Tukuk-OS📅 February 6
16 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on February 6? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 1987 — Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia.
- 1976 — Lockheed Corporation 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.
- 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 (news reel featured).
Manchester United F.C.Munich air disasterMunich-Riem Airport
- 1951 — A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.
Woodbridge train derailmentTrestle bridgeWoodbridge Township, New Jersey
- 1922 — Representatives from France, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom signed the Washington Naval Treaty (pictured), agreeing to limits on naval construction in the hopes of preventing an arms race.
- 1919 — World War I: More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of wage controls in the United States.
- 1918 — Conscientious objector Henry Firth died in a work camp on Dartmoor, England, triggering a strike over living conditions.
- 1865 — Finland established its modern system of secular municipalities, separate from church parishes.
- 1862 — Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
Union (American Civil War)American Civil WarBattle of Fort Henry
- 1820 — The first ship of the American Colonization Society departed from New York for West Africa with 86 African-American emigrants aboard to found the colony of Liberia.
- 1819 — British official Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the East India Company.
Stamford RafflesHussein Shah of JohorFounding years of modern Singapore
- 1806 — Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captured or destroyed five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Domingo (pictured) in the Caribbean Sea.
- 1788 — Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the constitution of the United States.
- 1778 — France and the United States signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance, respectively establishing commercial and military ties between the two nations.
Treaty of Amity and Commerce (France–United States)Treaty of Alliance (1778)
- 1579 — Domingo de Salazar, a Spanish Dominican friar, was appointed the first bishop of Manila.
- 590 — Vistahm and Vinduyih deposed their brother-in-law Hormizd IV, King of Kings of the Sasanian Empire.
Births
- 2002 — Ona Huczkowski, Finnish actress
- 2000 — Conor Gallagher, English footballer
- 1998 — Adley Rutschman, American baseball player
- 1996 — Kevon Looney, American basketball player
- 1995 — Nyck de Vries, Dutch racing driver
- 1995 — Leon Goretzka, German footballer
- 1995 — Sam McQueen, English footballer
- 1993 — Teresa Scanlan, American beauty pageant titleholder, Miss America 2011
- 1992 — Víctor Mañón, Mexican footballer
- 1991 — Tobias Eisenbauer, Austrian ice dancer
- 1991 — Aleksandar Katai, Serbian footballer
- 1991 — Ida Njåtun, Norwegian speed skater
Deaths
- 2025 — Virginia Halas McCaskey, American football executive (born 1923)
- 2025 — Nigel McCrery, English screenwriter, producer and writer (born 1953)
- 2024 — Sebastian Piñera, former Chilean president (born 1949)
- 2023 — Greta Andersen, Danish swimmer (born 1927)
- 2022 — Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer and music composer (born 1929)
- 2021 — George Shultz, American politician, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Labor (born 1920)
George ShultzUnited States Secretary of StateUnited States Secretary of the Treasury
- 2020 — Jhon Jairo Velásquez, Colombian hitman and drug dealer (born 1962)
- 2019 — Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (born 1927)
- 2019 — Rosamunde Pilcher, British author (born 1924)
- 2018 — Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist (born 1935)
- 2017 — Irwin Corey, American comedian and actor (born 1914)
- 2017 — Inge Keller, German actress (born 1923)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Amand
- Christian feast day: Dorothea of Caesarea
- Christian feast day: Hildegund, O.Praem.
- Christian feast day: Jacut
- Christian feast day: Mateo Correa Magallanes (one of Saints of the Cristero War)
- Christian feast day: Mél of Ardagh
- Christian feast day: Paul Miki and Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan
- Christian feast day: Relindis (Renule) of Maaseik
- Christian feast day: Vedastus
- Christian feast day: February 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (United Nations)
International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital MutilationUnited Nations
- Ronald Reagan Day (California, United States)
- Sami National Day (Russia, Finland, Norway and Sweden)
- Waitangi Day, celebrates the founding of New Zealand in 1840.
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