SomeFacts | February 6

On this day - February 6

337 — Election of pope Julius I.

590 — Hormizd IV, king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown and ...

1579 — The Diocese of Manila is erected by papal bull, with Domingo ...

1685 — James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King ...

1694 — Dandara, leader of the runaway slaves in Quilombo dos ...

1778 — New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of ...

1778 — American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance ...

1788 — Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United ...

1806 — Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the ...

1819 — The Treaty of Singapore was signed by Sir Thomas Stamford ...

1820 — The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the ...

1833 — Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.

1840 — Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as ...

1843 — The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia ...

1851 — The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in ...

1862 — American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. ...

1865 — The municipal administration of Finland is established.

1899 — Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty ...

1900 — The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international ...

1918 — British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property ...

1919 — The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than ...

1922 — The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., ...

1934 — Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an ...

1944 — World War II: The Great Raids Against Helsinki begins.

1951 — The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails ...

1951 — The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.

1952 — Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other ...

1958 — Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers ...

1959 — At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing ...

1959 — Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an ...

1973 — The Ms 7.6 Luhuo earthquake strikes Sichuan Province, causing ...

1976 — In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, ...

1978 — The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New ...

1981 — The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a ...

1987 — Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed ...

1989 — The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the ...

1996 — Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican ...

1996 — Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of ...

1998 — Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National ...

2000 — Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing ...

2006 — Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.

2012 — A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the central Philippine island ...

2016 — An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, ...

2018 — SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, ...

2021 — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements ...

2023 — Two earthquakes measuring Mww 7.8 and 7.5 struck near the ...