January 6 Events |
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January 6th, 2005 (January 06 2005) | Event | Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers. | |
January 6th, 2004 (January 06 2004) | Event | Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate is declared the official anthem of Karnataka. | |
January 6th, 2004 (January 06 2004) | Event | Costas Simitis announces his resignation as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement in Greece. | |
January 6th, 1995 (January 06 1995) | Event | A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. | |
January 6th, 1980 (January 06 1980) | Event | The beginning of the first GPS epoch. | |
January 6th, 1978 (January 06 1978) | Event | 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 World War II. | |
January 6th, 1974 (January 06 1974) | Event | In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. | |
January 6th, 1967 (January 06 1967) | Event | United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. | |
January 6th, 1950 (January 06 1950) | Event | The United Kingdom recognizes the People s Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response. | |
January 6th, 1942 (January 06 1942) | Event | Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world. | |
January 6th, 1941 (January 06 1941) | Event | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes |
January 6th, 1940 (January 06 1940) | Event | Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznan, Warthegau. | |
January 6th, 1936 (January 06 1936) | Event | The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act was unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al. | |
January 6th, 1931 (January 06 1931) | Event | Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. | |
January 6th, 1930 (January 06 1930) | Event | The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City). | |
January 6th, 1929 (January 06 1929) | Event | King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country s constitution (the so-called January 6th Dictatorship, Sestojanuarska diktatura). | |
January 6th, 1929 (January 06 1929) | Event | Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India s poorest and diseased people. | |
January 6th, 1912 (January 06 1912) | Event | New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. | |
January 6th, 1907 (January 06 1907) | Event | Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome. | |
January 6th, 1900 (January 06 1900) | Event | Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africaover 1,000 people killed. | Cao Cao Quotes |
January 6th, 1893 (January 06 1893) | Event | The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. | |
January 6th, 1887 (January 06 1887) | Event | `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II. | |
January 6th, 1870 (January 06 1870) | Event | The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna). | |
January 6th, 1853 (January 06 1853) | Event | American President-Elect Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. | Franklin Pierce Quotes |
January 6th, 1838 (January 06 1838) | Event | Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph. | |
January 6th, 1781 (January 06 1781) | Event | In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey. | |
January 6th, 1720 (January 06 1720) | Event | The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings. | |
January 6th, 1690 (January 06 1690) | Event | Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans. | |
January 6th, 1661 (January 06 1661) | Event | The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. | |
January 6th, 1649 (January 06 1649) | Event | The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial. | |
January 6th, 1579 (January 06 1579) | Event | The Union of Atrecht is signed. | |
January 6th, 1540 (January 06 1540) | Event | King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves. | Henry VIII of England Quotes |
January 6th, 1535 (January 06 1535) | Event | Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima, Peru. | |
January 6th, 1494 (January 06 1494) | Event | The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola. | |
January 6th, 1449 (January 06 1449) | Event | Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra. | |
January 6th, 1205 (January 06 1205) | Event | Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans. | |
January 6th, 1066 (January 06 1066) | Event | Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. | |