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February 6
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{{PAGENAME}} is the 37th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 328 days remaining, 329 in
leap years.
Events
*
337 -
Pope Julius I Julius I is elected
pope.
*
1778 -
American Revolutionary War: In
Paris the
Treaty of Alliance and the
Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the
United States and
France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
*
1788 -
Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the
United States Constitution.
*
1806 -
Royal Navy victory off
Santo Domingo -
Action of 6 February 1806.
*
1815 -
New Jersey grants the first
United States American railroad charter to a
John Stevens (inventor) John Stevens.
*
1819 - Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles founds
Singapore.
*
1820 - The first 86
African American immigrants sponsored by the
American Colonization Society started a
colonization settlement in present-day
History of Liberia Liberia.
*
1840 - Signing of the
Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of
New Zealand.
*
1843 - The first
minstrel show in the
United States The
Virginia Minstrels opens (
Bowery Amphitheatre in
New York City).
*
1862 -
American Civil War:
Ulysses S. Grant gives the
United States its first victory of the war, by capturing
Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the
Battle of Fort Henry.
*
1899 -
Spanish-American War: The
Treaty of Paris (1898), a
peace treaty between the
United States and
Spain is ratified by the
United States Senate.
*
1900 - The international arbitration court at
The Hague is created when the
Netherlands'
Senate ratifies an
1899 peace conference decree.
*
1922 -
Achille Ratti becomes
Pope Pius XI.
* 1922 - The
Washington Naval Treaty was signed in
Washington, DC, limiting the
navy naval armaments of
United States,
British Empire Britain,
Japan,
France, and
Italy.
*
1933 - The
Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
*
1934 -
France French far right rally in front of the
Palais Bourbon, an attempted
coup d'état coup against the
French Third Republic Third Republic.
*
1936 -
1936 Winter Olympic Games open in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany.
*
1951 - ''
The Broker (passenger train) The Broker'', a
Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near
Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
*
1952 -
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II becomes
British monarchy Queen upon the death of her father
George VI of the United Kingdom George VI. At the exact moment of
succession, she was in a
treehouse at the
Treetops Hotel in
Kenya.
*
1958 -
Bobby Charlton survived the
Munich air disaster in
Germany, which killed eight of his teammates with
Manchester United F.C..
*
1959 -
Jack Kilby of
Texas Instruments filed the first
patent for an
integrated circuit.
* 1959 - At
Cape Canaveral,
Florida, the first successful test firing of a
Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
*
1968 -
1968 Winter Olympic Games open in
Grenoble,
France.
*
1978 - The
Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst
Nor'easters in
New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
*
1985 -
Steve Wozniak leaves
Apple Computer.
*
1996 - A
Turkish Airlines Boeing 757 crashes into the
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of
Dominican Republic killing 189.
*
1998 -
Washington National Airport is renamed
Ronald Reagan National Airport.
*
2004 - In
Russia, a suicide-attack in a
Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on
Chechen separatist groups.
*
2005 -
Super Bowl XXXIX: The
New England Patriots win their third title in four years by defeating the
Philadelphia Eagles 24-21.
* 2005 -
Jerrick De Leon, born 13 weeks premature, becomes the world's smallest infant to survive an open-heart procedure called an
arterial switch.
*
2006 - The
Conservative Party of Canada becomes a minority
Government of Canada government in Canada's Parliament, replacing the
Liberal Party of Canada Liberals after 13 years in power.
Births
*
1564 -
Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (d.
1593)
*
1577 -
Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (d.
1599)
*
1608 -
Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d.
1697)
*
1611 -
Chongzhen, Emperor of China (d.
1644)
*
1639 -
Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d.
1691)
*
1664 -
Mustafa II,
Ottoman Sultan (d,
1703)
*
1665 -
Queen Anne of England (d.
1714)
*
1695 -
Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d.
1726)
*
1744 -
Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d.
1795)
*
1748 -
Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d.
1811)
*
1756 -
Aaron Burr,
Vice President of the United States (d.
1836)
*
1833 -
James Ewell Brown Stuart, American Confederate general (d.
1864)
*
1834 -
Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d.
1889)
*
1838 -
Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chafetz Chayim (d.
1933)
*
1853 -
Ignacij KlemenÄ?iÄ?, Slovenian physicist (d.
1901)
*
1887 -
Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d.
1978)
*
1892 -
William Murphy (scientist) William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1987)
*
1894 -
Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d.
1979)
*
1895 -
Babe Ruth, baseball player (d.
1948)
*
1897 -
Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster, head of Murder, Inc. (d.
1944)
*
1901 -
Ben Lyon, American actor (d.
1979)
*
1902 -
George Brunies, American musician (d.
1974)
*
1903 -
Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d.
1991)
*
1905 -
Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d.
1982)
*
1910 -
Irmgard Keun, German author (d.
1982)
* 1910 -
Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d.
