January 6
1412 - According to tradition, Joan or Arc was born in Domremy, France.
1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1759 - George Washington married Martha Custis.
1838 - Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph in Morristown, New Jersey.
1912 - New Mexico became the 47th state.
1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, died in Oyster Bay, New York at age 60.
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of “Four Freedoms”: Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.
1945 - George H.W. Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, New York.
1968 - A surgical team at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, led by Dr. Norman Shumway, performed the first U.S. adult heart transplant, placing the heart of a 43-year-old man in a 54-year-old patient (the recipient died 15 days later).
1987 - University of California astronomers first witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion stars.
1998 - In a new bid to expand health insurance, President Clinton unveiled a proposal to offer Medicare coverage to hundreds of thousands of uninsured Americans from ages 55 to 64.
2001 - With the vanquished Vice President Al Gore presiding, Congress certified Republican George W. Bush the winner of the closely and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election.
2003 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused U.N. inspectors of engaging in “intelligence work” instead of searching for suspected nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in his country.
2005 - Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was arrested 41 years after three civil rights workers were slain in Mississippi. (Killen was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in prison.)
2011 - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced he would cut $78 billion from the Defense Department budget over the next five years, an effort to trim fat in light of the nation’s ballooning deficit.
2017 - Congress certified Donald Trump’s presidential victory over the objections of a handful of House Democrats, with Vice President Joe Biden pronouncing, “It is over.”
2020 - Throngs of Iranians attended the funeral of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who’d been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq; Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wept while praying over the casket.
2020 - Former White House national security adviser John Bolton said he was “prepared to testify” if subpoenaed by the Senate in its impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. (The Senate voted against calling witnesses.)
Birthdays
25 - Courtney Eaton (actress)
27 - Catriona Gray (model)
27 - Jameis Winston (football player)
35 - Alex Turner (singer)
35 - Irina Shayk (model)
36 - Keyshia Ka'oir (model)
37 - Hilaria Thomas Baldwin (actress)
37 - Diona Reasonover (actress)
37 - Kate McKinnon (actress/comedian)
37 - Eric Trump (son of President Donald Trump)
39 - Gilbert Arenas (basketball player)
39 - Tiffany Pollard (reality star)
39 - Eddie Redmayne (actor)
42 - Cristela Alonzo (actress)
45 - Danny Pintauro (actor)
51 - Julie Chen (TV host)
52 - Norman Reedus (actor)
62 - Kathy Sledge (singer)
63 - Scott Bryce (actor)
64 - Nancy Lopez (golfer)
66 - Rowan Atkinson (actor/comedian)
68 - Jett Williams (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 6
1942 - The National Collegiate Football Rules Committee abolished the Y formation.
1951 - The Indianapolis Olympians defeat the Rochester Royals 75-73 in six overtimes, the longest game in NBA history.
1976 - Media mogul Ted Turner purchased the Atlanta Braves for $12 million.
1994 - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the leg by an assailant at Detroit’s Cobo Arena; four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, went to prison for their roles in the attack. (Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution, but denied any advance knowledge about the assault.)
1995 - Atlanta Hawks coach Lenny Wilkens passes the legendary Red Auerbach to become the NBA's all-time winningest coach with 939 career wins.
1997 - Peter O'Malley announced that the Los Angeles Dodgers were for sale. The team had been owned by his family for 47 years.
1998 - Don Sutton is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1999 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) and its players agreed to a tentative labor agreement to end a six-month lockout.
2002 - Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys became the first running back in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in 11 consecutive seasons.
2010 - NBA commissioner David Stern indefinitely suspended Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas without pay. Arenas has admitted to bringing guns into the Verizon Center locker room and was under investigation by local and federal authorities.
2014 - #1 Florida State defeats #2 Auburn 34-31 at the Rose Bowl to win the final BCS National Championship Game.
2016 - Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2018 - Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota scores a touchdown off his own pass in a 22-21 win over the Kansas City Chiefs, the second NFL quarterback to ever do so.
2018 - Jon Gruden returns to the NFL as a coach of the Oakland Raiders after nearly a decade as a broadcaster for NFL.
