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January 6 United States Capitol attack

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1412

Joan of Arc

Died aged 19

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Marcellus I

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AD 255 · 1771 yrs

Marcellus I

Pope Marcellus I (Italian: Marcello I) (6 January 255 – 16 January 309) was the bishop of Rome from May or June 308 to his death on 16 January 309. He succeeded Marcellinus after a considerable interval.

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ReligionDied aged 54

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AD 659 · 1367 yrs

Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin

Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Sajjad (Arabic: عَلِيٌّ بْنُ ٱلْحُسَيْنِ ٱلسَّجَّادُ, romanized: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sajjād, c. 658 – c.

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ReligionDied aged 54

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1367 · 659 yrs

Richard II of England

Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. He was the son of Edward the Black Prince and Joan of Kent.

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RoyaltyDied aged 33

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1412 · 614 yrs

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc; Middle French: Jehanne Darc; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and securing the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.

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MilitaryDied aged 19

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1822 · 204 yrs

Heinrich Schliemann

Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (German:; 6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and an influential archeologist.

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BusinessDied aged 68

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1832 · 194 yrs

Gustave Doré

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (UK: DOR-ay, US: dor-AY; French:; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French artist. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy.

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ArtDied aged 51

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1835 · 191 yrs

César Cui

César Antonovich Cui (Russian: Цезарь Антонович Кюи, romanized: Tsezar Antonovich Kyui; IPA:; French: Cesarius Benjaminus Cui; 18 January 1835 – 26 March 1918) was a Russian composer and music critic, member of the Belyayev circle and The Five – a group of composers gathered by the idea of creating a specifically…

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MusicDied aged 83

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1850 · 176 yrs

Eduard Bernstein

Eduard Bernstein (German:; 6 January 1850 – 18 December 1932) was a German social democratic politician and socialist theorist.

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PoliticsDied aged 82

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1861 · 165 yrs

Victor Horta

Victor Pierre Horta (French:; Victor, Baron Horta after 1932; 6 January 1861 – 8 September 1947) was a Belgian architect and designer, and one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement.

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ArtDied aged 86

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1878 · 148 yrs

Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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1883 · 143 yrs

Kahlil Gibran

Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān (Arabic: جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist. He was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title.

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1913 · 113 yrs

Loretta Young

Loretta Young (born Gretchen Michaela Young; January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1916 to 1989.

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Famous deaths20

1400 · 626 yrs

Richard II of England

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RoyaltyDied aged 33

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1693 · 333 yrs

Mehmed IV

Mehmed IV (Ottoman Turkish: محمد رابع, romanized: Meḥmed-i rābi; Turkish: IV. Mehmed; 2 January 1642 – 6 January 1693), nicknamed as Mehmed the Hunter (Turkish: Avcı Mehmed), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the age of six after his father was overthrown in a coup.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 51

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1852 · 174 yrs

Louis Braille

Louis Braille ( BRAYL; French:; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains virtually unchanged to this day.

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TechnologyDied aged 43

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1884 · 142 yrs

Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel (German:; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia.

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ScienceDied aged 61

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1918 · 108 yrs

Georg Cantor

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( KAN-tor; German:; 3 March 1845 – 6 January 1918) was a mathematician who played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.

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ScienceDied aged 72

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1919 · 107 yrs

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909.

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PoliticsDied aged 60

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1919 · 107 yrs

Peter Altenberg

Peter Altenberg (9 March 1859 – 8 January 1919) was a writer and poet from Vienna, Austria. He played a key role in the genesis of early modernism in the city.

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LiteratureDied aged 59

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1945 · 81 yrs

Vladimir Vernadsky

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Russian: Владимир Иванович Вернадский), known in Ukraine as Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Вернадський; 12 March 1863 – 6 January 1945), was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry,…

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ScienceDied aged 81

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1949 · 77 yrs

Victor Fleming

Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were the historical drama Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director, and the fantasy film The Wizard of Oz (both 1939).

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1974 · 52 yrs

David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896 – January 6, 1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique.

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ArtWould be 139

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1981 · 45 yrs

A. J. Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist.

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1990 · 36 yrs

Pavel Cherenkov

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Russian: Па́вел Алексе́евич Черенко́в; 28 July 1904 – 6 January 1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm "for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect".

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Events5

1579 · 447 yrs

Union of Arras

The Union of Arras (Dutch: Unie van Atrecht, French: Union d'Arras, Spanish: Unión de Arrás) was an alliance between the County of Artois, the County of Hainaut and the city of Douai in the Habsburg Netherlands in early 1579 during the Eighty Years' War.

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Politics

2012 · 14 yrs

Cicada 3301

Cicada 3301 is the name given to three sets of puzzles posted online under the name "3301" between 2012 and 2014. The first puzzle started on January 4, 2012, on 4chan, and ran for nearly a month.

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History

2016 · 10 yrs

January 2016 North Korean nuclear test

North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear detonation on 6 January 2016 at 10:00:01 UTC+08:30. At the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, approximately 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of Kilju City in Kilju County, an underground nuclear test was carried out.

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History

2019 · 7 yrs

Solar eclipse of January 6, 2019

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Saturday, January 5 and Sunday, January 6, 2019, with a magnitude of 0.7145. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.

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Science

2021 · 5 yrs

January 6 United States Capitol attack

On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump. Academic debate exists about whether to characterize the event as a coup, an attempted coup, or neither.

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