June 25
- AshuraIslamic
Ashura, the tenth of Muharram — a day of fasting for many Muslims and of special mourning in Shia Islam.
Follows the lunar Hijri calendar; the observed date can vary by a day with the moon sighting.
- 1947 CEJewish · published
'Het Achterhuis', Anne Frank's diary edited by her father Otto, was first published in Amsterdam in an edition of about 3,000 copies.
- 1530 CEChristian
The Augsburg Confession, drafted by Philipp Melanchthon, was read before Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg.
- 1580 CEChristian · published
The Book of Concord, the collection of Lutheran confessional documents, was published at Dresden on the fiftieth anniversary of the Augsburg Confession.
- 1835 CEMesopotamian · born
William Hayes Ward, who directed the 1884-85 Wolfe Expedition, the first American reconnaissance of Babylonian sites, was born on this day in 1835.
- 1678 CEScience
At Padua Cathedral, Elena Cornaro Piscopia was awarded a doctorate in philosophy, becoming one of the first women to receive a university doctoral degree.