What happened on January 6th in the past. Here are a few interesting things:
- Poet/Historian/Biographer Carl Sandburg was born in 1878
- New Mexico became the 47th state in 1912
- A Pan American Airways plane landed in New York to complete the first around-the-world trip in a commercial aircraft in 1942
- The Wheel of Fortune made it's TV debut in 1975
- The Lunar Explorer took off for the moon in 1998
Interesting festivals and holidays on January 6th:
- Armenian Christmas
- Carnival Season begins
- La Befana, the Italian Epiphany season begins
- The Maroon Festival occurs in Jamaica
- Three Kings Day
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