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January 6 Historical Events

The following events took place on January 6. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 48 events. Showing 31 - 48.

  • 1947
    Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
  • 1950
    The United Kingdom recognizes the People’s Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
  • 1951
    Korean War: An estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered in what becomes the Ganghwa massacre.
  • 1953
    The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
  • 1960
    National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
  • 1960
    The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
  • 1967
    Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch “Operation Deckhouse Five” in the Mekong River delta.
  • 1974
    In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
  • 1978
    The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
  • 1992
    President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
  • 1993
    Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
  • 1994
    Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
  • 1995
    A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
  • 2000
    Celia, the last Pyrenean ibex was found dead after a tree had landed on her.
  • 2005
    American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
  • 2005
    A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
  • 2009
    Israel conducts an assault on the Gaza Strip
  • 2012
    26 people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.

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