Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 6

This is a list of selected January 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Nancy Kerrigan in 2006
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  Samuel Morse
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  Samuel Morse
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  Alfred Vail
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  Maria Montessori
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  Fresco of Stefan Dečanski

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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| Alan Wiggins |d|1991| Qiyu Zhou |b|2000

January 6: Little Christmas

Constantine XI Palaiologos

• 1449 – Four years before the fall of Constantinople, Constantine XI Palaiologos (pictured) assumed the throne as the last Byzantine emperor.
• 1724 – Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, a Bach cantata for Epiphany, was first performed in Leipzig.
• 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift, the precursor of plate tectonics.
• 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)

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