Memory of the day: US President Franklin Roosevelt delivers the Four Freedoms Speech in 1941

CAIRO – 6 January 2022: In the following lines, ET sheds light on the most important world events that took place on January 6.

1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.

1784 - The Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire sign a peace treaty known as the "Constantinople Convention", which ends the Russo-Ottoman War.

1838 - Samuel Morse's experiment with the electric telegraph succeeds for the first time.

1912 - New Mexico becomes the 47th state to join the United States.

1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt delivers a speech in which he talks about human rights. This speech was called the Four Freedoms Speech.