On this day in military history, June 25: 0524 - Battle of Vézeronce, Franks defeat Burgundians. 0841 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat Lothar at Fontenay. 1139 - Battle of Ourique: Afonso I defeats Moors. 1621 - French forces occupys Fort St. Jean d'Angely at La Rochelle. 1675 - Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden. 1794 - French troops occupy Charleroi. 1862 - The first day of the Seven Days' campaign begins with fighting at Oak Grove, Virginia. 1864 - Union troops surrounding Petersburg, Virginia, begin building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines. 1876 - General George A. Custer and over 260 men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. 1920 - The Greeks take 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna. 1941 - Finland declares war on the Soviet Union. 1942 - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II). 1944 - British assault at Caen Normandy. 1944 - The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries begins. 1945 - Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas. 1945 - Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa. 1948 - The Berlin Airlift begins. 1950 - The beginning of the Korean War, with the invasion of the South by the North. 1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.

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