Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 6
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Epiphany (Gregorian calendar); | refimprove section, lots of CN tags |
| Armed Forces Day in Iraq | refimprove |
| 1579 – Several provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands signed the Union of Arras about their intent to offer a vigorous defense of the Catholic Church against Calvinism. | unreferenced section |
| 1661 – Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempted to seize control of London from the newly restored government of Charles II. | needs more footnotes |
| 1781 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Jersey, British forces stopped France's last attempt to militarily invade Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. | unreferenced section |
| 1838 – Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail successfully tested the electrical telegraph for the first time at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey. | refimprove section |
| 1912 – New Mexico was admitted as the 47th U.S. state. | refimprove section |
| 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes abolished his country's constitution and introduced a dictatorship. | Alexander: refimprove section, close paraphrasing; Dictatorship: refimprove section |
| 1978 – The Holy Crown of Hungary, used to crown Hungarian kings from the 13th century onward, was returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II. | refimprove section |
| 1993 – Indian Border Security Force (BSF) units allegedly killed 55 civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, as revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol. | kind of short, seems like may need an update |
| 1995 – A suspicious fire in a Manila flat led to the foiling of the Bojinka plot, a precursor to the September 11, 2001 attacks. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| 2001 – A joint session of the U.S. Congress certified George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 U.S. presidential election, despite 20 members of the House of Representatives filing objections to the electoral votes of Florida. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – About 60 tons of chlorine gas were released when two Norfolk Southern trains collided in Graniteville, South Carolina, U.S. | refimprove |
| 2021 – Rioters supporting President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol, disrupting the certification of the presidential election and forcing Congress to evacuate. | Yellow "too long" maintenance tag |
| John of Ávila |b|1499 | citation neededs |
| Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence |d|1537| | uncited death date |
| Jane Dormer |b|1538| | citeation needed, verification needed |
| Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack |d|1917| | short lead |
Eligible
- 1066 – Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon monarch before the Norman Conquest, was crowned King of England.
- 1322 – Stefan Dečanski was crowned King of Serbia, succeeding his half-brother Stefan Konstantin, whom he later defeated in battle.
- 1536 – The oldest European school of higher learning in the Americas, the Colegio de Santa Cruz, was founded in Tlatelolco, Mexico City.
- 1540 – King Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves; the marriage was annulled six months later.
- 1839 – The worst storm to impact Ireland in 300 years damaged or destroyed more than 20 per cent of houses in Dublin with 100-knot (190 km/h) winds.
- 1870 – The Musikverein, considered to be one of the greatest concert halls, is opened in Vienna, Austria.
- 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori (pictured) opened her first school and day-care centre for working-class children in Rome, employing a philosophy of education that now bears her name.
- 1941 – During his State of the Union address, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt presented his Four Freedoms as fundamental freedoms that all people ought to enjoy.
- 1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511, traveling from New York City to Miami, exploded in mid-air due to a bomb placed by an unknown party, resulting in the deaths of all 34 people on board.
- 1972 – A brawl broke out between players, fans, and police officers during an ice hockey game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the St. Louis Blues in Philadelphia.
- 1994 – Two-time American Olympic figure-skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan was hit on the leg with a police baton by an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.
- 2021 – Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in five deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress.
- Born/died this day:| Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares |b|1587| Jedediah Smith |b|1799| Ion Heliade Rădulescu |b|1802| Clarence King |b|1842| Gustav Bauer |b|1870| Kahlil Gibran |b|1883| Vecihi Hürkuş |b|1896| Early Wynn |b|1920| Joseph Sonnabend |b|1933| Nigella Lawson |b|1960| Rinko Kikuchi |b|1981| Usha Vance |b|1986| Nicky Romero |b|1989| Alan Wiggins |d|1991| Nemo Zhou |b|2000|
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Constantine XI Palaiologos
- 1449 – Four years before the fall of Constantinople, Constantine XI Palaiologos (pictured) assumed the throne as the last Byzantine emperor.
- 1725 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, a chorale cantata for Epiphany.
- 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift, the precursor of plate tectonics, to the German Geological Society.
- 1953 – The inaugural Asian Socialist Conference, an organisation of socialist political parties, opened in Rangoon with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.
- 2014 – The first episode of the documentary series Benefits Street aired on Channel 4, prompting discussion in the United Kingdom about welfare dependency.
- Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros (b. 1756)
- Earl Scruggs (b. 1924)
- Babrak Karmal (b. 1929)
- Sybil Plumlee (d. 2012)