DYR Today, June 25

“BORN TODAY”

• George Michael (52)
• Lauren Bush (31)
• Rain (33)
• La La Anthony (36)
• Busy Phillips (36)
• Linda Cardellini (40)
• Angela Kinsey (44)
• Jason Lewis (44)
• Hunter Foster (46)
• John Benjamin Hickey (52)
• Ricky Gervais (54)
• Anthony Bourdain (59)
• Sonia Sotomayor (61)
• Jimmie Walker (68)
• Carly Simon (70)
• June Lockhart (90)
• George Orwell (RIP)

“DIED TODAY”

• Michael Jackson (Born: August 29, 1958 / Died: June 25, 2009)
• Farrah Fawcett (Born: February 2, 1947 / Died: June 25, 2009) (Featured Above)
• Patrick Macnee (Born: February 6, 1922 / Died: June 25, 2015)

“MOVIES TODAY”

Click on the movie title to watch it’s trailer.

• 1968 – The Secret Life of an American Wife
• 1969 – The Bridge at Remagen
• 1969 – The Chairman
• 1969 – Hello Down There
• 1975 – Cooley High
• 1976 – The Omen
• 1980 – Herbie Goes Bananas
• 1980 – The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark
• 1982 – Blade Runner
• 1982 – Megaforce
• 1982 – The Thing
• 1993 – Sleepless in Seattle
• 1993 – Dennis the Menace
• 1999 – Big Daddy

“MUSIC TODAY”

• 1967 – The Beatles performed “All You Need Is Love” live on the “Our World” program.
• 1969 – The Hollies recorded “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” with Elton John playing piano.

• 1984 – The soundtrack “Purple Rain” was released five weeks ahead of the film.
• 1984 – Patti Scialfa joined Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
• 1995 – Pearl Jam canceled their tour because of an ongoing feud with Ticketmaster.
• 1996 – KISS released the album “You Wanted the Best…You’ve Got the Best.”

“TV/RADIO TODAY”

• 1951 – In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System.
• 1985 – ABC’s “Monday Night Football” began with a new line-up. The trio was Frank Gifford, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson.

“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”

• 1948 – The Soviet Union tightened its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city.
• 1950 – North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.
• 1959 – The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.
• 1962 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
• 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
• 1968 – Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.

• 1970 – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.
• 1973 – White House Counsel John Dean admitted that U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.

• 1975 – Mozambique became independent.
• 1981 – The U.S. Supreme Court decided that male-only draft registration was constitutional.
• 1985 – New York Yankees officials enacted the rule that mandated that the team’s bat boys were to wear protective helmets during all games.
• 1986 – The U.S. Congress approved $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.
• 1987 – Austrian President Kurt Waldheim visited Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.

• 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 last Soviet troops left Czechoslovakia 23 years after the Warsaw Pact invasion.
• 1991 – The Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
• 1993 – Kim Campbell took office as Canada’s first woman prime minister.

• 1997 – The Russian space station Mir was hit by an unmanned cargo vessel. Much of the power supply was knocked out and the station’s Spektr module was severely damaged.
• 1997 – U.S. air pollution standards were significantly tightened by U.S. President Clinton.
• 1998 – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.
• 1998 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
• 1998 – Microsoft’s “Windows 98” was released to the public.