What happened on January 6? There are more than 335 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About January 6
January 6 is the 6th day of the year 2024. There are 360 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. This day falls under the 1st week of the year 2024.
On this day in Wood River, Nebraska 68883 sunrise occured at 07:57 AM and sunset occured at 05:23 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Capricorn. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 35 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For January 6
- 1066Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
- 1118Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
- 1205Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
- 1322Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia.
- 1355Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
- 1449Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine-Roman Emperor at Mystras.
- 1492Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs conquest Granada completing the Reconquista.
- 1540King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
- 1579The Union of Arras is signed.
- 1661English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
- 1690Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
- 1721The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
- 1781In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
- 1839The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
- 1853President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
- 1870The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
- 1893The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
- 1900Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
- 1907Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
- 1910The Great White Fleet passes through the Suez Canal, the largest group of ships to pass through up to that time.
- 1912German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
- 1912New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
- 1921Formation of the Iraqi Army.
- 1929King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country’s constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
- 1929Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India to begin her work among India’s poorest and sick people.
- 1930The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
- 1931Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
- 1941President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
- 1947Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
- 1950The United Kingdom recognizes the People’s Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
- 1951Ganghwa massacre: Korean War.
- 1953The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
- 1960National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami, Florida.
- 1967Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch “Operation Deckhouse Five” in the Mekong River delta.
- 1974In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
- 1978The 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.
- 1992President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
- 1993Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
- 1994Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1995A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
- 2005American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
- 2005A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
Who Were Born On January 6?
- 1367King Richard II of England (d. 1400)
- 1412Joan of Arc, French military figure and Roman Catholic Saint (legendary date) (d. 1431)
- 1486Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556)
- 1488Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (d. 1540)
- 1525Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
- 1561Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (d. 1656)
- 1580(baptised) John Smith of Jamestown (d. 1631)
- 1587Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
- 1595Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French man of letters (d. 1650)
- 1617Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
- 1655Empress Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1720)
- 1673James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English noble (d. 1744)
- 1714Percivall Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
- 1745Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
- 1766Mihály Fazekas, Hungarian author (d. 1828)
- 1785Andreas Mustoxydis, Greek historian and philologist (d. 1860)
- 1793James Madison Porter, American politician, 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College (d. 1862)
- 1795Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
- 1799Jedediah Strong Smith, American hunter and explorer (d. 1831)
- 1803Henri Herz, Austrian pianist, composer (d. 1888)
- 1807Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
- 1808Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
- 1811Charles Sumner, American politician (d. 1874)
- 1812Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary figure (d. 1919)
- 1819Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
- 1822Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
- 1832Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
- 1836Ludwig Schüler, German politician (d. 1930)
- 1838Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
- 1848Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary figure (d. 1876)
- 1850Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1924)
- 1856Giuseppe Martucci, Italian composer (d. 1909)
- 1857Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931)
- 1857William E. Russell, American politician (d. 1896)
- 1859Samuel Alexander, Australian-born British philosopher (d. 1938)
- 1861George Lloyd (bishop of Saskatchewan), Anglican bishop and theologian (d. 1940)
- 1861János Zsupánek, Slovene (Prekmurian) poet and writer (d. 1951)
- 1868Vittorio Monti, Italian composer (d. 1922)
- 1870Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
- 1872Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
- 1874Fred Niblo, American film actor, director, producer (d. 1948)
- 1878Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
- 1878Dame Adeline Genée, Danish-born British ballerina (d. 1970)
- 1880Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
- 1882Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
- 1882Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965)
- 1882Sam Rayburn, American politician (d. 1961)
- 1883Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer (d. 1931)
- 1896Péter Veres, Hungarian writer and politician (d. 1970)
- 1898Charles E. Pont, American artist (d. 1971)
- 1898James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (d. 1965)
- 1899Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (d. 1968)
