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06 Jan 1352
French King Jean II introduces Order of the Star
06 Jan 1355
Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy
06 Jan 1449
Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra.
06 Jan 1453
Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
06 Jan 1720
The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings
06 Jan 1773
Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
06 Jan 1781
Battle of Jersey Major Francis Peirson and his men defeat invading French troops
06 Jan 1832
New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
06 Jan 1838
The forerunner of Morse code the telegraph system is first demonstrated by Alfred Vail
06 Jan 1839
2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as the Big Wind
06 Jan 1842
4500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul massacred before reaching India
06 Jan 1857
Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill Penn
06 Jan 1861
Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
06 Jan 1861
NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city trading with North and South
06 Jan 1873
Pope Pius IX encyclical On the Church in Armenia
06 Jan 1873
US Congress begins investigating Crdit Mobilier scandal
06 Jan 1887
Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II
06 Jan 1893
Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
06 Jan 1896
1st US womens 6-day bicycle race starts Madison Square Garden
06 Jan 1898
1st telephone message from a submerged submarine by Simon Lake
06 Jan 1900
Boers attack at Ladysmith about 1000 killed or injured
06 Jan 1494
The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela Hispaniola
06 Jan 1497
Jews are expelled from Graz in Styria Austria
06 Jan 1579
Artois Hainault and Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras
06 Jan 1622
Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
06 Jan 1639
Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
06 Jan 1661
The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London
06 Jan 1681
1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarles butler vs his butcher)
06 Jan 1690
Joseph I later Holy Roman Emperor and son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans
06 Jan 1900
Maurice Ravels Albaradode Gracioso premieres in Paris
06 Jan 1913
Attempting to end hostilities in the Balkans the London Peace Conference breaks down because Turkey refuses to cede Adrianpole the Aegean island and Crete
06 Jan 1922
-13] Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
06 Jan 1924
Poulenc and Nijinskas ballet Les Biches premieres in Monte Carlo
06 Jan 1926
Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
06 Jan 1928
Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)
06 Jan 1929
Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
06 Jan 1930
1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
06 Jan 1936
Barbara Hanley became Canadas 1st woman mayor (Webbwood Ontario)
06 Jan 1937
Bradman scores 270 Aust v England at the MCG incl 110 singles
06 Jan 1940
Mass execution of Poles committed by Germans in the city of Pozna Warthegau.
06 Jan 1942
Bob Feller enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
06 Jan 1942
Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world (Pacific Clipper).
06 Jan 1946
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
06 Jan 1947
Ray Lindwall smashes 100 v England in MCG Test
06 Jan 1947
Pan American Airlines offers a round-the-world-ticket the first commercial airline to do so
06 Jan 1950
Happy as Larry opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
06 Jan 1950
Britain recognizes Communist government of China
06 Jan 1951
Pardon Our French closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 performances
06 Jan 1951
Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
06 Jan 1951
Ganghwa massacre Hundreds of South Korean communist sympathisers are slaughtered
06 Jan 1953
WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
06 Jan 1953
The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Burma
06 Jan 1956
KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo TX (NBCABC) begins broadcasting
06 Jan 1956
Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
06 Jan 1958
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to E. E. Cummings
06 Jan 1958
WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
06 Jan 1963
Mutual of Omahas Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
06 Jan 1963
Oliver opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances
06 Jan 1964
Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move KC As to Louisville
06 Jan 1964
Rolling Stones 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
06 Jan 1965
Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa his best Test bowling
06 Jan 1967
KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston TX (IND) begins broadcasting
06 Jan 1967
2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate Philippines plunging off a cliff killing 84 injuring 140
06 Jan 1967
United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five in the Mekong River delta.
