Events on January 6 45
Year 1355
Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
Year 1492
The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
Year 1661
English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
Year 1781
In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
Year 1809
Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.
Year 1838
Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
Year 1839
The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
Year 1893
The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
Year 1900
Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
Year 1907
Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
Year 1912
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
Year 1929
King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
Year 1929
Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
Year 1930
The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
Year 1941
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
Year 1947
Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
Year 1950
The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
Year 1951
Korean War: An estimated 200-1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered in what becomes the Ganghwa massacre.
Year 1960
National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
Year 1960
The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
Year 1967
Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
Year 1974
In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
Year 1978
The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
Year 1989
Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh are sentenced to death for conspiracy in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; the two men are executed the same day.
Year 1992
President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
Year 1993
Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
Year 1995
A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
Year 2005
American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
Year 2005
A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
Year 2012
Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
Year 2017
5 people are killed and 6 others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida.