January 6

What happened that day?

• 2017: 5 people are killed and 6 others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida.
• 2012: Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
• 2005: A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
• 2005: American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
• 2001: Congress certifies George W. Bush winner of 2000 elections.
• 1995: A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
• 1993: Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
• 1992: President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
• 1989: Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh are sentenced to death for conspiracy in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; the two men are executed the same day.
• 1978: The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
• 1974: In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• 1967: Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• 1960: The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
• 1960: National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
• 1951: Korean War: An estimated 200-1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered in what becomes the Ganghwa massacre.
• 1950: The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
• 1947: Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
• 1946: The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
• 1941: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
• 1931: Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
• 1930: The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
• 1929: Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
• 1929: King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
• 1912: German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
• 1912: New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
• 1907: Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
• 1900: Second [Boer](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer) War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
• 1893: The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• 1870: The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
• 1839: The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
• 1838: Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
• 1809: Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1781: In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
• 1721: The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
• 1690: Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
• 1661: English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
• 1579: The Union of Arras is signed.
• 1540: King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
• 1492: The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
• 1449: Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mystras.
• 1355: Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
• 1322: Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia.
• 1205: Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
• 1066: Harold Godwinson (or Harold II) is crowned King of England.
• 1017: Cnut the Great is crowned King of England.