06 January History
- 1066 - Harold Godwineson is crowned crowned King Harold II – King of England.
- 1540 - Henry VIII of England marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage will last six months.
- 1861 - The Governor of Maryland, Thomas Hicks, announces his opposition to the states's possible secession from the Union.
- 1904 - Japanese railway authorities in Korea refuse to transport Russian troops.
- 1910 - Union leaders ask President William H. Taft to investigate U.S. Steel's practices.
- 1912 - New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state of the Union.
- 1918 - Germany acknowledges Finland's independence.
- 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, dies at the age of 60 in his home at Sagamore Hill, New York.
- 1921 - The U.S. Navy orders the sale of 125 flying boats to encourage commercial aviation.
- 1937 - The United States bans the shipment of arms to war-torn Spain.
- 1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to support the Lend-lease Bill to help supply the Allies.
- 1945 - Boeing B-29 bombers in the Pacific strike new blows on Tokyo and Nanking.
- 1946 - Ho Chi Minh wins in the Vietnamese elections.
- 1958 - Moscow announces a reduction in its armed forces by 300,000.
- 1967 - Over 16,000 U.S. and 14,000 Vietnamese troops start their biggest attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of Saigon.
- 1987 - Astronomers report sighting a new galaxy 12 billion light years away.
- 2001 - In one of the closest Presidential elections in U.S. history, George W. Bush was finally declared the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 Presidential elections more then five weeks after the election due to the disputed Florida ballots.
06 January Birthdays
- 1367 - Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince.
- 1412 - Joan of Arc, French Saint and national heroine.
- 1811 - Charles Sumner, anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts.
- 1878 - Carl Sandburg, U.S. journalist, poet and biographer.
- 1882 - Sam Rayburn, U.S. congressman from Texas & Speaker of the House (1940-46, 1949-53).