16 Dey 1394

Events

• 1661 (365 years ago) English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England. The revolt is suppressed after a few days.
• 1725 (301 years ago) J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, a chorale cantata for Epiphany.
• 1839 (187 years ago) The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
• 1941 (85 years ago) United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
• 1946 (80 years ago) The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
• 1960 (66 years ago) The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
• 2012 (14 years ago) Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
• 2021 (5 years ago) 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.

Births

• 1412 (614 years ago) Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (died 1431)
• 1832 (194 years ago) Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (died 1883)
• 1872 (154 years ago) Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (died 1915)
• 1878 (148 years ago) Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (died 1967)
• 1883 (143 years ago) Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher (died 1931)
• 1924 (102 years ago) Kim Dae-jung, South Korean soldier and politician, 8th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)
• 1938 (88 years ago) Adriano Celentano, Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and director
• 1955 (71 years ago) Rowan Atkinson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter

Deaths

• 1693 (333 years ago) Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (born 1642)
• 1852 (174 years ago) Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (born 1809)
• 1884 (142 years ago) Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (born 1822)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1845)
• 1919 (107 years ago) Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States (born 1858)
• 1990 (36 years ago) Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
• 1993 (33 years ago) Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer (born 1938)
• 2022 (4 years ago) Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat (born 1927)

All 352 events, births and deaths of January 6