January 6, 1412 – Joan of Arc is born in France. After a series of mystic visions, she inspires French troops to break the British siege at Orleans and win several important battles during the Hundred Years War.
January 7, 1800 – Millard Fillmore, the 13th r. S. President, is born in a log cabin in Cayuga County, New York.
January 4, 1809 – Louis Braille is born in France. Blinded as a boy, he invents a reading system for the bind using punch marks in paper.
January 8, 1935 – Singer, musician, and actor Elvis “The King” Presley is born in Tupelo, Mississippi.