Today in History: When 'America's sweetheart' was struck down on the ice
American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was bludgeoned on the right leg with a police baton in a brazen attack immediately after a practice session at Cobo Arena on January 6, 1994.
Iconic footage showed Kerrigan clutching her knee and screaming, 'Why, why?'. The ex-husband of her rival, Tonya Harding, was among those jailed for the assault.
Harding (pictured left with Kerrigan at an Olympics training session) initially denied all knowledge of the assault, but later admitted to concealing it after the fact.
The attack was intended to give Harding more prominence at the 1994 Winter Olympics by taking Kerrigan out of contention.
However, Kerrigan recovered in time for the Olympics, though she missed the US Figure Skating Championships earlier that same year.
Harding was later banned from US Figure Skating Association events.
A horde of protesters attacked the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to halt the confirmation of President-election Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory over then-President Donald Trump.
Trump had urged protesters to fight during a speech earlier that day.
The ensuing clash with law enforcement led to five deaths, while hundreds of people have since been charged and many convicted.
Protesters managed to gain access to the US Capitol, which was evacuated.
There were calls to hang then-Vice President Mike Pence, who refused to halt confirmation of Biden's victory. Threats were also directed at Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
Protesters even erected a mock gallows outside the Capitol, while there were reports some participants in the attack were equipped with zip ties.
"QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley became a notorious face of the attack.
He was sentenced to 41 months in prison, and has since been released.
Trump has pledged to pardon the January 6 rioters, when he re-takes office as US president later this month. He has claimed the insurrectionists were acting as patriots.
Trump has never acknowledged that he lost the 2020 election.
Mother Teresa arrived in Calcutta, India, on January 6, 1929.
The Catholic nun spent much of her life in India, working with the "poorest of the poor" with her compatriots in the order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity.
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