On this day in History - Jan 06

• 0548 - This was the last year the Church in Jerusalem observed the birth of Jesus on this date. (Celebrating Christmas on 25 December began in the late 300s in the Western Church.).
• 0871 - Alfred of England defeats the Danes in the Battle of Ashdown.
• 1066 - Harold Godwinson crowned King of England .
• 1099 - Henry V, second son of Henry IV and his first wife, Bertha of Turin, was crowned king of Germany.
• 1119 - Alfonso I, el Batallador, rey de Aragón, conquista Zaragoza.
• 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans .
• 1367 - King Richard II of England was born (d. 1400) .
• 1412 - Joan of Arc, was born, French Roman Catholic saint (d. 1431).
• 1502 - André Gonçalves descobre Angra dos Reis no Rio de Janeiro.
• 1535 - A cidade de Lima, no Peru, é fundada pelo conquistador espanhol Francisco Pizarro sob a denominação de Ciudad de Los Reyes .
• 1540 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves (his 4th wife).
• 1542 - Montejo "El Joven" funda la ciudad de Mérida, hoy capital del Estado de Yucatán (México).
• 1655 - Jacob Bernoulli was born (died 16 Aug 1705); Swiss mathematician who was one of the first to fully utilize differential calculus and introduced the term integral in integral calculus.
• 1661 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
• 1690 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans .
• 1720 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings
• 1731 - Étienne-François Geoffroy, died this day; French chemist (b. 13 Feb. 1672).
• 1745 - Jacques Étienne Montgolfier was born [d. 1799]; With his brother, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, they were French pioneer developers of the hot-air balloon.
• 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, was born, German archaeologist (d. 1890) .
• 1832 - Gustave Doré, was born, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883) .
• 1838 - Max Bruch, was born, German composer (d. 1920) .
• 1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph.
• 1842 - Clarence King (d. 1901) American geologist and mining engineer who directed the survey of the 40th parallel (1867-78), an intensive study of the mineral resources along the site of the proposed Union Pacific Railroad, recorded in his classic volume, Systematic Geology (1878).
• 1852 - Louis Braille, falecimento de, professor e músico francês, inventor do alfabeto para cegos .
• 1854 - Según Arthur Conan Doyle es el nacimiento de Sherlock Holmes (literatura)
• 1870 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
• 1878 -Carl Sandburg was born (d. 1967); American poet and biographer.
• 1883 - Khalil Gibran was born , poet and novelist Abram Nicholas Pritzker entrepreneur (1896)
• 1900 - It is reported that millions are starving in India.
• 1900 - Boers attack Ladysmith - over 1000 people killed.
• 1906 -George Ledyard Stebbins was born (d. 2000); American geneticist who was one of the leading evolutionary biologists.
• 1907- Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
• 1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
• 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y. (b. 1858)
• 1920 - João Cabral de Melo Neto, poeta e diplomata brasileiro .
• 1927 - Os Estados Unidos invadem a Nicarágua .
• 1929 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia suspends his country's constitution (the so-called January 6th Dictatorship, Šestojanuarska diktatura.)
• 1930 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
• 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
• 1936 - Supreme Court of the United States rules the
• 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al.;
• 1936 - Julio María Sanguinetti, ex-presidente de Uruguay.
• 1940 - Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznan, Warthegau.
• 1941- Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
• 1942 - World War II: North Africa- As the British advance reaches Mersa Brega and El Agheila in the Western Desert, Rommel takes delivery of 55 new tanks.
• 1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
• 1943 - Terry Venables, was born, English football (soccer) manager.
• 1944 - Nació Rolf Martin Zinkernagel, inmunopatólogo suizo, Premio Nobel de Medicina 1996.
• 1945 - Tropas soviéticas ocuparon el campo de concentración de Auschwitz (Polonia), liberando a más de 5.000 prisioneros.
• 1945 - Concesión del I Premio Nadal a la escritora Carmen Laforet, por su novela Nada.
• 1946 - Syd Barrett, English guitarist and singer (Pinkfloyd).
• 1946 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) hanged for treason.
• 1949 - Victor Fleming, dies, American director (b. 1883) .
• 1950 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response. 1952O desenho em quadrinhos “Peanuts”, com os personagens Charlie Brown e Snoopy, é lançado por Charles Schulz.
• 1954 - Anthony Minghella, British director .
• 1955 - Rowan Atkinson, English comedian, actor .
• 1960-British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan begins his "winds of change" tour of Africa in Ghana.
• 1963 - Reestabelecimento do sistema presidencialista no Brasil após um plebiscito.
• 1967 - United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• 1967 - Dave Matthews, nasceu neste dia, criador da Dave Matthews Band .
• 1967 - Se inauguró el puente de Angostura, sobre el Orinoco, en Venezuela, el mayor de Latinoamérica.
• 1971 - Berkeley chemists announced the first synthetic production of growth hormones.
• 1974 - Murió David Alfaro Siqueiros, pintor mexicano.
• 1981 - Murió A.J. Cronin, novelista escocés.
• 1982 - William Bonin convicted of being the "freeway killer".
• 1987 -University of California astronomers first witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion stars.
• 1989 - Os assassinos da ex- primeira-ministra da Índia, Indira Gandhi, são enforcados.
• 1990 - O Partido Comunista da Polónia desapareceu dando origem ao Partido Social Democrata.
• 1992 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously condemning Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
• 1992 - President Zviad Gamsakhurdia fled Georgia after a bloody two-week power struggle, leaving his parliament burning and in the hands of jubilant rebel gunmen.
• 1993 - Rudolf Nureyev, dies, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938).
• 1993 - Dizzy Gillespie, dies (b. 1917); American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917). He has been credited with being a co-founder (w/Charlie Parker) of ‘bebop’ music and wrote many jazz numbers ("Salt Peanuts", "Night in Tunisia").
• 1994 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
• 1995 - A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
• 1995 -Joe Slovo, head of the South African Communist party, dies of leukaemia at the age of 68.
• 1998 - The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the moon and later found evidence for frozen water on the moon's surface.
• 1999 - Bob Newhart receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• 2001 - Al Gore, as President of the U.S. Senate, tallies the electoral votes and certifies George W. Bush as the winner of U.S. presidential election, 2000.
• 2002 - La novelista Angela Vallvey recibe el Premio Nadal, en su edición número 58, con la obra "Los estados carenciales"