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). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DAY
1494 – The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
1639 – Virginia is first colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed.
NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY DAY
1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor, Harald Godwineson, head of the most powerful noble family in England, is crowned King Harald II.
1494 – The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
1639 – Virginia is first colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed.
1759 – This day in history is a wedding anniversary for two presidents: George Washington and George H.W. Bush.
1773 – Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom.
1773 – Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom.
1777 – After two significant victories over the British in Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey, General George Washington marches north to Morristown, New Jersey, where he set up winter headquarters for himself and the men of the Continental Army on this day in 1777.
1838 – On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse's telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey.
1857 – Patent for reducing zinc ore is granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania.
1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1893 – Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast.
1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first (Montessori) school (Rome).
1912 – On January 6, 1912, New Mexico is admitted into the United States as the 47th state.
1912 – Alfred Wegener, geophysicist and meteorologist, presents his controversial theory of continental drift in a lecture at a the Geological Association (Geologischen Vereinigung) at the Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt.
1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.
1933 – Clyde Barrow kills Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis after walking into a trap set for another criminal.
1941 – President Franklin Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (freedom from speech, worship, want and fear) during US State of Union address.
1974 – In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1975 – Phuoc Binh, the capital of Phuoc Long Province, about 60 miles north of Saigon, falls to the North Vietnamese. Phuoc Binh was the first provincial capital taken by the communists since the fall of Quang Tri on May 1, 1972.
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 – On this day in 1996, snow begins falling in Washington, D.C., and up the Eastern seaboard, beginning a blizzard that kills 154 people and causes over $1 billion in damages before it ends.
2001 – After a bitterly contested election, Vice President Al Gore presides over a joint session of Congress that certifies George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 Presidential election.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1412 – Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (d. 1431)
1838 – Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (d. 1920)
1878 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
From Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
1912 – Alfred Wegener, geophysicist and meteorologist, presents his controversial theory of continental drift in a lecture at a the Geological Association (Geologischen Vereinigung) at the Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt.
1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, dies at Sagamore Hill, his estate overlooking New York's Long Island Sound.
1925 – Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists, Italy.
1933 – Clyde Barrow kills Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis after walking into a trap set for another criminal.
1941 – President Franklin Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (freedom from speech, worship, want and fear) during US State of Union address.
1942 – On this day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces to Congress that he is authorizing the largest armaments production in the history of the United States.
1958 – The Soviet Union announces plans to cut the size of its standing army by 300,000 troops in the coming year.
1975 – Phuoc Binh, the capital of Phuoc Long Province, about 60 miles north of Saigon, falls to the North Vietnamese. Phuoc Binh was the first provincial capital taken by the communists since the fall of Quang Tri on May 1, 1972.
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 – On this day in 1996, snow begins falling in Washington, D.C., and up the Eastern seaboard, beginning a blizzard that kills 154 people and causes over $1 billion in damages before it ends.
2001 – After a bitterly contested election, Vice President Al Gore presides over a joint session of Congress that certifies George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 Presidential election.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1412 – Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (d. 1431)
1838 – Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (d. 1920)
1878 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
From Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
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