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Birthday January 06, 1412 Joan of Arc, martyr |
Birthday January 06, 1798 Mountain man Jedediah Smith is born |
Birthday January 06, 1799 Jedediah Smith, fur trader and explorer |
Birthday January 06, 1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator |
Birthday January 06, 1823 Gustave Dore, illustrator (Inferno and Rime of Ancient Mariner) |
Birthday January 06, 1827 Confederate General John Calvin Brown born |
Birthday January 06, 1838 Max Bruch, German composer |
Birthday January 06, 1842 Clarence King, geologist and mining engineer |
Birthday January 06, 1854 Sherlock Holmes, according to Arthur Conan Doyle |
Birthday January 06, 1871 Aleksandr Scriabin, Russian composer |
Birthday January 06, 1878 Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of Lincoln (The People and Yes) |
Birthday January 06, 1880 Tom Mix, silent screen cowboy Actor (Dick Turpin) |
Birthday January 06, 1882 Samuel Rayburn (D), speaker of House (1940-57) |
Birthday January 06, 1883 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese mystic poet (The Prophet and Broken Wings) |
Birthday January 06, 1911 Joey Adams, comedian |
Birthday January 06, 1913 Loretta Young, (Farmer's Daughter and Stranger) in Salt Lake City |
Birthday January 06, 1914 Danny Thomas, comedian and Actor |
Birthday January 06, 1915 Don Edwards (D), US representative from California |
Birthday January 06, 1920 Sun Myung Moon, evangelist (Unification Church) |
Birthday January 06, 1924 Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musician |
Birthday January 06, 1925 Auto industry maverick John DeLorean born |
Birthday January 06, 1934 Sylvia Sims |
Birthday January 06, 1945 Bonnie Franklin, TV Actress (One Day at a Time) in Santa Monica |
Birthday January 06, 1957 Nancy Lopez, Golf pro |
History January 06, 1066 Harold II crowned king of England |
History January 06, 1663 Great earthquake in New England |
History January 06, 1753 Epiphany |
History January 06, 1759 Two future presidents marry respective sweethearts |
History January 06, 1777 Washington sets up winter quarters in Morristown |
History January 06, 1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph |
History January 06, 1884 Gregor Mendel Augustine monk & heredity pioneer died |
History January 06, 1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast |
History January 06, 1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state |
History January 06, 1912 New Mexico joins the Union |
History January 06, 1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded |
History January 06, 1919 Theodore Roosevelt dies |
History January 06, 1925 Nurmi breaks two world records |
History January 06, 1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip completed |
History January 06, 1936 Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood Ontario) |
History January 06, 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks of Four Freedoms |
History January 06, 1941 FDR names 4 freedoms (freedom of speech religion; from want fear) |
History January 06, 1942 Roosevelt commits to biggest arms buildup in U.S. history |
History January 06, 1942 1st around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper" |
History January 06, 1951 Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes |
History January 06, 1958 Soviet Union announces troop reduction |
History January 06, 1971 Army drops charges of My Lai cover-up |
History January 06, 1975 Phuoc Binh falls to the North Vietnamese |
History January 06, 1975 Two thousand Led Zeppelin fans trash the Boston Garden |
History January 06, 1977 John Gardner wins National Book Critics Circle Award |
History January 06, 1981 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals |
History January 06, 1987 100th US Congress convenes |
History January 06, 1994 Nancy Kerrigan attacked |
History January 06, 1994 Skater Nancy Kerrigan attacked |
History January 06, 1996 Blizzard of 1996 begins |
History January 06, 2001 Congress certifies Bush winner of 2000 elections |
History January 06, 2008 Disney-MGM Studios becomes Disney’s Hollywood Studios |