Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 6
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Drachma depicting Hormidz -
Stamford Raffles -
Duckworth's Action off San Domingo -
King Otto of Greece -
Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation -
News reel of the Munich air disaster
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Shipyard workers on strike in Seattle
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1833 – Otto became the first modern King of Greece. | lots of CN tags |
| 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 |
| 1922 – Britain, France, Japan, Italy and the United States signed the Washington Naval Treaty to avoid a naval arms race. | lots of CN tags (6) |
| 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 |
| 1952 – Elizabeth II (pictured) became the queen regnant of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon upon the death of her father, King George VI. | list of realms not cited |
| 1959 – Jack Kilby, an engineer at Texas Instruments, filed a patent application for the first integrated circuit. | refimprove section, outdated |
| 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 |
| 2000 – Second Chechen War: Russian forces captured Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, from the separatist Chechen government following a devastating siege and assault. | too many {cn} tags (9) |
| António Vieira |b|1608 | lead too short |
Eligible
- 1778 – France and the United States signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance, respectively establishing commercial and military ties between the two nations.
- 1788 – Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the constitution of the United States.
- 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captured or destroyed five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Domingo in the Caribbean Sea.
- 1819 – British official Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the East India Company.
- 1820 – The first ship of the American Colonization Society departed from New York for West Africa with 86 African-American emigrants aboard to found the colony of Liberia.
- 1840 – British representatives and Māori chiefs first signed the Treaty of Waitangi, widely regarded to be the founding document of New Zealand.
- 1862 – Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
- 1918 – Conscientious objector Henry Firth died in a work camp on Dartmoor, England, triggering a strike over living conditions.
- 1919 – World War I: More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of wage controls in the United States.
- 1951 – A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.
- 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 (news reel featured).
- 1976 – Lockheed Corporation 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.
- Born/died: | Donnchad Midi |d|797| Thurstan |d|1140| Bernard of Corleone |b|1605| Joseph Priestley |d|1804| Pierre André Latreille |d|1833| Victor Negus |b|1887 Eva Braun |b|1912| Gerard K. O'Neill |b|1927| Maria Mies |b|1931| Axl Rose |b|1962| Barbara W. Tuchman |d|1989 | Charlie Heaton |b|1994| Jack Kirby |d|1994| Gary Moore |d|2011
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 (1917); Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840)
Signing of the Washington Naval Treaty
- 590 – Vistahm and Vinduyih deposed their brother-in-law Hormizd IV, King of Kings of the Sasanian Empire.
- 1579 – Domingo de Salazar, a Spanish Dominican friar, was appointed the first bishop of Manila.
- 1865 – Finland established its modern system of secular municipalities, separate from church parishes.
- 1922 – Representatives from France, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom signed the Washington Naval Treaty (pictured), agreeing to limits on naval construction in the hopes of preventing an arms race.
- 1987 – Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia.
- Aldus Manutius (d. 1515)
- Isabella Beeton (d. 1865)
- Zsa Zsa Gabor (b. 1917)
- Mary Beth Edelson (b. 1933)
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