Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 6
This is a list of selected February 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Duckworth's Action off San Domingo, 6 February 1806
Ineligible
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| Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840) | refimprove section |
| 1820 – Sponsored by the American Colonization Society, the first African American immigrants established a settlement in present-day Liberia. | Need to verify date |
| 1840 – The British and the Māori signed the Treaty of Waitangi, considered as the founding document of New Zealand. | {{unreferenced section}}, {{refimprove section}} |
| 1934 – In an attempted coup d'état against the French Third Republic, far right leagues demonstrated on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. | {{more footnotes}} |
| 1958 – British European Airways Flight 609, carrying the Manchester United football club, a number of their fans and journalists covering the team, crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany, killing eight players and 15 others. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1778 – France and the United States signed the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, establishing military and commercial ties respectively between the two nations.
- 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: When squadrons of British and French ships of the line engaged in the Battle of San Domingo in the Caribbean Sea, the French ships Impérial and Diomède ran aground to avoid capture, but were caught and destroyed anyway.
- 1862 – Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
- 1959 – Jack Kilby, an engineer at Texas Instruments, filed a patent application for the first integrated circuit.
- 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.
- 1987 – Mary Gaudron was appointed as the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia.
- 2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen government into exile.
Notes
- Novye Aldi massacre appears on February 5, so Battle of Grozny should not appear in the same year.
February 6: Sami National Day (Sami people); Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins (2012)
- 1819 – British official Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the British East India Company.
- 1833 – Otto (pictured) became the first modern King of Greece.
- 1922 – Britain, France, Japan, Italy and the United States signed the Washington Naval Treaty to avoid a naval arms race.
- 1952 – Elizabeth II ascended to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and three other Commonwealth countries upon the death of her father, George VI.
- 1976 – In testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, Lockheed 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.