Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
2761January 6Holiday and observanceArmed Forces Day (Iraq)
2762January 6Holiday and observanceChristian Feast Day:André Bessette (Roman Catholic Church)Blessed Rita Amada de JesusJanuary 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
2763January 6Holiday and observanceEpiphany (Western Christianity) or Theophany (Eastern Christianity), and its related observances:Befana Day (Italy)Christmas (Armenian Apostolic Church)Little Christmas (Ireland)
2764January 6Holiday and observancePathet Lao Day (Laos)
2765January 6Holiday and observanceThe beginning of the Carnival period, from Epiphany until Shrove Tuesday. (Roman Catholicism)
2766January 7Event1131 – Canute Lavard was murdered at Haraldsted, Denmark by his cousin Magnus, which led to the civil war in Denmark (1131–34).
2767January 7Event1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
2768January 7Event1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
2769January 7Event1566 – Pope Pius V is elected.
2770January 7Event1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
2771January 7Event1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
2772January 7Event1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
2773January 7Event1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
2774January 7Event1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
2775January 7Event1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
2776January 7Event1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
2777January 7Event1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
2778January 7Event1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
2779January 7Event1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
2780January 7Event1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.
2781January 7Event1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.
2782January 7Event1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
2783January 7Event1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
2784January 7Event1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
2785January 7Event1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
2786January 7Event1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
2787January 7Event1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
2788January 7Event1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
2789January 7Event1955 – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
2790January 7Event1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

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