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June 25
1788Virginia became the 10th state in the Union. 1876Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyanne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana. 1950Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War. 1951The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC. 1991Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war. 1997Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died. 
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