On This Day - 25th June

1846 - In Britain the Corn Laws are repealled
1876 - The Battle of Little Big Horn in Montanna
1903 - George Orwell born
1924 - Sidney Lumet born
1925 - June Lockhart born
1945 - Carly Simon born
1947 - The Diary of Anne Frank was published for the first time.

1950 - North Korea invades South Korea at several points along the two countries' joint border.
1953 - John Christie is sentenced to hang for murdering his wife and then hiding her body under the floorboards of their Notting Hill home in London.
1963 - George Michael born
1970 - The United States launches its latest plan to end the current war of attrition between Israel and Egypt.
1978 - At Argentina '78, the Netherlands lose their second successive World Cup final, falling to the hosts 3-1 after extra-time.
1985 - Thirteen people are arrested in connection with a suspected IRA bombing campaign uncovered by police two days ago.
1991 - Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
2001 - The ring leaders of a weekend of racial clashes in Burnley, Lancashire, are hunted by the police as the clear up in the town begins.
2005 - Ultra-conservative Mahmoud Admadinejad wins surprise victory in presidential poll.

2009 - Pop Star Michael Jackson dies at the age of 50.

On This Day - 24th June

1842 - Ambrose Bierce born
1878 - The St John's Ambulance are formed.
1895 - Jack Dempsey born
1899 - Chief Dan George born
1916 – The Battle of the Somme begins during the First World War
1942 - Michele Lee and Mick Fleetwood born
1944 - Jeff Beck born
1956 - Joe Penny born
1968 - The country's rail network is thrown into disarray as the National Union of Railwaymen begins its work-to-rule and ban on overtime.

1974 - The Labour Government admits Britain exploded a nuclear device in the United States a few weeks ago.
1983 - America's first woman in space, Sally Ride, returns safely in the Challenger space shuttle after a six-day flight.

1986 - Hard-line unionist leader the Reverend Ian Paisley warns Northern Ireland is on the verge of civil war.
1993 - Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over his links with fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir.

On This Day - 23rd June

1400 - Johannes Gutenberg born. Inventor of the printing press with moveable type in 1436 and is best known for the bible that is named after him which was the first 'mass' produced book.
1894 – Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee at the Sorbonne in Paris.Also Alfred Kinsey and Edward VIII born
1912 - Alan Turing born
1927 - Bob Fosse born
1929 - June Carter born

1955 - The Queen Elizabeth ocean liner leaves for New York on schedule despite attempts by striking seamen to delay her departure.
1957 - Frances McDormand born
1968 – 74 fans are killed and 150 are injured in a stampede after a match between River Plate and Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires.
1972 - The Chancellor, Anthony Barber, announces his decision to temporarily float the pound. Also Selma Blair born
1977 - Jason Mraz born
1983 - Pope John Paul II holds a private meeting with the founder of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, on a visit to Poland.
1985 - An Air India 747 passenger jet disintegrates in mid-air off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people on board.
1990 - Twenty years ago to this day, 38-year-old Roger Milla scored twice, helping Cameroon become the first African nation to advance to the quarter-finals of a World Cup.

1992 - New York crime boss John Gotti is sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole.
2011 - 'Columbo' actor Peter Falk dies of dementia aged 83.

On This Day - 22nd June

1897 – Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee with a procession in London.
1903 - John Dillinger born
1906 - Billy Wilder born
1921 - Joseph Papp born
1936 - Kris Kristofferson born

1941 - The German Army takes the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin by surprise as it begins a massive advance on Moscow. Also Ed Bradley born
1948 - Todd Rundgren born
1949 - Lindsay Wagner and Meryl Streep born
1953 - Cyndi Lauper born
1954 - Freddie Prinze born

1959 - Directors of Harrods are urging shareholders to vote for a merger with Debenhams department chain.
1971 - Kurt Warner born
1973 - Carson Daly born
1979 - A jury clears former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe of the attempted murder of Norman Scott.

