Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!
On this day in 1066, King Harald of England was crowned. Henry V was crowned the German king on this day in 1099. In 1777 on this day, General Washington set up winter headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey. In 1838 on this day, Samuel Morse demonstrated the telegraph. In 1941 on this day, Franklin D Roosevelt gave his now iconic "Four Freedoms" speech (those four freedoms being speech, worship, fear from want & fear from fear) In 1942 on this day during World War II, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt committed to what was then the greatest arms build-up in American history. The Battle of the Bulge, the last real German offensive during World War II, ended on this day in 1945 with German defeat. On this day in 1971: the United States Army dropped charges of My Lai cover-up On this day in 2021, MAGA extremists gathered for a rally in Washington were directed by outgoing American President Donald Trump to interrupt the process of the certification of the 2020 elections. The extremists went and the gathering soon grew violent.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
• 1066 - King Harald of England crowned
• 1099 - Henry V crowned German king
• 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
• 1227 - Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
Royal France
• 1352 - French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star
• 1449 - Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra.
• 1453 - Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
• 1494 - The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
• 1496 - Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi
• 1497 - Jews are expelled from Graz in Styria, Austria
• 1579 - Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras
• 1579 - The Union of Atrecht is signed.
• 1622 - Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
• 1639 - Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
• 1649 - The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes"
• 1661 - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
• 1663 - Great earthquake in New England
• 1681 - 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
• 1690 - Joseph I, later Holy Roman Emperor and son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
• 1720 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
• 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow
• 1759 - George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married.
• 1773 - Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
Washington's Headquarters at Morristown, New Jersey
• On this day in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War of Independence, George Washington set up his winter headquarters at Morristown, New Jersey.
Jan 6, 1777: Washington sets up winter quarters in Morristown
After two significant victories over the British in Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey, General George Washington marches north to Morristown, New Jersey, where he set up winter headquarters for himself and the men of the Continental Army on this day in 1777. The hills surrounding the camp offered Washington a perfect vantage point from which to keep an eye on the British army, which was headquartered across the Hudson River in New York City. Morristown's position also allowed Washington to protect the roads leading from the British strongholds in New Jersey to New England and the roads leading to Philadelphia, where the leaders of the American Revolution were headquartered.
1777 George Washington sets up winter quarters in Morristown, NJ HISTORY.com Editors Published: November 13, 2009 Last Updated: May 28, 2025:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-6/washington-sets-up-winter-quarters-in-morristown
• 1781 - Battle of Jersey (Island in UK)
• 1784 - Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
• 1832 - New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
• In 1838 on this day, Samuel Morse demonstrated his telegraph system which would revolutionize communication.
Jan 6, 1838: Morse demonstrates telegraph
On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse's telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. The telegraph, a device which used electric impulses to transmit encoded messages over a wire, would eventually revolutionize long-distance communication, reaching the height of its popularity in the 1920s and 1930s.
1838 Samuel Morse unveils the telegraph, revolutionizing communication HISTORY.com Editors Getty Images Published: November 24, 2009 Last Updated: January 05, 2026:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-6/morse-demonstrates-telegraph
• 1839 - 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
• 1842 - 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
• 1857 - Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
• 1861 - Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
• 1861 - NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S
• 1870 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
• 1873 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
• 1873 - US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal
• 1880 - Record snow cover in Seattle - 120 cm
• 1883 - Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
• 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.
• 1893 - Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
• 1893 - The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• 1896 - 1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
• 1896 - Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
• 1898 - 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
The Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa.
• 1900 - Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
• 1900 - Off of South Africa, the British seized the German steamer Herzog. The boat was released on January 22, 1900.
1900 - Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris
1903 - Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
1906 - Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris
Educator Maria MontessoriEducator Maria Montessori 1907 - Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
• 1912 - New Mexico becomes 47th state
1914 - Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1922 - -13] Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
1924 - Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo
1925 - Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m
1926 - Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
• 1927 - US marines sent to Nicaragua
• 1928 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)
1929 - Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.
