Notable Historical Events on February 6th
February 6th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
337 |
St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1189 |
Riots in Lynn, Norfolk (England) spread to Norwich |
1508 |
Maximilian I proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor,though 1st Emperor in centuries not to be crowned by the Pope |
1577 |
King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots |
1626 |
Huguenot rebels & French sign Peace of La Rochelle |
1651 |
-7] Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris |
1685 |
Duke of York becomes King James II of England and VII of Scotland upon the death of his brother Charles II. |
1693 |
Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va |
1716 |
England & Netherlands renew alliance |
1778 |
Britain declares war on France |
1778 |
France recognizes USA, signs Treaty of Alliance in Paris; 1st US treaty |
1788 |
Massachusetts becomes 6th state to ratify constitution |
1815 |
NJ issues 1st US railroad charter (John Stevens) |
1819 |
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore |
1820 |
1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone) |
1820 |
US population announced at 9,638,453, African Americans 1,771,656 (18.4%)) |
1820 |
The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia. |
1832 |
1st appearance of cholera in Edinburgh, Scotland |
1832 |
US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy |
1836 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania) |
1840 |
The Treaty of Waitangi is signed between 40 Māori Chiefs (later signed by 500) and representatives of the British crown in Waitangi, New Zealand. The treaty was designed to share sovereignty between the two groups. |
1843 |
The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City). |
1851 |
Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf |
1854 |
Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine |
1861 |
1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America (US Civil War) |
1861 |
British Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy issues first storm warnings for ships |
1862 |
General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee |
1862 |
American Civil Was; naval engagement on Tennessee River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle |
1862 |
Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi |
1864 |
-7] Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia |
1865 |
2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run) |
1867 |
Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in southern USA |
1869 |
Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers |
1891 |
1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17) |
1899 |
Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate |
1900 |
The Battle of Vaal Krantz, South Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1902 |
Young Women's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC |
1904 |
Japan notifies Russia that in view of Russia's delaying tactics and provocative military action, Japan is ending negotiations and recalling its members from Moscow |
1911 |
1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Arizona |
1911 |
Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) |
1918 |
Britain grants women (30 & over) vote |
1919 |
1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike |
1920 |
Saarland administrated by League of Nations |
1921 |
"The Kid," starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released |
1922 |
Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI |
1922 |
US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation |
1926 |
NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates |
1926 |
St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from NY Yankees |
1929 |
Rudy Vallee recorded "Deep Night" |
1932 |
1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport) |
1932 |
Fascist coup in the Memel territory |
1933 |
-90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record) |
1933 |
Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in North Pacific hurricane by USS Ramapo |
1933 |
Pres von Hindenburg & von Papen ends Prussian parliament |
1934 |
Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500 |
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. |
1935 |
"Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time |
1935 |
1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey |
1936 |
4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
1936 |
Pravda criticizes Shostakovitch' ballet "Clear Brook" |
1937 |
K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer |
1939 |
Spanish government flees to France |
1941 |
Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19) |
1941 |
Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed |
1941 |
British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya |
1943 |
1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down |
1943 |
Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade" |
1945 |
US 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz |
1945 |
Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder |
1946 |
"Lute Song" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 142 performances |
1947 |
Compton & Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket |
1948 |
1st radio-controlled airplane flown |
1948 |
Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia |
1948 |
KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1951 |
"Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84 |
1951 |
Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago |
1951 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security |
1952 |
Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne |
1953 |
Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 yrs 239 days, youngest Aussie |
1953 |
US controls on wages & some consumer goods lifted |
1956 |
Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing |
1956 |
French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers |
1956 |
University of Alabama suspends African-American Autherine Lucy on the grounds that it can no longer provide a safe environment for her |
1958 |
Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid |
1959 |
1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM |
1959 |
Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow |
1961 |
"Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC |
1961 |
KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named |
1964 |
"Rugantino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 28 performances |
1964 |
France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel |
1964 |
WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
"Kelly" opens & closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC |
1965 |
Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1 |
1967 |
Cultural Revolution in Albania |
1967 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1968 |
10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France |
1968 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam |
1968 |
Former Pres Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one |
1968 |
KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
"Dear World" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances |
1969 |
Jerry Herman's "Dear World," premieres in NYC |
1969 |
The New Ulster Movement is formed to promote moderate and non-sectarian policies and to assist those candidates who supported Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister |
1970 |
Graeme Pollock completes 274 v Australia at Durban |
1970 |
NBA expands to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston & Portland |
1971 |
1st time a golf ball is hit on Moon (by Alan Shepard) |
1971 |
Bernard Watt (28), a Catholic civilian, is shot and killed by the British Army (BA) during street disturbances in Ardoyne, Belfast |
1971 |
The Irish Republican Army shoots and kills Gunner Robert Curtis, the first British soldier to die during the 'Troubles' |
1971 |
James Saunders (22), a member of the IRA, is shot and killed by the British Army during a gun battle near the Oldpark Road, Belfast |
1972 |
A Civil Rights march is held in Newry, County Down; there is a very large turn-out for the march with many people attending to protest at the killings in Derry the previous Sunday |
1973 |
"Shelter" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 31 performances |
1973 |
40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution |
1973 |
6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah |
1973 |
Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm |
1974 |
3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
1974 |
Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis |
1974 |
US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon |
1975 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1976 |
George Harrison releases "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)" |
1977 |
4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0 |
1977 |
Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris |
1977 |
Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ |
1978 |
Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office |
1978 |
Snowstorm hits New England, parts of Rhode Island (54" (137cm)) |
1979 |
Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto |
1981 |
"Brady Brides," debuts on NBC TV |
1981 |
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1981 |
Suleiman Nyambui runs world record 5k indoor (13:20.4) |
1982 |
"Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart |
1983 |
13th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-19 |
1983 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
1984 |
Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army |
1986 |
NJ Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals |
1987 |
No-smoking rules take effect in US federal buildings |
1987 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
1988 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1989 |
Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa begins negotiating with Polish government |
1990 |
Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50 |
1990 |
Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium |
1990 |
Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes & 58.44 seconds backwards! |
1991 |
Mousey Davis becomes 1st coach of NY-NJ Knights |
1992 |
"Late Night's 10th Anniversary Show At Radio City Music Hall" on NBC |
1992 |
The Sámi people of the far northern Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence. |
1993 |
44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal |
1993 |
Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
1994 |
"Government Inspector" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 perfs |
1994 |
Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic |
1994 |
Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica |
1994 |
Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77m |
1994 |
Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland |
1994 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-3 |
1995 |
Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days |
1995 |
Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket |
1995 |
Rapper Tupac Shakur convicted on sexual assault charge and sentenced to up to 4 1/2 years in prison |
1996 |
Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence |
1997 |
Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm |
1998 |
Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to NY Yankees for $3M & 4 minor leaguers |
1998 |
Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years |
1998 |
In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna. |
1998 |
Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. |
1999 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-10 |
2000 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 51-31 |
2005 |
Super Bowl XXXIX, the New England Patriots win 24-21 over the Philadelphia Eagles |
2011 |
Super Bowl XLV: Green Bay Packers beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25 at the Cowboys Stadium MVP: Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay, QB |
2012 |
6.9 magnitude quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths |
2012 |
Queen Elizabeth II marks her 60th anniversary of becoming British monarch, becoming only the second to do so |
2012 |
Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot is presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario |
2013 |
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs off the Solomon Islands coast causing the death of nine people |
2014 |
Jay Leno ends his time on The Tonight Show |
2016 |
$153 million in Bill and Hillary Clinton speaking fees, documented |
2016 |
Beyonce drops new single: 'Formation' |
2016 |
New York Gov. Cuomo announces regulations to prevent gay 'conversion therapy' |
2017 |
Afghan Official: Avalanches in Afghanistan Kill at Least 107 |
2017 |
Trump Says Health Law Replacement May Not Be Ready Until Next Year |
2017 |
Patriots rally to stun Falcons in Super Bowl thriller |
2017 |
Pats' Brady named Super Bowl MVP after record comeback |
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