Notable Historical Events on January 6th
January 6th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1066 |
King Harald of England crowned |
1099 |
Henry V crowned German king |
1205 |
Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans. |
1227 |
Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre |
1352 |
French King Jean II introduces Order of the Star |
1449 |
Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra. |
1453 |
Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria |
1494 |
The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola. |
1497 |
Jews are expelled from Graz in Styria, Austria |
1579 |
Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras |
1579 |
The Union of Atrecht is signed. |
1605 |
The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid. |
1622 |
Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide |
1639 |
Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed |
1649 |
The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes" |
1661 |
The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. |
1681 |
1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher) |
1690 |
Joseph I, later Holy Roman Emperor and son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans. |
1720 |
The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings. |
1745 |
Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow |
1773 |
Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom |
1781 |
Battle of Jersey (Island in UK) |
1784 |
Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople |
1802 |
Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland reach Quito, Ecuador |
1832 |
New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston) |
1839 |
2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "Big Wind" |
1842 |
4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India |
1857 |
Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn |
1861 |
Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola |
1861 |
NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S |
1870 |
The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna). |
1873 |
Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia" |
1873 |
US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal |
1880 |
Record snow cover in Seattle - 120 cm |
1883 |
Ontario Rugby Football Union forms |
1887 |
`Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II. |
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. |
1896 |
1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden |
1896 |
Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony |
1898 |
1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake |
1900 |
Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured |
1900 |
Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris |
1903 |
Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam |
1906 |
Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris |
1907 |
Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome) |
1912 |
New Mexico becomes 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. |
1913 |
Attempting to end hostilities in the Balkans, the London Peace Conference breaks down because Turkey refuses to cede Adrianpole, the Aegean island, and Crete |
1914 |
Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded |
1922 |
-13] Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments |
1924 |
Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo |
1925 |
Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m |
1926 |
Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland |
1927 |
US marines sent to Nicaragua |
1928 |
Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene) |
1929 |
Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia |
1929 |
Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people. |
1930 |
1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed |
1930 |
Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 mins, 49 fours |
1931 |
Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. |
1933 |
Clyde Barrow kills Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis after walking into a trap set for another criminal |
1936 |
Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario) |
1937 |
Bradman scores 270 Aust v England at the MCG, incl 110 singles |
1938 |
Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx |
1939 |
Daily newspaper comic strip "Superman" debuts |
1940 |
Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau. |
1941 |
President Franklin Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (freedom from speech, worship, want and fear) during US State of Union address |
1942 |
Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia |
1942 |
Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world ("Pacific Clipper"). |
1946 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum |
1947 |
Ray Lindwall smashes 100 v England in MCG Test |
1950 |
"Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances |
1950 |
Britain recognizes Communist government of China |
1951 |
"Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 perfs |
1951 |
Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes |
1953 |
WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group |
1957 |
Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show |
1957 |
Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia |
1958 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings |
1958 |
Gibson patents Flying V Guitar |
1958 |
WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1963 |
"Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC |
1963 |
"Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances |
1964 |
Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move KC A's to Louisville |
1964 |
Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes) |
1965 |
Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling |
1967 |
"Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV |
1967 |
KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 |
1967 |
United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. |
1968 |
Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks |
1968 |
Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation |
1968 |
Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon |
1969 |
Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame" |
1969 |
WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones |
1971 |
Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate |
1971 |
Neil Young returns to his homeland of Canada for his first concert there since his pre-stardom days |
1972 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
1972 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley |
1972 |
Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR |
1973 |
"Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock |
1974 |
"CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio |
1974 |
England begins 3 day work week during mine strike |
1974 |
In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. |
1975 |
"AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host |
1975 |
"Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-tv |
1975 |
1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the group's February 4th gig to go on sale, cause a riot and an esimated $30,000 damage |
1976 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1976 |
Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million |
1977 |
EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols |
1978 |
1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp) |
1978 |
US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary |
1979 |
The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At it's peak it sold over 150,000 copies a day |
1980 |
"1940's Radio Hour" closes at St James Theater NYC after 105 perfs |
1980 |
Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India |
1980 |
Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat |
1980 |
The beginning of the first GPS epoch. |
1981 |
50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals |
1984 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission |
1984 |
Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee |
1986 |
British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns |
1986 |
Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg |
1986 |
Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland |
1986 |
STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem |
1987 |
100th US Congress convenes |
1987 |
Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy |
1990 |
NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44) |
1991 |
"Gypsy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 477 performances |
1991 |
"Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV |
1991 |
Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala |
1991 |
Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec) |
1992 |
NY Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul |
1992 |
Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA |
1992 |
Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* v Australia at the SCG |
1992 |
Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings |
1993 |
Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones |
1993 |
Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a |
1993 |
Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews |
1994 |
"Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances |
1994 |
Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88 |
1994 |
Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard |
1994 |
Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44) |
1994 |
Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44) |
1995 |
Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939) |
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 |
Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44) |
1997 |
"It's a Slippery Slope," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC |
1998 |
Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach |
1998 |
Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
2002 |
Daniel Bedingfield returns to No.1 on the UK singles chart for the second time with Gotta Get Thru This |
2004 |
Costas Simitis announces his resignation as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement in Greece. |
2005 |
Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers. |
2010 |
36th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Movie Star) and Hugh Laurie & Katherine Heigl win (TV Drama) |
2011 |
37th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Kristen Stewart win (Movie Star) and Hugh Laurie & Lisa Edelstein win (TV Drama) |
2013 |
10 people are killed by a US drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan |
2013 |
The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113 day lockout |
2014 |
Zach Johnson wins the 2014 PGA Tournament of Champions |
2017 |
Four charged with hate crime for Chicago Facebook Live attack |
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