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Old 01-06-2017, 11:21 AM   #489
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January 6

Western Christianity celebrates today as Epiphany, the day the Magi visited Baby Jesus.

In Ireland and Scotland, and other places, today is known as Little Christmas. Also known as Women's Christmas.


Events

1017 – Cnut the Great is crowned King of England.

1066 – Harold Godwinson (or Harold II) is crowned King of England.

1205 – Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.

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.

1449 – Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor.

[Izzit just me, or, is there a pattern here?]

1492 – The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.

1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.

1690 – Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.

1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).

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. Pierce's 11-year-old son Benjamin is killed in the crash.

1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.

1912 – New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.

1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.

1930 – The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.

1931 – Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.

1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.

1958 - Gibson Guitars launched it's 'Flying V' electric guitar. Guitarists who played a Flying V include, Albert Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan and Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top.

1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.

1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.

1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.

2000 – Celia, the last Pyrenean ibex, was found dead after a tree had fallen on her.

2001 - Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour won the right to his dot com name. Dave took legal action in his battle to reclaim davidgilmourdotcom from Andrew Herman who had registered the URL and was selling Pink Floyd merchandise through the site.

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.

Births

1412 – Joan of Arc; 1745 – Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier; 1832 – Gustave Doré; 1878 – Carl Sandburg; 1880 – Tom Mix; 1882 – Sam Rayburn; 1912 – Danny Thomas; 1913 – Loretta Young; 1924 – Earl Scruggs♪ ♫; 1925 – John DeLorean; 1926 – Mickey Hargitay (w/Jayne Mansfield, father of Mariska Hargitay); 1928 – Capucine; 1930 – Vic Tayback (owner of Mel's Diner in Alice); 1931 – E. L. Doctorow; 1937 – Lou Holtz; 1940 – Van McCoy♪ ♫(wrote "The Hustle"); 1944 – Bonnie Franklin (One Day At A Time); 1946 – Syd Barrett♪ ♫(Pink Floyd); 1947 – Sandy Denny♪ ♫(Fairport Convention); 1950 – Louis Freeh; 1951 – Kim Wilson♪ ♫(The Fabulous Thunderbirds); 1953 – Malcolm Young(AC/DC); 1954 – Trudie Styler (wife of Sting); 1955 – Rowan Atkinson; 1959 - Kathy Sledge♪ ♫(Sister Sledge); 1960 - Muzz Skillings(Living Colour); 1960 – Paul Azinger; 1960 – Howie Long; 1962 – Michael Houser(Widespread Panic); 1964 – Mark O'Toole(Frankie Goes To Hollywood); 1968 – John Singleton; 1969 – Norman Reedus ('Daryl Dixon' on The Walking Dead, Boondock Saints I & II); 1970 – Julie Chen; 1970 – Gabrielle Reece; 1982 – Eddie Redmayne; 1984 – Eric Trump (second son of the President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump); 1986 – Alex Turner♪ ♫(Arctic Monkeys)

Deaths

1852 – Louis Braille; 1919 – Theodore Roosevelt (26th POTUS, "a cross between a walrus, and the spirit of war"); 1921 – Devil Anse Hatfield; 1944 – Ida Tarbell; 1949 – Victor Fleming (director Gone With The Wind, The Wizard Of Oz, et al); 1978 – Burt Munro (subject of The World's Fastest Indian); 1993 – Dizzy Gillespie♪ ♫; 1993 – Rudolf Nureyev; 2000 – Don Martin ("Mad's Maddest Artist"); 2006 – Lou Rawls♪ ♫; 2009 – Ron Asheton(The Stooges); 2016 – Pat Harrington, Jr. (building super 'Schneider' on One Day At A Time)
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