer: Digital Computers: The
History Of Software: -- Microsoft is restructured to become an
incorporated business in its home state of Washington. Microsoft
was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to
develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose
to dominate the personal computer operating system market with
MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windows. The company's 1986
initial public offering (IPO) and subsequent rise in its share
price created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000
millionaires among Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has
increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has
made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the
acquisition of LinkedIn for 26.2B USD in December 2016, followed
by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for 8.5B USD in May
2011. As of 2015, Microsoft is market-dominant in the IBM PC
compatible operating system market and the office software suite
market, although it has lost the majority of the overall operating
system market to Android. As of 2023, Microsoft Corporation is
headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft's best-known
software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the
Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web
browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game
consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal
computers. Microsoft ranked No. 14 in the 2022 Fortune 500
rankings of the largest United States corporations by total
revenue; it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as
of 2022. It is often considered as one of the Big Five American
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Today, June 25, 2026
June 25: National Catfish Day: -- A day
that brings a host of amazing facts and benefits related to the
aquatic animal. Catfish gets its name from the long barbels that
hang on either side of its mouth, much like the whiskers of a cat.
While many people are not a big fan of consuming fish in general
because of the fishy smell and taste, many others enjoy it, either
cooked or raw. Catfish is one of the highest consumed fish species
in America. You can have it breaded and fried, or grilled over
coals and served with tangy fruity salsa. Apart from its great
taste, catfish farming has also led to a stable income for many
fish farmers as well as provided for a sustainable and
environmentally friendly source of food. The first National
Catfish Day was celebrated in 1987 after President Ronald Reagan's
proclamation in his speech. It's true that 'catfish' is a strange
subject to be included in a presidential speech, but one must
acknowledge the reasoning behind it. During the 1980s, catfish
production was growing in the United States. The food was becoming
popular, and so was the stability of the income source that
catfish farming was allowing fish farmers. Congressman Mike Espy
realized the potential the growing industry had. With the help of
other congressmen, he strived to introduce the fish as part of the
military meal given to soldiers at luncheons. Further push in
favor of the industry also led to Espy submitting the National
Catfish Day commemorative bill. His efforts also boosted his
popularity during elections, further increasing the growing demand
for catfish all over America. Catfish belong to the ray-finned
fish family. This species is usually a bottom feeder, which means
it will feed on the bottom of a water body, although it can still
be trained to become a surface feeder. Their reduced gas bladder
and a rather heavy- and bony head help them to sink easily.
Catfish come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but most will have
a cylindrical body. Because of the ease involved in breeding them,
catfish farms take up one-third of all finned fish in America.
Channel catfish and blue catfish are the most sold species.
Catfish have a variety of health benefits including high vitamin
D. It pairs well with cajun spices, but at the same time, a little
lemon and butter help in developing and bringing out the
scrumptiousness of the fish. You can also enjoy it in sandwiches
and in baked pasta dishes.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: History
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Today, June 25, 2026June 25, 2003: #DOTD: Lester Maddox,
American businessman, populist Democratic segregationist
politician who served as the 75th Governor Of Georgia from 1967 to
1971, Lieutenant Governor Of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 during the
period when Jimmy Carter was Governor (b. September 30, 1915)
#dies in an Atlanta, Georgia hospice of complications from
pneumonia and prostate cancer after a fall while recuperating from
intestinal surgery, aged 87. He and his wife Virginia are both
interred at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs in northern
Fulton County, Georgia. Due to a successful business career,
Maddox was relatively wealthy when he died. He was born Lester
Garfield Maddox Sr. in Atlanta, Georgia. He came to prominence as
a staunch segregationist when he refused to serve black customers
in his Atlanta restaurant, in violation of the Civil Rights Act Of
1964. With his political career seemingly over and with massive
debts stemming from his 1974 gubernatorial bid, Maddox began a
short-lived nightclub comedy career in 1977 with an African
American musician, Bobby Lee Fears, who had worked as a busboy in
his restaurant. Fears had served time in prison for a drug offense
before Maddox, as lieutenant governor, was able to assist him in
obtaining a pardon. Calling themselves "The Governor and his
Dishwasher," the duo performed comedy bits built around
musical numbers with Maddox on harmonica and Fears on guitar.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV
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Today, June 25, 2026June 25, 2009: #DOTD: #RIP: Michael
Jackson, dubbed the "King of Pop", African American
singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor, one of the most
popular entertainers in the world and the best-selling music
