February 6
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
1922 - Bill Johnston , Australian left-arm bowler of 1940s and 1950s.
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
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 , 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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