History Events on February 06

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

#Cape_Canaveral

The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.

#Canadian_Army

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 four inches an hour.

#Northeastern_United_States_blizzard_of_1978

The earliest date for which the day of the week is known. A graffito in Pompeii identifies this day as a dies Solis (Sunday). In modern reckoning, this date would have been a Wednesday.

#Week

British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament.

#Women's_suffrage

Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.

#Michael_Jordan

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.

#Pennsylvania_Railroad

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

#Washington_Naval_Treaty

Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.

#Birgenair_Flight_301

The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.

#Bushfires_in_Australia

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

#New_Jersey

Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.

#Mary_Gaudron

Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.

#Elizabeth_II

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

#Massachusetts

American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.

#American_Civil_War

Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.

#Battle_of_San_Domingo

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight.

#SpaceX

Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.

#Otto_of_Greece

The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

#Permanent_Court_of_Arbitration

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

#Minstrel_show

Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.

#Spanish-American_War

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.

#American_Revolutionary_War

The American Legion is founded.

#American_Legion

In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.

#United_States_Senate

Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.

#Treaty_of_Waitangi

An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people.

Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.

Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.

The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.

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.

Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.

Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.

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.

The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.

James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.

The Archdiocese of Manila was made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.