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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| Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840); | refimprove |
| 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. | refimprove |
| 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: multiple issues |
| 1840 – The British and the Māori signed the Treaty of Waitangi, considered as the founding document of New Zealand. | {{unreferenced section}}, {{refimprove section}} |
| 1919 – More than 65,000 workers in Seattle, Washington, U.S., began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of World War I wage controls. | refimprove |
| 1922 – Britain, France, Japan, Italy and the United States signed the Washington Naval Treaty to avoid a naval arms race. | unreferenced 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}} |
| 1959 – Jack Kilby, an engineer at Texas Instruments, filed a patent application for the first integrated circuit. | refimprove section |
| 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 |
| 1987 – Mary Gaudron was appointed as the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia. | refimprove, poor lede |
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.
- 1833 – Otto became the first modern King of Greece.
- 1958 – The aircraft carrying the Manchester United football club and some fans and journalists crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany, killing eight players and 15 others.
- 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.
Notes
- 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: Sami National Day (Sami people); Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins (2017); Ronald Reagan Day in most U.S. states
- 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: When squadrons of British and French ships of the line engaged in the Battle of San Domingo (pictured) in the Caribbean Sea, the French ships Impérial and Diomède ran aground to avoid capture, but were caught and destroyed anyway.
- 1851 – The largest bushfire in a populous region in Australian history swept across Victoria, resulting in approximately five million hectares (twelve million acres) burnt.
- 1862 – Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
- 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.
- 2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen government into exile.