On June 25

On this day in ....

.. 1993 (15 years ago today), Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's 1st woman Prime Minister. "Facing a series of formidable tasks, including reducing a yawning federal budget deficit, balancing demands of Quebec- and English-speaking provinces and preserving national health and other social programs," the New York Times wrote of Campbell's government-reduction and other cost-cutting measures, the new Prime Minister said her Cabinet heralds 'a new approach to government and a new generation of leaders for Canadians.'" She did not last a year, resigning from her post and retiring from electoral politics in December 1993. (credit for Merna Forster's 2004 photograph of Campbell unveiling her official portrait)

... 1950, the U.N. Security Council denounced North Korea's invasion of South Korea. By Resolution No. 82, it labeled the action a breach of the peace and called for an immediate end to fighting.

Continental Conundrum Solved

Answer to Continental Conundrum above:
(e) Antarctica
Although, as posted, a number of countries have laid claim to that chilly continent, for the most part it's governed today by a multilateral treaty. (map credit)
Almost jumped to (g), Australia, but British Queens have ruled as heads of state over that continent-country-former colony. As for other continents, North America's had the fewest -- 1, Kim Campbell, who served as Canada's Prime Minister for several months in 1993. Make it 2, if, again, you count those Queens.

On June 13, ...

... 1937, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Democrat, the nonvoting member for the District of Columbia in the U.S. House of Representatives, was born in Washington, D.C.
... 1993, the Progressive Conservative Party chose Kim Campbell (left), born 46 years earlier in Port Alberni, British Columbia, to become Canada's 1st woman Prime Minister, a post she would lose in an October 1993 election.