Roméo Antonius Dallaire is a retired Canadian politician and military officer who was a senator from Quebec from 2005 to 2014, and a lieutenant-general in the Canadian Armed Forces. He notably was the force commander of UNAMIR, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, during the Rwandan genocide. Dallaire was a Senior Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and co-director of the MIGS Will to Intervene Project.

1946Allen Lanier, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2013)^[†]

Allen Glover Lanier was an American musician who played keyboards and guitar. He was an original member of Blue Öyster Cult.

1946Ian McDonald, English guitarist and saxophonist (died 2022)^[†]

Ian Richard McDonald was an English musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of the progressive rock band King Crimson in 1968, as well as the hard rock band Foreigner in 1976.

Headlines from June 25, 1946

MEAT SHOPS CLOSE; HEAVY RUN ON FISH; Half of City's Stores Lock Up --Housewives Take Seafood as Poultry Dwindles

Moscow Censors News of UNRRA From White Russia and Ukraine; MOSCOW CENSORS REPORTS ON UNRRA

Shipbuilder and 3 Others Are Lost In Squall; 6-Hour Swim Saves Girl; 4 LOST IN SQUALL; SWIM SAVES GIRL

Vinson in Unusual Ceremony Takes Oath as Chief Justice; ADMINISTERING THE OATH TO THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE. Vinson Is Inducted as Chief Justice In Unusual White House Ceremony

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