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The Sixth Day of January

-- Born on this date in 1882, in Roane County, Tennessee, Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, who would go on to serve 25 consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic congressman from Texas.
-- Born on this date in 1878, in Galesburg, Illinois, American poet, Carl Sandburg. As an adult, Sandburg moved to Chicago, where he lived and worked as a journalist. His book of verse, Chicago Poems (1916), established his reputation as the city's leading poet. Sandburg was awarded the 1940 Pulitzer Prize in history for his significant biographical work Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, in two volumes, and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, which was made up of four volumes. He also later authored a biography of Mrs. Lincoln, co-written with Paul M. Angle, it is entitled Wife and Widow, (1932). In 1951, he was awarded a second Pulitzer Pirze for a volume of his poetry, Complete Poems (1950). The North Carolina farm where Sandburg lived from 1945 to 1967 is preserved by the National Park Service as the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site.
-- On this date in 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state of the Union.
-- Born on this date in 1924, American musician Earl Scruggs, who is credited with introducing the three-finger style of banjo picking into bluegrass music.
-- Born on this date in 1931, in New York City, Edgar Laurence Doctorow. Award-winning American novelist E.L. Doctorow is known for his social criticism through historical works of fiction. He first novel was Welcome to Hard Times, published in 1960.
-- On this date in 1941 then president Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced his "Four Freedoms" during his annual speech before Congress. As outlined by President Roosevelt, the four freedoms are: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear, and freedom from want.

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