February 6
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February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 328 days remaining, 329 in leap years.
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Events
- 337 - 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 American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
- 1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
- 1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day 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 naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
- 1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
- 1934 - French far right rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, an attempted coup against the Third Republic.
- 1936 - 1936 Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
- 1951 - 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 becomes Queen upon the death of her father 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 in Canada's Parliament, replacing the Liberals after 13 years in power.
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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 Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
- 1887 - Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
- 1892 - 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, 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 Puerto Rico Senate
- 1940 - Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman
- 1942 - Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
- 1943 - Fabian, American singer
- 1943 - Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
- 1944 - Michael Tucker, American actor
- 1945 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1981)
- 1946 - 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, 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
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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)
- 1899 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
- 1916 - Rubén Darío, 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, Salvation Army general (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, 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)
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Holidays and observances
- Bob Marley Day in Rastafarianism (Jamaica and Ethiopia)
- Waitangi Day (National Holiday) in New Zealand
- Sami National Day (known as Lapps; in Finland and Scandinavia)
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liturgical feasts
- Saint Amandus, Apostle of the Franks
- Saint Vedastus (+540)
- Saint Dorothea, patron saint of florists
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