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
\n*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. \n*1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution. \n*1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.\n*1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.\n*1820 - 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freeport, Sierra Leone.\n*1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.\n*1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).\n*1862 - American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee.\n*1899 - Spanish-American War: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate. \n*1900 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree. \n*1922 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.\n*1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.\n*1936 - 1936 Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.\n*1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI.\n*1958 - Munich Air Disaster occurs.\n*1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.\n*1968 - 1968 Winter Olympic Games open in Grenoble, France.\n*1985 - Steve Wozniak leaves Apple Computer.\n*1996 - A Turkish Airlines Boeing 757 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast off Dominican Republic killing 189\n*1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.\n*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.
Births
\n*1564 - Christopher Marlowe, playwright (d. 1593)\n*1665 - Queen Anne I of the United Kingdom (d. 1714)\n*1756 - Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)\n*1887 - Josef Frings, archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)\n*1889 - Elmo Lincoln, actor (d. 1952)\n*1894 - Eric Partridge, lexicographer (d. 1979)\n*1895 - Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1948)\n*1899 - Ramon Novarro, actor (d. 1968)\n*1902 - George Brunies, jazz musician (d. 1974)\n*1903 - Claudio Arrau, pianist (d. 1991)\n*1910 - Irmgard Keun, author (d. 1982)\n*1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)\n*1912 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress (d. 1945)\n*1913 - Mary Leakey, anthropologist (d. 1996)\n*1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft, voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger")\n*1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress\n*1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of Das Boot \n*1922 - Patrick Macnee, actor\n*1926 - Haskell Wexler, cinematographer\n*1929 - Pierre Brice, actor\n*1931 - Rip Torn, actor, director\n*1932 - François Truffaut, film director (d. 1984)\n*1939 - Mike Farrell, actor\n*1940 - Tom Brokaw, news anchorman\n*1943 - Fabian Forte, singer\n*1945 - Bob Marley, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician, (d. 1981)\n*1950 - Natalie Cole, singer\n*1951 - Princess Daphné of Belgium\n*1954 - Argusto Emfazie, occultist, author\n*1957 - Kathy Najimy, actress, comedian\n* 1957 - Robert Townsend, comedian, actor, director, producer\n*1962 - Axl Rose, musician ("Guns N'Roses")\n*1974 - Layne Roland hockey player, Portland Winter Hawks and Corpus Christi Icerays.\n*1975 - Svend-Allan Sørensen, danish conceptual artist\n*1976 - Kim Zmeskal, U.S gymnast
Deaths
\n*1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630)\n*1740 - Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)\n*1793 - Carlo Goldoni, playwright (b. 1707)\n*1855 - Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1791)\n*1916 - Rubén Darío, writer\n*1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)\n*1952 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)\n*1976 - Vince Guaraldi, musician (b. 1928)\n*1989 - Roy Eldridge, jazz musician (b. 1911)\n* 1989 - Barbara Tuchman, historian (b. 1912)\n*1991 - Danny Thomas, singer, comedia, actor (b. 1914)\n*1993 - Arthur Ashe, tennis star (b. 1943)\n*1993 - Audrey Hepburn, actress\n* 1993 - Joseph Mankiewicz, director, producer, writer\n*1994 - Joseph Cotten, actor (b. 1905)\n* 1994 - Jack Kirby, comic book writer (b. 1917)\n*1995 - James Merrill, poet (b. 1926)\n*1996 - Guy Madison, actor\n*1998 - Falco, singer (b. 1957)\n* 1998 - Carl Wilson, musician ("The Beach Boys")\n*2002 - Guy Stockwell, actor
Holidays and observances
\n* Catholicism - Feast day of St Paul Miki and his companions.\n* National holiday for the Sami people.\n* Waitangi day - New Zealand
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