artist during the year of his death (b. August 29, 1958) #dies
while preparing for his comeback concert series, This Is It, of
acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication after suffering
from cardiac arrest. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled his
death a homicide, and his personal physician, Conrad Murray, was
convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He is buried at Forest Lawn
Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California in the
Great Mausoleum Plot on Holly Terrace, Sanctuary of Ascension,
Distinguished Memorial, Sarcophagus 9, Crypt A. This mausoleum is
private and locked to the general public. Jackson's death
triggered a global outpouring of grief, and a live broadcast of
his public memorial service was viewed around the world. Forbes
ranked Jackson as the top-earning deceased celebrity for the fifth
consecutive year in 2017. His estate earned 825M USD in 2016, the
highest yearly amount ever recorded by the publication. Michael
Jackson was born Michael Joseph Jackson in Gary, Indiana, the
eighth of ten children in the Jackson family, a working-class
African American family living in a two-bedroom house on Jackson
Street. Jackson's contributions to music, dance, and fashion,
along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure
in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the
Jackson family, Michael made his professional debut in 1964 with
his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member
of the Jackson 5. He began his solo career in 1971 while at Motown
Records. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in
popular music. His music videos, including those of "Beat
It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller" from
his 1982 album Thriller, are credited with breaking racial
barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and
promotional tool. The popularity of these videos helped bring the
television channel MTV to fame. Jackson's 1987 album Bad spawned
the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "I Just Can't
Stop Loving You", "Bad", "The Way You Make Me
Feel", "Man in the Mirror", and "Dirty Diana",
becoming the first album to have five number-one singles in the
nation. He continued to innovate with videos such as "Black
or White" and "Scream" throughout the 1990s, and
forged a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and
video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated
dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he
gave the name. His distinctive sound and style has influenced
numerous artists of various music genres. Thriller is the
best-selling album of all time, with estimated sales of over 66
million copies worldwide. Jackson's other albums, including Off
the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and HIStory (1995),
also rank among the world's best-selling albums. He is one of the
few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame twice, and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of
Fame and the Dance Hall of Fame as the only dancer from pop and
rock music. His other achievements include multiple Guinness World
Records including the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time, 13
Grammy Awards, the Grammy Legend Award, the Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award, 24 American Music Awards-more than any other
artist-including the "Artist of the Century", 13
number-one singles in the United States during his solo
career-more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era-and
estimated sales of over 350 million records worldwide. Jackson won
hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist
in the history of popular music. He became the first artist in
history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five
different decades when "Love Never Felt So Good" reached
number nine in 2014. Jackson is also remembered for his
philanthropy and pioneering efforts in charitable fundraising in
the entertainment industry. He traveled the world attending events
honoring his humanitarianism, and, in 2000, the Guinness World
Records recognized him for supporting 39 charities, more than any
other entertainer. Jackson became a figure of controversy in the
1980s due to his changing physical appearance, his relationships,
and behavior; the controversy intensified due to a 1993 child
sexual abuse scandal when a family friend accused him of sexually
abusing his son; the case led to an investigation but was settled
out of court for an undisclosed amount.] In 2005, he was tried and
acquitted of further child sexual abuse allegations and several
other charges after the jury found him not guilty on all counts.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: D-Day:
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Today, June 25, 2026June 25, 1944: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Western Front Of World War II: Operation
Overlord (The Battle Of Normandy, The Normandy Campaign): D-Day
(The D-Day Landings, The Normandy Landings): The Battle Of
Cherbourg: The Bombardment Of Cherbourg: -- United States Navy and
British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United
States Army units engaged in the Battle Of Cherbourg. In doing so,
the Allied naval forces engaged in a series of duels with coastal
batteries and provided close support to infantry as they fought to
gain control of the city. The bombardment was initially scheduled
to last just two hours but it was later extended by an hour to
support army units attempting to break into Cherbourg's city
streets. After the bombardment, German resistance lasted until
June 29, when the port was eventually captured by the Allies.
Afterwards, the task of clearing the port for use lasted several
weeks. When the Allies managed to secure a bridgehead after the
Normandy landings, the Germans adopted a strategy to bottle up the
Allied forces in Normandy and deny them the nearest major port at
Cherbourg to starve them of supplies. By mid-June U.S. infantry
had sealed off the Cotentin Peninsula, but their advance had
stalled and the Germans began to demolish the port's facilities.