1980 - Eric Stretch born
1981 - Mark Chapman changes his plea to guilty and admits he murdered John Lennon in December 1980.
1986 - Maradona scores the now legendary 'Hand of God' goal against Argentina's two nil victory over England in Mexico.
1987 - Fred Astaire dies.
2001 - The Parole Board decides that Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, the two schoolboy murderers of James Bulger are to be released after only eight years.
2003 – The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska.
2004 - A Belgian court sentences Marc Dutroux to life in prison for the kidnap, rape and murder of young girls.

2006 - Four years ago, English referee Graham Poll made a calamitous blunder by issuing Croatian defender Josip Simunic two yellow cards without sending him off.

On This Day - 21st June

1895 - Kiel Canal opens
1903 - Al Hirschfeld born
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre born
1908 - composer Rimsky-Korsakov dies
1919 - The German fleets scuttles its self at Scapra Flow
1921 - Jane Russell born
1925 - Maureen Stapleton born
1940 - Mariette Hartley born
1942 - Germans take Tobruk
1944 - Ray Davies born

1945 - The Japanese island of Okinawa falls to the Americans after a long and bloody battle.
1947 - Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter born
1948 – Columbia Records introduces the LP record album at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
1968 - The Egg Marketing Board should be scrapped and an independent authority established in its place, according to a report published today.

1970 - Brazil made it a hat-trick of World Cup titles with a commanding 4-1 victory over Italy.
1973 - Juliette Lewis born
1978 - An outbreak of shooting between Provisional IRA members and the British Army leaves one civilian and three IRA men dead.
1982 - Diana, Princess of Wales, gives birth to 'Prince William' sixteen hours after checking in to St Mary's Hospital, in London.

1991 - British Gas chairman Robert Evans is under fire for accepting a pay increase taking his annual wage to £370,000.

On This Day - 20th June

1837 - Princess Victoria becomes Queen on the death of her Uncle King William IV
1863 - West Virginia becomes the 35th State of the US
1877 - Alexander Graham Bell, the man who invented the telephone, installed the first commercial phone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1909 - Errol Flynn born
1924 - Audie Murphy and Chet Atkins born
1931 - Martin Landau born
1933 - Danny Aiello born
1942 - Brian Wilson born
1945 - Anne Murray born
1949 - Lionel Richie born
1952 - John Goodman born
1965 - Police in Algiers break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President Ben Bella
1967 - Nicole Kidman born

1976 - Hundreds of Americans and Britons are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the US military, following the murder of the US ambassador.
1984 - The biggest exam shake-up for over 10 years is announced with O-Level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam the GCSE.
1990 - British Chancellor John Major proposes a new European currency which would circulate alongside existing national currencies.
1995 - Oil giant Shell caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the Brent Spar oil rig at sea.

2012 - Journalist and broadcaster Alastair Burnet dies aged 84.

On This Day - 19th June

1623 - Blaise Pascal born
1812 - The US declares war on Britain
1870 – All southern states are readmitted to the United States.
1896 - Wallis Simpson born
1897 - Moe Howard born
1902 - Guy Lombardo born
1903 - Lou Gehrig born
1915 - Pat Buttram born
1919 - Pauline Kael and Louis Jourdan born
1930 - Gena Rowlands born
1937 – J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, diea aged 77.
1947 - Salman Rushdie born
1948 - Phylicia Rashad born
1954 - Kathleen Turner born
1961 – Oil-rich Kuwait declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
1962 - Paula Abdul born

1970 - Edward Heath becomes the new British prime minister after a surprise victory for the Conservatives in the general election. Also Brian "Head" Welch born
1975 - An inquest jury decides Lord Lucan murdered the 29-year-old nanny of his three young children.

1978 - Cricketing star Ian Botham becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match. Also Zoë Saldana born
1980 - Three gunmen who attacked the British embassy in Baghdad are shot dead by Iraqi security forces.
1982 - Roberto Calvi 'God's Banker', a senior Italian banker, is found dead under Blackfriars Bridge in London more than a week after he went missing from Milan.

1997 - Fast food chain McDonald's wins a partial victory in its epic libel trial against two environmental campaigners.
2011 - Rory McIlroy wins his first golf major the U.S. Open aged 22.