January 6
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January 6 is the sixth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 359 days remaining until the end of the year (360 in leap years).
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Events [change]
- 1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
- 1355 - Charles I of Bohemia is crowned King of Italy in Milan.
- 1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
- 1612 - Axel Oxenstierna becomes Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
- 1661 - English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
- 1781 - Battle of Jersey: Great Britain defeats the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
- 1870 - Vienna's Musikverein is inaugurated.
- 1893 - Washington National Cathedral is chartered by the United States Congress.
- 1900 – It is reported that millions are starving in India.
- 1900 – Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africa – over 1000 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.
- 1912 - Alfred Wegener presents his theory of Continental drift.
- 1921 - Formation of Iraq's Army.
- 1929 - Alexander I of Yugoslavia suspends his country's constitution.
- 1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta.
- 1930 – The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
- 1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
- 1939 - Al Capone is released early from prison.
- 1940 – Mass execution of Polish people by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
- 1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech during his State of the Union Address.
- 1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
- 1951 - Korean War: Gangwha massacre.
- 1960 - National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb between New York City and Miami.
- 1967 – United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
- 1978 - The United States returns the Crown of St. Stephen to Hungary.
- 1991 - Jorge Antonio Serrano Elias is elected President of Guatemala, becoming the first Protestant Head of State in Latin America.
- 1992 – The United Nations Security Council condemns Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
- 1992 - President Zviad Gamsakhurdia leaves Georgia, after a military coup.
- 1993 - The Indian Border Security Force kills 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir.
- 1994 - Nancy Kerrigan is attacked during the US Figure skating Championships in Detroit.
- 1998 - Unidentified perpetrators saw off the head of the Little Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen; this is the second time that the statue has been damaged by this kind of vandalism; it previously happened in 1964.
- 2001 – Al Gore, as President of the U.S. Senate, names George W. Bush as the winner of U.S. presidential election, 2000.
- 2005 - Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three Civil rights activists.
Births [change]
- 1367 – Richard II of England (d. 1400)
- 1412 – Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
- 1486 – Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556)
- 1587 - Gaspar de Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
- 1617 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
- 1655 – Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1720)
- 1695 - Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian composer (d. 1750)
- 1714 – Percival Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
- 1745 – Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
- 1787 - Gaspard Theodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, 1st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1871)
- 1793 - James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
- 1801 - Daniel Haines, two-time Governor of New Jersey (d. 1877)
- 1803 - Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1888)
- 1805 - Charles J. Jenkins, American politician and Governor of Georgia (d. 1883)
- 1807 – Joseph Petzval, Slovakian inventor (d. 1891)
- 1811 – Charles Sumner, American politician (d. 1874)
- 1812 - Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary figure (d. 1919)
- 1819 - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
- 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
- 1826 – Adolf Kirchhoff, German philologist (d. 1908)
- 1827 - John C. Brown, American Confederate general and politician, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1889)
- 1832 – Gustave Dore, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
- 1837 - Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, President of Uruguay (d. 1905)
- 1838 – Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
- 1848 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1876)
- 1850 - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1924)
- 1856 - Giuseppe Martucci, Italian composer (d. 1909)
- 1870 – Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
- 1872 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
- 1878 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
- 1880 - Tom Mix, American actor, director and producer (d. 1940)
- 1882 – Sam Rayburn, American politician (d. 1961)
- 1883 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer (d. 1931)
- 1899 - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile pioneer (d. 1968)
- 1902 - Helmut Poppendick, German physician (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
