January 6, 1494 - The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola. Now if that is not interesting enough on its own, then go here:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
Once there ypou can see another 158 events that took place on january 6th throughout history. January 6th seems to be a pretty eventful day, here is a tasteof some of those other events:
1497 - Jews expelled from Graz (Syria)
1535 - Lima Peru founded
1681 - First recorded boxing match
1759 - George Washington married Martha Dandridge
1838 - Samuel Morse publically deomnstrates telegraph for first time
1912 - New Mexico becomes 47th state
1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application
1942 - Pan Am (Pan American Airlines) was the firsrt airline to schedule round the world flight (I heard today on the radio that today marked the actual completion of said flight)
1945 - George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce married
1958 - Gibson patents flying V guitar
1963 - Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kindgdom premieres with Marlin Perkins
1967 - Uncle Miltie calls it quits (Milton Berle shows airs for last time)
1979 - The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At it's peak it sold over 150,000 copies a day (one can only hope this horrendous song and group helped put an end to disco)
1995 - A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack
2005 - Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
Lots of other interesting things took place today, and they are listed on said web page.
If you are a bit more interested in the first mass that took place in the New World, go to the below website and page down a bit for a brief summary about it:
http://www.dominicanaonline.org/Portal/english/cpo_conquista.asp
Enjoy.
All the best,
Glenn B
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