WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2010

Today is Wednesday, January 6, the sixth day of 2010. There are 359 days left in the year.

1681 _ First recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs. his butcher)

1832 _ New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)

1838 _ Samuel Morse made first public demonstration of telegraph

1842 _ 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India

1880 _ Record snow cover in Seattle ― 20cm

1922 _ Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments

1941 _ FDR's ``4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear)

1964 _ Rolling Stones' first tour as headline act (with Ronettes)

1967 _ Two homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140

1976 _ China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Republic of China