January 6

Today in History
• 1535 - City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
• 1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
• 1663 - Great earthquake in New England
• 1759 - George Washington married Martha Custis
• 1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph
• 1898 - 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
• 1907 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center
• 1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Armenian Christmas
• Day of Los Reyes
• Epiphany
• National Bean Day
• National Cuddle Up Day
• National Shortbread Day
• National Take Down the Christmas Tree Day
• World Day for War Orphans

Birthdays
• 1412 - Joan of Arc (French Heroine and Catholic Saint)
• 1745 - Jacques Montgolfier, France, aeronaut, 1st pioneer balloonist
• 1799 - Jedediah Strong Smith, U.S. fur trader/explorer
• 1864 - Ban Johnson, Norwalk, Connecticut, baseball founder, American League
• 1878 - Carl Sandburg, U.S., poet/biographer of Lincoln
• 1896 - Abram N Pritzker, U.S. businessman, Hyatt Hotels, McCall's magazine
• 1911 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile, 1964-70
• 1920 - Sun Myung Moon, evangelist, Unification Church-Moonies