📜 This Day in History

January 6

• 1066Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon monarch before the Norman Conquest, was crowned King of England.
• 1536The oldest European school of higher learning in the Americas, the Colegio de Santa Cruz, was founded in Tlatelolco, Mexico City.
• 1839The 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.
• 1941During 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.
• 1972A brawl broke out between players, fans, and police officers during an ice hockey game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the St. Louis Blues in Philadelphia.
• 2021Supporters of then-outgoing U.S. president Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in five deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress.

Born on this day

• 1412Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (died 1431)
• 1883Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher (died 1931)
• 1955Debbie Mathers, Mother of Eminem (died 2024)
• 1955Rowan Atkinson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter