A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 6th!
| 1412 | According to tradition, Joan of Arc was born in Domremy, France. |
| 1540 | Henry VIII of England marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage will last six months. |
| 1759 | George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married. |
| 1838 | Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, N.J. |
| 1861 | The Governor of Maryland, Thomas Hicks, announces his opposition to the states’s possible secession from the Union. |
| 1904 | Japanese railway authorities in Korea refuse to transport Russian troops. |
| 1910 | Union leaders ask President William H. Taft to investigate U.S. Steel’s practices. |
| 1912 | New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state of the Union. |
| 1918 | Germany acknowledges Finland’s independence. |
| 1919 | Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, dies at the age of 60. |
| 1921 | The U.S. Navy orders the sale of 125 flying boats to encourage commercial aviation. |
| 1937 | The United States bans the shipment of arms to war-torn Spain. |
| 1941 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to support the Lend-lease Bill to help supply the Allies. |
| 1945 | Boeing B-29 bombers in the Pacific strike new blows on Tokyo and Nanking. |
| 1945 | George H.W. Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y.  |
| 1946 | Ho Chi Minh wins in the Vietnamese elections. |
| 1958 | Moscow announces a reduction in its armed forces by 300,000. |
| 1967 | Over 16,000 U.S. and 14,000 Vietnamese troops start their biggest attack on the Iron Triangle, northwest of Saigon. |
| 1987 | Astronomers report sighting a new galaxy 12 billion light years away. |
| 1993 | Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie died at age 75. |
| 1994 | Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg in an assault planned by the ex-husband of her rival, Tonya Harding. |
| 2001 | In one of the closest Presidential elections in U.S. history, George W. Bush was finally declared the winner of the bitterly contested 2000 Presidential elections more then five weeks after the election due to the disputed Florida ballots. |
| 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.)  |
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