On this day in History - Feb. 06

• 337- 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.
• 1452 - Santa Joana, nascimento de, princesa de Portugal.
• 1515 - Muere Aldus Manutius, editor e impresor italiano.
• 1564 - Christopher Marlowe, was born, playwright (d. 1593).
• 1608 - Nascimento do Padre António Vieira.
• 1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553).
• 1665 - Queen Anne I of the United Kingdom was born, (d. 1714) .
• 1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630) .
• 1715 - Tratado de paz e amizade entre D. João V e Filipe V de Espanha, assinado em Utreque, e garantido por Jorge I de Inglaterra, dois anos depois do assinado com a França de Luís XV. Portugal recebe a Colónia do Sacramento, no actual Uruguai.
• 1740 - Pope Clement XII dies (b. 1652) .
• 1748 - Adam Weishaupt, was born, founder of the Illuminati (d. 1811) .
• 1756 - Aaron Burr, was born, Vice President of the United States (d. 1836) .
• 1778 - Francia reconoce a los EE.UU. y firma el primer tratado con el nuevo país.
• 1778 - Nace Ugo Foscolo, escritor y poeta italiano.
• 1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1793 - Carlo Goldoni, dies, Italian playwright (b. 1707) .
• 1804 - Joseph Priestley, British chemist, died. His work on the isolation of gases led him to discover oxygen in 1774.
• 1806 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - Action of 6 February 1806.
• 1814 - Melchor Ocampo, nacimiento de, político mexicano.
• 1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.
• 1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
• 1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society established a settlement in present-day Liberia Acontecimientos
• 1833 - Estados Unidos: el inventor Samuel Morse presenta el telégrafo en público.
• 1833 - JEB Stuart, was born, Confederate general (d. 1864).
• 1834 - Ema Puksec was born, AKA Ilma de Murska Croat opera singer (d. 1889) .
• 1853 - Ignacij Klemenčič, was born, Slovene ???
• 1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
• 1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
• 1852 - El dictador Juan José Rosas abandona Buenos Aires en un buque inglés que lo traslada a Europa.
• 1852 - C. Lloyd Morgan, was born (d. 6 Mar 1936). British zoologist and psychologist, sometimes called the founder of comparative, or animal, psychology .
• 1855 - Josef Munzinger,dies member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1791) .
• 1862 - American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee.
• 1866 - José Gregorio de Las Heras, muere, militar porteño, héroe en la independencia de Chile.
• 1872 - Robert Maillart was born (d. 5 Apr 1940). Swiss bridge engineer whose radical use of reinforced concrete revolutionized masonry arch bridge design. Maillart utilized the structural strength and expressive potential of reinforced concrete to generate a modern form for his bridges .
• 1873 - Bolivia y Perú firman un tratado secreto de alianza militar. Historiadores chilenos lo mencionan como una de las causas de la Guerra del Pacífico.
• 1886 - German chemist, Clement Winkler discovered the element germanium.
• 1887 - Josef Frings, was born, archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978) .
• 1889 - Elmo Lincoln, was born, actor (d. 1952) .
• 1892- William P. Murphy was born, (d. 9 Oct 1987). American physician who with George R. Minot in 1926 reported success in the treatment of pernicious anemia with a liver diet. The two men shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George H. Whipple, whose research they had built upon.
• 1894 - Eric Partridge, was born, lexicographer (d. 1979) .
• 1895 - Babe Ruth, was born, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1948).
• 1899 - Ramon Novarro, was born, actor (d. 1968) .
• 1899 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898), a peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.
• 1900 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
• 1902 - George Brunies, was born, jazz musician (d. 1974) .
• 1903 - Claudio Arrau, was born, pianist (d. 1991) .
• 1904 - Inesperadamente, o Japão rompe suas relações diplomáticas com a Rússia.
• 1910 - Irmgard Keun, was born, author (d. 1982) .
• 1911 - Ronald Reagan, was born,40th President of the United States (d. 2004) .
• 1912 - Eva Braun, was born, Adolf Hitler's mistress (d. 1945) .
• 1913 - Mary Douglas Leakey, was born, (d. 9 Dec 1996). English-born archaeologist and paleoanthropologist who made several of the most important fossil finds subsequently interpreted and publicized by her husband, the noted anthropologist Louis Leakey.
• 1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft, was born, voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger") .
• 1916 - Rubén Darío, dies, writer .
• 1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, was born, actress.
• 1918 - Gustav Klimt, dies, Austrian painter (b. 1862).
• 1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, was born, author .
• 1918 - No Reino Unido, é concedido o direito de voto às mulheres com mais de 30 anos de idade.
• 1922- Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
• 1922 - The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
• 1922 - Patrick Macnee, was born, actor .
• 1922 - Estabelecido em Washington o Tratado das Nove Potências, destinado a que se respeite a independência e a integridade territorial e administrativa da China.
• 1923 - Morre Augusto Bernardino Leguía, ex-presidente do Peru.
• 1926 - Haskell Wexler, was born, cinematographer.
• 1927 - Gerard Kitchen O'Neill, was born (d. 27 Apr 1992). American physicist who invented the colliding-beam storage ring, now a standard feature of high-energy particle accelerators .
• 1929 - Pierre Brice, was born, actor.
• 1931 - Rip Torn, was born, actor, director .
• 1932 - François Truffaut, was born, film director (d. 1984) .
• 1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
• 1935 - The popular board game Monopoly® went on sale for the first time.
• 1936 - 1936 Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
• 1936 - Mike Farrell, was born, actor .
• 1939 - Jair Rodrigues de Oliveira, nascimento de, cantor brsileiro de MPB.
• 1940 - Tom Brokaw, was born, news anchorman .
