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 6th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 359 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 24, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,736,121,600 seconds 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.
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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 23 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 4,399 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 6 Historical Events
- 1118 –Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
- 1322 –Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia.
- 1690 –Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
- 1781 –In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
- 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.
- 1950 –The United Kingdom recognizes the People’s Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
- 1993 –Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
- 2005 –A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
Who were born on January 6?
- 1799 –Jedediah Strong Smith, American hunter and explorer (d. 1831)
- 1882 –Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
- 1882 –Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965)
- 1907 –David Fleay, Australian naturalist (d. 1993)
- 1908 –Menachem Avidom, Austro-Hungarian born Israeli composer (d. 1995)
- 1934 –John Wieners, American lyric poet (d. 2002)
- 1951 –Don Gullett, American baseball player
- 1954 –Anthony Minghella, British film director (d. 2008)
- 1955 –Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
- 1965 –Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer
Who died on January 6?
- 1088 –Berengar of Tours, French theologian (b. c.999)
- 1646 –Elias Holl, German Architect (b. 1573)
- 1711 –Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
- 1731 –Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
- 1913 –Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
- 1944 –Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
- 1993 –Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player (b. 1917)
- 1994 –Virginia Dell Cassidy, Bill Clinton’s mother (b. 1923)
- 1997 –Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
- 1999 –Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (b. 1962)
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