On this day in History - Jan. 6

• 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.).
• 0664 - Amr ibn al-A'as dies (b.c 0583). Muslim general
• 1066 - Harold Godwinson crowned King of England.
• 1088 - Berengar of Tours dies. French theologian.
• 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 - Richard II was born. King of England was an ambitious ruler who reigned from 1377 to 1399. He was deposed by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV) because of his arbitrary and factional rule.
• 1412 - Joan of Arc was born (d. 1431). French warrior and Catholic saint .
• 1448 - Christopher of Bavaria dies (b. 1418). King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
• 1486 - Martin Agricola was born (d. 1556). German composer.
• 1488 - Helius Eobanus Hessus was born (d. 1540). German poet.
• 1494 - First Mass celebrated in the New World at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
• 1502 - André Gonçalves descobre Angra dos Reis no Rio de Janeiro
• 1525 - Caspar Peucer was born (d. 1602). German reformer.
• 1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence dies (b. 1510) .
• 1537 - Baldassare Peruzzi dies (b. 1481). Italian architect and painter.
• 1540 - Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage lasted about six months.
• 1561 - Thomas Fincke was born (d. 1656). Danish mathematician and physicist.
• 1579 - The Union of Atrecht was signed.
• 1587 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares was born (d. 1645). Spanish statesman.
• 1595 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas was born (d. 1650). French man of letters.
• 1616 - Philip Henslowe dies. English theatrical entrepreneur
• 1617 - Kristoffer Gabel was born (d. 1673). Danish statesman.
• 1661 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
• 1689 - Bishop Seth Ward dies (b. 1671). English mathematician and astronomer.
• 1690 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans
• 1711 - Philipp van Almonde dies (b. 1646). Dutch admiral.
• 1714 - Percivall Pott was born (d. 1788). English physician and surgeon.
• 1718 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina dies (b. 1664). Italian writer and jurist.
• 1718 - Richard Hoare dies (b. 1648). English goldsmith and banker.
• 1720 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
• 1724 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon dies (b. 1653). Japanese dramatist.
• 1731 - Étienne François Geoffroy dies (b. 1672). French chemist.
• 1734 - John Dennis dies (b. 1657). English critic and dramatist.
• 1759 - George Washington married Martha Dandridge in Virginia.
• 1795 - Anselme Payen was born (d. 1871). French chemist.
• 1811 - Charles Sumner was born in Boston. American Civil War statesman.
• 1813 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers dies (b. 1764). French general.
• 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann was born (d. 1890). German-born Greek archaeologist.
• 1831 - Rodolphe Kreutzer dies (b. 1766). French violinist, composer and conductor.
• 1832 - Gustave Doré was born in Strasbourg (d. 1883). French painter and sculptor.
• 1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph.
• 1838 - Max Bruch was born in Cologne, Prussia. German composer
• 1840 - Fanny Burney dies (b. 1752). English novelist and diarist.
• 1852 - Louis Braille dies (b. 1819). He developed a system of printing and writing that is extensively used by the blind and that was named for him. French inventor of Braille system. Ver biografia em português de Louis Braille in Wikipedia
• 1853 - American President-Elect Franklin Pierce, wife Jane, and son Ben are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Franklin and Jane survive but eleven-year-old Ben is killed.
• 1855 - Giacomo Beltrami dies (b. 1779). Italian explorer.
• 1858 - Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph.
• 1858 - Sébastien Faure was born in Saint-Etienne. Studied to be a Jesuit priest, was a candidate for the Marxist Workers Party, but under the influence of Peter Kropotkin, Élisée Reclus and Joseph Tortelier he moved towards anarchism.
• 1861 - Victor, Baron Horta was born (d. 8 Sep 1947). Belgian architect
• 1864 - U.S. Army captures 11,000 Navajos, Arizona
• 1870 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
• 1872 - Alexander Scriabin was born (d. 1915). Russian composer, enigmatic figure sometimes considered the first of the modern composers.
• 1876 - Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo dies (b. 26 Sep 1795). Portuguese noble (Marqês de Sá da Bandeira), field marshal and politician.
• 1878 - Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois (d. 22 Jul 1967). American poet, historian, novelist and folklorist, whose work Abraham Lincoln: The War Years won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940.
• 1879 - Joseph Medill Patterson was born (d. 26 May 1946). American journalist and publisher
• 1880 - Tom Mix was born (d. 1940). American silent screen actor.
