A Daily Dose of History (25 Jun 2024) Today's historical events:

• The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
• In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
• At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
• Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
• Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
• Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
• Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
• Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• A photograph of the June Days uprising becomes the first known instance of photojournalism.
• Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
• The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
• Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.

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