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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Epiphany (Gregorian calendar); | refimprove section, lots of CN tags |
| Armed Forces Day in Iraq | refimprove |
| 1322 – Having defeated his half-brother Stefan Konstantin in battle, Stefan Dečanski was crowned King of Serbia. | unreferenced section |
| 1449 – The last Byzantine-Roman Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, was crowned, four years before the Fall of Constantinople. | unreferenced section |
| 1661 – Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempted to seize control of London from the newly restored government of Charles II. | needs more footnotes |
| 1781 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Jersey, British forces stopped France's last attempt to militarily invade Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. | unreferenced section |
| 1838 – Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail successfully tested the electrical telegraph for the first time at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey. | refimprove section |
| 1839 – The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland, with 100-knot (190 km/h) winds damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin. | refimprove section |
| 1912 - New Mexico was admitted as the 47th U.S. state. | refimprove section |
| 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes abolished his country's constitution and introduced a dictatorship. | Both Alexander and dictatorship articles tagged {{refimprove}} |
| 1978 – The Holy Crown of Hungary, used to crown Hungarian kings from the 13th century onward, was returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II. | refimprove sections |
| 1995 – A suspicious fire in a Manila flat led to the foiling of the Bojinka plot, a precursor to the September 11, 2001 attacks. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| 2001 – A joint session of the U.S. Congress certified George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 U.S. presidential election, despite 20 members of the House of Representatives filing objections to the electoral votes of Florida. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – About 60 tons of chlorine gas were released when two Norfolk Southern trains collided in Graniteville, South Carolina, U.S. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori opened her first school and day-care centre for working-class children in Rome, employing the philosophy of education that now bears her name.
- 1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511, traveling from New York City to Miami, exploded in midair due to a bomb placed by an unknown party, resulting in the deaths of all 34 people on board.
- 1977 – The record label EMI ended its contract with the English punk rock band Sex Pistols in response to its members' disruptive behaviour at Heathrow Airport two days earlier.
- 1993 – Indian Border Security Force (BSF) units allegedly killed 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
- Born/died this day:
January 6: Little Christmas in Ireland
- 1066 – Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman conquest, was crowned King of England.
- 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory of continental drift.
- 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.
- 1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference, an organisation of socialist political parties in Asia, opened in Rangoon, Burma, with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.
- 1994 – Two-time American Olympic figure skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan (pictured) was hit on the leg with a police baton by an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.
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