Squiz the Day / 06 January 2022
6 January 2022
10.30am (AEDT) – Cricket – 4th Ashes Test – Australia v England – Sydney
Sydney Festival begins (on until 30 January)
Birthdays for comedian Rowan Atkinson (1955), chef Nigella Lawson (1960), actor Eddie Redmayne (1982), rocker Alex Turner (1986)
Wedding anniversary for King Henry VIII of England and Anne of Cleves. It was his fourth marriage, and it didn’t quite work out… (1540)
Anniversary of:
• the wedding of King Henry VIII of England and Anne of Cleves. It was his fourth marriage, and it didn’t quite work out… (1540)
• Maria Montessori opening her first Montessori school in Rome (1907)
• the death of US President Theodore Roosevelt (1919)
• cricket legend Don Bradman scoring 452 not out in 415 minutes, a then-record in a first-class match (1930)
• a mob of supporters of former US President Donald Trump storming the US Capitol in Washington DC (2021)
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