06 Jan 1968
Beatles Magical Mystery Tour album goes 1 & stays 1 for 8 weeks
06 Jan 1968
Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation
06 Jan 1968
Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
06 Jan 1969
WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
06 Jan 1970
Australian boxer Johnny Famechon retains his WBC featherweight title with a 14th-round knockout of Fighting Harada in Tokyo re-match of questionable 15-round decision in 1969 in his first title defence
06 Jan 1971
Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
06 Jan 1971
Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate
06 Jan 1972
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
06 Jan 1972
US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley
06 Jan 1973
Schoolhouse Rock premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
06 Jan 1974
United Kingdom begins three-day work week during energy crisis
06 Jan 1974
In response to the 1973 energy crisis daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
06 Jan 1975
AM America premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
06 Jan 1975
1000 Led Zeppelin fans waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the groups February 4th gig to go on sale cause a riot and an esimated 30000 damage
06 Jan 1977
Charter 77 a document criticising the Czech governments human rights abuses is published in Prague
06 Jan 1978
1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
06 Jan 1979
The Village Peoples Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At its peak it sold over 150000 copies a day
06 Jan 1980
1940s Radio Hour closes at St James Theater NYC after 105 performances
06 Jan 1980
Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
06 Jan 1980
AFC Championship Three Rivers Stadium Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Steelers beat Houston Oilers 27-13
06 Jan 1980
NFC Championship Tampa Stadium Los Angeles Rams beat Tampa Bay Buccaneers 9-0
06 Jan 1981
50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals
06 Jan 1984
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission
06 Jan 1984
Last day of Test cricket for Chappell Marsh & Lillee
06 Jan 1985
AFC Championship Miami Orange Bowl Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers 45-28
06 Jan 1985
NFC Championship Candlestick Park SF San Francisco 49ers beat Chicago Bears 23-0
06 Jan 1986
British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns after the Westland affair
06 Jan 1986
Impala Platinum fires 20000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
06 Jan 1986
STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
06 Jan 1987
Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
06 Jan 1990
NY Lotto pays 35 million to one winner (s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
06 Jan 1991
Gypsy closes at St James Theater NYC after 477 performances
06 Jan 1991
Real Life With Jane Pauley premieres on NBC-TV
06 Jan 1991
Jorge Serrano Elias elected President of Guatemala
06 Jan 1991
Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
06 Jan 1992
Robert Schenkkans Kentucky Cycle premieres in LA
06 Jan 1992
Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings
06 Jan 1992
The US Government urges doctors to stop using silicone breast implants outlining the health effects
06 Jan 1992
Zviad Gamskahurdia the President of Georgia flees the country because of the military coup
06 Jan 1993
Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
06 Jan 1993
55 Kashmiri civilians are killed in Sopore Jammu and Kashmir by Indian Border Security Force units
06 Jan 1994
The Government Inspector opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
06 Jan 1994
Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Hardings bodyguard
06 Jan 1994
Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44)
06 Jan 1994
Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44)
06 Jan 1995
A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila Philippines leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka a mass-terrorist attack.
06 Jan 1996
Record 42 million (65.2 million) British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
06 Jan 1997
Its a Slippery Slope closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
06 Jan 1999
An agreement is reached by the NBA and the players union to end a 204-day lockout which shortened the season by 50 games
06 Jan 2000
The flu outbreak in Britain puts pressure on NHS
06 Jan 2000
The last Pyrenean ibex is found dead after being crushed by a tree
06 Jan 2002
Daniel Bedingfield returns to No.1 on the UK singles chart for the second time with Gotta Get Thru This
06 Jan 2004
Costas Simitis announces his resignation as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement in Greece.
