On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 25 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 25:
0524 - Battle of Vézeronce, Franks defeat Burgundians.
0841 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat Lothar at Fontenay.
1139 - Battle of Ourique: Afonso I defeats Moors.
1621 - French forces occupys Fort St. Jean d'Angely at La Rochelle.
1675 - Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden.
1794 - French troops occupy Charleroi.
1862 - The first day of the Seven Days' campaign begins with fighting at Oak Grove, Virginia.
1864 - Union troops surrounding Petersburg, Virginia, begin building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.
1876 - General George A. Custer and over 260 men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana.
1920 - The Greeks take 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.
1941 - Finland declares war on the Soviet Union.
1942 - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II).
1944 - British assault at Caen Normandy.
1944 - The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries begins.
1945 - Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas.
1945 - Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa.
1948 - The Berlin Airlift begins.
1950 - The beginning of the Korean War, with the invasion of the South by the North.
1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
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