Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 6

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 * 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


 * 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.