JANUARY 6
1994:Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed above the knee following
practice for the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. Four men,
including the ex-husband of Tonya Harding, Kerrigan's figure skating
rival, were convicted of the assault, while Harding would be fined
$160,000, given three years probation and 500 hours of community service
for her role in covering up the attack. Kerrigan and Harding both
compete in the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, with Kerrigan
finishing with the silver medal and Harding in eighth place.
1907: Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori opens her first school, the Casa dei Bambini
("Children's House") in San Lorenzo, a poor neighborhood of Rome,
putting the groundbreaking Montessori method of teaching into practice.
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