34 events · 20 births · 20 deaths · 8 observances. From 590 to 2025.
Standout on February 6
Two earthquakes measuring Mww 7.8 and 7.5 struck near the border between Turkey and Syria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). The earthquakes resulted in numerous aftershocks and a death toll of 57,658 people.
February 6 is the 37th day of the year. These facts are computed from the calendar, not copied from anywhere.
A dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
Two earthquakes measuring Mww 7.8 and 7.5 struck near the border between Turkey and Syria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). The earthquakes resulted in numerous aftershocks and a death toll of 57,658 people.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead.
Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
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.
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.
The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia.
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.
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.
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.
Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out approximately US$3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka.
The Ms 7.6 Luhuo earthquake strikes Sichuan Province, causing widespread destruction and killing at least 2,199 people.
Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
The aircraft carrying the Manchester United football team crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany, killing 8 players and 23 people in total (news reel featured).
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.
A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.
Representatives from France, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom signed the Washington Naval Treaty (pictured), agreeing to limits on naval construction in the hopes of preventing an arms race.
World War I: More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of wage controls in the United States.
Conscientious objector Henry Firth died in a work camp on Dartmoor, England, triggering a strike over living conditions.
Finland established its modern system of secular municipalities, separate from church parishes.
Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
The first ship of the American Colonization Society departed from New York for West Africa with 86 African-American emigrants aboard to found the colony of Liberia.
British official Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the East India Company.
Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captured or destroyed five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Domingo (pictured) in the Caribbean Sea.
Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the constitution of the United States.
France and the United States signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance, respectively establishing commercial and military ties between the two nations.
Domingo de Salazar, a Spanish Dominican friar, was appointed the first bishop of Manila.
Vistahm and Vinduyih deposed their brother-in-law Hormizd IV, King of Kings of the Sasanian Empire.
A notable person born on this day. Each links to a person page with their dates and story.
A notable person who died on this day.
Virginia Halas McCaskey, American football executive (born 1923)
George Shultz, American politician, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Labor (born 1920)
Jhon Jairo Velásquez, Colombian hitman and drug dealer (born 1962)
Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (born 1927)
Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby union footballer (born 1971)
A holiday, feast day, awareness day or national day observed every year on this date.
Christian feast day: Amand
Christian feast day: Hildegund, O.Praem.
Christian feast day: Jacut
Christian feast day: Relindis (Renule) of Maaseik
Christian feast day: Mél of Ardagh
Christian feast day: Mateo Correa Magallanes (one of Saints of the Cristero War)
Christian feast day: Paul Miki and Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan
Christian feast day: Dorothea of Caesarea
Earliest: Vistahm (590). Most recent: Nigel McCrery (2025).
February 6 is the 37th day of the year, with 328 days left after it.
February 6 falls under Aquarius (January 20 – February 18), a air sign ruled by Uranus (traditionally Saturn). The birthstone for the month is Amethyst.
We record 82 entries for February 6: 34 events · 20 births · 20 deaths · 8 observances. From 590 to 2025.
Ona Huczkowski (2002) is among the notable births on February 6. The births section lists the rest.
The day is filled the first time anyone opens it and then re-checked for new entries about every 90 days. Computed facts such as the weekday and the anniversaries update every year.
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