1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.

On June 25, 1876 American Indian forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeated the US Army troops of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River.

 oldviolin wrote:

They done broke his elby-bone!

 black321 wrote: 
Rave on, its a crazy feelin'...

 oldviolin wrote:

I think we may be getting a case soon.

1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

2012 – Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.

1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.

1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.

1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.

1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.

1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.

His name was Alan Shenu, and today would have been his ninth birthday.

 Red_Dragon wrote:
And what would it have sounded like?

1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

1977 – JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It will eventually prevail against Sony's rival Betamax system in a format war to become the predominant home video medium.

1844 – The last pair of great auks is killed.