1993)
*
1911 -
Ronald Reagan, 40th
President of the United States (d.
2004)
*
1912 -
Eva Braun, German mistress of
Adolf Hitler (d.
1945)
*
1913 -
Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d.
1996)
*
1914 -
Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d.
2005)
*
1917 -
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian actress
*
1918 -
Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author
*
1922 -
Bill Johnston (cricketer) Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer
* 1922 -
Patrick Macnee, British actor
* 1922 -
Denis Norden, British television abd radio personality and scriptwriter
*
1926 -
Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
*
1929 -
Pierre Brice, French actor
*
1931 -
Rip Torn, American actor and director
* 1931 -
Mamie Van Doren, American actress
*
1932 -
Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d.
1959)
* 1932 -
François Truffaut, French film director (d.
1984)
*
1939 -
Mike Farrell, American actor
* 1939 -
Orlando Parga, Vice President of the
Senate of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Senate
*
1940 -
Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman
*
1942 -
Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
*
1943 -
Fabian (entertainer) Fabian, American singer
* 1943 -
Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
*
1944 -
Michael Tucker (actor) Michael Tucker, American actor
*
1945 -
Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (d.
1981)
*
1946 -
Jim Turner (Congressman) Jim Turner, American politician
*
1949 -
Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
*
1950 -
Natalie Cole, American singer
*
1951 -
Marco Antonio, Brazilian footballer
*
1954 -
Argusto Emfazie, American occultist and author
*
1957 -
Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian
* 1957 -
Robert Townsend, American comedian, actor, director, and producer
*
1958 -
Barry Miller (actor) Barry Miller, American actor
*
1960 -
Megan Gallagher, American actress
*
1961 -
Bill Lester, African-American NASCAR Driver
*
1962 -
Axl Rose, American singer (
Guns N' Roses)
*
1966 -
Rick Astley, British singer
*
1972 -
David Binn, American football player
*
1975 -
Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist
* 1975 -
Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer/songwriter, better known as ''Tommy February6''
*
1976 -
Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
*
1983 -
Myron Wolf Child, Politican & Author
*
1984 -
Darren Bent, English footballer
*
1987 -
Dan-Michael Johnsen, Norwegian football player, actor and singer
*
1991 -
Kara Borden, American orphan and crime victim
Deaths
*
891 -
Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople
*
1378 -
Jeanne de Bourbon, queen of
Charles V of France (b.
1338)
*
1497 -
Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer
*
1515 -
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
*
1585 -
Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b.
1518)
*
1593 -
Jacques Amyot, French writer (b.
1513)
*
1593 -
Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b.
1517)
*
1617 -
Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b.
1553)
*
1685 - King
Charles II of England (b.
1630)
*
1740 -
Pope Clement XII (b.
1652)
*
1775 -
William Dowdeswell, English politician (b.
1721)
*
1783 -
Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b.
1716)
*
1793 -
Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b.
1707)
*
1816 -
Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b.
1744)
*
1833 -
Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b.
1762)
*
1834 -
Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d.
1804)
*
1855 -
Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b.
1791)
*
1916 -
Rubén DarÃo, Nicaraguan writer (b.
1867)
*
1918 -
Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b.
1862)
*
1950 -
Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b.
1884)
*
1952 - King
George VI of the United Kingdom (b.
1895)
*
1976 -
Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b.
1928)
*
1986 -
Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of
The Salvation Army (b.
1899)
* 1986 -
Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b.
1912)
*
1989 -
Roy Eldridge, American musician (b.
1911)
*
1989 -
Chris Gueffroy, last person killed escaping over the Berlin wall (b.
1968)
*
1989 -
Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b.
1912)
*
1991 -
Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1912)
*
1991 -
Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b.
1914)
*
1993 -
Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b.
1943)
* 1993 -
Joseph Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and writer (b.
1909)
*
1994 -
Joseph Cotten, American actor (b.
1905)
* 1994 -
Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b.
1917)
*
1995 -
James Merrill, American poet (b.
1926)
*
1996 -
Guy Madison, American actor (b.
1922)
*
1998 -
Falco (musician) Falco, Austrian singer (b.
1957)
* 1998 -
Carl Wilson, American musician (
The Beach Boys) (b.
1946)
*
2001 -
Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b.
1953)
*
2002 -
Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b.
1914)
*
2005 -
Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b.
1930)
* 2005 -
Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b.
1913)
Holidays and observances
*
Bob Marley Bob Marley Day in
Rastafari movement Rastafarianism (
Jamaica and
Ethiopia)
*
Waitangi Day (National Holiday) in
New Zealand
*
Sami people Sami National Day (known as Lapps; in Finland and Scandinavia)
liturgical feasts
*
Saint Amandus,
Apostle of the Franks
*
Saint Vedastus (+540)
*
Saint Dorothea, patron saint of
florists
External links
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On this day in Canada
-
NY Times: On this day
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BBC: On This Day
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historical anniversaries listing of all days
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