On this day: January 6

January 6: Epiphany (Gregorian calendar); Little Christmas in Ireland

Maria Montessori

• 1066 – Harold Godwinson, widely regarded as the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman conquest, was crowned King of England.
• 1449 – The last Byzantine-Roman Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, was crowned, four years before the Fall of Constantinople.
• 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori (pictured) opened her first school and day care centre for working class children in Rome, employing the philosophy of education that now bears her name.
• 1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference, an organisation of socialist political parties in Asia, opened in Rangoon, Burma, with 177 delegates, observers and fraternal guests.
• 1977 – The record label EMI ended its contract with the English punk rock band Sex Pistols in response to its members' disruptive behaviour at Heathrow Airport two days earlier.

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