January 6

January 6 is the sixth day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. It is preceded by January 5, and succeeded by January 7. Following January 6, there are 359 days in the year (360 in leap years).

Blavatsky's Gem of the Day

"Wise men are light-bringers."

Events

• 1907 – Maria Montessori opened the first Casa dei Bambini in the San Lorenzo slum of Rome.
• 1883 – C. C. Massey resigned as president of the London Lodge

Births

• 1872 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915) - born December 25 in Old Style dates

Deaths

• 1919 – Max Heindel, Danish-American Christian occultist, astrologer, author, and mystic who founded The Rosicrucian Fellowship. (b. July 23, 1865)

Holidays and observances

• Christmas, birth of Jesus Christ, as celebrated by Armenian Christians. See also January 7 and December 25.

External links

• This Date in Wikipedia