June 25

• June 25, 253
  Saint Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• June 25, 524
  Forces of Burgundian Kingdom beat the Frankish army at Battle of Vézeronce averting expansion of Merovingians
• June 25, 841
  Charles the Bald and Louis the German, two grandsons of Charlemagne, defeat third grandson Lothair I at Battle of Fontenoy during Carolingian Civil War
• June 25, 1530
  Augsburg Confession, the 28 articles of the Lutheran churches, are presented to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V as an attempt to restore religious and political unity in the Holy Roman Empire
• June 25, 1630
  The fork is introduced to American dining by John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
• June 25, 1767
  The Jesuits are expelled from Spanish America, and their work is taken over by the Dominican Fathers
• June 25, 1850
  Lord Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, claims that every British subject in the world should be protected by the British Empire and calls to to blockade Greece after a mob in Athens burned down the home of a British citizen
• June 25, 1876
  Alliance of native American forces led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the United States Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River
• June 25, 1947
  The Diary of a Young Girl, a book written by Jewish girl Anne Frank during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, is published
• June 25, 1950
  Korean War, a war between North and South Korea, begins after Korean People's Army assisted by the Soviet Union cross the 38th parallel and invade South Korea
• June 25, 1975
  Mozambique gains independence after over four centuries of Portuguese rule
• June 25, 1991
  Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
• June 25, 2009
  Michael Jackson, an American singer-songwriter often referred to as the "King of Pop", dies of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication after suffering from cardiac arrest