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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
1879	Carl Ramsauer, German physicist and author (d. 1955)
1940	Tom Brokaw, American journalist and author
1611	Chongzhen Emperor of China (d. 1644)
1833	J. E. B. Stuart, American general (d. 1864)
1952	Ric Charlesworth, Australian cricketer, coach, and politician
1993	Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011
1911	Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
1957	Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian
1966	Rick Astley, English singer-songwriter
1582	Mario Bettinus, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (d. 1657)

Famous People Deaths On February 6

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Date	Name
1519	Lorenz von Bibra, Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Würzburg (b. 1459)
2012	David Rosenhan, American psychologist and academic (b. 1929)
1990	Jimmy Van Heusen, American pianist and composer (b. 1913)
2016	Dan Gerson, American screenwriter (b. 1966)
1497	Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer and educator (b. 1410)
1931	Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (b. 1861)
2007	Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)
1685	Charles II of England (b. 1630)
1539	John III, Duke of Cleves (b. 1491)
1793	Carlo Goldoni, Italian-French playwright (b. 1707)