- 1899Phyllis Haver, American actress (d. 1960)
- 1900Kathryn Hulme, American novelist (d. 1981)
- 1902Helmut Poppendick, German physician (d. 1994)
- 1903Francis L. Sullivan, English actor (d. 1956)
- 1903Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993)
- 1905Idris Davies, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
- 1907David Fleay, Australian naturalist (d. 1993)
- 1908Menachem Avidom, Austro-Hungarian born Israeli composer (d. 1995)
- 1910G. N. Balasubramaniam, Indian Carnatic musician (d. 1960)
- 1910Wright Morris, American writer (d. 1998)
- 1912Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1913Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
- 1913Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
- 1914Godfrey Edward Arnold, Austrian-born American otolaryngologist (d. 1989)
- 1915Alan Watts, English writer/philosopher (d. 1973)
- 1915Don Edwards, American politician
- 1915John C. Lilly, American psychoanalyst (d. 2001)
- 1916Eugene T. Maleska, American crossword puzzle creator and editor (d. 1993)
- 1916Vincent Serventy, Australian writer and conservationist (d. 2007)
- 1917Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
- 1920Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
- 1920Early Wynn, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1920John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
- 1920Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
- 1921Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998)
- 1923Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
- 1923Norman Kirk, New Zealander politician (d. 1974)
- 1924Earl Scruggs, American musician
- 1925John DeLorean, American auto maker (d. 2005)
- 1926Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
- 1926Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born American actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
- 1926Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
- 1926Ralph Branca, American baseball player
- 1928Capucine, French actress (d. 1990)
- 1928George H. Ross, American businessman
- 1929Anne Rogers Clark, American dog breeder and trainer (d. 2006)
- 1929Babrak Karmal, Afghan politician (d. 1996)
- 1930Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1931Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1931E. L. Doctorow, American author
- 1931Juan Goytisolo, Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist
- 1932Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
- 1933Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian
- 1933Fred L. Turner, American restaurant industry executive
- 1933Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
- 1934Harry M. Miller, Australian entrepreneur
- 1934John Wieners, American lyric poet (d. 2002)
- 1934Sylvia Syms, English actress
- 1935Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, Spainsh wife of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
- 1935Nino Tempo, American singer and actor
- 1936Darlene Hard, American tennis player
- 1936Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, Uruguayan politician
- 1936Rubén Amaro, Sr., Mexican baseball player
- 1937Doris Troy, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1937Lou Holtz, American football coach
- 1937Paolo Conte, Italian singer
- 1938Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor
- 1938Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist and politician
- 1938Mario Rodríguez Cobos, Argentine writer and spiritual figure
- 1939Murray Rose, Australian swimmer
- 1940Penny Lernoux, American journalist (d. 1989)
- 1940Van McCoy, American musician (d. 1979)
- 1942Yiannis Boutaris, Greek businessman, mayor of Thessaloniki
- 1943Hak Ja Han, Korean church leader
- 1943Terry Venables, English football manager
- 1944Bonnie Franklin, American actress
- 1944Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel laureate
- 1945Allen Appel, American novelist
- 1946Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter Pink Floyd (d. 2006)
- 1947Ian Millar, Canadian equestrian
- 1947Sandy Denny, English singer and songwriter (d. 1978)
- 1948Guy Gardner, American astronaut
- 1950Louis Freeh, American jurist, and 10th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 1951Don Gullett, American baseball player
- 1951Kim Wilson, American musician (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
- 1952Frank Sivero, Italian-born American actor
- 1952Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
- 1953Malcolm Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
- 1954Anthony Minghella, British film director (d. 2008)
- 1954Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect
- 1954Karen Moras, Australian swimmer
- 1954Trudie Styler, English actress
- 1954Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer
- 1955Richard Corbett, British politician
- 1955Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
- 1956Angus Deayton, English comedian, actor and television presenter
- 1957Michael Foale, American astronaut
- 1957Nancy Lopez, American golfer
- 1958Scott Bryce, American actor
- 1958Themos Anastasiadis, Greek journalist and newspaper editor
- 1959Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer
- 1959Kathy Sledge, American singer
- 1960Andrea Thompson, American actress
- 1960Howie Long, American football player and analyst
- 1960Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1960Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
- 1960Paul Azinger, American golfer
- 1962Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (d. 2002)
- 1963Norm Charlton, American baseball player
- 1963Tony Halme, Finnish boxer and politician (d. 2010)
- 1964Charles Haley, American football player
- 1964Denise Borino, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1964Henry Maske, German boxer
- 1964Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler
- 1964Mark O'Toole, English musician (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
- 1964Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (d. 2005)
- 1964Yuri, Mexican actress and singer
- 1965Bjørn Lomborg, Danish political scientist
- 1965Konnan, Cuban-born professional wrestler
- 1965Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer
- 1966A. R. Rahman, Indian composer
- 1966Fernando Carrillo, Venezuelan actor
- 1966Ipče Ahmedovski, Serbo-Macedonian folk singer
- 1966Sharon Cuneta, Filipina singer and actress
- 1968John Singleton, American film director
- 1969Norman Reedus, American model and actor
- 1970Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player
- 1970José Carabalí, Venezuelan track and field athlete
- 1970Julie Chen, American television presenter
- 1971Gary Wiseman, American musician
- 1971Irwin Thomas, Australian singer (Southern Sons)
- 1972Nek, Italian singer