• 1880 - Criciúma (Sta. Catarina, Brazil) is founded.
• 1882 - Fan S. Noli was born (d. 1965). Albanian bishop, poet, and political figure.
• 1882 - Sam Rayburn was born (d. 1961). Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1913-61).
• 1883 - Khalil Gibran (The Prophet) was born in Bisharri. Lebanese-born American novelist, poet and painter.
• 1884 - Gregor Johann Mendel dies (b. 1822). Austrian geneticist.
• 1885 - Peter Christian Asbjørnsen dies (b. 1812). Norwegian writer and scientist.
• 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 early in the morning; prepared for the assault, the Negus orders a counter-attack which routs the enemy, resulting with the capture of Harar a few days later.
• 1893 - Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• 1898 - James Fitzmaurice was born (d. 1965). Irish aviation pioneer.
• 1899 - Phyllis Haver was born (d. 1960). American actress.
• 1903 - Maurice Abravanel was born (d. 1993). Greek-born conductor.
• 1906 - Benedict Wallet Vilakazi was born, near Stanger, Natal. Zulu poet, novelist and educator, he devoted his academic career to the teaching of Zulu & to the study of Bantu languages.
• 1907 - Montessori Children’s House opened in Rome. The Italian doctor Maria Montessori (1870-1952) opened her first children’s house, "Casa dei bambini," in a poor district of Rome.
• 1910 - Morris Wright was born (d. 1998). American writer.
• 1910 - Loretta Young was born (d. 2000). American actress.
• 1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
• 1912 - Jacques Ellul was born in Bordeaux. French Christian anarchist.
• 1913 - Edward Gierek was born (d. 2001). Polish politician.
• 1913 - Frederick Hitch dies (b. 1856). English Victoria Cross Winner.
• 1914 - Danny Thomas was born (d. 1991). American singer, actor, and comedian.
• 1915 - Alan Watts was born (d. 1973). English writer, philosopher.
• 1915 - British-American free religionist, mystic Alan Watts lives, Chiselhurst, England. Wrote Book on the Taboo.
• 1917 - Koo Chen-fu was born (d. 2005). Chinese negotiator.
• 1918 - Georg Cantor dies (b. 1845). German mathematician.
• 1919 - Max Heindel dies (b. 1865). Danish astrologer and mystic.
• 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt dies (b. 1858). 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1920 - José Lluis Facerias, the ‘implacable fighter,’ was born. Spanish anarchist guerilla.
• 1920 - Sun Myung Moon was born. Korean evangelist.
• 1920 - John Maynard Smith was born (d. 2004). English bioligist.
• 1920 - Early Wynn was born (d. 1999). Baseball player.
• 1921 - Louis Harris was born. Pollster.
• 1922 - Jakob Rosanes dies (b. 1842). German mathematician.
• 1923 - Jacobo Timerman was born (d. 1999). Argentine writer.
• 1924 - Earl Scruggs was born. American bluegrass musician.
• 1925 - John De Lorean was born (d. 2005). American auto maker.
• 1926 - Ralph Branca was born. Baseball player.
• 1926 - Kid Gavilan was born (d. 2003). Cuban boxer.
• 1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
• 1928 - Alvin Kraenzlein dies (b. 1876). American athlete.
• 1929 - King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the so-called January 6th Dictatorship, Šestojanuarska diktatura.)
• 1929 - Babrak Karmal (d. 1996). Afghani politician.
• 1930 - Vic Tayback was born. American actor
• 1930 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
• 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
• 1931 - Capucine was born (d. 1990). French actress.
• 1931 - E. L. Doctorow was born. American author.
• 1931 - Dickie Moore was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1932 - Stuart A. Rice was born. American chemist.
• 1933 - Oleg Makarov was born (d. 2003). Cosmonaut.
• 1933 - Emil Steinberger was born. Swiss comedian.
• 1935 - Nino Tempo was born. American singer and actor
• 1936 - Supreme Court of the United States rules the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al.;
• 1936 - Porky Pig premieres.
• 1936 - Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo was born. President of Uruguay .
• 1936 - Rubén Amaro, Sr. was born. Baseball player
• 1937 - Lou Holtz was born. Football coach
• 1937 - Paolo Conte was born. Italian singer
• 1937 - Doris Troy was born (d. 2004). American singer.
• 1937 - André Besette dies (b. 1845). Canadian religious figure.
