06 January 2009

This Day in History


January 6th


1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.

1838 – Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.

1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.

1942 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.

2005 – Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.

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