On This Day:
Monday January 6, 2014 This is the 6th day of the year, with 359 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: coins In 2004, approximately 13.6 billion coins were minted in the United States for general circulation. The first coin to include the inscription "In God We Trust" was the two-cent coin minted between 1864 and 1873. In 1955, legislation made the inscription of "In God We Trust" mandatory on all coins and paper currency of the United States. There is also a statute making it illegal to damage or deface coins for a fraudulent purpose. However, while the U.S. Mint does not promote coloring, plating, or altering U.S. coins, it is not illegal to do so and there are no sanctions against such activity as long as there is no fraudulent intent. According to the United States Mint's 2000 report, the approximate cost of producing U.S. coins is as follows: penny = .81 of a cent; nickel = 3.13 cents; dime = 1.88 cents; quarter = 4.29 cents; half dollar = 9.63 cents; golden dollar = 10.03 cents.
Holidays Epiphany (or Twelfth Day) / Feast of the Epiphany.
Feast day of St. John de Ribera, St. Erminold, St. Wiltrudis, St. Guarinus.
Italy: La Befana.
Events 1540 - England's King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves -- which lasted 6 months.
1759 - George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married.
1838 - Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, New Jersey.
1912 - New Mexico became the 47th state.
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his "Four Freedoms" speech outlining four goals: freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.
1942 - The Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper arrived in New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial airplane.
1945 - The Battle of the Bulge, or Ardennes offensive, ended.
1946 - Ho Chi Minh won in the Vietnamese elections.
1967 - United States and South Vietnamese forces launched a major offensive in Mekong Delta.
1975 - "Wheel of Fortune" game show premiered on TV.
1987 - Astronomers reported sighting a new galaxy 12 billion light years away.
Births 1367 - King Richard II of England.
1412 - Joan of Arc (Jeanne D'Arc), French heroine and martyr.
1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German-born Greek excavator.
1878 - Carl Sandburg, American poet, author, journalist.
1880 - Tom Mix, American silent movies actor and radio star.
1883 - Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-born American novelist and poet.
1913 - Loretta Gretchen Young, American Academy Award-winning actress.
1914 - Danny Thomas (Amos Jacobs), American actor, philanthropist.
1916 - Eugene T. Maleska, American crossword puzzle editor.
Deaths 1994 - Tip (Thomas Philip) O'Neill, Jr., US Democratic Party politician.
2006 - Lou Rawls, Chicago-born soul, jazz, and blues singer, who released more than 70 albums, and sold more than 40 million records.
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