February 6

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February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining until the end of the year (329 in leap years).

Events

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Up to 1900

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1643 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach Fiji.
1649 - The Parliament of Scotland declares the future Charles II as King.
1685 - James II of England/James VII of Scotland becomes King.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: France recognizes the United States as an independent republic.
1788 - Massachusetts becomes a U.S. state.
1788 - Female convicts are landed at Sydney, leading to a wild night of sex, rape and a riot.
1795 - The First Boer Republic is founded in protest against the Dutch East India Company.
1806 - Battle of Santo Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1819 - Singapore is founded.
1820 - Liberia is founded.
1833 - Otto becomes the first King of modern Greece.
1840 - New Zealand is founded with the Treaty of Waitangi.
1843 - The US' first minstrel show, the Virginia Minstrels, begins at Bowery Amphitheatre in new York City.
1851 - Widespread bushfires affect the state of Victoria, Australia.
1862 - American Civil War: The United States Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
1886 - German chemist Clemens Winkler discovers the chemical element Germanium.
1899 - Spanish-American War: The United States Senate accepts the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Spain.
1900 - An international court of law is created in The Hague, Netherlands.

1901 - 2000

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1911 - 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, is born in Tampico, Illinois.
1917 - The first International Sami Conference takes place in Trondheim, Norway.
1918 - In the United Kingdom, women over the age of 30 years get the right to vote.
1919 - Women aged 21 or over are given the right to vote in Luxembourg.
1922 - Achille Ratti is elected Pope Pius XI.
1934 - Far-right groups rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
1936 - The Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, begin.
1942 - World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Siam, present-day Thailand.
1951 - A Pennsylvania railroad passenger train crashes off the track near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people.
1952 - Accession to the throne of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, after the death of George VI.
1958 - Munich Air Disaster: A plane whose passengers include several Manchester United footballers, crashes shortly after take-off in blizzard conditions in Munich, Germany.
1959 - American Jack Kilby applies for a patent for the Integrated circuit.
1968 - The 1968 Winter Olympics began in Grenoble, France.
1971 - NASA astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first person to play golf on the Moon.
1973 - Construction begins on the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada.
1978 - New England is hit by a major snowstorm.
1981 - The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on the Ugandan Army installation in the Central Mubenda District, starting the Ugandan Bush War.
1988 - Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line.
1989 - Berlin Wall: Chris Gueffroy becomes the last person to die while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin over the Berlin Wall.
1989 - Talks begin in Warsaw between Poland's Communist leaders and respresentatives of the Solidarity movement.
1994 - American pop rock band Maroon 5 is formed. (As Kara's Flowers)
1996 - Birgenair Flight 301 crashes off the west coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. It is the worst accident to involve a Boeing 757.
1998 - Washington, DC's National Airport is renamed in honour of Ronald Reagan.
1999 - An Indonesian ferry sinks off Borneo with the loss of more than 300 lives.
2000 - Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny.

From 2001

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2005 - Super Bowl XXXIX: The New England Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21. During this game, American Dad! is shown for the first time.
2006 - Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
2012 - Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years on the throne as Queen of the United Kingdom and several countries in the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming only the second British monarch, after Queen Victoria, to reach this milestone.
2016 - A major earthquake strikes Taiwan, mainly in the south of the island. A collapsed tower block kills at least 116 people and leaves up to 100 missing.
2018 - SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon Heavy rocket.
2018 - A major earthquake strikes the northeast of Taiwan, including the city of Hualien.
2018 - "Cheddar Man", the earliest-known human known to have lived in present-day Great Britain, 9,000 year ago, is revealed to have had dark skin and blue eyes.
2023 - Major earthquakes strike the southern of Turkey and Syria.