• Today is Tuesday, June 25, the 176th day of 2013. There are 189 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 25, 1973, former White House Counsel John W. Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.
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• On this date:
• In 1788, Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.
• In 1876, Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.
• In 1888, the Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Benjamin Harrison for the presidency. (Harrison went on to win the election, defeating President Grover Cleveland.)
• In 1910, President William Howard Taft signed the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for "immoral" purposes.
• In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted.
• In 1943, Congress passed, over President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto, the Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act, which allowed the federal government to seize and operate privately owned war plants facing labor strikes.
• In 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South.
• In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, ruled 6-1 that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional.
• In 1988, American-born Mildred Gillars, known as "Axis Sally" for her Nazi propaganda broadcasts during World War II, died in Columbus, Ohio, at age 87. (Gillars had served 12 years in prison for treason.)
• In 1993, Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's 19th prime minister, the first woman to hold the post.
• In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitu

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