- 1973Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973Vasso Karantasiou, Greek beach volleyball player
- 1974Daniel Cordone, Argentine footballer
- 1974Paul Grant, American basketball player
- 1975James Farrior, American football player
- 1975Jason King, English radio DJ
- 1975Nick Clarke, Pro Bull Rider
- 1975Nicole DeHuff, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1975Yukana, Japanese seiyū
- 1976Daniel Tynell, Swedish cross-country skiier
- 1976Danny Pintauro, American actor
- 1976Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor, and musician
- 1976Lu Yi, Chinese actor
- 1976Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1977Marc Johnson, American skateboarder
- 1978Bubba Franks, American football player
- 1978Casey Fossum, American baseball player
- 1978Nikki Einfeld, Canadian opera singer
- 1978Tara Spencer-Nairn, Canadian actress
- 1980Steed Malbranque, French footballer
- 1981Asante Samuel, American football player
- 1981Jérémie Renier, Belgian actor
- 1981Mike Jones, American rapper
- 1981Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
- 1982Brian Bass, American baseball player
- 1982Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
- 1982Tiffany Pollard, American reality television personality
- 1983Adam Burish, American ice hockey player
- 1983Mithra Jin, South-Korean hip hop musician
- 1984Sean O'Brien, Australian windsurfer
- 1986Alex Turner, English musician (Arctic Monkeys)
- 1986Benjamin Simm, German rugby player
- 1986Irina Shayk, Russian-born American model
- 1986Mike Teel, American football player
- 1986Paul McShane, Irish footballer
- 1986Petter Northug, Norwegian skier
- 1987Bongani Khumalo, South African footballer
- 1987Zhang Lin, Chinese swimmer
- 1989Andy Carroll, English footballer
- 1996Kishan Shrikanth, Indian film director, actor
Who Died On January 6?
- 429Honoratus, French archbishop (b. c.350)
- 664Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (b. c.583)
- 1088Berengar of Tours, French theologian (b. c.999)
- 1275St. Raymond of Peñafort (b. c.1175)
- 1448Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1418)
- 1481Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde
- 1537Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
- 1537Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
- 1592Johann Casimir of Simmern, Elector Palatine (b. 1543)
- 1616Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (b. c.1550)
- 1646Elias Holl, German Architect (b. 1573)
- 1689Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1617)
- 1693Mehmed IV, ex-Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
- 1711Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
- 1718Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
- 1718Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
- 1725Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
- 1731Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
- 1734John Dennis, English dramatist (b. 1657)
- 1813Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
- 1829Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist (b. 1753)
- 1831Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
- 1840Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
- 1847Tyāgarāja, Carnatic Classic Music Composer,Indian(b. 1767)
- 1852Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)
- 1855Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
- 1872James “Big Jim” Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
- 1882Richard Henry Dana, Jr., U.S. author (Two Years Before the Mast) (b. 1815)
- 1884Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
- 1885Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist (b. 1812)
- 1896Thomas W. Knox, American writer and journalist (b. 1835)
- 1913Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
- 1918Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
- 1919Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
- 1919Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
- 1922Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
- 1928Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
- 1933Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist (b. 1848)
- 1934Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (b. 1878)
- 1937André Bessette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
- 1941Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
- 1942Emma Calvé, French soprano (b. 1858)
- 1942Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
- 1944Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
- 1945Edith Frank, mother of Anne Frank (b. 1900)
- 1945Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
- 1949Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
- 1952Sofoklis Dousmanis, Greek naval officer (b. 1868)
- 1966Jean Lurçat, French painter and tapestry designer (b. 1892)
- 1972Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901)
- 1974David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896)
- 1978Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
- 1981A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
- 1984Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-U.S. cinematographer (b. 1898)
- 1990Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
- 1990Pavel Alekseyevich Čerenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 1993Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player (b. 1917)
- 1993Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (b. 1910)
- 1993Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
- 1994Virginia Dell Cassidy, Bill Clinton’s mother (b. 1923)
- 1995Joe Slovo, South African politician (b. 1926)
- 1997Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
- 1999Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (b. 1962)
- 2000Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
- 2003Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand musician and composer (b. 1949)
- 2004Charles Dumas, American athlete (b. 1937)
- 2004Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (b. 1921)
- 2004Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
- 2005Lois Hole, Lt. Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
- 2005Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
- 2006Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
- 2006Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
- 2007Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
- 2007Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)
- 2007Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist (b. 1934)
- 2009John Scott Martin, English actor (b. 1926)
- 2009Ron Asheton, American guitarist (The Stooges) (b. 1948)
- 2010James von Brunn, perpetrator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting (b. 1920)
- 2011Uche Okafor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1967)
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