# On this day: February 6

February 6 is the 37th day of the year (37th in leap years), with 328 days left until the end of the year (329 in a leap year).

## February 6 in one line

Headline entries for February 6, from Wikipedia: in 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the constitution of the United States; born 1911: Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (died 2004); died 1952: George VI of the United Kingdom (born 1895). In 2026 it is a Friday, in 2027 a Saturday.

## Events on February 6

- 337 Election of Pope Julius I. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Julius_I)
- 590 Vistahm and Vinduyih deposed their brother-in-law Hormizd IV, King of Kings of the Sasanian Empire. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormizd_IV)
- 1579 Domingo de Salazar, a Spanish Dominican friar, was appointed the first bishop of Manila. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo_de_Salazar)
- 1685 James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of his brother Charles II. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_II_of_England)
- 1778 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Alliance_(1778))
- 1788 Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the constitution of the United States. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States)
- 1806 Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captured or destroyed five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Domingo in the Caribbean Sea. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Domingo)
- 1819 British official Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the East India Company. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_years_of_modern_Singapore)
- 1820 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Colonization_Society)
- 1833 Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_of_Greece)
- 1840 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi)
- 1862 Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Henry)
- 1865 Finland established its modern system of secular municipalities, separate from church parishes. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalities_of_Finland)
- 1918 Conscientious objector Henry Firth died in a work camp on Dartmoor, England, triggering a strike over living conditions. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Firth)
- 1919 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_General_Strike)
- 1922 Representatives from France, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom signed the Washington Naval Treaty, agreeing to limits on naval construction in the hopes of preventing an arms race. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty)
- 1951 A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge_train_derailment)
- 1952 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II)
- 1958 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster)
- 1959 Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit)
- 1976 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals)
- 1987 Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gaudron)
- 1989 The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Round_Table_Agreement)
- 1996 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301)
- 2016 An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_southern_Taiwan_earthquake)
- 2023 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. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkey%E2%80%93Syria_earthquakes)

## Born on February 6

- 1664 Mustafa II, Ottoman sultan (died 1703) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_II)
- 1665 Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1714) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%2C_Queen_of_Great_Britain)
- 1748 Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (died 1830) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Weishaupt)
- 1756 Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (died 1836) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr)
- 1778 Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet (died 1827) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugo_Foscolo)
- 1890 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pakistani activist and politician (died 1988) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Ghaffar_Khan)
- 1892 William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Murphy)
- 1895 Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (died 1948) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth)
- 1905 Władysław Gomułka, Polish politician (died 1982) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Gomu%C5%82ka)
- 1908 Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (died 1999) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amintore_Fanfani)
- 1911 Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (died 2004) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan)
- 1912 Eva Braun, German photographer, mistress and briefly wife of Adolf Hitler (died 1945) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Braun)
- 1913 Mary Leakey, English-Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist (died 1996) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Leakey)
- 1931 Rip Torn, American actor (died 2019) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Torn)
- 1932 François Truffaut, French filmmaker and critic (died 1984) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Truffaut)
- 1932 Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier and anarchist (died 1959) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_Cienfuegos)
- 1945 Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and cultural icon (died 1981) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley)
- 1950 Natalie Cole, American singer (died 2015) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Cole)
- 1962 Axl Rose, American singer and songwriter [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axl_Rose)
- 1964 Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russian actor and director [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Zvyagintsev)
- 1966 Rick Astley, British pop singer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Astley)
- 1995 Leon Goretzka, German footballer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Goretzka)

## Died on February 6

- 1685 Charles II of England (born 1630) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England)
- 1695 Ahmed II, Ottoman sultan (born 1642) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_II)
- 1740 Pope Clement XII (born 1652) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_XII)
- 1793 Carlo Goldoni, Italian-French playwright (born 1707) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Goldoni)
- 1804 Joseph Priestley, English chemist and theologian (born 1733) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Priestley)
- 1916 Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat (born 1867) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Dar%C3%ADo)
- 1918 Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and illustrator (born 1862) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt)
- 1952 George VI of the United Kingdom (born 1895) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI)
- 1964 Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (born 1869) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Aguinaldo)
- 1993 Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1943) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ashe)
- 2002 Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Perutz)
- 2019 Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (born 1927) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Eigen)
- 2022 Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer and music composer (born 1929) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar)
- 2024 Sebastian Piñera, former Chilean president (born 1949) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Pi%C3%B1era)

## Holidays and observances

- Christian feast day: Amand [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amandus)
- Christian feast day: Dorothea of Caesarea [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_of_Caesarea)
- Christian feast day: Hildegund, O.Praem. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegund_(widow))
- Christian feast day: Jacut [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacut)
- Christian feast day: Mateo Correa Magallanes (one of Saints of the Cristero War) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateo_Correa_Magallanes)
- Christian feast day: Mél of Ardagh [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9l_of_Ardagh)
- Christian feast day: Paul Miki and Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Miki)
- Christian feast day: Relindis (Renule) of Maaseik [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relindis_of_Maaseik)
- Christian feast day: Vedastus [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedast)
- Christian feast day: February 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_6_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics))
- International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (United Nations) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Zero_Tolerance_for_Female_Genital_Mutilation)
- Ronald Reagan Day (California, United States) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Day)
- Sami National Day (Russia, Finland, Norway and Sweden) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_National_Day)
- Waitangi Day, celebrates the founding of New Zealand in 1840. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitangi_Day)

## Sources

- [Wikipedia — “February 6”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_6) — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/February 6”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/February_6) — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence)](https://github.com/vacanza/holidays) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article [“February 6”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_6) and the articles it links to ([authors and history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_6?action=history)), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for February 6 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.

## February 6 in the calendar

| Year | Weekday | ISO week | Moon (UTC) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Friday | 2026-W06 | 🌖 Waning Gibbous |
| 2027 | Saturday | 2027-W05 | 🌑 New Moon |
| 2028 | Sunday | 2028-W05 | 🌔 Waxing Gibbous |
| 2029 | Tuesday | 2029-W06 | 🌘 Waning Crescent |
| 2030 | Wednesday | 2030-W06 | 🌒 Waxing Crescent |

Moon phases are for the day in UTC; at the edges of a phase your local date can differ.

## Public holidays on February 6

- [🇳🇿 New Zealand](https://whathappen.today/holidays/new-zealand/): Waitangi Day (2026 and 2027)
- [🇸🇬 Singapore](https://whathappen.today/holidays/singapore/): Chinese New Year (2027)
- [🇵🇭 Philippines](https://whathappen.today/holidays/philippines/): Chinese New Year (2027)
- [🇨🇳 China](https://whathappen.today/holidays/china/): Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) (2027)
- [🇰🇷 South Korea](https://whathappen.today/holidays/south-korea/): The day preceding Korean New Year (2027)

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