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25th June

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1950: Korean War begins


On June 25, 1950, nearly 100,000 North Korean troops storm across the 38th parallel, overwhelming the border's South Korean defenders. Two days later, U.S. President Harry Truman announced that the United States would intervene in the conflict, and on June 28, the United Nations approved the use of force against communist North Korea. In the opening months of the war, the U.S.-led U.N. forces rapidly advanced against the North Koreans, but in October, Chinese communist troops entered the fray, throwing the Allies into a general retreat. In 1953, a peace agreement was signed, ending the war and reestablishing the 1945 division of Korea that still exists today. U.N. and South Korean forces suffered some 500,000 casualties in the Korean War, while communist losses were at least three times that.

1976

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, appoints himself President for life.

1975

Mozambique declares its independence from Portugal.

1973

Former White House lawyer John Dean III accuses President Richard Nixon of involvement in the cover up of the Watergate break-in.

1959

Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson stops American Floyd Patterson in the third round of their title bout in Madison Square Garden, New York, to become the heavyweight champion of the world.

1954

The highest-scoring match in the final stages of football's World Cup occurs in the quarter-finals of the competition in Lausanne when host nation Switzerland are beaten 7-5 by Austria. .

1950

Start of the Korean War when North Korean troops invade the South.

1945

Official founding of the United Nations organisation.

1917

World War I: The first American troops, commanded by Field Marshal Pershing, disembark on the French coast.

1891

The first episode of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel involving fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is printed in the Strand Magazine in London.

1876

Custer's Last Stand. George Armstrong Custer, commander of the 7th US Cavalry and 260 troopers are killed by Sioux Indians, led by Crazy Horse, at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana.

1797

English Admiral Horatio Nelson is shot and wounded in the right arm and has it amputated later in the day.

1788

Virginia becomes the 10th state within the American Union.

1646

The English Civil War: the Royalist city of Oxford surrenders to the Parliamentary forces - effectively bringing the war to an end.

1963

British rock singer George Michael.

1945

American singer Carly Simon.

1924

Film director Sidney Lumet born in Philadelphia, USA.

1903

English writer George Orwell - pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair. Becomes a colonial policeman in Burma and later joins the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. Works include The Road To Wigan Pier (1937); Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Dies in 1950.

1900

Louis (Earl) Mountbatten of Burma. Great -grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II directs commando raids in Europe and commands Allied operations in Burma. As the last Viceroy of India, completes the hand over of independence for India and Pakistan from British rule. Is killed by an IRA bomb in 1979.

1997

French underwater explorer and oceanographer Jacques Cousteau aged 87.

1968

British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in a hotel bedroom in Sydney, Australia aged 43.

1956

American zoologist and sexologist Alfred Kinsey aged 62.

1876

George Armstrong Custer, commander of the 7th US Cavalry dies at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana aged 36.

1483

Murder of Edward V, King of England (April 9th-June 25th, 1483).

1212

English soldier and politician Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester.