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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Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation
Ineligible
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| 1820 – The first ship of the American Colonization Society sailed from New York for West Africa with 88 African-American emigrants aboard to found the colony of Liberia. | ACS: refimprove section; History: refimprove sections |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | refimprove section, outdated |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 |
| António Vieira (b. 1608) · | missing page numbers |
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.
- 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.
- 1862 – Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
- 1951 – A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, the deadliest rail disaster in peacetime United States with 86 deaths.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Born/died: Joseph Priestley (d. 1804) · Pierre André Latreille (d. 1833) · Isabella Beeton (d. 1865) · Eva Braun (b. 1912) · Barbara W. Tuchman (d. 1989)
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 (Sámi people, 1917); Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840)
- 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.
- 1840 – British representatives and Māori chiefs first signed the Treaty of Waitangi, widely regarded as the founding document of New Zealand.
- 1919 – More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general strike (pictured) to gain higher wages after two years of U.S. World War I wage controls.
- 1987 – Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia.
- 2000 – Second Chechen War: Russian forces captured Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, from the separatist Chechen government following a siege and assault that devastated the city.
Donnchad Midi (d. 797) · Aldus Manutius (d. 1515) · Zsa Zsa Gabor (b. 1917)