In the present day is Monday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2025. There are 359 days left within the 12 months.
In the present day in historical past:
On Jan. 6, 2021, supporters of President Donald Trump, fueled by his false claims of a stolen election, assaulted police and smashed their means into the Capitol to interrupt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory, forcing lawmakers into hiding; many of the rioters had come from a close-by rally the place Trump urged them to “fight like hell.” A Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt, was shot and killed by a police officer as she tried to breach a barricaded doorway contained in the Capitol. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, injured whereas confronting the rioters, suffered a stroke the subsequent day and died from pure causes, the Washington, D.C., medical expert’s workplace mentioned. Congress reconvened hours afterward Jan. 6 to complete certifying the election outcome.
Additionally on this date:
In 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died in Oyster Bay, New York, at age 60.
In 1974, year-round daylight saving time started in america on a trial foundation as a fuel-saving measure in response to the OPEC oil embargo.
In 1982, truck driver William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles of 10 of the “Freeway Killer” slayings of younger males and boys. (Bonin was later convicted of 4 different killings; he was executed in 1996.)
In 1994, determine skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the leg by an assailant at Detroit’s Cobo Area; 4 males, together with the ex-husband of Kerrigan’s rival, Tonya Harding, went to jail for his or her roles within the assault. (Harding pleaded responsible to conspiracy to hinder prosecution however denied any advance data in regards to the assault.)
In 2005, former Ku Klux Klan chief Edgar Ray Killen was indicted on homicide expenses 41 years after three civil rights staff have been slain in Mississippi. (Killen was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in jail; he died in jail in 2018.)
In the present day’s Birthdays:
Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson is 70.
Golf Corridor of Famer Nancy Lopez is 68.
TV chef Nigella Lawson is 65.
Soccer Corridor of Famer Howie Lengthy is 65.
Soccer Corridor of Famer Charles Haley is 61.
Actor Norman Reedus is 56.
TV character Julie Chen Moonves is 55.
Actor Eddie Redmayne is 43.
Actor-comedian Kate McKinnon is 41.
Businessman Eric Trump is 41.
