6 January

Notable Births

MattyBRaps

b. 2003

American rapper (born 2003)

Fiete Arp

b. 2000

German footballer (born 2000)

Mohamed Camara (footballer, born January 2000)

b. 2000

Malian professional footballer

Kwon Eun-bin

b. 2000

South Korean singer and actress (born 2000)

Jack McBain

b. 2000

Canadian ice hockey player (born 2000)

Shuhua

b. 2000

Taiwanese singer (born 2000)

Tyler Oliveira

b. 2000

American YouTuber (born 2000)

Polo G

b. 1999

American rapper

Mac McClung

b. 1999

American basketball player (born 1999)

Courtney Eaton

b. 1996

Australian actress (born 1996)

Catriona Gray

b. 1994

Filipina beauty pageant titleholder (born 1994)

Denis Suárez

b. 1994

Spanish footballer (born 1994)

Jameis Winston

b. 1994

American football player (born 1994)

Jay B

b. 1994

South Korean singer (born 1994)

Pat Connaughton

b. 1993

American basketball and baseball player (born 1993)

Jesús Manuel Corona

b. 1993

Mexican footballer (born 1993)

Jérôme Roussillon

b. 1993

Guadeloupean footballer (born 1993)

Will Barton

b. 1991

American basketball player (born 1991)

Kevin Gausman

b. 1991

American baseball player (born 1991)

Alex Teixeira

b. 1990

Brazilian footballer (born 1990)

Notable Deaths

Peter Bogdanovich

d. 2022

American film director (1939–2022)

Sidney Poitier

d. 2022

Bahamian-American actor, filmmaker, diplomat (1927–2022)

F. Sionil José

d. 2022

Filipino writer (1924–2022)

Killing of Ashli Babbitt

d. 2021

2021 shooting in the US Capitol Building

Gord Renwick

d. 2021

Canadian ice hockey administrator (1935–2021)

José Ramón Fernández

d. 2019

Cuban politician (1923–2019)

Lamin Sanneh

d. 2019

Gambian American scholar (1942–2019)

W. Morgan Sheppard

d. 2019

British actor (1932–2019)

Paul Streeten

d. 2019

Austrian-born British economics professor (1917–2019)

Octavio Lepage

d. 2017

President of Venezuela from May to June 1993

Om Puri

d. 2017

Indian actor (1950-2017)

Pat Harrington Jr.

d. 2016

American actor (1929–2016)

Florence King

d. 2016

American journalist

Christy O'Connor Jnr

d. 2016

Irish golfer (1948–2016)

Silvana Pampanini

d. 2016

Italian actress (1925–2016)

John Mason (meteorologist)

d. 2015

British meteorologist (1923–2015)

Marina Ginestà

d. 2014

French-born Spanish journalist

Nelson Ned

d. 2014

Brazilian singer-songwriter (1947–2014)

Bob Holness

d. 2012

British broadcaster (1928–2012)

Frances Burney

d. 1840

English novelist, diarist and playwright (1752–1840)

On This Day in History

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2025

Justin Trudeau announces his resignation as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Prime Minister of Canada after nine years in office.

Justin Trudeau

2021

Supporters of U.S. president Donald Trump storm the United States Capitol Building to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in four deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress.

Donald Trump

2019

Muhammad V of Kelantan resigns as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, becoming the first monarch to do so.

Muhammad V of Kelantan

2017

Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida.

Fort Lauderdale airport shooting

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2012

Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.

January 2012 al-Midan bombing

2005

Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner during the American Civil Rights Movement.

Edgar Ray Killen

2005

A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.

Graniteville train crash

1995

A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.

Manila

1994

U.S. figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Nancy Kerrigan

1993

Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.

Border Security Force

1993

Four people are killed when Lufthansa CityLine Flight 5634 crashes on approach to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy-en-France, France.

Lufthansa CityLine Flight 5634

1992

President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.

President of Georgia

1989

Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh are sentenced to death for conspiracy in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; the two men are executed the same day.

Satwant Singh

1974

In response to the 1973 oil crisis, the United States implements the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act, switching to permanent daylight saving time for a trial period.

1973 oil crisis