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: Epiphany (Gregorian calendar)
- 1449 – Constantine XI Palaiologos was crowned Byzantine-Roman Emperor, the last one before the Fall of Constantinople.
- 1839 – The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland, with 100-knot winds damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
- 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori (pictured) opened her first school and day care center for working class children in Rome.
- 1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference, an organization of socialist political parties in Asia, opened in Rangoon, Burma, with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.
- 1977 – The record label EMI ended its contract with the English punk rock band Sex Pistols in response to its members' disruptive behaviour at London Heathrow Airport two days earlier.