Today in History: Wednesday, June 25, 2014

历史上的今天 6月25日

1788 Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.

1868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.

1950 War broke out on the Korean peninsula as forces from the communist North invaded the South.

AP Photo/Charles P. Gorry

1951 The first commercial color telecast took place as CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities.

1962 The Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional.

1967 The Beatles performed a new song, "All You Need Is Love," during a live international telecast.

1973 Former White House Counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.

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1991 The Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence.

1995 Warren E. Burger, the 15th chief justice of the United States, died at age 87.

1996 A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.

1997 An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.

AP Photo/NASA TV

1998 The Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional.

2005 Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's presidential runoff election.

2009 Michael Jackson died at age 50 from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. (The singer's doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.)