February 6

history

Events

1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
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.
1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1817 – The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1840 – Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
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, known as the Battle of Fort Henry.
1899 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, 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 – The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
1933 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect.
1934 – Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files 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.
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.
1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
1989 – The Roundtable talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
1998 – In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna.

Births

1347 – Dorothea of Montau, Catholic saint (d. 1394)
1461 – Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1501)
1465 – Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (d. 1526)
1577 – Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)
1582 – Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1657)
1605 – Bernard of Corleone, Catholic saint (d. 1667)
1608 – Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
1611 – Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1694)
1639 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
1664 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
1665 – Anne of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1714)
1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
1721 – Christian Friedrich Heinecken, "the Infant of Lübeck" (d. 1725)
1726 – Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and naturalist (d. 1805)
1732 – Charles Lee, General in the American Revolution (d. 1782)
1736 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783)
1744 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
1748 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
1753 – Évariste de Parny, French poet (d. 1814)
1756 – Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
1757 – Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)
1769 – Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general. (d. 1862)
1772 – Karl von Kügelgen, German landscape and history painter (d. 1832)
1778 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer, revolutionary and poet (d. 1827)
1796 – John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist (d. 1861)
1797 – Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian statesman and general (d. 1853)
1799 – Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist (d. 1870)
1800 – Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer (d. 1857)
1802 – Charles Wheatstone, English scientist and inventor (d. 1875)
1811 – Henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898)
1818 – William M. Evarts, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1901)
1818 – Jenaro Quesada y Matheus, Spanish nobleman, soldier and politician (d. 1889)
1818 – Henry Charles Litolff, keyboard virtuoso and composer (d. 1891)
1829 – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect (d. 1914)
1830 – Daniel Oliver, British botanist (d. 1916)
1832 – John Brown Gordon, general, U.S. Senator from Georgia, and 53rd Governor of Georgia (d. 1904)
1833 – James Ewell Brown Stuart, American Confederate cavalry general (d. 1864)
1833 – José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
1834 – Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist (d. 1913)
1834 – Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)
1834 – Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and military writer (d. 1911)
1838 – Sir Henry Irving, British actor (d. 1905)
1838 – Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
1839 – Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
1842 – Mary Rudge, English female chess master (d. 1919)
1843 – Frederic William Henry Myers, English poet, essayist and psychical researcher (d. 1901)
1843 – Inoue Kowashi, Japanese statesman (d. 1895)
1847 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (d. 1918)
1852 – C. Lloyd Morgan, British zoologist and psychologist (d. 1936)
1852 – Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer (d. 1918)
1853 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
1859 – Wilhelm Cohn, German chess master (d. 1913)
1861 – Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist (d. 1953)
1864 – John Henry Mackay, Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker and writer (d. 1933)
1866 – Karl Sapper, German traveller, explorer, antiquarian and linguist (d. 1945)
1872 – Robert Maillart, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1940)
1875 – Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
1878 – Walter B. Pitkin, American lecturer in philosophy and psychology (d. 1953)
1879 – Othon Friesz French artist of the Fauvist movement (d. 1949)
1879 – Magnús Guðmundsson, Icelandic politician (d. 1937)
1879 – Carl Ramsauer, German physicist (d. 1955)
1883 – Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1938)
1887 – Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
1892 – William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1893 – Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, Pakistani diplomat, (d. 1985)
1894 – Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
1894 – Kirpal Singh, spiritual teacher ("Sant") (d. 1974)
1895 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
1897 – Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
1899 – Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)
1901 – Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)
1902 – George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974)
1903 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
1905 – Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
1908 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician (d. 1999)
1910 – Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
1910 – Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
1912 – Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
1912 – Christopher Hill, English Marxist historian (d. 2003)
1913 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
1914 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
1916 – John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
1917 – Zsa Zsa Gábor, Hungarian-born actress
1918 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
1922 – Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (d. 2007)
1922 – Patrick Macnee, British actor
1922 – Denis Norden, British television personality
1922 – Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
1923 – Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian football player and manager (d. 1981)
1924 – Billy Wright, English footballer (d. 1994)
1924 – Jin Yong, Chinese-language novelist
1925 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author (d. 2006)
1926 – Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
1927 – Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (d. 1992)
1929 – Pierre Brice, French actor
1929 – Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
1929 – Valentin Yanin, Russian historian
1930 – Jun Kondo, Japanese theoretical physicist
1931 – Rip Torn, American actor
1931 – Mamie Van Doren, American actress
1931 – Ricardo Vidal, Filipino Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Cebu
1932 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
1932 – François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
1932 – Heinz-Klaus Metzger, German music critic and theorist (d. 2009)
1933 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian (d. 1996)
1934 – Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000)
1936 – Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2009)
1936 – J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman
1939 – Mike Farrell, American actor
1939 – Orlando Parga, Puerto Rican politician
1940 – Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman
1940 – Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian
1940 – Petr Hájek, Czech mathematician
1941 – Gigi Perreau, American actress
1941 – Spencer Silver, American chemist, co-creator of the Post-it note
1942 – Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
1942 – James Loewen, American sociologist and historian
1943 – Fabian Forte, American singer
1943 – Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
1944 – Christine Boutin, French politician
1944 – Willie Tee, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007))
1944 – Michael Tucker, American actor
1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican musician (d. 1981)
1946 – Jim Turner, American politician
1946 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
1947 – Bill Staines, American singer and songwroter
1949 – Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
1949 – Mike Batt, British composer
1950 – Natalie Cole, American singer
1951 – Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer
1951 – Margo O'Donnell, Irish singer
1951 – Jacques Villeret, French film actor (d. 2005)
1951-- Kevin Whately, English actor
1952 – Ricardo Lavolpe, Argentine football coach
1952 – Viktor Giacobbo, Swiss writer, comedian, moderator and actor
1955 – Michael Pollan, American journalist
1957 – Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedienne
1957 – Simon Phillips. Drummer of Toto
1957 – Robert Townsend, American actor
1958 – Cecily Adams, American actress (d. 2004)
1958 – Barry Miller, American actor
1959 – Ken Nelson, English record producer
1960 – Megan Gallagher, American actress
1961 – Bill Lester, American racecar driver
1962 – Stavros Lambrinidis, Greek politician
1962 – W. Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
1963 – Kevin Trudeau, American entrepreneur
1964 – Gordon Downie, Canadian musician (The Tragically Hip)
1964 – Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russian film director and actor
1965 – Jan Svěrák, Czech film director
1966 – Rick Astley, British singer
1967 – Anita Cochran, American singer
1967 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
1968 – Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
1968 – Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer
1969 – David Hayter, American voice actor
1969 – Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer
1969 – Tim Sherwood, English footballer
1970 – Per Frandsen, Danish footballer
1971 – Dana Eskelson, American actress
1971 – Brad Hogg, Australian cricket player
1971 – Brian Stepanek, American actor
1972 – David Binn, American football player
1975 – Orkut Büyükkökten, Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking service Orkut
1975 – Brett Hawke, Australian swimmer
1975 – Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
1975 – Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist
1976 – Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder
1976 – Colin Teo, Singaporean Grand Prix driver
1976 – Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
1976 – Kasper Hvidt, Danish handball goalkeeper
1976 – Princess Marie of Denmark
1977 – Jason Euell, English-born footballer
1977 – Josh Stewart, American actor
1979 – Dan Bălan, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1980 – Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu
1980 – Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
1980 – Luke Ravenstahl, American politician
1981 – Calum Best, American model
1981 – Jens Lekman, Swedish musician
1981 – Ty Warren, American football player
1981 – Alison Haislip, Attack of the Show! correspondent
1981 – Shim Eun Jin, former leader of Baby V.O.X.
1982 – Alice Eve, English actress
1982 – Tank Lu, Mandopop singer
1983 – Brodie Croyle, American football player
1983 – Dimas Delgado, Spanish footballer
1983 – S. Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
1983 – Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
1983 – Myron Wolf Child, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1983 – Melrose Bickerstaff, American fashion model
1984 – Darren Bent, English footballer
1984 – Piret Järvis, Estonian singer
1984 – Antoine Wright, American basketball player
1985 – Kris Humphries, American basketball player
1985 – Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
1985 – Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
1986 – Alice Greczyn, American actress
1986 – Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 – U-Know, leader of Korean group TVXQ
1988 – Allison Holker, American dancer
1988 – Bailey Hanks, American actress
1989 – Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer
1992 – Víctor Mañon, Mexican u-17s footballer
2004 – Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Princess of Belgium

