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YEAR 2009 Tuesday January 6
Bombardment of three schools of UNO by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip
- - 40 Palestinian was killed
- - in this 11th day of the war - at the beginning of December 27, 2008 - approximately 660 Palestinian was killed and nearly 3,000 were wounded
- - to protest against the Israeli offensive, the government of Venezuela ordered the expulsion of the ambassador from Israel to Caracas
YEAR 2007 Saturday January 6
Death of Yvon Durelle at the 77 years age
- - Canadian boxer born on October 14, 1929 with Bay-Co.-Anne in New Brunswick
- - called “The Fighting Fisherman”
on December 10, 1958 with the Forum of Montreal it passed to one second to become world champion
- - combat against archie Moore - archie Moore was favorite with 4:1
- - first boxing match diffused on television from one ocean to another in America
- - Yvon Durelle dispatched champion archie Moore three times at the floor with the first round - after the first KB it remained close to archie Moore during a few seconds before turning over in its corner - what delayed the account and Moore was concerned with the account 9 and deprived Durelle of a championship of the world in the category of the cruiser weight
- - deceased in a hospital of Moncton
YEAR 2005 Thursday January 6
China announces that its population reached 1 billion 300 million individuals - - the Chinese population grows of 10 million per year
YEAR 2005 Thursday January 6
A team of Egyptologist proceeds to a scanning on the mummy of Toutankhamon
- - with an aim of boring the mystery of its death
Toutankhamon - - deceased at the 17 years age there is more than three millenia
- - it went up on the throne of Egypt at age the 8 years and it reigned of 1333 to 1323 before Jesus-Christ
- - its tomb had been discovered on November 4, 1922 by the British Howard Carter
YEAR 1998 January 6
Launching of the American satellite Lunar Prospector
18 months mission:
- - to trace a card of gravity on the surface of the star and to specify the composition of it
- - it was crushed on the Moon on July 31, 1999 and NASA indicated next on October 13, that no presence of water had been detected at the time of this collision
YEAR 1994 January 6
The American skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and wounded with the knee by the bodyguard of her rival Tonya Harding
YEAR 1993 January 6
Death of Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet player jazz, at the 75 years age
YEAR 1988 January 6
Hydro-Quebec concludes more the big contract of sale from electricity of its history
- - an agreement of 17 billion dollars with the State of New York
YEAR 1956 January 6
Engagement of the American actress Grace Kelly to prince Rainier III of Monaco
YEAR 1949 January 6
Death of Victor Fleming (65 years)
realizer of films: - The magician of OZ
- Gone With The Wind
YEAR 1937 January 6
Death of the inhabitant of Quebec Alfred Bessette at 91 years
- - better known under the name of the brother Andre
- - called “the miracle-worker of Mount-Royal”
- - it was béatifié on May 23, 1982
YEAR 1919 January 6
Death of Theodore Roosevelt at the 60 years age
- - American politician born on October 27, 1858 in New York
- - 26e president of the United States of 1901 to 1906
- - deceased in Oyster Bay “New York”
YEAR 1854 January 6
The character of Sherlock Holmes makes his appearance for the first time
- - in the novel “a study in red” of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
YEAR 1838 January 6
First demonstration of the telegraph by Samuel Morse
YEAR 1745 January 6
Birth of Etienne Montgolfier
- - inventor of the montgolfier with his Joseph brother
- - deceased on August 2, 1799 at the 54 years age
YEAR 1643 January 6
Maisonneuve sets up a cross on the Royal Mount
- - to thank the sky for having saved the colony of a flood the previous month
- - (History of Quebec)
YEAR 1412 January 6
Birth of holy Jeanne d' Arc
- - condemned for heresy and setting to died on roughing-hew it in 1431 at the 19 years age
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DYNAMIC CALENDAR [Gregorian] from December 20, 1582 at December 31, 2499
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