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January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 359 days (360 in leap years) remaining.
[edit] Events
- 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
- 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
- 1494 - First Mass celebrated in the New World at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
- 1540 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves
- 1579 - The Union of Atrecht was signed.
- 1649 - The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial
- 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.
- 1781 - In the Battle of Jersey on 6 January the British beat the French in what was technically the last battle fought in the British Islands (coming after the Battle of Culloden in 1745). It was the last attempt by France to invade Jersey militarily.
- 1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph.
- 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.
- 1870 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
- 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.
- 1900 - 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.)
- 1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a legacy of work amongst India's poorest and diseased people
- 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..
- 1936 - Porky Pig premieres.
- 1940 - Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
- 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
- 1941 - Keel of USS Missouri (BB-63) is laid at New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn
- 1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
- 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.
- 1974 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
- 1977 - The music publisher EMI ends its contract with the notorious punk rock group Sex Pistols after reports of abusive behaviour at Heathrow Airport, London.
- 1978 - The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after the Second World War.
- 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.
- 2004 - Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate is declared the official anthem of Karnataka
- 2005 - Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
- 2005 - First World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace begins in Brussels, Belgium.
- 2006 - Tropical Storm Zeta (2005) dissipates, ending the notorious 2005 hurricane season.
- 2006 - Los Angeles Lakers guards Kobe Bryant (7-7) and Smush Parker (5-5) go 12 for 12 from 3-point distance. This was the first time since the introduction of the 3-point shot back in 1979 that two players go perfect from 3-point distance with a minimum of five attempts each.
- 2007 - California Institute of Technology's men's basketball team snaps a 207-game losing streak dating back to 1996. The Beavers beat Bard College 81-52.
[edit] Births
- 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)
- 1488 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (d. 1540)
- 1525 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
- 1561 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (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 - Benjamin Franklin, American statesman (d. 1790)
- 1714 - Percivall Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
- 1745 - Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
- 1793 - James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
- 1795 - Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
- 1807 - Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
- 1808 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
- 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
- 1832 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
- 1838 - Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
- 1848 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet (d. 1876)
- 1854 - Sherlock Holmes, fictional detective
- 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 (d. 1940)
- 1882 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
- 1882 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965)
- 1882 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961)
- 1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer (d. 1931)
- 1898 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (d. 1965)
- 1899 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (d. 1960)
- 1899 - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (d. 1968)
- 1903 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993)
- 1905 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
- 1910 - Wright Morris, American writer (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
- 1913 - Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
- 1914 - Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1915 - Alan Watts, English writer (d. 1973)
- 1917 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
- 1920 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
- 1920 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
- 1920 - Early Wynn, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1921 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998)
- 1923 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
- 1924 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
- 1925 - John De Lorean, American auto maker (d. 2005)
- 1926 - Ralph Branca, American baseball player
- 1926 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (2002)
- 1926 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
- 1926 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
- 1926 - Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1929 - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
- 1930 - Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1931 - Capucine, French actress (d. 1990)
- 1931 - E. L. Doctorow, American author
- 1931 - Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1932 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
- 1933 - Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian
- 1935 - Nino Tempo, American singer and actor
- 1936 - Rubén Amaro, Sr., Mexican baseball player
- 1936 - Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, President of Uruguay
- 1937 - Paolo Conte, Italian singer
- 1937 - Lou Holtz, American football coach
- 1937 - Doris Troy, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1938 - Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor
- 1938 - Mario Rodríguez Cobos "Silo", Argentine writer and spiritual leader
- 1940 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist (d. 1989)
- 1940 - Van McCoy, American musician (d. 1979)
- 1943 - Terry Venables, English football manager
- 1944 - Bonnie Franklin, American actress
- 1944 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel laureate
- 1945 - Allen Appel, American novelist
- 1945 - Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host
- 1946 - Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter Pink Floyd (d. 2006)
- 1947 - Sandy Denny, English vocalist (d. 1978)
- 1951 - Don Gullett, American baseball player
- 1951 - Kim Wilson, American musician (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
- 1952 - Frank Sivero, Italian-born American actor
- 1952 - Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
- 1953 - Malcolm Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
- 1954 - Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect
- 1954 - Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer
- 1954 - Anthony Minghella, British film director
- 1955 - Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
- 1955 - Richard Corbett, Labour Member of the European Parliament
- 1956 - Angus Deayton, English comedian, actor and television presenter
- 1957 - Nancy Lopez, American golfer
- 1959 - Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer
- 1959 - Kathy Sledge, American singer
- 1960 - Paul Azinger, American golfer
- 1960 - Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1960 - Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
- 1960 - Howie Long, American football player
- 1962 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (d. 2002)
- 1963 - Jazzie B, English musician (Soul II Soul)
- 1964 - Charles Haley, American football player
- 1964 - Henry Maske, German boxer
- 1964 - Mark O'Toole, English bass guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
- 1964 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (d. 2005)
- 1964 - Yuri, Mexican actress and singer
- 1965 - Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer
- 1965 - Konnan, Cuban-born professional wrestler
- 1966 - Fernando Carrillo, Venezuelan actor
- 1966 - A. R. Rahman, Indian composer
- 1966 - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)
- 1968 - John Singleton, American film director
- 1970 - Julie Chen, American television presenter
- 1970 - Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player
- 1972 - Nek, Italian singer
- 1973 - Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 - Nicole DeHuff. American actress (d. 2005)
- 1975 - James Farrior, American football player
- 1975 - Yukana, Japanese seiyū
- 1976 - Danny Pintauro, American actor
- 1976 - Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1978 - Nikki Einfeld, Canadian opera singer
- 1980 - Steed Malbranque, French footballer
- 1980 - Hiromi Oshima, Japanese adult model
- 1981 - Mike Jones, American rapper
- 1981 - Jérémie Renier, Belgian actor
- 1981 - Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
- 1982 - Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
- 1982 - Tiffany Pollard, reality television contestant
- 1984 - A. J. Hawk, American football player
- 1986 - Alex Turner, English guitarist and singer, Arctic Monkeys
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[edit] Deaths
- 664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (bc. 583)
- 1088 - Berengar of Tours, French theologian (bc. 999)
- 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 (bc. 1550)
- 1689 - 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)
- 1813 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
- 1831 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
- 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 Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist (b. 1812)
- 1913 - Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
- 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 (b. 1858)
- 1922 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
- 1928 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
- 1937 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
- 1941 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
- 1942 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
- 1944 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
- 1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
- 1949 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
- 1969 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
- 1972 - Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901)
- 1978 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
- 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)
- 1993 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
- 1995 - Joe Slovo, South African politician (b. 1926)
- 1996 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian leader (b. 1966)
- 1997 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
- 1999 - Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (b. 1962)
- 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, Lt. Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
- 2005 - Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
- 2006 - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
- 2006 - Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
- 2007 - Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
- 2007 - Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist (b. 1934)
- 2007 - Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)
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