WikiRug:Selected anniversaries/February 6
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King Otto of Greece
Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1820 – The first ship of the American Colonization Society sailed from New York for West Africa with 88 African-American emigrants aboard to found the colony of Liberia. | ACS: refimprove section; History: multiple issues |
| 1833 – Otto became the first modern King of Greece. | refimprove |
| 1851 – The largest bushfire in a populous region in Australian history swept across Victoria, resulting in approximately five million hectares (twelve million acres) burnt. | refimprove section |
| 1919 – More than 65,000 workers in Seattle, Washington, U.S., began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of World War I wage controls. | refimprove |
| 1922 – Britain, France, Japan, Italy and the United States signed the Washington Naval Treaty to avoid a naval arms race. | lots of CN tags |
| 1934 – In an attempted coup d'état against the French Third Republic, far right leagues demonstrated on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. | refimprove section |
| 1959 – Jack Kilby, an engineer at Texas Instruments, filed a patent application for the first integrated circuit. | refimprove section |
| 1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst nor'easters in New England history, dropped record amounts of snow, caused approximately 100 deaths, and did over US$520 million in damage. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1778 – France and the United States signed the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, establishing military and commercial ties respectively between the two nations.
- 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: When squadrons of British and French ships of the line engaged in the Battle of San Domingo (pictured) in the Caribbean Sea, the French ships Impérial and Diomède ran aground to avoid capture, but were caught and destroyed anyway.
- 1840 – The British and the Māori signed the Treaty of Waitangi, considered as the founding document of New Zealand.
- 1958 – The aircraft carrying the Manchester United football team crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany, killing 8 players and 23 people in total.
- 2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen government into exile.
- Born/died: Joseph Priestley (d. 1804) · Isabella Beeton (d. 1865) · Eva Braun (b. 1912)
Notes
- Blizzard of '77 appears on January 28, so 1978 blizzard should not appear in the same year.
- Novye Aldi massacre (2000) appears on February 5, so Battle of Grozny should not appear in the same year.
- Old Trafford (1910) appears on February 19, so Munich disaster should not appear in the same year
February 6: Sámi National Day (Sámi people); Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840); Ronald Reagan Day in California and Wisconsin
- 1819 – British official Stamford Raffles (pictured) signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the British East India Company.
- 1862 – Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
- 1952 – Elizabeth II ascended to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and three other Commonwealth countries upon the death of her father, George VI.
- 1976 – In testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, Lockheed president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out approximately US$3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
- 1987 – Mary Gaudron was appointed as the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia.
António Vieira (b. 1608) · Pierre André Latreille (d. 1833) · Barbara W. Tuchman (d. 1989)