What are the important events that happened on January 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

January 6: Facts & Myths About This Day

January 6 is the 6^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 24, 2023 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 473,472 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexagon’ day.

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 35 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,033 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 6 Historical Events

• 1205 –
  Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
• 1492 –
  Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs conquest Granada completing the Reconquista.
• 1661 –
  English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
• 1781 –
  In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
• 1870 –
  The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
• 1941 –
  President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
• 1947 –
  Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
• 1994 –
  Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1995 –
  A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
• 2005 –
  American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.

Who were born on January 6?

• 1412 –
  Joan of Arc, French military figure and Roman Catholic Saint (legendary date) (d. 1431)
• 1766 –
  Mihály Fazekas, Hungarian author (d. 1828)
• 1793 –
  James Madison Porter, American politician, 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College (d. 1862)
• 1915 –
  Don Edwards, American politician
• 1926 –
  Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born American actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
• 1926 –
  Ralph Branca, American baseball player
• 1931 –
  Juan Goytisolo, Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist
• 1954 –
  Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect
• 1960 –
  Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1964 –
  Charles Haley, American football player

Who died on January 6?

• 1592 –
  Johann Casimir of Simmern, Elector Palatine (b. 1543)
• 1831 –
  Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
• 1919 –
  Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
• 1941 –
  Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
• 1945 –
  Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
• 1952 –
  Sofoklis Dousmanis, Greek naval officer (b. 1868)
• 2009 –
  John Scott Martin, English actor (b. 1926)
• 2009 –
  Ron Asheton, American guitarist (The Stooges) (b. 1948)
• 2010 –
  James von Brunn, perpetrator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting (b. 1920)
• 2011 –
  Uche Okafor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1967)