1930 - 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
1930 - Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 mins, 49 fours
Monuments to Thomas Edison at Menlo Park in Edison, NJ
• 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
1936 - Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
Inventor Thomas EdisonInventor Thomas Edison 1937 - Bradman scores 270 Aust v England at the MCG, incl 110 singles
1938 - Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx
1939 - Daily newspaper comic strip "Superman" debuts
1940 - Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• 1941 - FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear)
Jan 6, 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks of Four Freedoms
On this day in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses Congress in an effort to move the nation away from a foreign policy of neutrality. The president had watched with increasing anxiety as European nations struggled and fell to Hitler's fascist regime and was intent on rallying public support for the United States to take a stronger interventionist role. In his address to the 77th Congress, Roosevelt stated that the need of the moment is that our actions and our policy should be devoted primarily--almost exclusively--to meeting the foreign peril. For all our domestic problems are now a part of the great emergency.
Roosevelt insisted that people in all nations of the world shared Americans' entitlement to four freedoms: the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in his own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear. After Roosevelt's death and the end of World War II, his widow Eleanor often referred to the four freedoms when advocating for passage of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mrs. Roosevelt participated in the drafting of that declaration, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948.
Jan 6, 1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks of Four Freedoms by HISTORY.com Editors Published: November 16, 2009 Last Updated: May 28, 2025:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-6/franklin-d-roosevelt-speaks-of-four-freedoms
1942 - 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
1942 - Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
• In 1942 on this day during World War II, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt committed to what was then the greatest arms build-up in American history.
Jan 6, 1942: Roosevelt commits to biggest arms buildup in U.S. history On this day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces to Congress that he is authorizing the largest armaments production in the history of the United States. Committed to war in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had to reassess its military preparedness, especially in light of the fact that its Pacific fleet was decimated by the Japanese air raid. Among those pressing President Roosevelt to double U.S. armaments and industrial production were Lord William Beaverbrook, the British minister of aircraft production, and members of the British Ministry of Supplies, who were meeting with their American counterparts at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. Beaverbrook, a newspaper publisher in civilian life, employed production techniques he learned in publishing to cut through red tape, improve efficiency, and boost British aircraft production to manufacturing 500 fighters a month, and he felt the U.S. could similarly beef up armament production.
JAN 06 JAN 06 1942 FDR commits to biggest arms buildup in U.S. history HISTORY.com Editors Published: November 05, 2009 Last Updated: May 28, 2025:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-6/roosevelt-commits-to-biggest-arms-buildup-in-u-s-history
• 1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
Statue of an American Soldier at the World War II Memorial in Trenton, New Jersey
• 1945 - The Battle of the Bulge ended with 130,000 German and 77,000 Allied casualties.
• 1946 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
• 1947 - Ray Lindwall smashes 100 v England in MCG Test
1950 - "Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
1950 - Britain recognizes Communist government of China
1951 - "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 perfs
1951 - Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
1953 - WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1956 - KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
• 1957 - Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
1957 - Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia
1958 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
1958 - Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
1958 - WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
1963 - "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances
1964 - Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move KC A's to Louisville
• 1964 - Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
1965 - Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling
1967 - "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV
1967 - KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis PresleySinger & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1967 - United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• 1968 - Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks
1968 - Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation
• 1968 - Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
• 1969 - Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame"
1969 - WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
1971 - Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate
• 1971 - Neil Young returns to his homeland of Canada for his first concert there since his pre-stardom days
• On this day in 1971, the United States Army dropped all charges regarding the cover-up of the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
Jan 6, 1971: Army drops charges of My Lai cover-up
The Army drops charges of an alleged cover-up in the My Lai massacre against four officers. After the charges were dropped, a total of 11 people had been cleared of responsibility during the My Lai trials, but several still faced charges.
The trials were a result of action that occurred in March 1968. During the incident, 1st Lt. William Calley, a platoon leader in the 23rd (Americal) Division, allegedly led his men to massacre innocent Vietnamese civilians, including women and children, in a cluster of hamlets in Son Tinh District in the coastal south of Chu Lai.
JAN 06 January 6 1971 Army drops charges of My Lai cover-up HISTORY.com Editors Published: November 16, 2009 Last Updated: May 28, 2025
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-6/army-drops-charges-of-my-lai-cover-up
1972 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1972 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley
1972 - Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR
1973 - "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
1974 - "CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio
1974 - England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
• 1974 - In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1975 - "AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
1975 - "Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-tv
• 1975 - 1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the group's February 4th gig to go on sale, cause a riot and an esimated $30,000 damage
1976 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1976 - Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
1977 - EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
1978 - 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
1978 - US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary
1979 - The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At it's peak it sold over 150,000 copies a day
1980 - "1940's Radio Hour" closes at St James Theater NYC after 105 perfs
1980 - Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
1980 - Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
1980 - The beginning of the first GPS epoch.
