World Record On This Day January6

Little Christmas in Ireland


1066 – Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman conquest, was crowned King of England.


1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory of continental drift.


1941 – During his State of the Union Address, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented his Four Freedoms as fundamental freedoms humans everywhere in the world ought to enjoy.


1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference, an organisation of socialist political parties in Asia, opened in Rangoon, Burma, with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.


1994 – Two-time American Olympic figure skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan (pictured) was hit on the leg with a police baton by an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.



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