About January 6
January 6, 2024 is the 6th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 35 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 6
- 1118 –Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
- 1205 –Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
- 1322 –Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia.
- 1355 –Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
- 1492 –Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs conquest Granada completing the Reconquista.
- 1690 –Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
- 1721 –The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
- 1781 –In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
- 1853 –President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
- 1893 –The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
- 1907 –Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
- 1912 –New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
- 1929 –King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country’s constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
- 1930 –The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
- 1931 –Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
- 1941 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
- 1950 –The United Kingdom recognizes the People’s Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
- 1994 –Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1995 –A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
- 2005 –A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
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