Four Freedoms for the World: FDR's Boldest Promise
On January 6, 1941, eleven months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt told Congress the world must be founded on four essential human freedoms.
On January 6
New Mexico Becomes the 47th State
On January 6, 1912, after 61 years as a U.S. territory — the longest wait of any state — New Mexico joined the Union when President William Howard Taft signed its statehood proclamation.
The Peasant Girl Born to Save a Kingdom
Tradition holds that on January 6, 1412, a peasant girl was born in Domrémy, France, who would crown a king, save a nation, and be burned at the stake before her twentieth birthday.