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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Epiphany (Gregorian calendar); | unreferenced sections galore, {{ibid}} |
| 1661 – Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempted to seize control of London from the newly restored government of Charles II. | needs more footnotes |
| 1781 – At the Battle of Jersey, British forces stopped France's last attempt to militarily invade Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. | Tagged with {{nofootnotes}} |
| 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori opened her first school and day care center for working class children in Rome, employing the philosophy of education that now bears her name. | lead too short |
| 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes abolished his country's constitution and introduced a dictatorship. | Both Alexander and dictatorship articles tagged {{refimprove}} |
| 1978 – The Holy Crown of Hungary, used to crown Hungarian kings from the 13th century onward, was returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II. | refimprove section |
| 1995 – A suspicious fire in a Manila flat led to the foiling of the Bojinka plot, a precursor to the September 11, 2001 attacks. | refimprove |
| 2001 – A joint session of the U.S. Congress certified George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 U.S. presidential election, despite 20 members of the House of Representatives filing objections to the electoral votes of Florida. | {{cite check}} |
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- 1449 – The last Byzantine-Roman Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, was crowned, four years before the Fall of Constantinople.
- 1838 – Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail successfully tested the electrical telegraph for the first time at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey.
- 1912 - New Mexico was admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
- 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory of continental drift.
- 1941 – During his State of the Union Address, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented his Four Freedoms as fundamental freedoms humans everywhere in the world 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 London Heathrow Airport two days earlier.
- 1994 – Two-time American Olympic figure skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant hired by Jeff Gillooly, the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.
January 6: Armed Forces Day in Iraq
- 1066 – Harold Godwinson, widely regarded as the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman conquest, was crowned King of England.
- 1322 – Having defeated his half-brother Stephen Constantine in battle, Stephen Dečanski (fresco pictured) was crowned King of Serbia.
- 1839 – The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland, with 100-knot winds damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
- 1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference, an organization of socialist political parties in Asia, opened in Rangoon, Burma, with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.
- 1993 – Indian Border Security Force (BSF) units killed 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
- 2005 – About 60 tons of chlorine gas were released when two Norfolk Southern trains collided in Graniteville, South Carolina, US.