06 Jan 2005
Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
06 Jan 2012
A suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus Syria killing 26 people and wounding 63
06 Jan 2013
10 people are killed by a US drone attack in South Waziristan Pakistan
06 Jan 2013
The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113 day lockout
06 Jan 2014
Zach Johnson wins the PGA Tournament of Champions
06 Jan 2015
Randy Johnson Pedro Martnez John Smoltz and Craig Biggio are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
06 Jan 2016
North Korea states that they have successfully conducted their fourth nuclear test saying it was a hydrogen bomb in a claim disputed by most international experts
06 Jan 2018
Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota scores a touchdown off own pass in 22-21 victory over Kansas City Chiefs second NFL quarterback to do so
06 Jan 2018
Oil tanker Sanchi collides with a freighter off the coast of Shanghai with 32 probable deaths
06 Jan 2018
Jon Gruden returns to the NFL as Oakland Raiders head coach after nearly a decade of broadcasting (Monday Night Football 2009-17)
06 Jan 2018
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Swiss pair Roger Federer & Belinda Bencic clinch 2-1 win over Germany 4-3 4-2 against Angelique Kerber & Alexander Zverev Switzerlands 3rd event success
06 Jan 1951
Indianapolis Olympians beat Rochester Royals 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes also the longest game in NBA history
06 Jan 1991
Portland Trail Blazers beat the Seattle SuperSonics 114-111 before a sellout crowd at the Portland Memorial Coliseum marks the Blazers 600th consecutive sellout at home
06 Jan 2006
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Lisa Raymond & Taylor Dent beat Dutch pair Michalla Krajicek & Peter Wessels 4-6 6-2 7-6 for a 2-1 win and 4th American title
06 Jan 2018
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Swiss pair Roger Federer & Belinda Bencic clinch 2-1 win over Germany beat Angelique Kerber & Alexander Zverev 4-3 4-2 Switzerlands 3rd event success
06 Jan 2019
Record 3.1 million (333.6 million yen) price for giant bluefin tuna at Tokyos Toyosu fish market bought by sushi restaurant owner Kiyoshi Kimura
06 Jan 2019
Malaysian king Sultan Muhammad V abdicates after two years of rule in historic first
06 Jan 1936
Barbara Hanley becomes Canadas 1st woman mayor in Webbwood Ontario
06 Jan 1979
The Village Peoples Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK 1 single. At its peak it sold over 150000 copies a day.
06 Jan 2018
Jon Gruden returns to the NFL as Oakland Raiders head coach after nearly a decade of broadcasting (ESPN Monday Night Football 2009-17)
06 Jan 2020
Crawford Steel executives Sid Spiegel and Gary Stern via holding company S & S Sportsco purchase the Montreal Alouettes from the Canadian Football League
06 Jan 1579
Northern Hasburg Netherlands counties of Artois and Hainault and city Dowaai sign pro-Spanish and pro-Roman Catholic Union of Arras (Unie van Atrecht)
06 Jan 1681
First recorded boxing match is engineered by Christopher Monck 2nd Duke of Albemarle his butler vs his butcher
06 Jan 1924
Francis Poulencs ballet Les Biches choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska and danced by the Ballets Russe premieres in Monte Carlo
06 Jan 1984
Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 41 B mission
06 Jan 2021
More than 50 pro-democracy activists rounded up and arrested in Hong Kong
06 Jan 1443
San Marco convent designed by architect Michelozzo with an altarpiece by Fra Angelico is consecrated in the presence of Pope Eugenius IV in Florence
06 Jan 1639
Virginia orders half of its tobacco crop destroyed to support plunging prices and to avoid an economic catastrophe the 1st colony to order the destruction of crops
06 Jan 1950
Happy As Larry opens at Coronet Theater NYC runs for 3 performances
06 Jan 1964
Rolling Stones 1st tour of England as headline act The Ronettes and The Swinging Blue Jeans open for them
06 Jan 1968
The Beatles album Magical Mystery Tour goes 1 and stays 1 for 8 weeks
06 Jan 1975
A thousand Led Zeppelin fans waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the groups February 4th gig to go on sale cause a riot and an estimated 30000 damage
06 Jan 1227
Ferrand Count of Flanders freed from the Louvre after being held prisoner for 12 years by the French
06 Jan 1690
Joseph I later Holy Roman Emperor and son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans and King in Germany
06 Jan 1953
WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown Ohio (CBS) begins broadcasting - without sound until January 11 [1]
06 Jan 1968
Dr Norman E. Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation
06 Jan 1970
Australian boxer Johnny Famechon retains his WBC featherweight title with a 14th-round knockout of Fighting Harada in Tokyo re-match of questionable 15-round decision in 1969 in his first title defense
