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1802: After failing to conquer Egypt, France signs the Treaty of Paris, returning the country to control by the Ottoman Empire. Napoleon Bonaparte’s African adventure resulted in 15,000 French soldiers killed in combat and 15,000 more soldiers dead of disease.
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1910: Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Firebird” is premiered. The work was performed by Sergei Diaghilev’s legendary ballet company “Ballets Russes”. It was a huge success, catapulting Stravinsky to stardom.
1967: The world’s first live global satellite TV program is aired. An estimated worldwide audience of 350 million in 26 nations watched the world’s first, live, televised satellite hook up; the Beatles’ recording of ‘All You Need Is Love’ at Abbey Road. The event, which lasted just over two hours, had the largest television audience to date and around 10,000 technicians, producers, and translators were involved.
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1947: The Diary of Anne Frank is published. The Jewish girl’s account of her life in hiding from the Nazis has become a well-known work of world literature and made Anne one of the most prominent victims of the Nazi regime. She died at age 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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1950 The Korean War begins as North Korea invades South Korea
The war soon evolved into an international conflict and a proxy war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, leading to fears of a new World War. It was ended by an armistice in 1953.
1965: The law allowing for 90-day detention of South Africans is amended to allow the state to hold anti-apartheid activists, for whom the law is designed, for 180 days without trial, without visitors, and without access to a lawyer. The law permits detainees to be kept in solitary confinement for six months and strips the courts of any power to release prisoners.
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1993: Both Canada and Turkey elect female heads of government for the first time
Kim Campbell became Canada’s and TansuÇiller Turkey’s Prime Minister on this day. Worldwide, women in top political positions are still the exception.
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1996: A tanker truck loaded with 25,000 pounds of explosives rips through the U.S. Air Force military housing complex Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 U.S. airmen and wounding nearly 500 others. The terrorist attack that blew off much of the eight-story Building 131, leaving a crater 50 feet wide and 16 feet deep, was the deadliest attack against U.S. forces since the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut that left 241 dead.
2009: Nigeria’s President, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua declares amnesty for Niger Delta militants.
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2009: Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)
Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer who was the most popular entertainer in the world in the early and mid-1980s. Reared in Gary, Indiana, in one of the most acclaimed musical families of the rock era, Michael Jackson was the youngest and most talented of five brothers whom his father, Joseph, shaped into a dazzling group of child stars known as the Jackson 5.
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2009: American actress Farrah Fawcett, who first gained fame for an iconic pinup poster and later became a superstar with the hit television series Charlie’s Angels, died of cancer at age 62.
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2010: As drought in the Sahel brings widespread famine and disease to the region, Sudan records its highest temperature ever, 49.6 °C (121.3 °F), at Dongola.
2014: Britain’s best-known payday lender, ‘Wonga’, was ordered to pay more than £2.6m compensation after it was found to have sent threatening letters to customers from non-existent law firms.
BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: June 25
James Meredith, 91 years
James Meredith is an American civil rights activist, writer, and Air Force veteran. He is most notably recognized for his role in the desegregation of the University of Mississippi, also known as “Ole Miss,” in 1962, a pivotal moment in the American civil rights movement.
Amma Darko, 67 years
Ghanaian novelist, in Koriridua, Gold Coast. Her seven novels explore the daily realities of ordinary Ghanaians. She has been awarded The Golden Baobab Prize for her work.
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Steve Tikolo, 53 years
Considered Kenya’s greatest cricket player in history, in Nairobi, Kenya. His accomplishments at play include scoring the most runs and taking the second most wickets for the Kenyan team in One Day Internationals. After retiring as a player, he coached several teams including the Ugandan national cricket team.
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George Orwell 25 (June 1903- 21 January 1950)
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. He is known for the writing of ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’. He died at the age of 46.
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