It happened on this day, January 6
Events:
1066 Harold Godwinson is crowned king of England.
1784 – The Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire sign a peace agreement known as the “Convention of Constantinople”, which ends the Russo-Ottoman War.
1838 – Samuel Morse's experiment with an electric telegraph succeeded for the first time.
1912 – New Mexico becomes the 47th state to join the United States.
1921 – Creation of the Iraqi army.
1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India and begins helping the poor and sick.
1941 – US President Franklin Roosevelt gives a speech in which he talks about human rights. This speech is called the Four Freedoms Speech.
1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China as the sole representative of the Chinese people and withdraws recognition of Taiwan.
1964 – Publication of the provisional constitution for North Yemen.
1992 – Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees following a military coup that leads Eduard Shevardnadze to the presidency.
2000 – Dozens of Zionists working for the Israel Antiquities Authority demonstrate to protest restoration operations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
2012 – A bomb attack took place in the Al-Midan neighborhood of Damascus, targeting a law enforcement patrol, killing 26 people and injuring 60 others, most of whom were civilians.
✴️ Later, a recording was published on the Internet in which a jihadist group linked to Al-Qaeda, called “Al-Nusra Front for the People of the Levant”, claimed responsibility for the attack. This was the first attack claimed by Al-. Al-Nusra Front in Syria.
2018 – At least 32 people were killed and dozens injured when an Iranian oil tanker collided with a Chinese cargo ship in the East China Sea.
2019 – Actor Jeff Bridges receives the Cecil B. DeMille Honorary Award at the 76th Golden Globe Awards.
2021 – Protesters storm the United States Capitol building, disrupting the US Congress' certification of the 2020 US presidential election.
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Births:
1367 – King Richard II, king of England.
1412 – Joan of Arc, French fighter and national heroine.
1870 – Gustav Bauer, chancellor of Germany.
1883 – Gibran Khalil Gibran, one of the diaspora poets of Lebanese origin.
1896 – Zakaria Ahmed, Egyptian musician.
1906 – Abd al-Azim al-Rubaie, Iranian jurist, poet and writer.
1916 – Mohsen Sarhan, Egyptian actor.
1931 – Juan Goizolo, Spanish writer and poet.
1937 – Underwood Dudley, American mathematician.
1937 – Paolo Conte, Italian singer.
1938 – Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor.
1942 – Fawzia Al-Shindi, Iraqi actress.
1943 – Nagwa Fouad, Egyptian actress and belly dancer.
** Terry Venables, English footballer and manager.
1953 – Manfred Kaltz, German footballer.
1955 – Rowan Atkinson, English actor.
1957 – Michael Foale, Anglo-American astrophysicist and astronaut.
1960 – Nigella Lawson, English journalist and writer concerned with culinary matters.
1968 – Ahmed Eid, Egyptian actor.
1976 – Johnny Young Bush, American actor.
1980: Stede Malbranque, French footballer.
1981 – Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress.
1986 – Jannat, Moroccan singer.
2000 – Shuhwa, South Korean singer.
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Death:
1537 – Alexandre de Medici, Duke of Florence.
1693 – Sultan Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan.
1852 – Louis Braille, French teacher for the blind and inventor of the Braille reading method for the blind.
1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician.
1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States.
1934 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager.
1940 – Muhammad Mahdi Al-Kishwan, Iraqi Muslim jurist and author.
1981 – Archibald Joseph Cronin, Scottish writer.
1982 – Ahmed Al-Bishr Al-Rumi, Kuwaiti writer.
1988 – Ali bin Saleh Al-Ghamdi, Saudi poet.
1990 – Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958.
2009 – Musa Lashin, Egyptian Azhar religious scholar.
2013 – Qazi Hussain Ahmed Pakistani, former leader of Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan.
2014 – Monica Spear, Venezuelan actress and model and Miss Venezuela 2004.
2017 – Om Puri, Indian actor.
2022 – Maha Abu Auf, Egyptian actress.
** Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Christmas in the Armenian Orthodox Church and Christmas Eve in the majority of Eastern Christian denominations.
⬅️ Army Day in Iraq.
⬅️ The Feast of the Divine Epiphany, the “Feast of Kings”, or what is called the Feast of the Epiphany in Christian sects.
