Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 25

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  A manuscript discovered at Dunhuang
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  Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript
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  1978 rainbow flag
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  George Armstrong Custer
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  Igor Stravinsky
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  Indira Gandhi
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  British soldiers evacuating from France
• Rainbow flag for LGBT pride
  Rainbow flag for LGBT pride
• Royal Air Force personnel being evacuated from Brest, France
  Royal Air Force personnel being evacuated from Brest, France
• CIA diagram of Area 51
  CIA diagram of Area 51

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Independence Day in Mozambique (1975)	unreferenced section
; Statehood Day in Slovenia (1991)	stub
1530 – The Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church, was presented to the [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Template:Nowrap, Holy Roman Emperor]], at the Diet of Augsburg.	needs more footnotes
1876 – Black Hills War: United States Army Colonel George Armstrong Custer was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in present-day Big Horn County, Montana.	Custer: refimprove section; Battle: refimprove section
1900 – A Taoist monk discovered the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of documents from the 5th to 11th centuries, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.	refimprove section
1910 – The Firebird, the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, made its premiere in Paris.	unreferenced section
1938 – Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland after the office was established by the Constitution of Ireland in 1937.	refimprove section, unreferenced section
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, began in the Karelian Isthmus of Finland.	refimprove sections
1975 – Citing threats to national security, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi unilaterally had a state of emergency declared across the nation that lasted nearly two years.	refimprove sections
1993 – Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.	refimprove section
1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, left 19 American servicemen and one Saudi dead and 372 of many nationalities wounded.	refimprove section
1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivered its decision in Clinton v. City of New York, ruling that the line-item veto as granted in the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 violated the Constitution.	refimprove section
2013 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani became the eighth Emir of Qatar.	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
Æthelstan Ætheling |d|1014	death date not referenced (and also might be a different year); plus a cite needed and no lede
Crystal Eastman |b|1881	POTD for 2022
Alan Plater |d|2010	inadequate lead; refimprove section
* 1678 – Venetian philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.	Large parts uncited
* 2006 – Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured in a cross-border raid near the Kerem Shalom crossing with the Gaza Strip, and held hostage by Hamas until 2011.	15 citation needed tags
Niels, King of Denmark |d|1134|	Death not cited

Eligible

• 1940 – Second World War: Operation Aerial, an evacuation of nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers from French ports, was completed.
• 1950 – The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea.
• 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.
• 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| Giovanni Battista Riccioli|d|1671| David Douglas |b|1799| Ebenezer Pemberton |d|1835| Eloísa Díaz|b|1866| William Harrison Anderson |b|1870| Rose O'Neill|b|1874| Henry H. Arnold|b|1886| Louis Mountbatten |b|1900| George Orwell |b|1903| Margaret Anstee |b|1926| Raymond Leane |d|1962| George Michael|b|1963| Michel Foucault |d|1984| Scott Brown|b|1985| Ernest Walton|d|1995| Mckenna Grace|b|2006| Farrah Fawcett|d|2009| Michael Jackson|d|2009

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• 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.
• 1978 – The rainbow flag (original version pictured) representing gay pride was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade.
• 2009 – Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body.