January 6

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 1066 &ndash; Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
* 1118 &ndash; Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
* 1311 &ndash; Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Italy.
* 1355 &ndash; Charles I of Bohemia is crowned King of Italy in Milan.
* 1389 &ndash; The University of Cologne is opened, with a celebratory church service in Cologne Cathedral on the Feast day of the Three Kings, the city's patron saints.
* 1492 &ndash; The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
* 1540 &ndash; King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
* 1612 &ndash; Axel Oxenstierna becomes Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
* 1661 &ndash; English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
* 1759 &ndash; George Washington marries Martha Dandridge.
* 1781 &ndash; Battle of Jersey: Great Britain defeats the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
* 1838 &ndash; Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes.
* 1839 &ndash; Ireland is hit by its most damaging storm in 300 years.
* 1853 &ndash; US President–elect Franklin Pierce's family are involved in a train accident in Andover, Massachusetts, killing Pierce's 11–year–old son Benjamin. Pierce and his wife suffer from depression after this incident, and Franklin Pierce turns to alcoholism.
* 1870 &ndash; Vienna's Musikverein is inaugurated.
* 1893 &ndash; Washington National Cathedral is chartered by the United States Congress.
* 1900 &ndash; It is reported that millions are starving in India.
* 1900 &ndash; Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africa – over 1000 people killed.

### 1901&ndash;2000 
* 1907 &ndash; Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
* 1912 &ndash; New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
* 1912 &ndash; Alfred Wegener presents his theory of Continental drift.
* 1921 &ndash; Formation of Iraq's Army.
* 1926 &ndash; Lufthansa, currently Germany's biggest airline, is created.
* 1929 &ndash; Alexander I of Yugoslavia suspends his country's constitution.
* 1929 &ndash; Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta.
* 1930 &ndash; The first diesel–engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
* 1931 &ndash; Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
* 1939 &ndash; Al Capone is released early from prison.
* 1940 &ndash; Mass execution of Polish people by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
* 1941 &ndash; Franklin D. Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech during his State of the Union Address.
* 1947 &ndash; Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
* 1950 &ndash; The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China ends diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
* 1951 &ndash; Korean War: Ganghwa massacre.
* 1960 &ndash; National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid–air by a bomb between New York City and Miami.
* 1967 &ndash; United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
* 1978 &ndash; The United States returns the Crown of St. Stephen to Hungary.
* 1991 &ndash; Jorge Antonio Serrano Elias is elected President of Guatemala, becoming the first Protestant Head of State in Latin America.
* 1992 &ndash; The United Nations Security Council condemns Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
* 1992 &ndash; President Zviad Gamsakhurdia leaves Georgia, after a military coup.
* 1993 &ndash; The Indian Border Security Force kills 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir.
* 1994 &ndash; Nancy Kerrigan is attacked during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
* 1998 &ndash; Unidentified perpetrators saw off the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen; this is the second time that the statue has been damaged by this kind of vandalism; it previously happened in 1964.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Al Gore, as President of the United States Senate, names George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 United States presidential election.
* 2005 &ndash; Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights activists.
* 2016 &ndash; North Korea declares that nuclear weapons testing of hydrogen atom has been done.
* 2018 &ndash; The "MV Sanchi" oil tanker collides with a Hong Kong–flagged ship near Shanghai, causing an explosion and leaving 32 sailors missing.
* 2021 &ndash; The 2021 United States Capitol attack, an attack on the United States capitol.

