January 6

January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. 359 days (360 in leap years) remain in the year after this day.

Events

• c.8 BC- the Child Jesus is said in the Bible to have been visited by the Magi
• 1066 - Harold Godwinson crowned King of England
• 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans
• 1540 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
• 1579 - The Union of Atrecht was signed
• 1661 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
• 1690 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans
• 1720 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings
• 1853 - American President-Elect Franklin Pierce, wife Jane, and son Ben are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Franklin and Jane survive but eleven-year-old Ben is killed.
• 1858 - Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph.
• 1887 - `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II early in the morning; prepared for the assault, the Negus orders a counter-attack which routs the enemy, resulting with the capture of Harar a few days later.
• 1893 - Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• 1870 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
• 1900 - It is reported that millions are starving in India.
  • Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africa - over 1,000 people killed
• 1907 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
• 1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
• 1929 - King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the so-called January 6th Dictatorship, Šestojanuarska diktatura.)
• 1930 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
• 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
• 1936 - Supreme Court of the United States rules the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al.; Porky Pig premieres
• 1940 - Actor William Powell marries his 3rd and final wife, actress Diana Lewis
  • Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznan, Warthegau.
• 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
• 1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
• 1946 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) hanged for treason at the age of 39
• 1950 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
• 1961 - A fire at the Thomas Hotel in San Francisco kills 20 people.
• 1967 - United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• 1973 - Schoolhouse Rock premieres on American television
• 1974 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• 1975 - The American soap opera Another World becomes the first soap opera in the world to air hour-long regularly scheduled episodes.
• 1978 - The Hungarian Holy crown (also known as Stephen_I_of_Hungary crown) returned to Hungary from the United_States, where was held after the WW_II.
• 1982 - William Bonin convicted of being the "freeway killer".
• 1992 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously condemning Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
• 1994 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
• 1995 - A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
• 1996 - 1996 Gaithersburg Metrorail Accident on the Washington Metro system kills one in Montgomery County, Maryland, during the Blizzard of 1996.
• 1998 - The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched to survey the moon's surface.
• 1999 - Bob Newhart receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• 2001 - Al Gore, as President of the U.S. Senate, tallies the electoral votes and certifies George W. Bush as the winner of U.S. presidential election, 2000.
• 2005 - Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.

Births

1367 to 1899

• 1367 - King Richard II of England (d. 1400)
• 1412 - Joan of Arc, French warrior and Catholic saint (d. 1431)
• 1418 - Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (d. 1448)
• 1486 - Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556)
• 1488 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (d. 1540)
• 1525 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
• 1561 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (d. 1656)
• 1587 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
• 1595 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French man of letters (d. 1650)
• 1617 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
• 1706 (O.S.) - Benjamin Franklin, American statesman (d. 1790)
• 1714 - Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (d. 1788)
• 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
• 1832 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
• 1838 - Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
• 1872 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
• 1878 - Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
• 1880 - Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
• 1881 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961)
• 1882 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and political figure (d. 1965)
• 1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer and painter (d. 1931)
• 1898 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (d. 1965)
• 1899 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (d. 1960)

1900 to 1999

• 1903 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993)
• 1910 - Morris Wright, American writer (d. 1998)
• 1910 - Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1913 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
• 1914 - Danny Thomas, American singer, actor, and comedian (d. 1991)
• 1915 - Alan Watts, English writer, philosopher (d. 1973)
• 1920 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
• 1920 - John Maynard Smith, English bioligist (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Early Wynn, baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1923 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
• 1924 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
• 1925 - John De Lorean, American auto maker (d. 2005)
• 1926 - Ralph Branca, baseball player
• 1926 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
• 1929 - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
• 1930 - Vic Tayback, American actor
• 1931 - Capucine, French actress (d. 1990)
• 1931 - E. L. Doctorow, American author
• 1931 - Dickie Moore, Canadian hockey player
• 1932 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
• 1933 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (d. 2003)
• 1933 - Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian
• 1936 - Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, President of Uruguay
• 1940 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (d. 1989)
• 1940 - Van McCoy, American musician (d. 1979)
• 1943 - Terry Venables, English football manager
• 1944 - Bonnie Franklin, American actress
• 1946 - Syd Barrett, English guitarist and singer
• 1947 - Sandy Denny, English vocalist (d. 1978)
• 1951 - Kim Wilson, American musician
• 1953 - Malcolm Young, Scottish guitarist (AC/DC)
• 1954 - Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect
• 1954 - Anthony Minghella, British director
• 1955 - Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
• 1957 - Nancy Lopez, American golfer
• 1959 - Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer
• 1959 - Kathy Sledge, American singer
• 1960 - Nigella Lawson, British chef and writer
• 1960 - Howie Long, American football star
• 1962 - Michael Houser, American musician (Widespread Panic) (d. 2002)
• 1964 - Henry Maske, German boxer
• 1964 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (d. 2005)
• 1966 - Fernando Carrillo, Venezuelan actor
• 1968 - John Singleton, American film director and writer
• 1970 - Julie Chen, American television presenter and newsreader
• 1970 - Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player and model
• 1974 - Nicole DeHuff. American actress (d. 2005)
• 1976 - Danny Pintauro, American actor
• 1980 - Steed Malbranque, French footballer
• 1981 - Mike Jones, American rapper

Deaths

1000 to 1899

• 1088 - Berengar of Tours, French theologian
• 1448 - Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1418)
• 1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
• 1537 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
• 1616 - Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur
• 1689 - Bishop Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1671)
• 1711 - Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
• 1718 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1718 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
• 1724 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
• 1731 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
• 1734 - John Dennis, English critic and dramatist (b. 1657)
• 1840 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
• 1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (b. 1809)
• 1855 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
• 1884 - Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
• 1885 - Peter Christian Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist (b. 1812)

1900 to 1999

• 1918 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
• 1919 - Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
• 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1858)
• 1928 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
• 1937 - Brother Andre, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
• 1942 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
• 1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
• 1949 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
• 1981 - A.J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
• 1990 - Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
• 1990 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1992 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)
• 1993 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
• 1995 - Joe Slovo, South African politician (b. 1926)
• 1996 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian leader (b. 1966)

2000 onwards

• 2000 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
• 2004 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
• 2004 - Charles Dumas, American athlete (b. 1937)
• 2004 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (b. 1921)
• 2005 - Lois Hole, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
• 2005 - Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Ancient Latvia - Zvaigznes Diena observed
• Christianity (except Eastern Orthodox who follow the Julian Calendar) - Epiphany of the Lord (a.k.a. "Twelfth Day of Christmas" and Three Kings Day in some areas).
• In the Irish Calendar- Little Christmas or "Women's Christmas" and/or Twelfth Day.
• Rastafari movement - Celebration of the ceremonial birthday of Haile Selassie
• Armenian Christmas

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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