more events on January 6
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2014
US Senate confirms Janet Yellen as the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve Bank in the central bank’s 100-year history.
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2005
Former Ku Klux Klan organizer Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.
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2001
In one of the closest Presidential elections in U.S. history, George W. Bush was finally declared the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 Presidential elections more than five weeks after the election due to the disputed Florida ballots.
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1987
Astronomers report sighting a new galaxy 12 billion light years away.
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1967
Over 16,000 U.S. and 14,000 Vietnamese troops start their biggest attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of Saigon.
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1958
Moscow announces a reduction in its armed forces by 300,000.
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1957
Nancy Lopez, pro golfer; won LPGA Championship (1978, 1985) and Mazda LPGA Championship (1989).
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1946
Syd Barrett, musician, singer, songwriter; founding member of the band Pink Floyd.
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Ho Chi Minh wins in the Vietnamese elections.
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1945
Boeing B-29 bombers in the Pacific strike new blows on Tokyo and Nanking.
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1944
Bonnie Franklin, actress (One Day at a Time TV series).
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1941
President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to support the Lend-lease Bill to help supply the Allies.
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1937
Lou Holtz, college football coach; television sports commentator.
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The United States bans the shipment of arms to war-torn Spain.
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1935
Queen Margarita of Bulgaria (Dona Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela).
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1924
Earl Scruggs, musician; popularized the finger-picking style of banjo playing; blended rock and bluegrass.
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1921
The U.S. Navy orders the sale of 125 flying boats to encourage commercial aviation.
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1919
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, dies at the age of 60 in his home at Sagamore Hill, New York.
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1918
Germany acknowledges Finland’s independence.
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1913
Loretta Young, actress; won Academy Award for The Farmer’s Daughter (1947).
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1912
Danny Thomas, actor, producer, philanthropist; founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state of the Union.
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1910
Union leaders ask President William H. Taft to investigate U.S. Steel’s practices.
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1904
Japanese railway authorities in Korea refuse to transport Russian troops.
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1900
Maria of Romania, Queen of Yugoslavia; wife of King Alexander.
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1899
Heinz Nordhoff, German engineer, named managing director of the Volkswagen plant at Wolfsburg after World War II; under his leadership the Volkswagen Beetle became a worldwide phenomenon.
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1882
Sam Rayburn, U.S. Congressman from Texas & Speaker of the House (1940-46, 1949-53).
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1878
Carl Sandburg, U.S. journalist, poet and biographer.
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1861
The Governor of Maryland, Thomas Hicks, announces his opposition to the state’s possible secession from the Union.
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1811
Charles Sumner, anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts.
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1540
Henry VIII of England marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage will last six months.
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1412
Joan of Arc, French Saint and national heroine.
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1367
Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince.
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1066
Harold Godwineson is crowned King Harold II – King of England.