What happened on June 25 ?

1134 - King Niels of Denmark

1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)

1483 - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer

1522 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)

1533 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)

1579 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)

1593 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)

1634 - John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)

1638 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)

1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)

1669 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)

1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)

1686 - Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)

1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)

1798 - Thomas Sandby, English cartographer and architect (b. 1721)

1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776)

1838 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)

1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)

1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)

1875 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor of gooches (b. 1796)

1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (b. 1839)

1882 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)

1884 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)

1916 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)

1937 - Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)

1948 - William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)

1960 - Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869)

1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1880)

1974 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)

1976 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)

1982 - Igor Gouzenko, Soviet spy who defected to Canada

1983 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)

1987 - Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)

1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (b. 1962)

1992 - Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)

1995 - Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1907)

1995 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, and inventor (b. 1910)

2002 - Jean Corbeil, Quebec politician (b. 1934)

2003 - Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)

2006 - Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II (b. 1918)

Statehood Day in Slovenia and Croatia

Antichristmas celebrated by some Satanists (see also Midsummer)

National Catfish Day

Spain ? Fiesta of Santa Orosia

Mozambique ? Independence Day

American Radio Relay League - Field Day 2006

BBC: On This Day

ARRL Field Day 2006