1412 - According to tradition, Joan or Arc was born in Domremy, France.
1540 - King Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1759 - George Washington married Martha Custis.
1838 - Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph in Morristown, New Jersey.
1912 - New Mexico became the 47th state.
1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, died in Oyster Bay, New York at age 60.
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of “Four Freedoms”: Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.
1945 - George H.W. Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, New York.
1968 - A surgical team at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, led by Dr. Norman Shumway, performed the first U.S. adult heart transplant, placing the heart of a 43-year-old man in a 54-year-old patient (the recipient died 15 days later).
1987 - University of California astronomers first witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion stars.
1998 - In a new bid to expand health insurance, President Clinton unveiled a proposal to offer Medicare coverage to hundreds of thousands of uninsured Americans from ages 55 to 64.
2001 - With the vanquished Vice President Al Gore presiding, Congress certified Republican George W. Bush the winner of the closely and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election.
2003 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused U.N. inspectors of engaging in “intelligence work” instead of searching for suspected nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in his country.
2005 - Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was arrested 41 years after three civil rights workers were slain in Mississippi. (Killen was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in prison.)
2011 - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced he would cut $78 billion from the Defense Department budget over the next five years, an effort to trim fat in light of the nation’s ballooning deficit.
2017 - Congress certified Donald Trump’s presidential victory over the objections of a handful of House Democrats, with Vice President Joe Biden pronouncing, “It is over.”
2020 - Throngs of Iranians attended the funeral of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who’d been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq; Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wept while praying over the casket.
2020 - Former White House national security adviser John Bolton said he was “prepared to testify” if subpoenaed by the Senate in its impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. (The Senate voted against calling witnesses.)
Birthdays
25 - Courtney Eaton (actress)
27 - Catriona Gray (model)
27 - Jameis Winston (football player)
35 - Alex Turner (singer)
35 - Irina Shayk (model)
36 - Keyshia Ka'oir (model)
37 - Hilaria Thomas Baldwin (actress)
37 - Diona Reasonover (actress)
37 - Kate McKinnon (actress/comedian)
37 - Eric Trump (son of President Donald Trump)
39 - Gilbert Arenas (basketball player)
39 - Tiffany Pollard (reality star)
39 - Eddie Redmayne (actor)
42 - Cristela Alonzo (actress)
45 - Danny Pintauro (actor)
51 - Julie Chen (TV host)
52 - Norman Reedus (actor)
62 - Kathy Sledge (singer)
63 - Scott Bryce (actor)
64 - Nancy Lopez (golfer)
66 - Rowan Atkinson (actor/comedian)
68 - Jett Williams (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 6
1942 - The National Collegiate Football Rules Committee abolished the Y formation.
1951 - The Indianapolis Olympians defeat the Rochester Royals 75-73 in six overtimes, the longest game in NBA history.
1976 - Media mogul Ted Turner purchased the Atlanta Braves for $12 million.
1994 - Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the leg by an assailant at Detroit’s Cobo Arena; four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, went to prison for their roles in the attack. (Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution, but denied any advance knowledge about the assault.)
1995 - Atlanta Hawks coach Lenny Wilkens passes the legendary Red Auerbach to become the NBA's all-time winningest coach with 939 career wins.
1997 - Peter O'Malley announced that the Los Angeles Dodgers were for sale. The team had been owned by his family for 47 years.
1998 - Don Sutton is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1999 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) and its players agreed to a tentative labor agreement to end a six-month lockout.
2002 - Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys became the first running back in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in 11 consecutive seasons.
2010 - NBA commissioner David Stern indefinitely suspended Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas without pay. Arenas has admitted to bringing guns into the Verizon Center locker room and was under investigation by local and federal authorities.
2014 - #1 Florida State defeats #2 Auburn 34-31 at the Rose Bowl to win the final BCS National Championship Game.
2016 - Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2018 - Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota scores a touchdown off his own pass in a 22-21 win over the Kansas City Chiefs, the second NFL quarterback to ever do so.
2018 - Jon Gruden returns to the NFL as a coach of the Oakland Raiders after nearly a decade as a broadcaster for NFL.