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What Happened on February 6th This Day in History

Year Name
2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries.
2018 SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight.
2016 An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people.
2012 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead.
2006 Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
2000 Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
1998 Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
1996 Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
1996 Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.
1989 The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1988 Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
1987 Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
1981 The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
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 four inches an hour.
1976 In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
1973 The Ms  7.6 Luhuo earthquake strikes Sichuan Province, causing widespread destruction and killing at least 2,199 people.
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.
1958 Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1952 Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1951 The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
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.
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.
1922 The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
1919 The American Legion is founded.
1919 The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
1918 British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament.
1900 The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1899 Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
1862 American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
1851 The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
1843 The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1840 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
1833 Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
1820 The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1806 Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
1788 Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
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.
1778 New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1694 The warrior queen Dandara, leader of the runaway slaves in Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil, is captured and commits suicide rather than be returned to a life of slavery.[3]
1685 James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
1579 The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
Famous People Born on February 6

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Year Name
1961 Michael Bolt, Australian rugby league player
1947 Bill Staines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1908 Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1999)
1985 Kris Humphries, American basketball player
1912 Christopher Hill, English historian and author (d. 2003)
1947 Charlie Hickcox, American swimmer (d .2010)
1719 Alberto Pullicino, Maltese painter (d. 1759)
1832 John Brown Gordon, American general and politician, 53rd Governor of Georgia (d. 1904)
1933 Leslie Crowther, English comedian, actor, and game show host (d. 1996)
1979 Dan Bălan, Moldovan singer-songwriter and producer
Famous People Deaths On February 6

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Date Name
2015 André Brink, South African author and playwright (b. 1935)
1976 Ritwik Ghatak, Bangladeshi-Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
1215 Hōjō Tokimasa, Japanese shikken of the Kamakura bakufu (b. 1138)
1515 Aldus Manutius, Italian publisher, founded the Aldine Press (b. 1449)
1834 Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (b. 1804)
1986 Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1899)
1539 John III, Duke of Cleves (b. 1491)
1908 Harriet Samuel, English businesswoman and founder the jewellery retailer H. Samuel (b. 1836)
1916 Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat (b. 1867)
1740 Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)