George Orwell, Stanford White, Sonya Sotomayor

On this day: June 25

Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White (1906)

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established (1935)

The Berlin Airlift begins (1948)

b: George Orwell (1903), Sonya Sotomayor (1954); d: George Armstrong Custer (1876)

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