This day in history

June 25

1950 - North Korea invaded the South, heralding the beginning of the Korean War.

1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia, plunging the federation into a violent breakup.

1998 - World's first consumer copy of Microsoft Windows 98 sold in Sydney.

2005 - Ultra-conservative Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swept to a stunning landslide in Iran's presidential run-off against former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

2009 - Pop star Michael Jackson died.