Today in History - History - January 6th

201036th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Movie Star) and Hugh Laurie & Katherine Heigl win (TV Drama)

1649The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes"

1995Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939)

1957Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show

1941President Franklin Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (freedom from speech, worship, want and fear) during US State of Union address

201137th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Kristen Stewart win (Movie Star) and Hugh Laurie & Lisa Edelstein win (TV Drama)

1971Neil Young returns to his homeland of Canada for his first concert there since his pre-stardom days

1907Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)

1925Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m

1931Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.

1936Darlene Hard, Los Angeles California, American tennis player

1955Rowan Atkinson, England, comedian/actor (Mr Bean, Blackadder)

1946Syd Barrett, Cambridge England, musician (early Pink Floyd band member)

1412Joan of Arc, Domrémy, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)

1580(baptised) John Smith, English explorer (Jamestown)

1957Nancy Lopez Knight, Torrance California, pro golfer (1981 Dinah Shore)

1962Michael Houser, Boone North Carolina, American guitarist (Widespread Panic)

1959Kapil Dev, Chandigarh Punjab, Indian cricketer (India's finest all-rounder 1978-94, Cup-1982)

1836Author Harriet Beecher (24) weds educator Calvin Ellis Stowe (33) in Cincinnati, Ohio

1945US First Lady Barbara Bush (19) weds 41st president George H. W. Bush (20) at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York

1903Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (23) weds Mileva Maric

1759US 1st President George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis at White House Plantation

1852Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)

1919Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Pres (1901-09), dies in NY at 60