Today in History: The First Turkish Destroyer Berk was Launched with a Ceremony

June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

• 25 June 1920 Nazilli 6 machine and 150 wagon is emptied.
• 25 June 1927 Law No. 1375 on the construction of the Ankara-Ereğli railway.

Events 

• 1678 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Ph. She was the first woman to earn a D. (PhD) degree.
• 1788 - Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1801 - French occupation armies in Cairo surrender to the Turkish army.
• 1876 ​​– In the Battle of Little Bighorn, Indians destroy the US 7th Cavalry Regiment, their Commander Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer dies in action.
• 1903 - Marie Curie announced the discovery of radium in her thesis to the University of Paris.
• 1917 – The first Press Society was established in Turkey. The first President of the Association was Mahmut Sadık.
• 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Pasha was elected as a Member of Parliament from Izmir.
• 1925 – In Greece, General Thedoros Pangalos seizes power in a coup.
• 1940 – As a result of the Battle of France, the armistice agreement signed on 22 June 1940 came into effect and France surrendered to the Germans.
• 1947 – II. The Jewish girl Anne Frank, who was hiding from German soldiers for 2 years in the attic of a house in the Netherlands during World War II, wrote here. Anne Frank's Diary published.
• 1948 – An airlift is established with US planes over West Berlin to break the Berlin Blockade.
• 1950 - North Korean Armies supported by the Soviet Union attack South Korea. The Korean War has begun.
• 1963 – The Constitutional Court started its duty with the first hearing.
• 1965 – Cyclist Rıfat Caliskan came first in the 3rd International Marmara Tour.
• 1967 – US-made first global satellite television program Our World (Our World) has been published.
• 1969 – In the events that took place in the 3rd League match played between MKE Kırıkkalespor and Tarsus İdman Yurdu in Kırıkkale; 4 people were killed and more than 100 injured.
• 1971 – The first Turkish destroyer “Berk”, built in Gölcük Shipyard, was launched with a ceremony.
• 1975 - Mozambique declared its independence from Portugal.
• 1981 - Microsoft is restructured to be a joint stock company in its home state of Washington.
• 1982 – In Greece, conscripts are banned from shaving their hair.
• 1985 – The foundation of Eskişehir Aircraft Factory was laid by President Kenan Evren.
• 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
• 1993 – Tansu Çiller became the first female Prime Minister of Turkey.
• 1998 – Microsoft released Windows 98.
• 2018 – Turkey's Automobile Enterprise Group was established.

Births 

• 1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
• 1722 – Erik Brahe, Swedish noble count (d. 1756)
• 1848 Arthur Balfour, English politician (d. 1930)
• 1852 – Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (pioneer of the Art Nouveau movement in Spain) (d. 1926)
• 1855 – William Alexander Forbes, English zoologist (d. 1883)
• 1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
• 1898 - Kay Sage, American poet and painter (d. 1963)
• 1900 – Louis Mountbatten, British soldier, Commander of the Royal Marines of the United Kingdom (d. 1979)
• 1903 – George Orwell, English writer (d. 1950)
• 1907 – Sona Hajiyeva, Azerbaijani actress (d. 1979)
• 1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Lassie Lou Ahern, American actress (d. 2018)
• 1924 – Sidney Lumet, American actor and director (d. 2011)
• 1925 - William Stoddart, English writer
• 1927 – Süheyl Eğriboz, Turkish theater, TV series and movie actor (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Peyo, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1992)
• 1932 - Peter Blake, English painter
• 1933 – Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
• 1935 – Hacı Sabancı, Turkish businessman (d.1998)
• 1936 – BJ Habibie, Indonesian statesman, politician, and engineer (d. 2019)
• 1937 – Eddie Floyd, American soul/R&B singer and songwriter
• 1937 – Keizo Obuchi, Japanese politician
• 1942 - Willis Reed, American professional basketball player
• 1943 – Füsun Erbulak, Turkish cinema and theater artist
• 1945 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's writer
• 1946 – Roméo Dallaire, Canadian soldier and writer
• 1946 – Ulrik le Fevre, Danish former international football player
• 1949 – Brigitte Mohnhaupt, German journalist, Marxist philosopher, member of the Red Army Faction
• 1950 – Michel Côté, Canadian actor
• 1954 – Sonia Sotomayor, American lawyer who served as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice since August 8, 2009
• 1955 – Maxime Bossis, French former football player
• 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American writer
• 1961 – Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakh director of feature films and commercials
• 1961 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, filmmaker and broadcaster
• 1963 – George Michael, English singer (d. 2016)
• 1963 – Müge Akyamaç, Turkish theater and film actress
• 1963 – Yann Martel, Canadian writer
• 1964 – Johnny Herbert, British racer
• 1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American former basketball player
• 1968 – Dorinel Munteanu, Romanian former football player and manager
• 1968 – Kayra Şenocak, Turkish actress and presenter
• 1970 – Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete and politician
• 1971 – Ayhan Taş, Turkish theater actor
• 1971 – Tarkan Koç, Turkish theater actor
• 1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian film actress
• 1975 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
• 1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
• 1978 – Layla El, British professional wrestler
• 1979 – Aydilge, Turkish writer, musician and radio host
• 1979 – Daniel Jensen, Danish national football player
• 1979 - Haddy N'jie, Norwegian singer, songwriter, author and journalist
• 1982 – Rain, South Korean singer, dancer, songwriter, actor, and producer
• 1982 – Mikhail Yuzhny, Russian tennis player
• 1983 - Cristian Baroni, Brazilian football player
• 1983 – Marc Janko, Austrian football player
• 1984 – Fatih Atik, French-Turkish football player
• 1984 – Ufuk Bayram, economy journalist, writer, actor, television programmer, academician, non-governmental organization leader
• 1985 – Karim Matmour, Algerian national football player
• 1986 – Charlie Davies, American football player
• 1986 – Seda Tokatlıoğlu, Turkish volleyball player
• 1991 – Soner Demirtaş, Turkish freestyle wrestler
• 1991 – Victor Wanyama, Kenyan national football player
• 1991 – Simone Zaza, Italian football player
• 1992 - Kelsey Robinson, American national volleyball player
• 1997 – Rodrigo Bentancur, Uruguayan national football player

