What are the important events that happened on February 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 6 is the 37th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 24, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,707,177,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘triacontaheptagon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 4 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,064 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 6 Historical Events
- 1685 –James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
- 1788 –Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1806 –Battle of San Domingo British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
- 1843 –The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
- 1914 –30 000 Swedish peasants from all over the country, who have travelled to Stockholm, carry out a huge protest march, which will be known as Bondetåget, to the Royal Palace in Stockholm, to show their support for King Gustaf V and his attempts to exercise personal power as a monarch. In the court yard, the king holds the so-called Court yard speech (Swedish Borggårdstalet, which crown prince Gustaf Adolf recites outside the castle to those, who do not get room at the court yard), where the king puts forth his opinion about the Swedish armed defence propagating that it should be strong, contrary to the official policy of Swedish prime minister Karl Staaff and his government of disarmament. This triggers a political crisis (the so-called Courtyard Crisis; Swedish Borggårdskrisen) and despite the fact that 50 000 workers two days later carry out a counter demonstration (the so-called Workers’ march), supporting the government, Karl Staaff is forced to resign on February 17. This is the last time the Swedish monarch tries to exercise any political power and from now on, the Swedish monarchs accept parliamentarism and abstain from claiming any political powers, even if they are not formally abolished until 1975, when the new Swedish instrument of government comes into effect.
- 1918 –British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
- 1952 –Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
- 1959 –Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
- 1996 –Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
- 2027 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on February 6?
- 1781 –John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, British noble and officer (d. 1844)
- 1872 –Robert Maillart, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1940)
- 1878 –Walter B. Pitkin, American lecturer (d. 1953)
- 1880 –Nishinoumi Kajirō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (d. 1931)
- 1903 –Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
- 1926 –Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1929 –Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
- 1941 –Gigi Perreau, American actress
- 1967 –Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
- 1981 –Ricky Barnes, American professional golfer
Who died on February 6?
- 1515 –Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
- 1593 –Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
- 1775 –William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
- 1958 –Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
- 1985 –James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
- 1993 –Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
- 1998 –Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
- 2007 –Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
- 2008 –John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
- 2011 –Gary Moore, Irish musician (b. 1952)
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