June 25, 1876 - Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads troops of the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry against the combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Chief Gall in what the Native Americans call “The Battle of the Greasy Grass” and the white man calls “The Battle of Little Bighorn” or “Custer’s Last Stand”.

June 25, 1940 – France formally surrenders to Nazi Germany

June 25, 1947 – “The Diary of Anne Frank” is published in the Netherlands under the title “Het Achterhuis”.  The autobiography tells the story of a teenaged girl hides for two years in Nazi-occupied Netherlands until she is caught and sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

June 25, 1948 – In response to the blockade of Berlin by the Soviet Union, the western world, led by the United States and Great Britain begin shuttling food and supplies to the people of West Berlin in what would become known as the Berlin Airlift.

June 25, 1996 – Nineteen U.S. Air Force servicemen are killed when members of the terrorist organization Hizballah Al-Hijaz detonate a fuel truck adjacent to building #131 of the Khobar Towers housing complex in Saudi Arabia.