January 6 Historical Events
The following events took place on January 6. The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 1947Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
- 1950The United Kingdom recognizes the People’s Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
- 1951Korean War: An estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered in what becomes the Ganghwa massacre.
- 1953The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
- 1960National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
- 1960The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
- 1967Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch “Operation Deckhouse Five” in the Mekong River delta.
- 1974In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
- 1978The 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.
- 1992President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
- 1993Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
- 1994Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
- 1995A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
- 2000Celia, the last Pyrenean ibex was found dead after a tree had landed on her.
- 2005American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
- 2005A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
- 2009Israel conducts an assault on the Gaza Strip
- 201226 people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
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