Today is Wednesday, June 25, the 177th day of 2008. There are 189 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History

On June 25, 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South.

On this date

In 1788, the state of Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.

In 1876, Lt. Col. George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.

In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, ruled that recital of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional.

In 1973, former White House Counsel John Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.

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

Today’s Birthdays

Actress June Lockhart is 83. Actress Barbara Montgomery is 69. Singer Carly Simon is 63. Rock musician Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult) is 62. Rock musician Ian McDonald (Foreigner; King Crimson) is 62. Actor-writer-director Ricky Gervais is 47. Rock singer George Michael is 45. Rock musician Mike Kroeger (Nickelback) is 36.

Thought for Today

“It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.” — Agnes Repplier, American writer and social critic (1858-1950)