January 6

On This Day In History
	Celebrated annually this day, Epiphany is a major feast that commemorates, for Western Christians, the coming of the Magi and, for Eastern Orthodox Christians, Jesus' birth, baptism by John, and first miracle.
Adoration of the Magi, centre panel of a triptych by the Antwerp
Biography Of The Day
	1367 Richard II ,Born this day in 1367, King Richard II of England, an ambitious ruler who reigned from 1377 to 1399, was deposed by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV) because of his arbitrary and factional rule.
Presentation of Richard II to the Virgin and Child; front of the Wilton Diptych.
More Events On This Day In History
	1950 Great Britain announced its recognition of the People's Republic of China.
	1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined his Four Freedoms in his State of the Union message to Congress.
	1878 American poet, historian, and folklorist Carl Sandburg, whose Abraham Lincoln: The War Years won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940, was born.
	1838 German composer Max Bruch was born in Cologne, Prussia.
1811	American Civil War statesman Charles Sumner was born in Boston.
	1759 George Washington married Martha Dandridge in Virginia.
	1540 Henry VIII of England married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.