January 06
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.
Birthday
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)