## Births 
### Up to 1850 
* 1256 &ndash; Gertrude the Great, German mystic and theologian (d. 1302)
* 1367 &ndash; Richard II of England (d. 1400)
* 1412 &ndash; Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
* 1486 &ndash; Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556)
* 1525 &ndash; Caspar Peucer, German reformer and physician (d. 1602)
* 1561 &ndash; Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physician (d. 1656)
* 1587 &ndash; Gaspar de Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
* 1617 &ndash; Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
* 1655 &ndash; Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1720)
* 1670 &ndash; Alexander Gordon, Scottish–Russian general (d. 1752)
* 1695 &ndash; Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian composer (d. 1750)
* 1714 &ndash; Percival Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
* 1730 &ndash; Thomas Crittenden, 1st Governor of Vermont (d. 1797)
* 1745 &ndash; Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
* 1787 &ndash; Gaspard Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, 1st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1871)
* 1793 &ndash; James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
* 1798 &ndash; Melchior von Diepenbrock, Prince–Bishop of Breslau (d. 1853)
* 1799 &ndash; Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer and writer (d. 1831)
* 1801 &ndash; Daniel Haines, two–time Governor of New Jersey (d. 1877)
* 1803 &ndash; Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1888)
* 1805 &ndash; Charles J. Jenkins, American politician and Governor of Georgia (d. 1883)
* 1807 &ndash; Joseph Petzval, Slovakian inventor (d. 1891)
* 1811 &ndash; Charles Sumner, American politician (d. 1874)
* 1812 &ndash; Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary figure (d. 1919)
* 1819 &ndash; Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
* 1822 &ndash; Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
* 1826 &ndash; Adolf Kirchhoff, German philologist (d. 1908)
* 1827 &ndash; John C. Brown, American Confederate general and politician, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1889)
* 1832 &ndash; Gustave Dore, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
* 1837 &ndash; Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, President of Uruguay (d. 1905)
* 1838 &ndash; Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
* 1842 &ndash; Clarence King, American geologist, mountaineer and critic (d. 1901)
* 1848 &ndash; Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1876)
* 1850 &ndash; Eduard Bernstein, German politician and political theorist (d. 1932)
* 1850 &ndash; Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish–German pianist and composer (d. 1924)

### 1851&ndash;1900 
* 1856 &ndash; Giuseppe Martucci, Italian composer (d. 1909)
* 1857 &ndash; William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
* 1857 &ndash; Hugh Mahon, Australian politician (d. 1931)
* 1859 &ndash; Samuel Alexander, Australian–English philosopher (d. 1938)
* 1861 &ndash; Victor Horta, Belgian architect and designer (d. 1947)
* 1862 &ndash; August Oetker, German businessman (d. 1918)
* 1868 &ndash; Stefan Luchian, Romanian painter (d. 1937)
* 1868 &ndash; Vittorio Monti, Italian composer, conductor and violinist (d. 1922)
* 1870 &ndash; Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
* 1872 &ndash; Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
* 1874 &ndash; Fred Niblo, American actor, director and producer (d. 1948)
* 1878 &ndash; Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
* 1880 &ndash; Tom Mix, American actor, director and producer (d. 1940)
* 1882 &ndash; Sam Rayburn, American politician (d. 1961)
* 1882 &ndash; Fan S. Noli, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1965)
* 1883 &ndash; Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese writer (d. 1931)
* 1899 &ndash; Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile pioneer (d. 1968)
* 1900 &ndash; Maria of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)

