On This Day:
Tuesday January 6, 2015 This is the 6th day of the year, with 359 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: birthday parties The tradition of birthday parties started in Europe a long time ago. It was feared that evil spirits were particularly attracted to people on their birthdays. To protect them from harm, friends and family would to come be with the birthday person and bring good thoughts and wishes. Giving gifts brought even more good cheer to ward off the evil spirits. This is how birthday parties began. At first it was only kings who were recognized as important enough to have a birthday celebration (maybe this is how the tradition of birthday crowns began?). As time went by, children became included in birthday celebrations. The first children's birthday parties occurred in Germany and were called Kinderfeste.
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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