Monday, January 7, 2013

January 6 in history


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Events


1066 – Harold Godwinson (or Harold II) is crowned King of England.

1205 – Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.

1322 – Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia.

1355 – Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.

1449 – Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mystras.

1492 – The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.

1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.

1579 – The Union of Arras is signed.

1661 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.

1690 – Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.

1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.

1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.

1809 – Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.

1838 – Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).

1839 – The "Night of the Big Wind", the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.

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.

1870 – The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.

1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.

1900 – Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.

1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.

1912 – New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.

1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.

1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, dies at age 60.

1921 – Formation of the Iraqi Army.

1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).

1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.

1930 – The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.

1931 – Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.

1941 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his "Four Freedoms" speech in the State of the Union address, outlining a goal of “Four Freedoms”: Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.

1942 – The Japanese capture 11 Navy nurses in Manila, Philippines. Malnourished and diseased themselves, the nurses nonetheless managed a makeshift hospital inside Los Baños, where they treated other internees as best they could under impossible conditions, serving most of their internment at Los Baños before being liberated in February 1945.

1946 – The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.

1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.

1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.

1951 – Korean War: An estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered in what becomes the Ganghwa massacre.

1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.

1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.

1960 – The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.

1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.

1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.

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.

1992 – President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.

1993 – Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.

1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.

1995 – A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.

2000 – Celia, the last Pyrenean ibex was found dead after a tree had landed on her.

2005 – American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.

2005 – A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.

2009 – Israel conducts an assault on the Gaza Strip.

2012 – 26 people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Epiphany of Our Lord.     Double of the First Class.


Contemporary Western

Epiphany
André Bessette


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox

January 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

The Holy Theophany of Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ (Baptism of the
      Lord) - Cross Procession with Great Blessing of Waters outdoors

Saints

Venerable Evagrius, of Nitria (415)
Venerable-martyr George the Persian (615)

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Martyrs of North-West Africa, burnt at the stake under Septimius Severus (c. 210)
Virgin-martyr Macra, from Rheims in France, martyred in Fismes in Champagne
       before the persecution under Diocletian began (287)
Martyr Anastasius, a martyr in Syrmium in Pannonia, now Hungary (4th century)
Martyrs Anastasius, Jucundus, Florus, Florianus, Peter, Ratites, Tatia and Tilis,
      in Syrmium in Pannonia, now Hungary (4th century)
Saint Hywyn, probably a companion of St Cadfan on his return journey from Brittany
      to Cornwall and Wales; by tradition he founded Aberdaron in Gwynedd (516)
Saint Melanius (Melaine), born in Brittany, he was Bishop of Rennes and succeeded
      in overcoming idolatry in his diocese (c. 535)
Saint Edeyrn (Eternus), born in Britain, he was hermit and the patron saint
      of a church in Brittany (6th century)
Saint Eigrad (Eugrad), a brother of St. Samson, he was a disciple of St Illtyd
      and founded a church in Anglesey in Wales (6th century)
Saint Schotin (Scarthin), a disciple of St David in Wales, lived as a hermit
      on Mt Mairge in Leix (County Laois) for many years (6th century)
Saint Merinus (Mirren of Benchor), a disciple of Dunawd at Bangor in Wales
      and venerated there and in Brittany (6th century)
Saint Peter of Canterbury, a monk from St Andrew's in Rome, he was one of the first
      missionaries sent to England (c. 607)
Saint Diman (Dimas, Dima), a monk with St Columba and afterwards Bishop
      of Connor in Ireland (658)
Venerable Wiltrudis, founded the convent of Bergen near Neuburg in Germany (c. 976)
      and herself became a nun and the first Abbess (986)
Saint Frederick of Arras, a monk at St Vanne and later St Vedast Abbey in Arras (1020)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Martyr Assad the tailor (1218)
New Hieromartyr Romanus, priest of Lacedemonia, at Constantinople, by the sword (1695)
Saint Theophan the Recluse Bishop of Tambov (1894)
Saint Laurence of Chernigov Convent, Wonderworker (1950)

New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyr Archpriest Andrew Zimin, his wife Lydia, his mother-in-law Domnica,
      his two daughters and his servant Maria, of Ussurisk, Siberia (1919)Other commemorations

Repose of Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam (1824)
Repose of Schemamonk Sergius (Yanovsky) (1876), disciple of St. Herman of Alaska



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