6 Februar

The **6t o Februar** is the 37t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 328 days ti come (329 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1643 - Dutch splorer Abel Tasman reaches Fiji.
* 1685 − Keeng James VII an II becam King o Ingland, King o Scots, an King o Ireland.
* 1788 - Massachusetts becomes the 6t state o the Unitit States.
* 1819 - Singapore is foondit.
* 1820 - Liberie is foondit.
* 1833 - Otto o Greece becomes the first King o modern Greece.
* 1840 - The Treaty o Waitangi is signed in New Zealand, makin the Maori citizens o the Breetish Empire.
* 1886 - Clemens Winkler discovers the chemical element Germanium.
* 1918 - Weemen agit ower 30 are allowed tae vote in the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1922 - Pape Pius XI is electit.
* 1936 - Stairt o the 1936 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
* 1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen o the Unitit Kinrick an Commonweel realms efter the daith o George VI.
* 1958 - A plane carryin the Manchester United F.C. fitbaa team crashes in Munich.
* 1968 - Stairt o the 1968 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Grenoble, Fraunce.
* 1971 - Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard plays gowf on the Muin.
* 2005 - Tony Blair becomes the longest-servin Labour Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 2006 - Stephen Harper becomes Prime meenister o Canadae.
* 2016 - A major yirdquauk hits soothren Taiwan.
* 2018 - SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon Heavy rocket frae the John F. Kennedy Space Center.
* 2018 - A major yirdquauk hits the northeastren coast Taiwan.
* 2018 - "Cheddar Man", the earliest-discoverit person in present-day Great Breetain, is revealed tae hae had dairk skin an blue eyes.
* 2020 - Derek Mackay resigns as the Scots Finance Secretar efter revelations o texts sent tae a 16-year-auld boy; Kate Forbes delivers that day's Govrenment budget.
* 2021 - Men's rugby union: Scotland defeats Ingland at Twickenham, Lunnon, for the first time syne 1983; the score is 11-6.

## Births

* 1664 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
* 1665 - Anne, Queen o Great Breetain (d. 1714)
* 1756 - Aaron Burr, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1836)
* 1799 - George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Scots botanist (d. 1868)
* 1870 - James Braid, Scots gowfer (d. 1950)
* 1895 - Babe Ruth, American basebaw player (d. 1948)
* 1903 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist (d. 1991)
* 1911 - Ronald Reagan, American actor an politeecian, 40t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 2004)
* 1912 - Eva Braun, mistress o Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
* 1913 - Mary Leakey, Inglis-Kenyan archaeologist an anthropologist (d. 1996)
* 1915 - Danuta Szaflarska, Pols actress (d. 2017)
* 1917 - Zsa Zsa Gábor, Hungarian-American actress an socialite (d. 2016)
* 1931 - Rip Torn, American actor (d. 2019)
* 1932 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
* 1932 - François Truffaut, French film director an producer (d, 1984)
* 1945 - Bob Marley, Jamaican sangster and musician (d. 1981)
* 1946 - Kate McGarrigle, Canadian sangster (d. 2010)
* 1950 - Natalie Cole, American sangster (d. 2015)
* 1962 - Axl Rose, American sangster an muisicker
* 1966 - Rick Astley, Inglis sangster
* 1984 - Darren Bent, Inglis fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1685 - Charles II, Keeng o Scots (b. 1630)
* 1695 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1643)
* 1732 - Anne Scott, 1st Duchess o Buccleuch, Scots peer (b. 1651)
* 1740 - Pape Clement XII (b. 1652)
* 1804 - Joseph Priestley, Inglis theologian, chemist an eddicator (b. 1731)
* 1899 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor o Germany (b. 1831)
* 1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrick penter (b. 1862)
* 1952 - George VI o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1895)
* 1964 - Emilio Aguinaldo, Preses o the Philippines (b. 1869)
* 1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian biologist (b. 1913)
* 1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
* 1998 - Falco, Austrick sangster (b. 1957)
* 2014 - Ralph Kiner, American basebaw player (b. 1922)

## Halidays

* Waitangi Day - Naitional Day o New Zealand.
* Accession Day (Unitit Kinrick and Commonweel realms)
* Sami Naitional Day (Sami fowk)
* Ronald Reagan Day - California, Wisconsin, Illinois.