Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 25
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June 25: Statehood Day in Slovenia
- 1865 - Stand Watie was the last Confederate general to surrender in the United States Civil War.
- 1876 - Colonel George Armstrong Custer (pictured) was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
- 1950 - The Korean War, between North and South Korea, began.
- 1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
- 1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, left 19 U.S. servicemen dead.
