June 25 is the 176th day of the year, there are 189 days left

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Tis Sweetmorn, Confusion 30, 3184 YOLD, and National Catfish Day in the US

Today's number is 25

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25 is 5 squared, and it has no other divisors

25 is the smallest square that is the sum of two smaller squares (9 & 16). Carpenters and others make fact of this property to draw large right angles, since this is a pythagorean triangle, with sides of 3, 4 and 5
25 is manganese
25 is the minimum age to get elected to the House of Representatives
I-25 connects Wyoming and New Mexico, but nobody is sure why
25, in Hindi, is Pachisi, the national board game of India. Ours in the US must be Monopoly, I guess.

Title 25 of the US Code is INDIANS

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25 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Silanus.
This was the 9th consulship for Caesar Augustus
The temple to Neptune was built on the Circus Flaminius. There was no temple to Uranus.
Rome surpassed Chang'an, China as the largest city in the world.

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25 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Agrippa
Liu Xiu restored the Han dynasty in China, becoming Emperor Guangwu of Han.

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On this day in:

1876 – The Battle of the Greasy Grass and the death of George Armstrong Custer.
1900 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovered the Dunhuang manuscripts
1910 – Congress passed the Mann Act, prohibiting interstate transport of females for immoral purposes
1910 – Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird premiered
1923 – The first ever aerial refueling
1940 – France officially surrendered to Germany
1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl was published.
1948 – The Berlin airlift began.
1950 – The Korean War began
1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride was first flown
1984 – Prince released his Purple Rain album
1987 – The last day until June 17th 2345 when all the digits in dd/mm/yyyy are different.
1998 – The Supremes declared the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to be unconstitutional.

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Born this day in:

1852 – Antoni Gaudi, architect
1874 – Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer
1894 – Hermann Oberth, physicist and engineer
1903 – George Orwell, writer
1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, philosopher and logician
1922 – Johnny Smith, guitarist and songwriter
1925 – Clifton Chenier, singer, songwriter and accordion player
1928 – Bill Russo, composer and musician
1935 – Larry Kramer, author, playwright, and activist, co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis
1937 – Eddie Floyd, singer and songwriter
1940 – Clint Warwick,
1945 – Carly Simon, singer and songwriter
1945 – Harry Womack, singer and valentino
1946 – Allen Lanier, guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter
1946 – Ian McDonald, guitarist and saxophonist, founding member of King Crimson
1951 – Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, mathematician *
1956 – Anthony Bourdain, chef and author
1963 – George Michael, singer, songwriter and producer
1964 – John McCrea, singer, songwriter, musician and programmer of drums
1969 – Zim Zum, guitarist and songwriter

* co-proved Serre's conjecture II regarding the Galois cohomology of a simply-connected semisimple algebraic group when such a group is of classical type

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Died this day in:

1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer
1876 – At the Battle of the Greasy Grass:
-- At least 31 and possibly hundreds of Indian warriors defending their land, encampments, and families from attack
-- At least 6 unarmed Indian women and 4 unarmed Indian children non-combatants, an astonishingly low number*
-- 258 of the invading genocidal, criminal, treaty violators; including Custer
1906 – Stanford White, architect
1944 – Lucha Reyes, singer, the mother of Rancheras
1958 – Alfred Noyes, author, poet, and playwright
1976 – Johnny Mercer, singer and songwriter
1988 – Hillel Slovak, guitarist and songwriter
2003 – Lester Maddox, politician
2009 – Michael Jackson, dancer, singer, songwriter, actor and producer
2011 – Annie Easley, mathematician, computer scientist and rocket scientist

* Targeting the non-combatant encampment to distract and divert the warriors was a favorite 7th Cavalry tactic.

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
National Catfish Day in the US

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Catfish Day!

Johnny Smith

Clifton Chenier

Bill Russo

Eddie Floyd

Clint Warwick

Ian McDonald

George Michael

Georg Philipp Telemann

Lucha Reyes

Alfred Noyes

Igor Stravinsky

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picture: public domain

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