06-24-2004, 06:41 PM
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June 25th
1767 ~ Death of Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer.
1788 ~ Virginia ratified the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
1867 ~ The Battle of Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Custer.
1894 ~ Birthday of Hermann Oberth, Physicist and one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.
1900 ~ Birthday of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
1901 ~ Death of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Composer.
1903 ~ Birthday of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), Author.
1950 ~ The beginning of the Korean War.
1991 ~ Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
1997 ~ Death of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Explorer, Scientist.
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