On this day... January 6:

On this day...

January 6: Epiphany (Gregorian calendar); Little Christmas in Ireland and Scotland 1066 – Harold Godwinson, widely regarded as the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman conquest, was crowned King of England. 1449 – The last Byzantine-Roman Emperor,Constantine XI Palaiologos, was crowned, four years before the Fall of Constantinople. 1907 – Italian educator Maria Montessori (pictured) opened her first school and day care center for working class children in Rome, employing the philosophy of education that now bears her name. 1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511, traveling from New York City to Miami, exploded in midair due to a bomb placed by an unknown party, resulting in the deaths of all 34 people on board. 1977 – The record label EMI ended its contract with the Englishpunk rock band Sex Pistols in response to its members' disruptive behaviour at London Heathrow Airport two days earlier.