About February 6
February 6, 2024 is the 37th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 4 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 6
- 1685 –James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
- 1788 –Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1817 –The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
- 1819 –Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
- 1833 –Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
- 1840 –Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
- 1899 –Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
- 1900 –The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
- 1914 –30 000 Swedish peasants from all over the country, who have travelled to Stockholm, carry out a huge protest march, which will be known as Bondetåget, to the Royal Palace in Stockholm, to show their support for King Gustaf V and his attempts to exercise personal power as a monarch. In the court yard, the king holds the so-called Court yard speech (Swedish Borggårdstalet, which crown prince Gustaf Adolf recites outside the castle to those, who do not get room at the court yard), where the king puts forth his opinion about the Swedish armed defence propagating that it should be strong, contrary to the official policy of Swedish prime minister Karl Staaff and his government of disarmament. This triggers a political crisis (the so-called Courtyard Crisis; Swedish Borggårdskrisen) and despite the fact that 50 000 workers two days later carry out a counter demonstration (the so-called Workers’ march), supporting the government, Karl Staaff is forced to resign on February 17. This is the last time the Swedish monarch tries to exercise any political power and from now on, the Swedish monarchs accept parliamentarism and abstain from claiming any political powers, even if they are not formally abolished until 1975, when the new Swedish instrument of government comes into effect.
- 1922 –The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
- 1958 –Eight Manchester United F.C. players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
- 1959 –Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1976 –In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
- 1978 –The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4\" an hour.
- 1987 –Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
- 1996 –Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
- 1998 –Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
- 2027 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
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