• 1940 - Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznan, Warthegau.
• 1940 - Penny Lernoux was born (d. 1989). American journalist and author.
• 1940 - Van McCoy was born (d. 1979). American musician.
• 1941 - U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined his Four Freedoms in his State of the Union message to Congress.
• 1941 - Charley O'Leary dies (b. 1882). American baseball player.
• 1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
• 1942 - Henri de Baillet-Latour dies (b. 1876). Belgian International Olympic Committee president.
• 1943 - Terry Venables was born. English football manager.
• 1944 - Bonnie Franklin was born. American actress (''One Day At A Time'')
• 1944 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel was born. Swiss immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1944 - Ida Tarbell dies (b. 1857). American journalist.
• 1945 - Future president George H.W. Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y.
• 1945 - Allen Appel was born. American novelist.
• 1945 - Kojo Nnamdi was born. Host on NPR station WAMU
• 1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky dies (b. 1863). Russian mineralogist.
• 1946 - Syd Barrett was born. English guitarist and singer.
• 1947 - Sandy Denny was born (d. 1978). English vocalist.
• 1949 - Victor Fleming dies (b. 1883). American director.
• 1949 - José Pacheco Pereira was born. Portuguese politician and historian.
• 1950 - Great Britain announced its recognition of the People's Republic of China.The Republic of China severs relations with Britain in response.
• 1951 - Kim Wilson was born. American rock musician (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
• 1951 - Don Gullett was born. Major League Baseball pitcher.
• 1952 - Frank Sivero was born. Italian-American actor.
• 1952 - Moondog Spot was born (d. 2003). Wrestler.
• 1953 - Jett Williams was born. Singer
• 1953 - Malcolm Young was born. Scottish guitarist (AC/DC)
• 1954 - Hans Robert Hiegel was born. German architect
• 1954 - Yuji Horii was born. Japanese video game designer (Dragon Quest)
• 1954 - Anthony Minghella was born. British director (The English Patient) .
• 1955 - Rowan Atkinson was born. British actor, comedian.
• 1956 - Angus Deayton was born. British comedian, actor and television presenter
• 1957 - Nancy Lopez was born. American golfer .
• 1958 - E. E. Cummings wins the Bollingen Prize for Poetry.
• 1958 - Cássia Kiss was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1959 - Kapil Dev was born. Indian cricketer .
• 1959 - Kathy Sledge was born. American singer.
• 1960 - Nigella Lawson was born. British chef and writer.
• 1960 - Howie Long was born. American football star, sportscaster.
• 1960 - Paul Azinger was born. American golfer
• 1960 - Eric Williams was born. R&B singer (BLACKstreet)
• 1961 - A fire at the Thomas Hotel in San Francisco kills 20 people.
• 1962 - Michael Houser was born (d. 2002). American musician (Widespread Panic) .
• 1963 - Jazzie B was born. American musician
• 1964 - Henry Maske was born. German boxer.
• 1964 - Rafael Vidal was born (d. 2005). Venezuelan athlete.
• 1964 - David Wall was born. Programmer, Public Servant
• 1964 - Charles Haley was born. Former Dallas Cowboy
• 1964 - Mark O'Toole was born. British musician
• 1965 - Muhammed al-Ahari was born. American Muslim writer
• 1965 - Konnan was born. Professional wrestler
• 1966 - Fernando Carrillo was born. Venezuelan actor
• 1966 - A. R. Rahman was born. Indian Music Composer
• 1966 - Andrew Wood was born (d. 1990). American singer (Mother Love Bone).
• 1967 - United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• 1967 - Dave Matthews was born. Musician and bandleader (Dave Matthews Band).
• 1968 - José María San Juan wins the Nadal Prize with his novel Réquiem por todos nosotros.
• 1968 - John Singleton was born. American film director and writer
• 1970 - Julie Chen was born. American television host (''The Early Show,'' ''Big Brother'')
• 1970 - Gabrielle Reece was born. American volleyball player and model.
• 1971 - Jorge Barbosa dies in Portugal (b. 1902, Praia). Cape Verdean poet (Arquipélago).
• 1972 - Nek was born. Italian singer.
• 1972 - Chen Yi dies (b. 1901). Chinese military commander and politician.
• 1973 - Portugal : Início da publicação do jornal semanário Expresso.
• 1974 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• 1974 - Nicole DeHuff was born (d. 2005). American actress.
