Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 6
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January 6: Epiphany in Western Christianity.
- 1661 - Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempted to seize control of London from the newly restored government of Charles II.
- 1838 - Samuel Morse (pictured) successfully tested the electrical telegraph for the first time.
- 1907 - Maria Montessori opened her first school and day care center for working class children in Rome.
- 1929 - King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes abolished his country's constitution and introduced a dictatorship.
- 1995 - A suspicious fire in a Manila flat led to the foiling of Oplan Bojinka, a precursor to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
