February 6
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February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining after February 6 until the end of the year (329 in leap years).
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[change] Events
- 1649 – The Parliament of Scotland declares the future Charles II as King.
- 1685 – James II of England/James VII of Scotland becomes King.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1886 – German chemist Clemens Winkler discovers the chemical element Germanium.
- 1918 – In the United Kingdom, women over the age of 30 years get the right to vote.
- 1936 – The Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, begin.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005 – Super Bowl XXXIX: The New England Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles 24–21.
- 2006 – Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
[change] Births
- 1452 – Joan, Princess of Portugal (d. 1490)
- 1611 – Chongzhen, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
- 1643 – Johann Casimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, 1st Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1712)
- 1664 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
- 1665 – Anne, Queen of England, Ireland and Scotland (d. 1714)
- 1748 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher (d. 1811)
- 1756 – Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
- 1802 – Charles Wheatstone, English physicist and inventor (d. 1875)
- 1811 – Henry George Liddell, English philologist and lexicographer (d. 1898)
- 1859 – Wilhelm Cohn, German chess player (d. 1913)
- 1879 – Carl Ramsauer, German physicist (d. 1955)
- 1892 – William P. Murphy, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 1987)
- 1895 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
- 1903 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist (d. 1991)
- 1905 – Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish politician (d. 1982)
- 1908 – Amintore Fanfani, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1999)
- 1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
- 1912 – Eva Braun, wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
- 1913 – Mary Leakey, Kenyan archaeologist (d. 1996)
- 1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress
- 1922 – Patrick Macnee, British actor
- 1923 – Gyula Lorant, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
- 1924 – Billy Wright, English footballer (d. 1994)
- 1929 – Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist and inventor (d. 2008)
- 1931 – Mamie Van Doren, American actress
- 1932 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary
- 1932 – François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
- 1939 – Mike Farrell, American actor
- 1940 – Tom Brokaw, American television journalist
- 1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican Reggae musician (d. 1981)
- 1946 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
- 1950 – Natalie Cole, American singer
- 1951 – Kevin Whately, British actor
- 1952 – Ricardo La Volpe, Argentine football coach
- 1960 – Jeremy Bowen, British journalist
- 1962 – Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
- 1966 – Rick Astley, British singer
- 1967 – Zard, Japanese singer (d. 2007)
- 1968 – Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
- 1975 – Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
- 1976 – Princess Marie of Denmark
- 1976 – Kasper Hvidt, Danish handball player
- 1982 – Tank, Taiwanese singer
- 1984 – Darren Bent, English footballer
- 1985 – Kris Humphries, American basketball player
- 1986 – Mathew Tait, English rugby player
[change] Deaths
- 1378 – Jeanne de Bourbon, Queen of France (b. 1338)
- 1497 – Johannes Ockeghem, Belgian composer (b. 1410)
- 1685 – Charles II, King of England, Ireland and Scotland (b. 1630)
- 1740 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
- 1804 – Joseph Priestley, English-American theologian, philosopher, chemist and physicist (b. 1733)
- 1899 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
- 1899 – Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg Gotha (b. 1874)
- 1916 – Ruben Dario, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
- 1918 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
- 1929 – Maria Christina of Austria, Queen of Spain (b. 1858)
- 1952 – George VI, King of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
- 1958 – David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
- 1958 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
- 1958 – Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
- 1958 – Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
- 1958 – Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
- 1958 – Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
- 1958 – Frank Swift, English footballer (b. 1913)
- 1964 – Emilio Aguinaldo, President of the Philippines (b. 1869)
- 1984 – Jorge Guillen, Spanish poet (b. 1893)
- 1989 – Chris Gueffroy, German, last person to die crossing the Berlin Wall (b. 1968)
- 1991 – Salvador Luria, Italian biologist (b. 1912)
- 1993 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
- 1994 – Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
- 1998 – Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
- 1998 – Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
- 2002 – Max Perutz, Austria molecular biologist (b. 1914)
- 2009 – James Whitmore, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2010 – John Dankworth, British jazz musician (b. 1927)
- 2011 – Josefa Iloilo, 3rd President of Fiji (b. 1920)
- 2011 – Gary Moore, Northern Irish musician (b. 1952)
[change] Observances
- Waitangi Day in New Zealand
- Sami National Day (Finland, Norway, Sweden, parts of Russia)
- Ronald Reagan Day (California)
- Accession Day (since 1952), in the United Kingdom and all the other countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is Head of State