• 1941 - O general Erwin Rommel é nomeado chefe das Afrika Korps, tropas especiais alemãs destinadas a operar no norte da África.
• 1943 - Fabian Forte, was born, singer .
• 1945 - Bob Marley, was born, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician, (d. 1981)
• 1946 - Jim Turner, was born, American politician .
• 1950 - Natalie Cole, was born, singer .
• 1951 - Morte do Actor Estêvão Amarante.
• 1951- Princess Daphné of Belgium was born.
• 1952 - King George VI of the United Kingdom dies, (b. 1895) -
• 1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse in a tree-top hotel in Kenya.
• 1954 - Argusto Emfazie, was born, occultist, author.
• 1957 - Kathy Najimy, was born, actress, comedian .
• 1957 - Robert Townsend, was born, comedian, actor, director, producer .
• 1958 - Bobby Charlton survived the Munich air disaster in Germany, which killed eight of his teammates with Manchester United F.C.
• 1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
• 1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
• 1960 - O Governo da Espanha garante direitos de concessão a seis companhias norte-americanas para explorar eventuais descobrimentos petrolíferos no Saara espanhol.
• 1962 - Axl Rose, was born musician ("Guns N'Roses") .
• 1965 - Cláudia Ohana, nascimento de, atriz brasileira.
• 1966 - José Joaquín Trejos es elegido presidente de Costa Rica.
• 1968 - 1968 Winter Olympic Games open in Grenoble, France.
• 1971 -Astronaut Alan B. Shepard hit a golf ball and Edgar Mitchell threw a "javelin" on the moon. They landed in the same crater and remain on the Moon today.
• 1966 - José Joaquín Trejos es elegido presidente de Costa Rica.
• 1972 - Anastasio Somoza es reelegido presidente de Nicaragua.
• 1973 - El Gobierno argentino prohíbe al ex presidente Perón volver al país.
• 1974 - Layne Roland was born, hockey player, Portland Winter Hawks and Corpus Christi Icerays.
• 1975 - Svend-Allan Sørensen, was born , Danish conceptual artist .
• 1976 - Kim Zmeskal, was born U.S. gymnast .
• 1976 - Vince Guaraldi, dies, musician (b. 1928) .
• 1977 - Referéndum en Paraguay que ratifica como presidente vitalicio al general Stroessner.
• 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 4" an hour.
• 1979 - Es condenado a la horca el ex primer ministro paquistaní Ali Bhutto.
• 1983 - Klaus Barbie ("el carnicero de Lyon") es detenido en Bolivia y trasladado a Francia, para ser juzgado como autor de los crímenes cometidos por fuerzas alemanas bajo su mando en la II Guerra Mundial.
• 1984 - Fallece Jorge Guillén, poeta español de la generación del 27.
• 1985 - Se inaugura en Santo Domingo (República Dominicana) una Conferencia de Ministros de Finanzas y Relaciones Exteriores de los 11 países endeudados de Iberoamérica.
• 1985 - Steve Wozniak leaves Apple Computer.
• 1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, dies, architect (b. 1912).
• 1989 - Roy Eldridge, dies, jazz musician (b. 1911) .
• 1989 - Chris Gueffroy, dies, last person killed escaping over the GDR border
• 1989 - Barbara Tuchman, dies, historian, Pulitzer awarded, (b. 1912) .
• 1989 - 30.000 soldados soviéticos abandonan Afganistán, mientras la capital, Kabul, queda sumida en el caos.
• 1991 - Fallece María Zambrano, escritora y filósofa española.
• 1991 - Salvador Luria dies, (b. 13 Aug 1912) Italian-born American biologist who (with Max Delbrück and Alfred Day Hershey) won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for research on bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria.
• 1991 - Danny Thomas, dies, singer, comedia, actor (b. 1914) .
• 1992 - São atribuídos os 3º e 4º canais de televisão, respectivamente à SIC e à TVI. A SIC iniciará as suas emissões em 6 de Outubro, e a TVI em 30 de Janeiro de 1993.
• 1993 - Arthur Ashe, dies, tennis star (b. 1943) .
• 1993 - Joseph Mankiewicz, dies, director, producer, writer .
• 1994 - Joseph Cotten, actor (b. 1905) .
• 1994 - Jack Kirby, dies, comic book writer (b. 1917) .
• 1994 - El socialdemócrata José María Figueres vence en las elecciones presidenciales de Costa Rica.
• 1994 - O social-democrata Martti Ahtisaari ganha as eleições presidenciais na Finlândia.
• 1995 - James Merrill, dies, poet (b. 1926) .
• 1996 - Guy Madison, dies, actor .
• 1996 - A Turkish Airlines Boeing 757 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast off Dominican Republic killing 189 .
• 1996 - se funda el club Pesquero, de Chimbote, Perú.
• 1997 - Caída del presidente ecuatoriano Abdalá Bucaram, declarado "incapaz mental" para gobernar por el Congreso.
• 1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
• 1998 - Falco, dies, singer (b. 1957) .
• 1998 - Carl Wilson, dies, musician ("The Beach Boys") .
• 1999 - Inaugurada em Rambouillet, na França, a conferência de paz sobre Kosovo.
• 2000 - A social-democrata Tarja Halonen vence as eleições presidenciais finlandesas e se torna a primeira mulher que ocupa o cargo em 82 anos de independência da República da Finlândia.
• 2000 - A primeira dama Hillary Rodham Clinton lança sua bem-sucedida candidatura ao Senado dos Estados Unidos.
• 2001 - O líder ultranacionalista do partido Likud, Ariel Sharon, vence as eleições em Israel.
• 2002 - Max Perutz, dies, scientist (b. 1914) .
• 2002 - Guy Stockwell, dies, actor .
• 2004 - In Russia, a suicide-attack in a Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on Chechen separatist groups.