MONDAY, Jan. 06, 2025

1838-Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate their telegraph machine in New Jersey

1907-Maria Montessori opens her first Montessori school, in Rome

1914-Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded

1929-Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work amongst India's poorest

1941-U.S. 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

1951-Ganghwa massacre: Hundreds of South Korean communist sympathisers are slaughtered

1980-Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India

1992-The U.S. government urges doctors to stop using silicone breast implants, outlining the health effects

1992-Zviad Gamskahurdia, the president of Georgia, flees the country because of the military coup