1981 - 50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals
• 1984 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission
1984 - Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee
• 1986 - British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns
• 1986 - Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
1986 - Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland
• 1986 - STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
1987 - 100th US Congress convenes
• 1987 - Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
1990 - NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
1991 - "Gypsy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 477 performances
1991 - "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
• 1991 - Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala
1991 - Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
1992 - NY Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul
1992 - Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA
1992 - Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* v Australia at the SCG
1992 - Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings
1993 - Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
1993 - Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a
1993 - Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews
1994 - "Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
1994 - Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88
1994 - Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard
1994 - Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44)
1994 - Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44)
1995 - Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939)
1995 - A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
1996 - Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
1997 - "It's a Slippery Slope," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
1998 - Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
1998 - Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
2002 - Daniel Bedingfield returns to No.1 on the UK singles chart for the second time with Gotta Get Thru This
2004 - Costas Simitis announces his resignation as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement in Greece.
• 2005 - Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
• 2013 - 10 people are killed by a US drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan
2013 - The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113 day lockout
• On this day in 2021, MAGA extremists gathered for a rally in Washington were directed by outgoing American President Donald Trump to interrupt the process of the certification of the 2020 elections. "be strong" and go to Capitol Hill and "take back the country." The extremists went and the gathering soon grew violent, as they scaled walls and broke windows and gained access into the Capitol Building in what came to be regarded as an insurrection, an attempt by President Trump to stay in power at the expense of American democracy. At the time of this writing, Trump has still not been held accountable for his role on that day, and he largely pardoned the actions of those gathered on that day.
0871 - England's King Alfred defeated the Danes at the Battle of Ashdown. 1205 - Philip of Swabia was crowned as King of the Romans. 1453 - Frederick III erected Austria into an Archduchy. 1540 - King Henry VIII of England was married to Anne of Cleves, his fourth wife. 1720 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble published its findings. 1838 - Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated the telegraph for the first time. 1896 - The first American women’s six-day bicycle race was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. 1900 - In India, it was reported that millions of people were dying from starvation. 1912 - New Mexico became the 47th U.S. state. 1930 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip was completed after a run of 792 miles from Indianapolis, IN, to New York City, NY. 1941 - Richard Widmark made his debut on radio in "The Home of the Brave." 1941 - Alice Marble made her professional tennis debut when she defeated Ruth Hardwick of Great Britain at Madison Square Garden in New York City. 1942 - The first commercial around-the-world airline flight took place. Pan American Airlines was the company that made history with the feat. 1942 - The National Collegiate Football Rules Committee abolished the Y formation. 1950 - Britain recognized the Communist government of China. 1952 - "Peanuts" debuted in Sunday papers across the United States. 1963 - "Wild Kingdom" premiered on NBC. 1967 - U.S. and South Vietnamese forces launched a major offensive, known as Operation "Deckhouse V", in the Mekong River delta. 1974 - CBS radio debuted "Radio Mystery Theatre." 1975 - The Broadway show "The Wiz" opened. 1975 - ABC-TV debuted "A.M. America." 1982 - William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles, CA, of being the "freeway killer" who had murdered 14 young men and boys. 1987 - After a 29-year lapse, the Ford Thunderbird was presented with the Motor Trend Car of the Year Award. It was the first occurrence of a repeat winner of the award. 1994 - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI. Four men were later sentenced to prison for the attack, including Tonya Harding's ex-husband. 1998 - The spacecraft Lunar Prospect was launched into orbit around the moon. The craft was crashed into the moon, in an effort to find water under the lunar surface, on July 31, 1999. 1999 - The 106th U.S. Congress opened. The first item on the agenda was the impeachment proceedings of U.S. President Bill Clinton. The trial was set to begin January 7, 1999. 1999 - Bob Newhart received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1540 King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves. 1759 George Washington married Martha Custis. 1838 Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph. 1912 New Mexico became the 47th state in the United States. 1919 Former president Theodore Roosevelt died in Oyster Bay, N.Y. 1987 University of California astronomers first witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion stars. 1994 Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan clubbed on leg by men including husband of rival skater Tonya Harding.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jan06.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
No comments:
Post a Comment