Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 25

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 * 1940 – Second World War: Operation Aerial, an evacuation of nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers from French ports, was completed.
 * 1950 – The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea.
 * 1960 – Two cryptographers working for the U.S. National Security Agency left on vacation to Mexico, and proceeded to defect to the Soviet Union.
 * 1967 – More than an estimated 400 million people viewed Our World, the first live international satellite television production.
 * 1978 – The rainbow flagrepresenting gay pride was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade.
 * 2013 – In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51, a secretive U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada and a subject of various UFO, and other, conspiracy theories.
 * 2022 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian forces captured the city of Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine, after six weeks of fighting.
 * Born/died: | Girolamo Corner|b|1632|David Douglas |b|1799| Ebenezer Pemberton |d|1835| Rose O'Neill|b|1874 | Henry H. Arnold |b|1886| Louis Mountbatten |b|1900| George Orwell |b|1903| Margaret Anstee |b|1926| Sonia Sotomayor |b|1954| Raymond Leane |d|1962|Michel Foucault |d|1984|Hillel Slovak |d|1988|Ernest Walton|d|1995

June 25: Eid al-Ghadir (Shia Islam, 2024)


 * 1658 – Anglo-Spanish War: The largest battle ever fought on Jamaica, the three-day Battle of Rio Nuevo, began.
 * 1910 – The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes".
 * 1944 – World War II: U.S. Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
 * 1950 – The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea.
 * 2009 – Singer Michael Jackson (pictured) died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body.