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Today is Thursday, June 25, the 176th day of 2015. There are 189 days left in the year.

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1788: Virginia ratifies the U.S. Constitution.

1876: Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.

1938: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is enacted.

1950: War breaks out in Korea as forces from the communist North invade the South.

1981: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that male-only draft registration is constitutional.

1990: The U.S. Supreme Court, in its first “right-to-die” decision, rules that family members can be barred from ending the lives of persistently comatose relatives who have not made their wishes known conclusively.

2009: Death claims Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 62.

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1990: Niles firefighters say they were hampered in their attempts to control a high-pressure leak on an oil well behind a Rt. 422 office building because the well owned by D&L Energy of Niles was poorly marked, fences were locked and no one from the company could be located to provide access to the area.

Dr. William H. Bunn, president of the Mahoning Division of the American Heart Association, receives the highest award given by the Ohio affiliate, the Walter Page Humanitarian Award.

The U.S. Supreme Court upholds an Ohio law requiring notification of a parent before a girl can obtain an abortion.

1975: Nicholas F. Alexander Jr., 26, is killed when a bomb detonates as he starts his car outside his parents’ apartment at 480 S. Raccoon Road in Austintown.

Pantsuits are OK, but blouses and slacks are “inappropriate attire” for female employees of the Ohio House, according to a memo distributed by House Clerk Thomas R. Winters on the instructions of House Speaker Vernal G. Riffe.

The Ohio Supreme Court rules that the enrollment records of public school students are public records after two residents of the Strongsville City School District ask for the names and addresses of all Strongsville High School students and the names of all students enrolled in a course titled “Street Literature.”

1965: Jennifer Elaine Jenkins is selected by American Field Service to spend a summer in Finland.

The Austintown Township Zoning Commission rejects a zone change request for a $5 million apartment complex of 500 units on 55 acres on the south side of Mahoning Avenue across from the Austintown Plaza.

The American Medical Association decides against taking an official position urging doctors to refuse to participate in the federal Medicare program, leaving any such decision up to individual doctors. The Mahoning County Medical Society had supported a boycott.

1940: Five students of the Salem City Hospital School of Nursing receive diplomas during ceremonies at the First Presbyterian Church in Salem: Catherine Gamble, Anna S. Exten, Hilda Henning, Ruth Aileen Grubbs and Betty Jane Harding.

Lt. Donald A. Hoffman of Youngstown, commander of the U.S. Naval Communications Reserve, is ordered to recruit reserves in communications work, including radio men, signal men and yeomen.

The Youngstown Health Department is rushing to fill requests for birth certificates as area industrial plants that have government contracts begin checking on the citizenship of their employees.