Today is Saturday, June 25, the 177th day of 2016. There are 189 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actress June Lockhart is 91. Civil rights activist James Meredith is 83. TV personality Phyllis George is 67. Rock singer Tim Finn is 64. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 62. Rapper Candyman is 48. Actress Busy Philipps is 37.

In 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.

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 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South.

In 1996, a truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a US military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.

In 2009, death claimed Michael Jackson, the ‘‘King of Pop,’’ in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 62.

In 2011, a suicide car bomber blasted a small clinic in eastern Afghanistan, killing some three dozen people.

In 2015, Univision’s UniMas network announced it was dropping its Spanish-language coverage of the Miss USA pageant in a spiraling controversy over comments made by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a part owner of the Miss Universe pageant, about Mexican immigrants.