| February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar. There are 328 days remaining, 329 in leap years.
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.
- 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)
- 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)
- 1914 - Thurl
Ravenscroft, voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger")
- 1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor,
actress
- 1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author
- 1922 - Patrick Macnee,
actor
- 1926 - Haskell Wexler, cinematographer
- 1929 - Pierre Brice, 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
- 1943 - Fabian
Forte, singer
- 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
- 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
- 1617 - Prospero Alpini,
Italian scientist (b. 1553)
- 1685 - King Charles
II of England (b. 1630)
- 1740 - Pope Clement XII
(b. 1652)
- 1793 - Carlo Goldoni,
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 GDR border
- 1989 - Barbara Tuchman,
historian (b. 1912)
- 1991 - Danny Thomas, singer,
comedia, actor (b. 1914)
- 1993 - Arthur Ashe, tennis star (b. 1943)
- 1993 - Joseph
Mankiewicz, director, producer, 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, musician
("The Beach Boys")
- 1999 - Danny Dayton, American actor
- 2002 - Max Perutz, scientist (b.
1914)
- 2002 - Guy Stockwell, actor
Holidays and observances
External links
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January 6 - March 6 -- listing of all days
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