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.
  • 1492 –
    Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs conquest Granada completing the Reconquista.
  • 1661 –
    English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
  • 1839 –
    The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
  • 1870 –
    The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
  • 1900 –
    Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
  • 1907 –
    Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1950 –
    The United Kingdom recognizes the People’s Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
  • 1951 –
    Ganghwa massacre: Korean War.
  • 1974 –
    In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
  • 1978 –
    The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
  • 1992 –
    President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
  • 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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