June 25

June 25, 1971

Lord Boyd Orr, biologist and Nobel Prize Winner, died.

June 25, 1938

Dr. Douglas Hyde inaugurated as first President of Ireland

June 25, 1891

Charles Stewart Parnell married Katherine OShea in England

June 25, 1891

The first Sherlock Holmes story by Edinburgh born author Arthur Conan Doyle was published in the Strand magazine.

June 25, 1887

Wallace statue unveiled at the Wallace National Monument, Stirling.

June 25, 1876

Seven Scots, including John Stuart Forbes, were in the US, 7th Cavalry with General Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Erskine Childers, novelist, member of the Royal Navy, and later an Irish nationalist, is born in London.

June 25, 1804

Kadoudal - Breton patriot, beheaded in Paris.

June 25, 1799

David Douglas, explorer and botanist, born at Scone, Perthshire.

June 25, 1798

Northern column fails to take Hacketstown, Co. Carlow and returns to camp at Croghan

June 25, 1783

The Bank of Ireland is established in Dublin, by Royal charter

June 25, 1731

The Dublin Society for Improving Husbandry, (later to become the Royal Dublin Society on June 19, 1820), is founded on this date