About January 6
January 6, 2025 is the 6th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 359 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 23 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 6
- 1118 –Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
- 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.
- 1449 –Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine-Roman Emperor at Mystras.
- 1492 –Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs conquest Granada completing the Reconquista.
- 1579 –The Union of Arras is signed.
- 1690 –Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
- 1781 –In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
- 1839 –The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
- 1853 –President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
- 1870 –The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
- 1921 –Formation of the Iraqi Army.
- 1930 –The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
- 1941 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
- 1947 –Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
- 1960 –National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami, Florida.
- 1967 –Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch “Operation Deckhouse Five” in the Mekong River delta.
- 1993 –Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
- 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 –American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
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