06 Jan 1979
The Village Peoples Y.M.C.A. becomes their only UK 1 single at its peak it sold over 150000 copies a day
06 Jan 1993
Bassist Bill Wyman announces he will leave the band the Rolling Stones
06 Jan 2001
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Roger Federer beats American Jan-Michael Gambill 6-4 6-3 to clinch Switzerlands unassailable 2-0 lead (ends 2-1)
06 Jan 2016
Star Wars The Force Awakens breaks North American box office record passing the 760.5M taken by Avatar
06 Jan 2016
Opera Angels Bone by composer Du Yun and librettist Royce Vavrek premieres at the Prototype Festival New York City (Pulitzer Prize for Music 2017)
06 Jan 1443
San Marco convent designed by architect Michelozzo with an altarpiece by Fra Angelico is consecrated in the presence of Pope Eugene IV in Florence
06 Jan 1453
Emperor Frederick III becomes Archduke of Austria
06 Jan 1639
Virginia orders half of its tobacco crop destroyed to support plunging prices and avoid an economic catastrophe the first colony to order the destruction of crops
06 Jan 1681
First recorded boxing match is organized by Christopher Monck 2nd Duke of Albemarle between his butler and his butcher
06 Jan 1745
Bonnie Prince Charlies Jacobite army draws close to Glasgow
06 Jan 1784
Turkey and Russia sign a treaty in Constantinople
06 Jan 1821
Indiana state legislature approves development of the future capital city of Indianapolis
06 Jan 1942
Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to complete a flight around the world the plane California Clipper is rechristened Pacific Clipper after the feat
06 Jan 1953
Dutch passenger ships Willem Ruys and Oranje collide in the Red Sea near Port Sudan seriously damaging both vessels without injuring the 1750 passengers
06 Jan 1967
Two homemade buses collide on a mountain road in Terpate Philippines and plunge off a cliff killing 84 people and injuring 140
06 Jan 1979
Shapour Bakhtiar government established by the Shah in Iran will preside until unrest in the country subsides
06 Jan 1979
Village Peoples Y.M.C.A. becomes their only UK 1 single at its peak it sells over 150000 copies per day
06 Jan 1987
Astronomers at the University of California witness the first sight of the birth of a galaxy
06 Jan 1992
Sachin Tendulkar completes 148 v Australia at the SCG
06 Jan 1994
Dow Jones Industrial Average hits record 3803.88
06 Jan 2023
New Study discovers ancient Roman concrete is stronger than modern concrete because of the use of a hot mixing technique with quicklime that self-healed any cracks over time [1]
06 Jan 2023
US teacher shot by her six-year-old student at Richneck Elementary School Newport Virginia later hospitalised with gunshot wounds [1]
06 Jan 2024
Israeli army claims it has destroyed Hamass command centre in northern Gaza and killed more than 8000 militants [1]
06 Jan 1839
Two-day storm off the Irish and English coasts is immortalized as the Big Wind
06 Jan 1870
Inauguration of the Musikverein concert hall in Vienna Austria designed by Danish architect Theophil Hansen for the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna built on land provided by Emperor Franz Joseph I
06 Jan 1896
First US womens six-day bicycle race starts at Madison Square Garden
06 Jan 1930
First diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) is completed
06 Jan 1942
Pan American Airways becomes the first commercial airline to complete a flight around the world the aircraft California Clipper is rechristened Pacific Clipper after the feat
06 Jan 1958
BOAC Britannia flies from London to New York in a record 7 hours and 57 minutes
06 Jan 1971
Berkeley chemists announce the first synthetic growth hormones
06 Jan 1974
In response to the 1973 energy crisis daylight saving time begins nearly four months earlier in the United States
06 Jan 1978
First US postage stamp is copyrighted the Carl Sandburg stamp
06 Jan 1980
NHL Philadelphia Flyers set North American professional sports record of 35 straight games without a defeat (25-0-10)
06 Jan 1984
Last day of Test cricket for Chappell Marsh and Lillee
06 Jan 1987
Astronomers at the University of California witness the first observation of the birth of a galaxy
06 Jan 1992
Robert Schenkkans series of plays Kentucky Cycle premieres in LA
06 Jan 1992
Zviad Gamskahurdia the President of Georgia flees the country because of a military coup
06 Jan 2005
Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers
06 Jan 2012
Thierry Henry re-signs for Arsenal on a two-month loan deal
06 Jan 2022
Tennis world No. 1 Novak okovis visa into Australia cancelled after uproar over his COVID-19 vaccination exemption
06 Jan 2025
Large winter storm caused by a polar vortex moves east across the US from the central plains to the mid Atlantic bringing 18 inches of snow to Kansas [1]
06 Jan 2025
US records its first person to die from bird flu in southwest Louisiana [1]