Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 6
This is a list of selected January 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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January 6: Tenth of Tevet (Judaism, 2009); Epiphany in Western Christianity
- 1066 – Harold Godwinson was crowned King of England, widely regarded as the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman conquest.
- 1661 – Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempted to seize control of London from the newly restored government of Charles II.
- 1838 – Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail successfully tested the electrical telegraph for the first time at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey, USA.
- 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori opened her first school and day care center for working class children in Rome.
- 1941 – During his State of the Union Address, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented his Four Freedoms as fundamental freedoms humans everywhere in the world ought to enjoy.
- 1994 – Two-time American Olympic figure skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan (pictured) was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant hired by Jeff Gillooly, the ex-husband of her rival skater Tonya Harding.