Major Events
- 1649 The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes"
- 1912 Geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener presents his controversial theory of continental drift in a lecture at the Geological Association (Geologischen Vereinigung) at the Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt
- 1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address [1] [2]
- 1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
- 2021 Supporters of US President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington during congressional certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's win, resulting in five deaths and prompting evacuation of lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence
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Jan 6 in Film & TV
- 1975 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV
Jan 6 in Music
- 1979 The Village People's "Y.M.C.A." becomes their only UK #1 single; at its peak it sold over 150,000 copies a day
Jan 6 in Sport
- 1681 First recorded boxing match is engineered by Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle; his butler vs his butcher
Did You Know?
Virginia orders half of its tobacco crop destroyed to support plunging prices and to avoid an economic catastrophe, the 1st colony to order the destruction of crops
Richard II
John Smith
Heinrich Schliemann
Danny Thomas
Loretta Young
Rowan Atkinson
Eddie Redmayne
Syd Barrett
Michael Houser
Ban Johnson
Cary Middlecoff
Darlene Hard
Nancy Lopez
Kapil Dev
Fun Fact About January 6
Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to complete a flight around the world; the plane "California Clipper" was re-christened "Pacific Clipper" after the feat
Famous Weddings
- 1759 US 1st President George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis at White House Plantation
- 1836 Author Harriet Beecher (24) weds educator Calvin Ellis Stowe (33) in Cincinnati, Ohio
- 1903 German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (23) weds Serbian physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić (27); divorce in 1919
More January 6 Weddings
Louis Braille
Gregor Mendel
Georg Cantor
Theodore Roosevelt
Victor Fleming
Sidney PoitierArticles, Photos and Quiz
Morse Telegraph First Demonstrated
The original Morse telegraph machine, as developed by Samuel Morse
January 6, 1838
Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms
President Franklin Roosevelt delivered his Four Freedoms speech on this day. It would form the basis of the UN Declaration of Human Rights three years later.
January 6, 1941
