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Events on the 6th of January in history

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06 Jan 1066 King Harald of England crowned
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06 Jan 1066 Harold Godwinson (or Harold II) is crowned King of England.
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06 Jan 1099 Henry V crowned German King
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06 Jan 1118 Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
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06 Jan 1205 Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
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06 Jan 1227 Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
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06 Jan 1322 Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia.
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06 Jan 1352 French King Jean II introduces Order of the Star
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06 Jan 1355 Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
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06 Jan 1449 Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mystras.
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06 Jan 1453 Emperor Frederik III becomes Archduke of Austria
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06 Jan 1492 The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
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06 Jan 1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi
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06 Jan 1497 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)
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06 Jan 1535 City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
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06 Jan 1540 King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
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06 Jan 1579 Artois / Hainault / Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras
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06 Jan 1579 The Union of Arras is signed.
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06 Jan 1622 Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
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06 Jan 1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
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06 Jan 1661 English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
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06 Jan 1663 Great earthquake in New England
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06 Jan 1690 Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
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06 Jan 1721 The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
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06 Jan 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow
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06 Jan 1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis
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06 Jan 1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
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06 Jan 1781 Battle of Jersey (Island in the UK)
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06 Jan 1781 In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
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06 Jan 1784 Turkey and Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
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06 Jan 1809 Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.
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06 Jan 1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
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06 Jan 1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
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06 Jan 1838 Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
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06 Jan 1839 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
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06 Jan 1839 The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
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06 Jan 1842 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
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06 Jan 1853 President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Pierce's 11-year-old son Benjamin is killed in the crash.
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06 Jan 1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
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06 Jan 1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
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06 Jan 1861 New York City mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N&S
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06 Jan 1870 The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
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06 Jan 1873 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
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06 Jan 1880 Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm
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06 Jan 1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
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06 Jan 1893 The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
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06 Jan 1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as Premier of Cape colony
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06 Jan 1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
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06 Jan 1900 Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
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06 Jan 1900 Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
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06 Jan 1903 Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
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06 Jan 1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
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06 Jan 1907 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
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06 Jan 1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state
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06 Jan 1912 German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
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06 Jan 1912 New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
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06 Jan 1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
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06 Jan 1921 Formation of the Iraqi Army.
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06 Jan 1925 Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile and 14:44.6 5,000m
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06 Jan 1926 Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
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06 Jan 1927 US marines sent to Nicaragua
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06 Jan 1928 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)
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06 Jan 1929 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
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06 Jan 1929 Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
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06 Jan 1929 King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
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06 Jan 1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
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06 Jan 1930 The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
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06 Jan 1931 Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
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06 Jan 1937 Bradman scores 270 Aust vs. England at the MCG, incl 110 singles
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06 Jan 1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx
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06 Jan 1941 United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
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06 Jan 1942 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
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06 Jan 1942 Bob Feller, enlists in Navy and reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
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06 Jan 1945 Future President George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye, New York
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06 Jan 1946 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
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06 Jan 1946 The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
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06 Jan 1947 Ray Lindwall smashes 100 vs. England in MCG Test
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06 Jan 1947 Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
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06 Jan 1950 "Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
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06 Jan 1950 Britain recognizes Communist government of China
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06 Jan 1950 The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
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06 Jan 1951 "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 performances
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06 Jan 1951 Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
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06 Jan 1951 Korean War: An estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered in what becomes the Ganghwa massacre.
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06 Jan 1953 WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Jan 1953 The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
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06 Jan 1956 Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
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06 Jan 1956 KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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06 Jan 1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th and final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
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06 Jan 1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
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06 Jan 1958 Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
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06 Jan 1958 WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Jan 1960 The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
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06 Jan 1960 National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
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06 Jan 1963 "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances
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06 Jan 1964 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City Athletics to Louisville
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06 Jan 1965 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling
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06 Jan 1967 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV
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06 Jan 1967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140
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06 Jan 1967 KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
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06 Jan 1967 Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
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06 Jan 1968 Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation
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06 Jan 1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
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06 Jan 1969 WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Jan 1971 Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
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06 Jan 1971 Cecil Partee elected President pro tem of Illinois State Senate
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06 Jan 1972 US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley
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06 Jan 1972 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR
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06 Jan 1973 "Schoolhouse Rock, " premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
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06 Jan 1974 "CBS Mystery Theater, " premieres on radio
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06 Jan 1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
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06 Jan 1974 In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
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06 Jan 1975 "AM America, " premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
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06 Jan 1975 "Wheel Of Fortune, " debuts on NBC-tv
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06 Jan 1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
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06 Jan 1977 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
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06 Jan 1978 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
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06 Jan 1978 US hand over St. Stephan crown to Hungary
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06 Jan 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.
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06 Jan 1980 Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
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06 Jan 1981 50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals
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06 Jan 1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission
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06 Jan 1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns
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06 Jan 1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
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06 Jan 1986 STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
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06 Jan 1987 100th US Congress convenes
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06 Jan 1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
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06 Jan 1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
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06 Jan 1991 "Gypsy" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 477 performances
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06 Jan 1991 "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
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06 Jan 1991 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 seconds)
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06 Jan 1992 New York Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul
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06 Jan 1992 Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings
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06 Jan 1992 President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
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06 Jan 1993 Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
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06 Jan 1993 Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller / 1993a
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06 Jan 1993 Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
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06 Jan 1994 "Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
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06 Jan 1994 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88
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06 Jan 1994 Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44)
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06 Jan 1994 Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44)
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06 Jan 1994 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
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06 Jan 1995 A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
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06 Jan 1996 Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
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06 Jan 1998 Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
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06 Jan 1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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06 Jan 2000 Celia, the last Pyrenean ibex was found dead after a tree had landed on her.
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06 Jan 2005 A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
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06 Jan 2005 American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
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06 Jan 2009 Israel conducts an assault on the Gaza Strip
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06 Jan 2012 26 people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
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