Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower 
(October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969)

Future president Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower was appointed commanding general of the European Theater on this day in
history, June 25, 1942.

On June 25, 1876, Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull defeated the U.S. Army troops of Lt. Col. George
Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near
southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River.

Lithograph showing the Battle of Little Bighorn, from the
Indian side.

Crazy Horse  (1840 – September 5, 1877)

George Armstrong Custer
(December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876)

Last Stand Hill overlooking Little Bighorn River and Location
of the Native American encampment on June 25, 1876.

Dick Novak (1924 – 2002)

Dick Novak was a popular radio personality for over 29
years working at KXL, KGON and KGW. 

On April 11, 1955 Dick moved to KPOJ AM/FM in Portland,
Oregon where he began "Dick Novak’s Rhythm Room”- 9:30
to 2:00am, Monday through Friday from KPOJ’s transmitter
studio located on Mount Scott at S.E. Eastview Drive
(pictured below).        
       

       

 
Interior view of the KPOJ AM & FM Transmitter at Mt. Scott     
in 1956.

Dick also broadcast live from Scotty’s Hamburgers at 12th and
N.E. Sandy Blvd and Amato’s Supper Club on Broadway in
downtown Portland.           
           
 On July 12, 2002 Dick Novak passed away from cancer at age
78 in Portland.
       
           
 
        
  
    
  
     
      
 

    6-25-1997

On this day in history, June 24, 1997, the U.S. Air Force released
a 232-page report titled "The Roswell Report: Case Closed,"
about a mysterious incident near Roswell, New Mexico, that
some believe was a UFO crash-landing on Earth.

The report was the second part of the government’s official
disclosure about what was found in rural New Mexico in the
1940s. Back in 1994, the government published, "The Roswell
Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert."

"The ‘Roswell Incident’ has assumed a central place in American
folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New
Mexico," noted the foreword of the 1997 report, written by
Secretary of the Air Force Sheila A. Widnall (below).         
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
Sheila Marie Evans Widnall

On June 23, 1989, Tim Burton’s noir spin on the well-known story
of the DC Comics hero Batman was released in theaters.

Michael Keaton (below) starred in the film as the multimillionaire
Bruce Wayne, who has transformed himself into the crime-fighting
Batman after witnessing his parents’ brutal murder as a child.