Speaking of January 6

Some important events that took place on January 6:

1412 – St. Joan of Arc was born. She was later the victim of a sham trial with biased judges and false evidence.  

1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves. (The marriage was later annulled and she outlived all the other wives.)

1839 – 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.

1878 – Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois (not Chicago)

1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.

1912 – New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state. (It's still going and growing)

1919 – Theodore Roosevelt charged up his final hill.

1924 – Bluegrass great Earl Scruggs is born  (He stopped picking in 2012.) 

1929 – Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.

1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. (Why? Why? Why?)

Pax et bonum