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06 February, 2004
In Russia, a suicide-attack in a Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on Chechen separatist groups.
06 February, 1998
Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
06 February, 1998
In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna.
06 February, 1996
A Birgen Air Boeing 757 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Dominican Republic killing 189.
06 February, 1992
The Saami people of the Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence.
06 February, 1978
The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Noreasters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
06 February, 1971
Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission - Alan Shepard becomes the first person to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
06 February, 1959
Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
06 February, 1959
At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
06 February, 1958
Eight players of Manchester United were killed in the Munich air disaster.
06 February, 1952
Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
06 February, 1952
Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of Canada at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
06 February, 1951
The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
06 February, 1936
Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
06 February, 1934
February 6, 1934 political crisis in France. The far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, an attempted coup against the Third Republic.
06 February, 1933
The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
06 February, 1922
Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
06 February, 1922
The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
06 February, 1900
The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
06 February, 1899
Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898), a peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.
06 February, 1862
American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the Battle of Fort Henry.
06 February, 1843
The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
06 February, 1840
Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
06 February, 1820
The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
06 February, 1819
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
06 February, 1817
The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
06 February, 1815
New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
06 February, 1788
Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
06 February, 1778
American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
06 February, 1685
James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.

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