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Historical Events for February 6th

  • Year 1649 Calendar » The claimant King Charles II of England known as Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
  • Year 1685 Calendar » James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes British monarchy e.g King upon the death of his brother Charles II of England e.g Charles II.
  • Year 1778 Calendar » American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance (1778) e.g Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States–France) named Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognit
  • Year 1788 Calendar » Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  • Year 1806 Calendar » Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
  • Year 1815 Calendar » New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens (inventor) e.g John Stevens.
  • Year 1819 Calendar » Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
  • Year 1820 Calendar » The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a colonization named settlement in present-day History of Liberia e.g Liberia.
  • Year 1833 Calendar » Otto of Greece named Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
  • Year 1840 Calendar » Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
  • Year 1843 Calendar » The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
  • Year 1851 Calendar » The largest Bushfires in Australia Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history Black Thursday (1851) take place in the state of Victoria (Australia) Victoria.
  • Year 1862 Calendar » American Civil War: forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union (American Civil War) known as Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
  • Year 1899 Calendar » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898) e.g Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
  • Year 1900 Calendar » The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
  • Year 1914 Calendar » The Peasant armament support march or Bondetåget, a peasant uprising in support of the monarchy, takes place in Sweden
  • Year 1919 Calendar » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins.
  • Year 1922 Calendar » The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, British Empire named Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
  • Year 1942 Calendar » World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
  • Year 1951 Calendar » 'The Broker', a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train Woodbridge train wreck e.g 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.
  • Year 1952 Calendar » Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of Order of succession or succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
  • Year 1958 Calendar » Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
  • Year 1959 Calendar » Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
  • Year 1959 » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
  • Year 1975 Calendar » Kankesanthurai Electoral District by-election, 1975 or A crucial by-election is held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka.
  • Year 1976 Calendar » In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately Lockheed bribery scandals known as $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakue
  • Year 1981 Calendar » The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Uganda National Liberation Army known as Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
  • Year 1987 Calendar » Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
  • Year 1988 Calendar » Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman (logo) called Jumpman logo.
  • Year 1989 Calendar » The Polish Round Table Talks called Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
  • Year 1996 Calendar » Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
  • Year 1996 » Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and all 189 people inside the airplane are killed. This is the worst accident/incident involving a Boeing 757.
  • Year 1998 Calendar » Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
  • Year 2000 Calendar » Second Chechen War: Russia Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) called captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into government in exile named exile.
  • Year 2012 Calendar » A 2012 Visayas earthquake or 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 51 deaths and injuring 112 others.

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