- 1913 – Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
- 1920 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Early Wynn, American baseball player
- 1923 – Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)
- 1924 - Earl Scruggs, American musician (d. 2012)
- 1926 - Pat Flaherty, American racing driver (d. 2002)
- 1926 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
- 1928 - Capucine, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1929 – Babrak Karmal, Afghan politician (d. 1996)
- 1933 – Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Leszek Drogosz, Polish boxer (d. 2012)
- 1934 – Sylvia Sims, English actress
- 1936 – Julio Maria Sanguinetti, former President of Uruguay
- 1937 – Harri Holkeri, 57th Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2011)
- 1937 - Paolo Conte, Italian singer-songwriter, jazz musician and composer
- 1939 - Murray Rose, British-born Australian swimmer (d. 2012)
- 1943 - Hak Ja Han, South Korean church leader
- 1943 – Terry Venables, English football manager
- 1944 – Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist
- 1946 – Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pink Floyd) (d. 2006)
- 1950 - Louis Freeh, 10th Director of the FBI
- 1951 – Kim Wilson, American musician
- 1954 – Anthony Minghella, British movie director (d. 2008)
- 1954 - Trudie Styler, British actress
- 1955 – Rowan Atkinson, British comedian and actor
- 1956 – Angus Deayton, British comedian, actor and television presenter
- 1956 - Justin Welby, the next Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1957 – Michael Foale, British-American astronaut
- 1959 - Kathy Sledge, American actress
- 1960 – Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
- 1964 - Henry Maske, German boxer
- 1964 - Mark O'Toole, English musician
- 1966 – Attilio Lombardo, Italian footballer
- 1968 – John Singleton, American director
- 1972 – Nek, Italian singer
- 1973 - Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 - Daniel Cordone, Argentine footballer
- 1976 - Richard Zednik, Slovakian ice hockey player
- 1976 – Judith Rakers, German newsreader
- 1976 – David Di Michele, Italian footballer
- 1978 - Bubba Franks, American football player
- 1980 - Travis Dodd, Australian footballer
- 1980 – Steed Malbranque, French footballer
- 1981 – Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
- 1981 – Asante Samuel, American football player
- 1983 – Adam Burish, American ice hockey player
- 1986 – Alex Turner, English musician (Arctic Monkeys)
- 1986 - Paul McShane, Irish footballer
- 1986 - Petter Northug, Norwegian skier
- 1987 - Zhang Lin, Chinese swimmer
- 1987 – Bongani Khumalo, South African footballer
- 1989 – Andy Carroll, English footballer
Deaths [change]
- 429 - Honoratus, French archbishop (b. 350)
- 786 - Abo of Tiflis, Christian saint
- 1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
- 1537 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
- 1689 - Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1617)
- 1693 – Mehmed IV, ex-Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
- 1829 - Josef Dobrovsky, Czech philologist and theologian (b. 1753)
- 1852 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind, inventor of Braille (b. 1809)
- 1855 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
- 1884 – Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
- 1896 - Thomas W. Knox, American writer and journalist (b. 1835)
- 1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
- 1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
- 1934 – Herbert Chapman, English football manager (b. 1878)
- 1942 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian head of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1876)
- 1944 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
- 1945 – Edith Frank, mother of Anne Frank (b. 1900)
- 1972 – Chen Yi, Chinese military commander (b. 1901)
- 1981 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
- 1990 – Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet-Russian physicist (b. 1904)
- 1990 - Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
- 1993 – Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (b. 1917)
- 1993 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938)
- 1994 - Virginia Dell Cassidy, mother of Bill Clinton (b. 1923)
- 1997 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
- 1999 – Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (b. 1962)
- 2000 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
- 2002 - Sanya Dharmasakti, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905)
- 2004 – Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
- 2005 – Makgatho Mandela, South African lawyer, businessman and son of Nelson Mandela (b. 1950)
- 2009 – Ron Asheton, American musician (The Stooges) (b. 1948)
- 2011 – Gary Mason, British boxer (b. 1962)
- 2012 – Bob Holness, South African-born British quiz show host (b. 1928)
- 2013 - Neil Adcock, South African cricketer (b. 1931)
Holidays and observances [change]
- Epiphany, feast day of the Three Kings (except Eastern and Oriental Orthodox who follow the Julian Calendar) – Twelfth Day of Christmas
- Public holiday in Spain, Italy and Puerto Rico to mark Epiphany
- Ireland – Little Christmas
- Rastafari – Celebration of the ceremonial birthday of Haile Selassie
- Armenian Christmas (except in the Holy Land where it is on 18 January – old calendar)