• 1975 - South Africa: 12,000 workers strike at Vaal Reefs gold mine.
• 1975 - James Farrior was born. American football player.
• 1975 - Yukana was born. Japanese seiyū
• 1976 - Danny Pintauro was born. American actor
• 1978 - The Hungarian Holy crown (also known as Stephen_I_of_Hungary crown) returned to Hungary from the United_States, where was held after the WW_II.
• 1978 - Nikki Einfeld was born. Canadian opera singer
• 1978 - Burt Munro dies (b. 1899). New Zealand motorcycle racer.
• 1980 - Steed Malbranque was born. French footballer.
• 1980 - Hiromi Oshima was born. Japanese adult model
• 1981 - Mike Jones was born. American rapper
• 1981 - Jérémie Renier was born. Belgian actor
• 1981 - Mike Jones was born. American rapper.
• 1981 - A.J. Cronin dies (b. 1896). Scottish writer.
• 1981 - Mark David Chapman pleads not guilty, by reason of insanity, to murdering John Lennon.
• 1982 - Albert Meister (1927-1982) dies in Kyoto. Swiss author, and anarchist sociologist. Founder of the international review "Community Development." In a totally unrelated "field" Meister & Jacques Vallet, founded, in 1977, "Le Fou parle" ("The Insane One Speaks"), a magazine of art & humor.
• 1982 - Gilbert Arenas was born. American basketball player
• 1984 - A. J. Hawk was born. American football player
• 1990 - Ian Charleson dies (b. 1949). Scottish actor.
• 1990 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov dies (b. 1904). Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 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 - Dizzy Gillespie dies (b. 1917). American jazz trumpeter.
• 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").
• 1993 - Rudolf Nureyev dies (b. 1938). Russian ballet dancer.
• 1994 - La novela Azul, de la escritora española Rosa Regás (1934), gana el Premio Nadal de Novela
• 1994 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
• 1994 - Cláudia Magno dies (b. 1958). Brazilian actress.
• 1994 - Ilse Losa dies (b. 1913). German-born Portuguese writer.
• 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 (b. 1926), head of the South African Communist party, dies of leukaemia at the age of 68.
• 1996 - Gaithersburg Metrorail Accident on the Washington Metro system kills one in Montgomery County, Maryland, during the Blizzard of 1996.
• 1996 - Yahya Ayyash dies (b. 1966). Palestinian leader.
• 1997 - Catherine Scorsese dies (b. 1912). American actress.
• 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.
• 1999 - Michel Petrucciani dies (b. 1962). French jazz pianist.
• 2000 - Don Martin dies (b. 1931). American cartoonist.
• 2001 - With the vanquished Vice President Al Gore presiding, Congress certified Republican George W. Bush the winner of the close and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election.
• 2002 - La novelista Angela Vallvey recibe el Premio Nadal, en su edición número 58, con la obra "Los estados carenciales"
• 2004 - Mijailo Mijailovic confessed to the fatal stabbing of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in September 2003.
• 2004 - Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate is declared the official anthem of Karnataka
• 2004 - Rosa Mena Valenzuela dies in El Salvador (b. 2004). Impressionist artist.
• 2004 - Pierre Charles dies (b. 1954). Prime Minister of Dominica.
• 2004 - Charles Dumas dies (b. 1937). American athlete.
• 2004 - Francesco Scavullo dies (b. 1921). American photographer.
• 2005 - Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Former Ku Klçux Kan leader Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
• 2005 - Andrea Yates' murder conviction for drowning her children in the bathtub was overturned by a Texas appeals court.
• 2005 - First World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace begins in Brussels, Belgium.
• 2005 - Lois Hole dies (b. 1933). Lt. Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
• 2005 - Louis Robichaud, dies (b. 1925). Premier of New Brunswick.
• 2006 - Tropical Storm Zeta (2005) dissipates, ending the notorious 2005 hurricane season.
• 2006 - Lou Rawls dies (b. 1933). American singer.
• 2006 - Hugh Thompson, Jr. dies (b. 1943). Vietnam War helicopter pilot.
• Feast Day of St. Balthasar.
• Celebrated annually this day, Epiphany commemorates the first manifestation of Jesus to the Gentiles (represented by the coming of the Magi) and is, with Christmas and Easter, one of Christianity's three main festival days.
• Rastafari movement - Celebration of the ceremonial birthday of Haile Selassie