January 6 - Events

Events

• 1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
• 1205 – Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
• 1449 – Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine-Roman Emperor at Mistra.
• 1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
• 1579 – The Union of Atrecht is signed.
• 1661 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
• 1690 – Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
• 1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
• 1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
• 1838 – Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
• 1839 – The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
• 1853 – President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck nearAndover, Massachusetts.
• 1870 – The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna.
• 1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by PresidentBenjamin Harrison.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
• 1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
• 1910 – The Great White Fleet passes through the Suez Canal, the largest group of ships to pass through up to that time.
• 1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
• 1921 – Formation of the Iraqi Army.
• 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
• 1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
• 1930 – The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City.
• 1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
• 1941 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
• 1942 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
• 1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
• 1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
• 1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• 1974 – In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• 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 World War II.
• 1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
• 1995 – A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
• 2005 – American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
• 2010 – The Ady Gil, a ship owned by Sea Shepherd, is sunk during a skirmish with the Japanese Whaling Fleet's Shōnan Maru.