On This Day:
Wednesday June 25, 2014 This is the 176th day of the year, with 189 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Rubik's Cube The Rubik's Cube was invented in the mid-1970s by Erno Rubik, a professor of design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Design in Budapest, Hungary. By 1980, it had become a tremendous hit and was being marketed worldwide. Sales of authorized units of the Rubik's Cube are over 100 million, while unauthorized versions top 50 million. There are 43 quintillion possible arrangements of the colored squares on the cube, only one of which is correct.
Holidays Feast day of St. Adalbert, St. Febronia, St. Maximus of Turin, St. Eurosia, St. Gohard, St. Gallicanus, St. Prosper of Reggio, St. Prosper of Aquitaine, St. Moloc, St. Thea, and St. William of Vercelli.
Mozambique: Independence Day.
Slovenia: Independence Day.
Bhutan: National Day.
Events 1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1868 - The U.S. Congress enacted legislation setting an eight-hour day for federal government employees.
1876 - Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were killed by Sioux Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.
1906 - A love triangle came to a violent end on top of New York's Madison Square Garden as architect Stanford White, the building's designer, was shot to death by Harry Thaw, the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit.
1942 - Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of U.S. forces in Europe in World War II.
1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1951 - The first color commercial television broadcast took place, on CBS from New York.
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a prayer read aloud in public schools violated the 1st Amendment's separation of church and state.
1966 - "Dark Shadows" began its popular run as a daily serial on ABC television.
1973 - White House Counsel John Dean admitted President Richard Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
1975 - Mozambique achieved independence from Portugal.
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment.
1991 - The republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 - Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's 19th prime minister, becoming the first woman to hold that office.
1997 - After lying dormant for 400 years, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupted on Montserrat.
Births 1887 - George Abbott, American playwright, director, actor, producer.
1900 - Lord Louis Mountbatten, English statesman, naval leader and last viceroy of India.
1903 - George Orwell (Eric Blair), American author.
1924 - Sidney Lumet, American film director.
1945 - Carly Simon, American singer.
1963 - George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou), English singer.
Deaths 1876 - George Armstrong Custer, United States cavalry officer who died leading his troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
1976 - Johnny Mercer, American lyricist and songwriter.
1995 - Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court chief justice 1969-86.
1997 - Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer.
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