THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 25
June 25 in history
What happened on June 25: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1950 and 1975, each linked to the map that shows it.
North Korean armor crosses the 38th parallel — a line two American colonels drew in half an hour in August 1945.
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— Independence of Mozambique
25 Jun 1975 — Samora Machel’s FRELIMO inherits a country with a few hundred African graduates and a settler exodus under way. Within two years, a South African–backed insurgency begins.
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