### 1901&ndash;1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Helmut Poppendick, German physician (d. 1994)
* 1913 &ndash; Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
* 1913 &ndash; Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
* 1915 &ndash; Don Edwards, American politician (d. 2015)
* 1915 &ndash; Alan Watts, English philosopher (d. 1973)
* 1920 &ndash; John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
* 1920 &ndash; Early Wynn, American baseball player
* 1922 &ndash; George Carroll, American lawyer and politician (d. 2016)
* 1923 &ndash; Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)
* 1924 &ndash; Earl Scruggs, American musician (d. 2012)
* 1925 &ndash; John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman (d. 2005)
* 1925 &ndash; Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 2010)
* 1925 &ndash; Ari Rath, Austrian–Israeli journalist (d. 2017)
* 1926 &ndash; Ralph Branca, American baseball player (d. 2016)
* 1926 &ndash; Pat Flaherty, American racing driver (d. 2002)
* 1926 &ndash; Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
* 1927 &ndash; Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 2014)
* 1928 &ndash; Capucine, American actress (d. 1990)
* 1928 &ndash; Derek Saunders, English footballer (d. 2018)
* 1929 &ndash; Babrak Karmal, Afghan politician (d. 1996)
* 1931 &ndash; E. L. Doctorow, American writer (d. 2015)
* 1931 &ndash; Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
* 1932 &ndash; José Saraiva Martins, Portuguese cardinal
* 1932 &ndash; Max Streibl, German politician, Minister–President of Bavaria (d. 1998)
* 1933 &ndash; Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
* 1933 &ndash; Leszek Drogosz, Polish boxer (d. 2012)
* 1933 &ndash; Emil Steinberger, Swiss actor, director and screenwriter
* 1934 &ndash; Sylvia Sims, English actress
* 1935 &ndash; Margarita of Bulgaria
* 1935 &ndash; Claude Steiner, French–born American psychologist and writer (d. 2017)
* 1935 &ndash; Gerald R. Molen, American film producer
* 1936 &ndash; Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre, 49th President of Guatemala
* 1936 &ndash; Julio Maria Sanguinetti, former President of Uruguay
* 1937 &ndash; Harri Holkeri, 57th Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2011)
* 1937 &ndash; Paolo Conte, Italian singer-songwriter, jazz musician and composer
* 1938 &ndash; Adriano Celentano, Italian singer-songwriter, actor and director
* 1939 &ndash; Murray Rose, British–born Australian swimmer (d. 2012)
* 1939 &ndash; Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2002)
* 1941 &ndash; Philippe Busquin, Belgian politician
* 1942 &ndash; Vicki Lansky, American writer and publisher (d. 2017)
* 1943 &ndash; Hak Ja Han, South Korean church leader
* 1943 &ndash; Terry Venables, English football manager
* 1944 &ndash; Bonnie Franklin, American actress (d. 2013)
* 1944 &ndash; Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist
* 1945 &ndash; Barry John, Welsh rugby player
* 1946 &ndash; Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pink Floyd) (d. 2006)
* 1948 &ndash; Guy Gardner, American air force officer and astronaut
* 1949 &ndash; Carolyn D. Wright, American poet (d. 2016)
* 1950 &ndash; Louis Freeh, 10th Director of the FBI

### 1951&ndash;1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Kim Wilson, American musician
* 1953 &ndash; Malcolm Young, Scottish–Australian singer-songwriter, actor and director (d. 2017)
* 1953 &ndash; Manfred Kaltz, German footballer
* 1954 &ndash; Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer
* 1954 &ndash; Anthony Minghella, English movie director (d. 2008)
* 1954 &ndash; Trudie Styler, English actress
* 1955 &ndash; Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
* 1956 &ndash; Angus Deayton, English comedian, actor and television presenter
* 1956 &ndash; Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
* 1956 &ndash; Clive Woodward, English rugby player and coach
* 1957 &ndash; Michael Foale, British–American astronaut
* 1959 &ndash; Kathy Sledge, American actress
* 1960 &ndash; Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
* 1960 &ndash; Paul Azinger, American golfer
* 1960 &ndash; Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
* 1961 &ndash; Fergal Keane, Irish–British journalist and BBC News correspondent
* 1964 &ndash; Henry Maske, German boxer
* 1964 &ndash; Mark O'Toole, English musician
* 1964 &ndash; Anthony Scaramucci, American financier, entrepreneur and political figure
* 1964 &ndash; Yuri, Mexican singer
* 1965 &ndash; Christine Wachtel, German middle–distance runner
* 1966 &ndash; Attilio Lombardo, Italian footballer
* 1968 &ndash; John Singleton, American director (d. 2018)
* 1969 &ndash; Norman Reedus, American actor
* 1971 &ndash; Karin Slaughter, American crime fiction writer
* 1972 &ndash; Nek, Italian singer
* 1973 &ndash; Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1974 &ndash; Daniel Cordone, Argentine footballer

