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
- 1649 –The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
- 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.
- 1806 –Battle of San Domingo British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
- 1817 –The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
- 1820 –The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The U.S. Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennesseein the Battle of Fort Henry.
- 1899 –Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 1981 –The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
- 1989 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
- 1989 –The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
- 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.
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