January 6: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic Monarchs enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
2. 1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
3. 1893 - The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
4. 1907 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
5. 1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
6. 1912 - German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
7. 1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
8. 1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
9. 1947 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
10. 1978 - The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned toHungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
11. Famous Birthdays: Thomas Fincke (Danish mathematician and physicist), Jacques-étienne Montgolfier (French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon), Giuseppe Martucci (Italian composer, conductor, and pianist), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (Swiss immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate), Michael Foale (English-American astrophysicist and astronaut)

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