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Richard Zednik, Slovakian ice hockey player
* 1976 &ndash; Judith Rakers, German newsreader
* 1976 &ndash; David Di Michele, Italian footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Bubba Franks, American football player
* 1980 &ndash; Travis Dodd, Australian footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Steed Malbranque, French footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
* 1981 &ndash; Asante Samuel, American football player
* 1982 &ndash; Eddie Redmayne, English actor
* 1983 &ndash; Adam Burish, American ice hockey player
* 1985 &ndash; Ben Haenow, English singer
* 1985 &ndash; Callum McCaig, Scottish politician
* 1985 &ndash; Inge Vermeulen, Brazilian–Dutch field hockey player (d. 2015)
* 1986 &ndash; Alex Turner, English musician (Arctic Monkeys)
* 1986 &ndash; Paul McShane, Irish footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Petter Northug, Norwegian skier
* 1986 &ndash; Irina Shayk, Russian model
* 1987 &ndash; Gemma Gibbons, English judoka
* 1987 &ndash; Zhang Lin, Chinese swimmer
* 1987 &ndash; Bongani Khumalo, South African footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Andy Carroll, English footballer
* 1989 &ndash; James Durbin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1990 &ndash; Sandro Cortese, German motorcycle racer
* 1996 &ndash; Courtney Eaton, Australian actress and model
* 2003 &ndash; Matty BRaps, American rapper

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 429 &ndash; Honoratus, French archbishop (b. 350)
* 768 &ndash; Abo of Tiflis, Christian saint
* 1088 &ndash; Berengar of Tours, French theologian (b. 999)
* 1537 &ndash; Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
* 1537 &ndash; Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
* 1646 &ndash; Elias Holl, German architect (b. 1573)
* 1689 &ndash; Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1617)
* 1693 &ndash; Mehmed IV, ex–Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
* 1829 &ndash; Josef Dobrovsky, Czech philologist and theologian (b. 1753)
* 1831 &ndash; Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
* 1840 &ndash; Fanny Burney, English writer (b. 1752)
* 1852 &ndash; Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind, inventor of Braille (b. 1809)
* 1855 &ndash; Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
* 1882 &ndash; Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1815)
* 1884 &ndash; Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
* 1896 &ndash; Thomas W. Knox, American writer and journalist (b. 1835)

