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• ... that cushion plants (pictured), which grow extremely slowly, can live for up to 350 years?
• ... that all of Beekman Park in Amenia, New York, was once the site of a freshwater lake?
• ... that V.D. Savarkar wrote The Indian War of Independence, a nationalist history of the 1857 uprising, in response to British celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its suppression?
• ... that Edward Sagarin was titled "father of the homophile movement"?
• ... that U.S. Routes within Washington state currently make up about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) of the Washington highway system?
• ... that Tang Dynasty general Li Siye once bared his upper body and battered fleeing soldiers with his staff to stop a general panic?
• ... that five detached human feet have been discovered on British Columbia beaches since August 2007, with no confirmed explanation?
• ... that the 6th-century musician Yared introduced the concept of sacred music to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church services?
• ... that the owners of a Californian memorial park tried to buy St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean, England, dismantle it and rebuild it there, but built a replica instead when permission was refused?
  

• NASA confirms ice at the Phoenix lander site on Mars after white patches uncovered by digging are found to have sublimated (pictured).
• Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulls out of the June 27 run-off presidential election as election-related violence escalates.
• Typhoon Fengshen hits the Philippines, killing dozens on land, forcing tens of thousands to seek shelter and sinking the ferry MV Princess of the Stars with hundreds of passengers missing.
• The NASA/CNES Jason-2 satellite launches, with a mission of furthering the study of physical oceanography.
• Relatives of Srebrenica massacre victims open a case in a Dutch court against the United Nations and the Netherlands for the failure of the Dutchbat force to prevent the killings.

June 25: Statehood Day in Croatia and Slovenia

• 1530 – The Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church, was presented to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg.
• 1876 – Black Hills War: United States Army Colonel George Armstrong Custer (pictured) was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in present-day Big Horn County, Montana.
• 1938 – Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland.
• 1967 – Over 400 million people around the globe watched Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production.
• 1993 – Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Khobar, Saudi Arabia left 19 American servicemen dead and 372 of many nationalities wounded.

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