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Events on the 6th of February in history

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06 Feb 0337 St. Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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06 Feb 1189 Riots of Lynn in Norfolk spread to Norwich England
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06 Feb 1508 Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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06 Feb 1577 King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots
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06 Feb 1626 Huguenot rebels and French sign Peace of La Rochelle
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06 Feb 1649 The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
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06 Feb 1685 James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
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06 Feb 1693 Royal charter granted College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
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06 Feb 1716 England and Netherlands renew alliance
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06 Feb 1778 England declares war on France
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06 Feb 1778 France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty
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06 Feb 1778 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.
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06 Feb 1788 Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
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06 Feb 1788 Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
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06 Feb 1806 Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
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06 Feb 1815 New Jersey issues 1st US railroad charter (John Stevens)
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06 Feb 1815 New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
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06 Feb 1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore
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06 Feb 1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
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06 Feb 1820 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)
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06 Feb 1820 US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
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06 Feb 1820 The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
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06 Feb 1832 1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland
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06 Feb 1832 US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy
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06 Feb 1833 Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
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06 Feb 1840 Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain and Maoris of New Zealand
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06 Feb 1840 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
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06 Feb 1843 The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
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06 Feb 1851 The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
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06 Feb 1854 Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine
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06 Feb 1861 1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America
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06 Feb 1861 English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships
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06 Feb 1862 Gen Ulysses S Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
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06 Feb 1862 Naval Engagement at Tenn River-USS Conestago vs. CSS Appleton Belle
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06 Feb 1862 Ulysses S Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
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06 Feb 1862 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.
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06 Feb 1865 Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
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06 Feb 1867 Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South
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06 Feb 1891 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
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06 Feb 1899 Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
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06 Feb 1899 Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
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06 Feb 1900 Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs. British army)
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06 Feb 1900 The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
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06 Feb 1904 Russian-Japanese war began
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06 Feb 1911 1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Arizona
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06 Feb 1911 Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople / Istanbul Turkey
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06 Feb 1914 The Bondetåget, a peasant uprising in support of the monarchy, takes place in Sweden
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06 Feb 1918 Britain grants women (30 and over) vote
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06 Feb 1918 British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
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06 Feb 1919 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
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06 Feb 1919 The five-day Seattle General Strike begins.
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06 Feb 1920 Saarland administrated by League of Nations
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06 Feb 1921 "The Kid, " starring Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan, released
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06 Feb 1922 Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
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06 Feb 1922 US, UK, France, Italy and Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
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06 Feb 1922 The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
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06 Feb 1926 NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates
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06 Feb 1926 St. Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from New York Yankees
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06 Feb 1929 Rudy Vallee recorded "Deep Night"
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06 Feb 1932 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, New York (demonstration sport)
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06 Feb 1932 Fascist coup in the Memel territory
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06 Feb 1933 20th amendment (terms of office) passed
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06 Feb 1933 20th Amendment goes into effect: Presidential term begins in Jan not March
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06 Feb 1933 Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane
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06 Feb 1933 President von Hindenburg and von Papen end Prussian parliament
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06 Feb 1934 Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500
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06 Feb 1934 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.
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06 Feb 1935 "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time
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06 Feb 1935 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
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06 Feb 1936 4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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06 Feb 1937 K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer
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06 Feb 1939 Spanish government flees to France
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06 Feb 1941 Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19)
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06 Feb 1941 Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed
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06 Feb 1941 British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
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06 Feb 1942 World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
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06 Feb 1943 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
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06 Feb 1945 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg / Chemnitz
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06 Feb 1945 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder
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06 Feb 1946 "Lute Song" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 142 performances
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06 Feb 1948 1st radio-controlled airplane flown
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06 Feb 1948 KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
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06 Feb 1951 "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
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06 Feb 1951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into
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06 Feb 1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security
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06 Feb 1951 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.
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06 Feb 1952 England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II
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06 Feb 1952 Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms 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.
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06 Feb 1953 US controls on wages and some consumer goods were lifted
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06 Feb 1956 French Premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
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06 Feb 1958 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash
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06 Feb 1958 Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid
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06 Feb 1958 Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
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06 Feb 1959 1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM
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06 Feb 1959 Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
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06 Feb 1959 At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
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06 Feb 1959 Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
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06 Feb 1961 "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill, South Carolina
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06 Feb 1961 KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Feb 1962 Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
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06 Feb 1964 France and Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
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06 Feb 1964 WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
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06 Feb 1965 "Kelly" opens and closes at Broadhurst Theater, New York City
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06 Feb 1967 Cultural Revolution in Albania
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06 Feb 1967 Heavyweight Cassius Clay beats Ernie Terrell in Houston
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06 Feb 1967 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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06 Feb 1968 10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France
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06 Feb 1968 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam
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06 Feb 1968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one
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06 Feb 1968 KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Feb 1969 "Dear World" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances
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06 Feb 1970 Graeme Pollock completes 274 vs. Australia at Durban
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06 Feb 1970 NBA expands to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston and Portland
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06 Feb 1971 1st time a golf ball is hit on Moon (by Alan Shepard)
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06 Feb 1973 "Shelter" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 31 performances
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06 Feb 1973 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution
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06 Feb 1973 6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah
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06 Feb 1973 Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm
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06 Feb 1974 Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis
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06 Feb 1974 US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
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06 Feb 1975 A crucial by-election is held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka.
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06 Feb 1976 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.
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06 Feb 1977 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0
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06 Feb 1977 Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris
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06 Feb 1977 Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ
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06 Feb 1978 Muriel, Wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office
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06 Feb 1978 Snowstorm hits New England, parts of RI (54" (137cm))
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06 Feb 1978 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.
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06 Feb 1979 Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against Premier Bhutto
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06 Feb 1981 "Brady Brides, " debuts on NBC TV
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06 Feb 1981 Beatles McCartney, Starr and Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon
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06 Feb 1981 Suleiman Nyambui runs world record 5k indoor (13:20.4)
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06 Feb 1981 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.
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06 Feb 1982 "Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart
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06 Feb 1983 13th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-19
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06 Feb 1983 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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06 Feb 1984 Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
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06 Feb 1986 New Jersey Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals
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06 Feb 1987 No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
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06 Feb 1987 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
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06 Feb 1987 Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
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06 Feb 1988 Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
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06 Feb 1989 Lech Walesa begins negotiating with Polish government
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06 Feb 1989 The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
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06 Feb 1990 Brett Hull becomes 1st Son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50
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06 Feb 1991 Mousey Davis becomes 1st coach of NY-NJ Knights
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06 Feb 1993 44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal
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06 Feb 1993 Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
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06 Feb 1994 "Government Inspector" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
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06 Feb 1994 Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
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06 Feb 1994 Jose Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica
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06 Feb 1994 Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77m
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06 Feb 1994 Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland
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06 Feb 1994 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-3
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06 Feb 1995 Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter
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06 Feb 1995 Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days
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06 Feb 1996 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence
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06 Feb 1996 Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and all 189 people inside the airplane are killed. This is the worst accident/incident involving a Boeing 757.
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06 Feb 1996 Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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06 Feb 1997 Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm
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06 Feb 1998 Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to New York Yankees for $3M and 4 minor leaguers
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06 Feb 1998 Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
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06 Feb 2000 Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
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06 Feb 2012 A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 51 deaths and injuring 112 others.
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06 Feb 2013 A 8.0 magnitude earthquake hits the Solomon Islands killing 10 people and injuring 17 others.
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