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
- 1322 –Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia.
- 1449 –Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine-Roman Emperor at Mystras.
- 1492 –Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs conquest Granada completing the Reconquista.
- 1540 –King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
- 1579 –The Union of Arras is signed.
- 1661 –English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
- 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.
- 1907 –Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
- 1912 –German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
- 1912 –New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
- 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.
- 1967 –Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch “Operation Deckhouse Five” in the Mekong River delta.
- 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 –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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