06/01/10

Harold Goodwinson was crowned King of England in 1066.  The Rump Parliament voted to put Charles I on trial in 1649.  maria Montessori opened her first school for working class children in Rome in 1907.  The Crown of St. Stephen was returned to Hungary by the United States, where it had been held since WWII.

Born today:  Joan of Arc (1412-1431), Gustave Doré (1832-1883), Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Earl Scruggs (1924), Terry Venables (1943), Syd Barrett (1946-2006), Anthony Minghella (1954-2008), Rowan Atkinson (1955), Nigella Lawson (1960).

It is the Feast of the Epiphany.