June 25

In literary history

• 1947Anne Frank's diary was published in Amsterdam, two years after she died in Bergen-Belsen at fifteen. Her father, the only member of the family to survive, had carried the pages out of the hiding place himself.

Writers born on June 25

• Erskine Childers (1870),
• George Orwell (1903)

The Daily Canon for June 25

Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945).