June 25

George Armstrong Custer graduated dead last in his class of 34 men at West Point in 1861, yet was the first to be promoted to General.

June 24

Napoleon Bonaparte once considered emigrating to England to join the Royal Navy.

June 23

Stand Watie, Chief of his people and champion of Indian Rights, owned slaves.

June 22

Vladimir Illyich Lenin, founder of the Russian Bolshevism Hitler was attempting to destroy in 1941, was in exile before the Russian Revolution. Rightfully thinking a revolution would push Russia out of World War I, Lenin was snuck back into the country by, of all people, the German government.