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Events on January 6

• 1389 The newly founded University of Cologne is ceremonially opened in Cologne on the feast day of the city’s patron saints, the Holy Three Kings, with a service in the cathedral.
• 1912 During a meeting of the Geological Association at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Alfred Wegener presents his ideas on continental drift to the public for the first time.
• 1926 The airline Deutsche Luft Hansa AG is formed through the merger of Deutscher Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr.
• 1928 The Circus, the last film Charlie Chaplin made during the silent film era, celebrates its world premiere at the Strand Theatre in New York.
• 1941 In his speech on the state of the union before the US Congress, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulates “the four freedoms.”
• 1975 NBC broadcasts Merv Griffin’s game show Wheel of Fortune for the first time in the United States; it is later also widely watched in Germany as Glücksrad.
• 1994 Ahead of the US Figure Skating Championships, favorite Nancy Kerrigan is stabbed in the knee by an attacker acting on behalf of the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding, preventing her from participating in the championships.
• 1998 Unknown individuals saw off the head of the Little Mermaid sculpture in Copenhagen Harbor for the second time. The first vandalism of this kind dates from 1964.
• 2002 Sven Hannawald wins the final jump of the Four Hills Tournament and thus becomes the first ski jumper to win all four jumps in succession.
• 2005 The mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun is examined using computed tomography. The scientists determine a presumed hunting accident to be the cause of his death. Tutankhamun died at an age of approximately 18 to 20 years.
• 2012 Saarland Minister-President Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer brings the first state-level coalition of the CDU, FDP, and Alliance 90/The Greens to an end. The re-election in the Saarland takes place on March 25.
• 2021 In Washington, D.C., supporters of the incumbent US President Donald Trump storm the Capitol and block the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election for several hours.

Born on January 6

• 1850 Eduard Bernstein, social democratic theorist
• 1862 August Oetker, German industrialist
• 1870 Gustav Bauer, German politician
• 1880 Tom Mix, American film actor, director, and producer
• 1931 E. L. Doctorow, American author and editor
• 1950 Constanze Engelbrecht, German actress and voice actress
• 1960 Nigella Lawson, British television cook and book author
• 1970 Susanne Evers, German actress
• 1990 Sandro Cortese, German motorcycle racer
• 2000 Fiete Arp, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „6. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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