6 Januar

The 6t o Januar is the 6t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 359 days ti come (360 in lowp years).

Events

1066: Harold Godwinson on a siller coin

1912: Banner o New Mexico

• 1017 - Cnut the Great is crouned King o Ingland.
• 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crouned King o Ingland.
• 1389 - The Varsity o Cologne opens, on the day o the ceety's patron saunts, The Three Keengs.
• 1540 - Henry VIII o Ingland marries Anne o Cleves.
• 1870 - Inauguration o the Musikverein in Vienna.
• 1907 - Maria Montessori opens her first schuil an day-care centre for workin cless bairns in Roum.
• 1912 - Alfred Wegener presents his theory o Continental Drift.
• 1912 - New Mexico becomes the 47t state o the Unitit States.
• 1926 - Lufthansa, the current main naitional airline o Germany, is creatit.
• 1929 - King Alexander I renames the Kinrick o Serbs, Croats an Slovenes as the Kinrick o Yugoslavie.
• 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt maks his "Four Freedoms" speech.
• 1950 - The Unitit Kinrick recognises the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae.
• 1992 - Preses Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees Georgie efter a militar coup.
• 1998 - The heid o the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen is cut off.
• 2016 - North Korea declares the completion o testin o thermonuclear wappens.
• 2018 - The MV Sanchi ile tanker collision east o Shanghai kills 32 sailors.
• 2021 - Pro-Donald Trump rioters storm the Unitit States Capitol biggin while Members o Congress prepare tae certify Joe Biden as Preses-elect; Five fowk are kilt, mony are injured, numerous arrests are made an social media companies block Trump's accoonts.

Births

Carl Sandburg

Rowan Atkinson

• 1367 - King Richard II o Ingland (d. 1400)
• 1412 - Joan o Arc, French martyr an saunt (d. 1431)
• 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman an airchaeologist (d. 1890)
• 1832 - Gustave Doré, French airtist, prentmakker, illustrator an sculptor (d. 1883)
• 1838 - Max Bruch, German componer (d. 1920)
• 1850 - Eduard Bernstein, German politeecian an poleetical theorist (d. 1932)
• 1861 - Victor Horta, Belgian airchitect (d. 1947)
• 1872 - Alexander Scriabin, Roushie componer an pianist (d. 1915)
• 1878 - Carl Sandburg, American poet (d. 1967)
• 1882 - Alexander Gray, Scots poet (d. 1968)
• 1883 - Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese airtist, poet an writer (d. 1931)
• 1913 - Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1924 - Kim Dae-jung, Preses o Sooth Korea, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1946 - Syd Barrett, Inglis muisicker (d. 2006)
• 1953 - Malcolm Young, Scots-Australie muisicker (AC/DC) (d. 2017)
• 1954 - Anthony Minghella, Inglis film director (d. 2008)
• 1955 - Rowan Atkinson, Inglis actor, comedian an writer
• 1956 - Justin Welby, 105t Airchbishop o Canterbury
• 1960 - Nigella Lawson, Inglis chef
• 1968 - John Singleton, American film director, screenwriter an producer
• 1972 - Nek, Italian sangster
• 1982 - Eddie Redmayne, Inglis actor
• 1984 - Eric Trump, son o Donald Trump
• 1985 - Callum McCaig, Scots politeecian
• 1989 - Nicky Romero (Nick Rotteveel), Dutch DJ an record producer

Daiths

• 1693 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
• 1852 - Louis Braille, French inventor o Braille (b. 1809)
• 1884 - Gregor Mendel, Austrick scientist (b. 1822)
• 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1858)
• 1981 - A. J. Cronin, Scots physeecian an writer (b. 1896)
• 1990 - Ian Charleson, Scots actor (b. 1949)
• 1990 - Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet-Roushie pheesicist (b. 1904)
• 1993 - Dizzy Gillespie, American sangster an trumpeter (b. 1917)
• 1993 - Rudolf Nureyev, Roushie dancer an choreographer (b. 1938)
• 2017 - Om Puri, Indie actor (b. 1950)

Halidays

The Three Keengs - commemoratit on Uphalyday

• Uphalyday - Epiphany/Twalt Nicht/Three Kings Day
• Christenmas (Armenie Apostolic Kirk)
• Four Hills Ski jumpin toornament ends (Germany, Austrick)