About February 6
February 6, 2025 is the 37th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 376 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.
- 1815 –New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
- 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.
- 1820 –The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
- 1840 –Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
- 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.
- 1918 –British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
- 1922 –The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
- 1933 –The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1952 –Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria 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.
- 1958 –Eight Manchester United F.C. players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
- 1959 –At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
- 1959 –Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1970 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1989 –The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
- 1998 –Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
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