Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 6, 2021

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 * 1066 – Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king 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.
 * 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory of continental drift, the precursor of plate tectonics.
 * 1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference, an organisation of socialist political parties in Asia, opened in Rangoon, Burma, with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.
 * 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 (pictured) 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: | Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence |d|1537| Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares |b|1587| Jane Dormer |b|1538| Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros |b|1756| Jedediah Smith |b|1799| Clarence King |b|1842| Kahlil Gibran |b|1883| Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack |d|1917| Nigella Lawson |b|1960| Sybil Plumlee |d|2012

January 6: Little Christmas


 * 1449 – Constantine XI Palaiologos was proclaimed the last Byzantine emperor, four years before the Fall of Constantinople.
 * 1540 – King Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves; the marriage was annulled six months later.
 * 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori (pictured) opened her first school and day-care centre for working-class children in Rome, employing the 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.
 * 1977 – The record label EMI ended its contract with the English punk-rock band Sex Pistols in response to its members' disruptive behaviour at Heathrow Airport two days earlier.