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Sunday, January 6, 2013

This will be 6th day of the year and 359 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 24 Tevet 5773
Chinese calendar — the 25th day of the 11th month of 4710 (Ren Chen)
Islamic calendar — (note)

January 6 Birthdays

Carl Sandburg
1878–1967, American poet and biographer

Heinrich Schliemann
archaeologist (1822)

Tom Mix
actor (1880)

Khalil Gibran
poet and novelist (1883)

Abram Nicholas Pritzker
entrepreneur (1896)

Loretta Young
actor (1913)

Danny Thomas
actor, singer, dancer (1914)

E L Doctorow
novelist (1931)

Rowan Atkinson
actor (1955)

Nancy Lopez
golfer (1957)

January 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

January 6 in History

1540

King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves.

1759

George Washington married Martha Custis.

1838

Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph.

1912

New Mexico became the 47th state in the United States.

1919

Former president Theodore Roosevelt died in Oyster Bay, N.Y.

1987

University of California astronomers first witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion stars.

1994

Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan clubbed on leg by men including husband of rival skater Tonya Harding.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.