### 1901&ndash;2000 
* 1918 &ndash; Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
* 1919 &ndash; Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
* 1934 &ndash; Herbert Chapman, English football manager (b. 1878)
* 1939 &ndash; Gustavs Zemgals, 2nd President of Latvia (b. 1871)
* 1942 &ndash; Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian head of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1876)
* 1944 &ndash; Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
* 1944 &ndash; Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian–German architect (b. 1878)
* 1945 &ndash; Edith Frank, mother of Anne Frank (b. 1900)
* 1949 &ndash; Ivar Lykke, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1872)
* 1972 &ndash; Chen Yi, Chinese military commander (b. 1901)
* 1980 &ndash; Georgeanna Tillman, American singer (b. 1944)
* 1981 &ndash; A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
* 1990 &ndash; Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet–Russian physicist (b. 1904)
* 1990 &ndash; Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
* 1993 &ndash; Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (b. 1917)
* 1993 &ndash; Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938)
* 1994 &ndash; Virginia Dell Cassidy, mother of Bill Clinton (b. 1923)
* 1995 &ndash; Karl Guttmann, Dutch theatre director (n. 1913)
* 1995 &ndash; Joe Slovo, ANC activist and South African minister of Housing (b. 1926)
* 1997 &ndash; Catherine Scorsese, Italian–American actress (b. 1912)
* 1999 &ndash; Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (b. 1962)
* 2000 &ndash; Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Sanya Dharmasakti, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905)
* 2004 &ndash; Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
* 2005 &ndash; Makgatho Mandela, South African lawyer, businessman and son of Nelson Mandela (b. 1950)
* 2005 &ndash; Louis Robichaud, 25th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
* 2006 &ndash; Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (b. 1933)
* 2009 &ndash; Ron Asheton, American musician (The Stooges) (b. 1948)
* 2011 &ndash; Gary Mason, British boxer (b. 1962)
* 2012 &ndash; Roger Boisjoly, American aeronautical engineer (b. 1938)
* 2012 &ndash; Bob Holness, South African–born British quiz show host (b. 1928)
* 2013 &ndash; Neil Adcock, South African cricketer (b. 1931)
* 2014 &ndash; Larry D. Mann, Canadian–American actor (b. 1922)
* 2014 &ndash; Lena Smedsaas, Swedish journalist (b. 1951)
* 2014 &ndash; Don Ward, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
* 2015 &ndash; Vlastimil Bubnik, Czech ice hockey player and footballer (b. 1931)
* 2015 &ndash; Johannes de Villiers Graaff, South African economist (b. 1928)
* 2015 &ndash; Basil John Mason, British meteorologist (b. 1923)
* 2015 &ndash; Joseph Djida, Cameroonian bishop (b. 1945)
* 2015 &ndash; Ron Hovey, Australian football player (b. 1932)
* 2015 &ndash; George H. McKee, American air force lieutenant general (b. 1923)
* 2015 &ndash; Tim Roberts, American professional wrestler (b. 1976)
* 2016 &ndash; Christy O'Connor Jnr, Irish golfer (b. 1948)
* 2016 &ndash; Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (b. 1925)
* 2016 &ndash; Nivaria Tejera, Cuban poet and novelist (b. 1929)
* 2016 &ndash; Florence King, American writer (b. 1936)
* 2016 &ndash; Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor (b. 1929)
* 2016 &ndash; Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros, Cuban trumpeter (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; Ioannis Petridis, Greek politician (b. 1931)
* 2016 &ndash; Yves Vincent, French actor (b. 1921)
* 2017 &ndash; Om Puri, Indian actor (b. 1950)
* 2017 &ndash; Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician (b. 1923)
* 2017 &ndash; Ricardo Piglia, Argentine writer (b. 1941)
* 2017 &ndash; Bayezid Osman, Turkish royalty (b. 1924)
* 2017 &ndash; Gavin Whittaker, Australian rugby league player (b. 1970)
* 2017 &ndash; Francine York, American actress (b. 1936)
* 2017 &ndash; Greg Jelks, American–Australian baseball player (b. 1961)
* 2017 &ndash; Yaron Ben-Dov, Israeli footballer (b. 1970)
* 2017 &ndash; Les Lazarowitz, American sound mixer (b. 1941)
* 2017 &ndash; Tilikum, American–held orca (b. 1981)
* 2018 &ndash; Horace Ashenfelter, American athlete (b. 1923)
* 2018 &ndash; Rita Crocker Clements, American political organizer, First Lady of Texas (b. 1931)
* 2018 &ndash; Thomas Bopp, American astronomer (b. 1949)
* 2018 &ndash; Marjorie Holt, American politician (b. 1920)
* 2018 &ndash; Peter Preston, British journalist, former editor of The Guardian (b. 1938)
* 2018 &ndash; Greta Thyssen, Danish–American actress (b. 1927)
* 2018 &ndash; Chris Tsangarides, British music producer (b. 1956)
* 2019 &ndash; Annalise Braakensiek, Australian model and actress (b. 1972)
* 2020 &ndash; Mike Fitzpatrick, American politician (b. 1963)
* 2021 &ndash; Maurice Wolin, American former oncologist and convicted sex offender (b. 1958)
* 2022 &ndash; Peter Bogdanovich, American movie director, actor, and writer (b. 1939)
* 2022 &ndash; F. Sionil José, Filipino writer (b. 1924)
* 2022 &ndash; Sidney Poitier, Bahamian–American actor, movie director and activist (b. 1927)

## Holidays and observances 
* Epiphany, feast day of the Three Kings (except Eastern and Oriental Orthodox who follow the Julian Calendar) – Twelfth Day of Christmas
* Public holiday in Spain, Italy and Puerto Rico to mark Epiphany
* Ireland – Little Christmas
* Rastafari – Celebration of the ceremonial birthday of Haile Selassie
* Armenian Christmas (except in the Holy Land where it is on 18 January – old calendar)
* End of Four Hills Ski jumping tournament (Germany, Austria)