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
- 1066 –Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
- 1322 –Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia.
- 1492 –Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs conquest Granada completing the Reconquista.
- 1579 –The Union of Arras is signed.
- 1661 –English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
- 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.
- 1870 –The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
- 1910 –The Great White Fleet passes through the Suez Canal, the largest group of ships to pass through up to that time.
- 1912 –German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
- 1912 –New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
- 1921 –Formation of the Iraqi Army.
- 1947 –Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
- 1951 –Ganghwa massacre: Korean War.
- 1953 –The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
- 1974 –In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
- 1992 –President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
- 1994 –Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan.
- 2005 –American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
- 2005 –A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
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