Deaths 

• 1533 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496)
• 1587 – Kılıç Ali Pasha, Ottoman sailor and Admiral Admiral (b. 1500)
• 1671 – Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer and priest (b. 1598)
• 1673 – D'Artagnan, French soldier and XIV. Commander of Louis' musketeers (b. 1611)
• 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
• 1784 – Caesar Rodney, American politician and lawyer (b. 1728)
• 1822 – ETA Hoffmann, German composer, music critic, short story writer, and cartoonist (b. 1776)
• 1835 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (b. 1771)
• 1827 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German historian and theologian, covenant critic (b. 1752)
• 1863 – Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, German agricultural scientist (b. 1784)
• 1864 – William I, king of Württemberg, reigning from 30 October 1816 until his death (b. 1871)
• 1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian neurophysiologist and politician (b. 1811)
• 1876 ​​– George Armstrong Custer, American soldier (b. 1839)
• 1894 – Sadi Carnot, French politician (b. 1837)
• 1898 – Ferdinand Cohn, Jewish biologist (b. 1828)
• 1912 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch Poet (b. 1836)
• 1925 – Josef Breuer, Austrian physiologist (b. 1843)
• 1949 – Alejandro Lerroux, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1864)
• 1956 - Ernest King, II. Fleet admiral who served as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy and Chief of Naval Operations during World War II (b.
• 1960 – Walter Baade, German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959 (b. 1893)
• 1960 – Otto Ender, Austrian politician (b. 1875)
• 1960 – Walter Baade, German astronomer (b. 1893)
• 1964 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect and furniture designer (b. 1888)
• 1971 – John Boyd Orr, Scottish teacher, biologist, and politician (b. 1880)
• 1973 – Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American philosopher (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Olave Baden-Powell, first president of the UK Girl Scouts and wife of Baden Powell, founder of Scouting (b. 1889)
• 1982 – Ferhan Onat, Turkish soprano and State Opera singer
• 1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
• 1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born American guitarist (b. 1962)
• 1992 – James Stirling, one of the UK's most influential architects in the 20th century architecture (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish Nobel Prize-winning scientist (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanographer, naval officer, and film director (b. 1910)
• 2005 – John Fiedler, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Kazım Koyuncu, Turkish musician (b. 1971)
• 2006 – Arif Mardin, Turkish-American album producer (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Ahmed Yüksel Özemre, Turkish atomic engineer and writer (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (Charlie's Angels) (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Michael Jackson, American singer (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Lau Kar-leung, Chinese screenwriter and filmmaker (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Eli Wallach, American actress (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Patrick Macnee, English actor (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Nicole Courcel, French actress (b. 1931)
• 2017 – Elsa Daniel, Argentine actress (b. 1936)
• 2018 – Costance Adams, American architect and author (b. 1964)
• 2018 – Jesús Cardenal, Spanish lawyer (b. 1930)
• 2018 – Štefka Drolc, Slovenian stage and film actress (b. 1923)
• 2018 – Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television personality (b. 1941)
• 2018 – Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer and trumpeter (b. 1937)
• 2019 – Ringaudas Songaila, Lithuanian communist politician, veterinarian who held various positions in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (b. 1929)
• 2019 – Bruno de Keyzer, French cinematographer (b. 1949)
• 2019 – Bryan Marshall, English actor (b. 1938)
• 2019 – Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)
• 2020 – Suzana Amaral, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 2020 – Kilasu Massamba, Democratic Congolese national football player (b. 1950)
• 2020 – Papaleo Paes, Brazilian politician (b. 1952)
• 2020 – Ionuţ Popa, Romanian former football player and manager (b. 1953)