February 06

Sunday 06, 2005:

Jerrick De Leon, born 13 weeks premature, becomes the world's smallest infant to survive an open-heart procedure called an arterial switch.

Friday 06, 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.

Friday 06, 1998:

Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Tuesday 06, 1996:

A Turkish Airlines Boeing 757 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Dominican Republic killing 189

Wednesday 06, 1985:

Steve Wozniak leaves Apple Computer

Monday 06, 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.

Tuesday 06, 1968:

1968 Winter Olympic Games open in Grenoble, France.

Friday 06, 1959:

At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

Thursday 06, 1958:

Bobby Charlton survived the Munich air disaster in Germany, which killed eight of his teammates with Manchester United F.C.

Wednesday 06, 1952:

Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse in a tree-top hotel in Kenya.

Tuesday 06, 1951:

The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one on the worst rail disasters in American history.

Thursday 06, 1936:

1936 Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Monday 06, 1933:

The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.

Monday 06, 1922:

The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

Tuesday 06, 1900:

The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

Monday 06, 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.

Thursday 06, 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.

Monday 06, 1843:

The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).

Thursday 06, 1840:

Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.

Sunday 06, 1820:

The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society established a settlement in present-day Liberia

Saturday 06, 1819:

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.

Monday 06, 1815:

New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.

Thursday 06, 1806:

Action of 6 February 1806.

Wednesday 06, 1788:

Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Friday 06, 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.

Saturday 06, 337:

Julius I is elected pope.

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