Unveiling the untold history of January 6

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January 6 is a day that has been pivotal in history, and we'll be uncovering the secrets behind it in this video. Watch as we explore the hidden history of this important day in history!
1639 Virginia orders half of its tobacco crop destroyed to support plunging prices and to avoid an economic catastrophe, the 1st colony to order the destruction of crops
1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
1838 Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate their telegraph machine in New Jersey
1853 US President-elect Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck in Massachusetts that kills his 11-year-old son Benny
1861 NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with North and South
1873 US Congress begins investigating the Crédit Mobilier scandal, a fraud by the Union Pacific Railroad and Crédit Mobilier of America in the construction of the first transcontinental railroad
1893 The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st Montessori school, in Rome
1912 Geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener presents his controversial theory of continental drift in a lecture at the Geological Association (Geologischen Vereinigung) at the Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt
1925 Mikhail Frunze replaces Leon Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Military and Native Affairs (Minister of Defence) as Trotsky and Joseph Stalin battle for power in the aftermath of Vladimir Lenin's death
1925 Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy
1929 Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work amongst India's poorest
1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
1931 Thomas Edison submits his last patent application for an electroplating component - just two days before his death
1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address
1942 Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world ("Pacific Clipper”).
1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
1973 "Schoolhouse Rock" premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
1974 In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1975 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV
1994 US figure skating champion Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard at the US Championships in Detroit
2016 "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" breaks North American box office record, passing the $760.5M taken by “Avatar"
2021 Supporters of US President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington during congressional certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's win, prompting evacuation of lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence
2023 US teacher shot by her six-year-old student at Richneck Elementary School, Newport, Virginia, later hospitalized with gunshot wounds

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