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Events

• 1401 (625 years ago) Schaffhausen massacre: 30 Jews are executed, following torture, after being accused of a blood libel in Schaffhausen (in present-day Switzerland).
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The French armistice with Nazi Germany comes into effect.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The Continuation War between the Soviet Union and Finland, supported by Nazi Germany, began.
• 1950 (76 years ago) The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
• 1975 (51 years ago) Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal.
• 1991 (35 years ago) The breakup of Yugoslavia begins when Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
• 1996 (30 years ago) The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• 2009 (17 years ago) The death of American entertainer Michael Jackson triggers an outpouring of worldwide grief as reactions online cause the flow of internet traffic to surge to unprecedented and historic levels.

Births

• 1852 (174 years ago) Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell and the Sagrada Família (died 1926)
• 1864 (162 years ago) Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
• 1903 (123 years ago) George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic (died 1950)
• 1907 (119 years ago) J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
• 1928 (98 years ago) Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
• 1936 (90 years ago) B. J. Habibie, Indonesian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (died 2019)
• 1956 (70 years ago) Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author (died 2018)
• 1963 (63 years ago) George Michael, English singer-songwriter and producer (died 2016)

Deaths

• 1767 (259 years ago) Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer and theorist (born 1681)
• 1822 (204 years ago) E. T. A. Hoffmann, German composer, critic, and jurist (born 1776)
• 1861 (165 years ago) Abdülmecid I, Ottoman sultan (born 1823)
• 1984 (42 years ago) Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (born 1926)
• 1995 (31 years ago) Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
• 1997 (29 years ago) Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (born 1910)
• 2009 (17 years ago) Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (born 1958)
• 2009 (17 years ago) Farrah Fawcett, American actress and producer (born 1947)

All 368 events, births and deaths of June 25