Historical Events on January 6.

1818: Treaty of Mandsaur -A peace treaty was signed at Mandsaur. Holkars accepted all the terms laid down by the British in the Treaty of Mandsaur. (Third Anglo Maratha War).

1832: Journalist Balshastri Jambhekar started Darpan, the first weekly newspaper in English and Marathi.

190: Maria Montessori started the first Montessori school. Their schools brought about a radical change in pre-primary education.

1912: New Mexico became the 47th state of the United States.

1924: Conditional release of Swatantryaveer Savarkar from life imprisonment on the condition of not participating in politics and remaining in Ratnagiri district.

1929: Mother Teresa returned to Calcutta (now Kolkata) to serve neglected and poor people in India.

1947: All India Congress Committee accepted the partition of India.

1950: Britain recognized the Communist government of China.

1983: Congress lost in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka assembly elections for the first time.

1989: Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh, both convicts in the assassination of Indira Gandhi, were hanged.

Famous Birthdays and Birth Anniversaries – January 6.

1580: John Smith, an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, Admiral of New England, and author.

1745: Jacques Alien Montgolfier, he experimented with ballooning.

1883: Khalil Gibran, a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist.

1910: G. N. Balasubramaniam, an Indian Carnatic singer.

1928: Vijay Tendulkar, a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator predominantly in Marathi.

1955: Rowan Atkinson, an English actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his work on Mr. Bean.

1959: Kapil Dev, a former Indian cricketer.

1965: Jai Ram Thakur, an Indian politician, the 14th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. 

1967: A. R. Rahman, an Indian composer, singer, and music producer.

1984: Diljit Dosanjh, an Indian singer-songwriter, actor, and television presenter.

Death Anniversaries– January 6.

1847: Tyagaraja, a renowned composer of Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music.

1852: Louis Braille, a French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired.

1884: Gregor Mendel, the German biologist who introduced the concept of genes.

1885: Bharatendu Harishchandra, one of the greatest Hindi writers of modern India. He is known as the father of Hindi literature and Hindi theatre.

1918: Georg Cantor, a German mathematician.

1919: Theodore Roosevelt Jr., an American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, writer, and the 26th president of the United States.

1971: P. C. Sorcar, an Indian magician.

1981: A. J. Cronin, a Scottish physician, and novelist. 

2017: Om Puri, an Indian actor.