February 6

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 established 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.
• 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.
• 1936 – 1936 Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
• 1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one on 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 in a tree-top 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.

Births

• 1564 – Christopher Marlowe, playwright (d. 1593)
• 1577 – Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (d. 1599)
• 1665 – Queen Anne I of the United Kingdom (d. 1714)
• 1748 – Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
• 1756 – Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
• 1833 – JEB Stuart, Confederate general (d. 1864)
• 1834 – Ema Puksec AKA Ilma de Murska Croatian opera singer (d. 1889)
• 1853 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovene physicist (+ 1901)
• 1887 – Josef Frings, archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
• 1889 – Elmo Lincoln, actor (d. 1952)
• 1894 – Eric Partridge, lexicographer (d. 1979)
• 1895 – Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1948)
• 1899 – Ramon Novarro, actor (d. 1968)
• 1901 – Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1902 – George Brunies, jazz musician (d. 1974)
• 1903 – Claudio Arrau, Italian pianist (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
• 1910 – Irmgard Keun, author (d. 1982)
• 1910 – Carlos Marcello, gangster (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress (d. 1945)
• 1913 – Mary Leakey, anthropologist (d. 1996)
• 1913 – John Lund, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Thurl Ravenscroft, voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger")
• 1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress
• 1918 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author
• 1922 – Patrick Macnee, actor
• 1922  – Bill Johnston, Australian left-arm bowler of 1940s and 1950s.
• 1926 – Haskell Wexler, cinematographer
• 1929 – Pierre Brice, French actor
• 1931 – Rip Torn, actor, director
• 1931 – Mamie Van Doren, American actress
• 1932 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
• 1932 – François Truffaut, film director (d. 1984)
• 1939 – Mike Farrell, actor
• 1940 – Tom Brokaw, news anchorman
• 1941 – Gigi Perreau, French-American actress
• 1943 – Fabian Forte, singer
• 1943 – Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
• 1944 – Michael Tucker, American actor
• 1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician, (d. 1981)
• 1946 – Jim Turner, American politician
• 1949 – Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
• 1950 – Natalie Cole, singer
• 1951 – Princess Daphné of Belgium
• 1954 – Argusto Emfazie, occultist, author
• 1957 – Kathy Najimy, actress, comedian
• 1957 – Robert Townsend, comedian, actor, director, producer
• 1958 – Barry Miller, American actor
• 1960 – Megan Gallagher, American actress
• 1962 – Axl Rose, musician ("Guns N' Roses")
• 1966 – Rick Astley, British singer
• 1975 – Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish conceptual artist
• 1976 – Kim Zmeskal, U.S. gymnast

Deaths

• 891 – Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1617 – Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
• 1685 – King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
• 1740 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
• 1793 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
• 1855 – Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1791)
• 1916 – Rubén Darío, writer
• 1918 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
• 1952 – King George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
• 1960 – Jesse Belvin, American musician, songrwiter
• 1976 – Vince Guaraldi, musician (b. 1928)
• 1986 – Minoru Yamasaki, architect (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Roy Eldridge, jazz musician (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Chris Gueffroy, last person killed escaping over the Berlin wall
• 1989 – Barbara Tuchman, historian (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Danny Thomas, singer, comedia, and actor (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
• 1993 – Joseph Mankiewicz, director, producer, and writer
• 1994 – Joseph Cotten, actor (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Jack Kirby, comic book writer (b. 1917)
• 1995 – James Merrill, poet (b. 1926)
• 1996 – Guy Madison, actor
• 1998 – Falco, singer (b. 1957)
• 1998 – Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys)
• 1999 – Danny Dayton, American actor
• 2002 – Max Perutz, scientist (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Guy Stockwell, actor

Holidays and observances

• Feast day of Saint Paul Miki and companions
• National holiday for the Sami people
• Waitangi day – New Zealand

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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