Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 25
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June 25: Statehood Day in Croatia and Slovenia.
- 1530 - The Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church, was presented to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg.
- 1876 - Indian Wars in North America: United States Army Colonel George Armstrong Custer (pictured) was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
- 1950 - The Korean War between North and South Korea began with the North Koreans launching a pre-dawn raid south over the 38th parallel.
- 1967 - Over 400 million people in over 30 countries watched Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production.
- 1993 - Kim Campbell was chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.