Deaths

891 – St. Photius I the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople
1378 – Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
1497 – Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c.1410)
1515 – Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
1585 – Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
1593 – Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
1593 – Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
1617 – Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
1685 – King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
1740 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
1775 – William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
1783 – Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
1793 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
1807 – John Reid, British army general and composer (b. 1721)
1816 – Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
1833 – Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
1834 – Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
1855 – Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
1899 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
1899 – Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
1910 – Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b. 1839)
1916 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
1918 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
1927 – Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
1938 – Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
1950 – Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
1951 – Gabby Street, former MLB player (b. 1882)
1952 – George VI 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 and journalist (b. 1913)
1958 – Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
1963 – Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician
1964 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (b. 1869)
1966 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
1967 – Martine Carol, French film actress (b. 1920)
1976 – Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)
1976 – Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali Indian film maker and scriptwriter (b. 1925)
1981 – Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer (b. 1925)
1981 – Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
1985 – James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
1986 – Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
1986 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
1986 – Dandy Nichols, English actress (b. 1907)
1988 – Nuno Oliveira, Bass Player (b. 1925)
1989 – André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)
1989 – Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
1989 – Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
1989 – Osbourne Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
1991 – Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1991 – Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
1993 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
1994 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
1994 – Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
1995 – James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
1996 – Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
1997 – Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
1998 – Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
1998 – Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
1998 – Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
2001 – Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
2001 – Fulgence Charpentier, Quebec journalist (b. 1897)
2002 – Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
2005 – Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2005 – Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
2007 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007 – Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932)
2007 – Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2007 – Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
2007 – Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
2008 – John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
2008 – Tony Rolt, English racing driver (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances

Christian Feast day
- Amand
- Dorothea of Caesarea, patron saint of florists
- Paul Miki
- Titus
- Vedastus
- February 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (United Nation)
Sami National Day (Finland and Scandinavia)
Waitangi Day, also called New Zealand Day; a National Holiday and main holiday in New Zealand.

External links

home | This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. See full license termsIt uses material from the Wikipedia article "February_6 ". | compliance | March 20th 2010