In response, the Allies renewed their efforts to capture the city,
and by June 20 three infantry divisions under General "Lightning
Joe" Collins had advanced within a mile of German lines
defending Cherbourg. Two days later, the general assault began and
on June 25, a large naval task force began a concentrated
bombardment of the town to help neutralize the threat of German
coastal artillery and to provide support to the assaulting
infantry. The task force was divided into two groups, each
consisting of a variety of warships including battleships,
cruisers, destroyers and minesweepers. Each ship was assigned a
series targets inland with orders to duel with batteries which
engaged them. German fires were accurate out to 15,000 yards
(14,000 m), and in some cases they were able to bracket the
radically maneuvering ships. Several Allied ships were holed, but
faulty ammunition hampered German efforts. In several encounters,
after being hit the heavy ships were able to withdraw after Allied
destroyers obscured them with smoke. After the action, Allied
reports agreed that the most effective aspect of the bombardment
was the fire that was provided by the small ships. Under the
direction of army spotters, these ships were able to engage point
targets up to 2,000 yards (1,800 m) inland, which proved
invaluable in providing close support to the assaulting Allied
infantry. In contrast, while the force's heavy guns disabled 22 of
24 assigned navy targets, they were unable to destroy any of them
and, consequently, infantry assaults were required to ensure that
the guns could not be reactivated. When the city fell, the
neutralized casemated guns, which the Germans could have turned
inland towards advancing Allied troops, were still aimed out to
sea.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Betty
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Today, June 25, 2026June 25, 1979: #DOTD: #RIP: Dave
Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer, best known
as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max
Fleischer (b. July 14, 1894) #dies of a stroke at his Peyton Hall
apartment complex home on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los
Angeles, California, three weeks before his 85th birthday. He is
buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park cemetery in Hollywood Hills,
California. Dave Fleischer was born the youngest of the five
brothers of a Jewish family in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a poor
Jewish neighbourhood, where he grew up. Fleischer Studios was an
American corporation which originated as an animation studio
located at 1600 Broadway, New York City, New York. It was founded
in 1921 as Inkwell Studios by brothers Max Fleischer and Dave
Fleischer who ran the pioneering company from its inception until
Paramount Pictures, the studio's parent company and the
distributor of its films, acquired ownership. In its prime,
Fleischer Studios was a premier producer of animated cartoons for
theaters, with Walt Disney Productions's becoming its chief
competitor in the 1930s. Fleischer Studios is notable for Koko the
Clown, Betty Boop, Bimbo, Popeye the Sailor, and Superman. Unlike
other studios, whose characters were anthropomorphic animals, the
Fleischers' most successful characters were humans (With the
exception of Bimbo in the 1930s.). The cartoons of the Fleischer
Studio were very different from the Disney product, both in
concept and in execution. As a result, the Fleischer cartoons were
rough rather than refined, commercial rather than consciously
artistic. But in their unique way, their artistry was expressed
through a culmination of the arts and sciences. This approach
focused on surrealism, dark humor, adult psychological elements,
and sexuality, and the environments were grittier and urban, often
set in squalid surroundings, reflecting the Depression as well as
German Expressionism.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Pursuit
Of The Graf Spee Battle Of The River Plate DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, June 25, 2026June 25, 2015: #DOTD: #RIP: Patrick
Macnee, British-American actor, best known for his breakthrough
role as secret agent John Steed in the television series The
Avengers (1961-1969) who started out as the assistant to David
Keel (Ian Hendry), then became the lead when Hendry left after the
first series, subsequently partnered with a succession of
beautiful and brilliant female assistants, later reprising the
role in The New Avengers (1976-1977) (b. February 6, 1922) #dies
at Rancho Mirage, California, his home for the previous four
decades, at the age of 93. Tributes were paid by co-stars Roger
Moore and Nicola Bryant, and by fellow Avengers leads Diana Rigg
and Linda Thorson. His remains were cremated; the final
disposition of his ashes are not publicly disclosed other than
that they were given to a his family or a friend. PatrickMacnee
was born Daniel Patrick Macnee in London, England, the eldest son
of Dorothea Macnee BEM (British Empire Medal), a British socialite
during the inter-war years whose wide circle included many
prominent people in entertainment and the arts, several of whom
were introduced to her alternative lifestyle in the Berkshire
house where she lived with her lesbian partner after separating
from her husband Daniel Macnee (m. 1920; sep. 1929). Macnee served
in the Royal Navy during the Second World War before starting his
career as an actor in Canadian television. He appeared in numerous
television series up until 2001, including the Twilight Zone
episode "Judgement Night" (1959); Columbo; Magnum, P.I.;
Hart to Hart; Murder, She Wrote; The Love Boat; and Frasier. In
1984, he was the subject of the British television series This Is
Your Life. Macnee also appeared in Oasis' music video for "Don't
Look Back In Anger" (1996). He and Avengers co-star Honor
Blackman had a UK Top 10 hit in 1990 when their 1964 song "Kinky
Boots" received renewed interest from being played on BBC
Radio One. Macnee's notable film roles include young Jacob Marley
in Scrooge (1951), Sir Denis Eton-Hogg in This Is Spinal Tap
(1984), and Sir Godfrey Tibbett in A View to a Kill (1985). He is
one of the few actors to have played both Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
Watson in different productions.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Monarchy In The UK: British Royal History MP4 Video Download DVD
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Today, June 25, 2026June 25, 1533: #DOTD: #RIP: Mary Tudor,
beautiful English princess, briefly Queen Of France, Duchess Of
Suffolk and member of The Tudor Dynasty who ruled the Kingdom Of
England and the Lordship Of Ireland, sister to future King Henry
VIII (b. March 18, 1496) #dies at age 37 at Westhorpe Hall,
Suffolk, England, having never fully recovered from the sweating
sickness (a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England
and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics between 1485
and 1551) that she caught in 1528; the cause of death has been
speculated to have been angina, tuberculosis, appendicitis, or
cancer. As an English princess, daughter of a king, sister to the
current king, and a dowager queen of France, Mary Tudor's funeral
and interment was conducted with much heraldic ceremony. A requiem
mass was held at Westminster Abbey. Her body was embalmed and held
in state at Westhorpe Hall for three weeks. On July 21, 1533, a
delegation from France joined the English delegation for the
lavish funeral ceremony. Her daughter Frances was chief mourner,
accompanied by her husband and siblings. As was tradition, neither
Mary's husband nor her brother the king attended. The funeral
procession included 100 torch bearers, clergy carrying the cross,
six horses pulling the hearse, other nobility and 100 of the
duke's yeomen. A requiem mass and burial at Bury St. Edmunds Abbey
followed the next day. At the funeral, her step-daughters, Anne
and Mary, pushed themselves to the head of the cortege just before
the coffin was lowered into the crypt of the Abbey, much to the
consternation of their half-siblings. Five years later, when the
monastery was dissolved, Mary's body was removed to nearby St.
Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds. In 1784, her remains were
disinterred, her coffin opened, and locks of her hair were taken
by Horace Walpole, Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, and
several others. Mary Tudor was born in Sheen Palace, London,
Surrey, Kingdom of England, the fifth child of Henry VII of
England and Elizabeth of York, and the youngest to survive
infancy. Known in her youth as one of the most beautiful
princesses in Europe, Erasmus said of her that "Nature never
formed anything more beautiful", and the paintings and
drawings made of her during her lifetime bear witness to this
beauty. She was the younger surviving daughter of King Henry VII
of England and Elizabeth of York, and the third wife of Louis XII
of France, who was more than 30 years older than her. Upon her
arrival in France, Mary was described as being "handsome and
well favoured, were not her eyes and eyebrows too light; she is
slight, rather than defective from corpulence, and conducts
herself with so much grace, and has such good manners, that for
her age of 18 years-and she does not look more-she is a paradise."
Contemporaries lauded her beauty, including her husband, Louis
XII, who described her as a "nymph from heaven". She
regularly took part in masques at her brother's court, and enjoyed
"hearing singing, instrumental music, and dancing". Mary
was described as "very lively", with one nobleman noting
"[she] is never still." She was also said to be cheerful
and affable; this is shown when, upon meeting her future husband
Louis for the first time, she blew him a kiss in greeting.
Following his death mere weeks after he married her (reputedly
worn out by his exertions in the bedchamber, but more likely from
the effects of gout), she soon married the man she was in love
with, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (c. 1484 - August 22 ,
1545) was an English military leader and courtier. A marriage
performed secretly in France, the marriage occurred without the
consent of Mary's brother, Henry VIII. The marriage necessitated
the intervention of Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey on the couple's
behalf; Henry eventually pardoned the couple, after they paid a
large fine. On May 13, 1515, Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, 1st
Duke of Suffolk were officially married at Greenwich, South East
London, England. Mary's second marriage produced four children,
and through her older daughter, Frances, she was the maternal
grandmother of Lady Jane Grey, who was the de facto Queen Of
England for nine days in July 1553. Even after her second
marriage, Mary was normally referred to at the English court as
the Queen of France, and was not known as the Duchess of Suffolk
in her lifetime, despite being legally allowed to be.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Axis
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Today, June 25, 2026June 25, 1988: #DOTD: Mildred Gillars,
nicknamed Axis Sally by Allied forces, American broadcaster
employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII (b.
November 29, 1900) #dies of colon cancer at Grant Medical Center
in Columbus, aged 87. She is buried at Saint Joseph Cemetery in
Lockbourne, Franklin County, Ohio. She was born Mildred Elizabeth
Sisk in Portland, Maine; she took the surname Gillars in 1911
after her mother remarried. Mildred Gillars, along with Rita
Zucca, were nicknamed "Axis Sally", a name used to
describe any single female voice directing her comments by way of
German radio to Allied soldiers during World War II. Mildred
Gillars was the highest paid radio personality in Nazi Germany,
and worked at Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG), German State
Radio. After the defeat of Nazi Germany Gillars was convicted of
treason by the United States in 1949 following her capture in
post-war Berlin. Having converted to Roman Catholicism while in
prison, Gillars went to live at the Our Lady of Bethlehem Convent
in Columbus, Ohio, and taught German, French, and music at St.
Joseph Academy, Columbus.
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