On this day in History - Feb. 06

• 0046 - Julius Caesar's forces delivered the final blow against supporters of Pompey the Great at the Battle of Thapsus.
• 0337 - Julius I is elected pope.
• 0891 - Photius dies. Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon dies (b. 1338). Queen of Charles V of France.
• 1452 - Santa Joana was born. Princess of Portugal.
• 1497 - Johannes Ockeghem dies. Flemish composer.
• 1515 - Aldus Manutius dies. Italian printer and editor, founder of the Aldine Press
• 1564 - Christopher Marlowe was born (d. 1593). English playwright.
• 1577 - Beatrice Cenci was born (d. 1599). Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father.
• 1585 - Edmund Plowden dies (b. 1518). English legal scholar.
• 1593 - Jacques Amyot dies (b. 1513). French writer.
• 1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan dies (b. 1517).
• 1608 - P. Antonio Vieira was born (d. 18 Jul1697). Portuguese jesuit and writer (Sermão da Sexagéssima; Sermão de Santo António aos Peixes). Ver biografia em português
• 1611 - Chongzhen was born (d. 1644). Emperor of China.
• 1617 - Prospero Alpini dies (b. 1533). Italian scientist.
• 1639 - Daniel Georg Morhof was born (d. 1691). German writer and scholar.
• 1664 - Mustafa II was born (d. 1703). Ottoman Sultan.
• 1665 - Queen Anne I of the United Kingdom was born (d. 1714) .
• 1685 - King Charles II of England dies (b. 1630) .
• 1695 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli was born (d. 1726). Swiss mathematician.
• 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) .
• 1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault was born (d. 1795). French anatomist and surgeon.
• 1748 - Adam Weishaupt was born (d. 1811). Founder of the Bavarian Illuminati.
• 1756 - Aaron Burr was born (d. 1836). Vice President of the United States.
• 1775 - William Dowdeswell dies (b. 1721). English politician.
• 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.
• 1778 - Francia reconoce a los EE.UU. y firma el primer tratado con el nuevo país.
• 1778 - Ugo Foscolo was born (d. 1827). Italian writer and poet.
• 1783 - Capability Brown dies (b. 1716). English landscape gardener.
• 1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1793 - Carlo Goldoni dies (b. 1707). Italian playwright.
• 1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée dies (b. 1728). French architect.
• 1804 - Joseph Priestley dies. British chemist. 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 was born. Mexican politician.
• 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 (d. 1864). Confederate general.
• 1833 - Pierre André Latreille dies (b. 1762). French entomologist.
• 1834 - Ema Puksec was born (d. 1889). AKA Ilma de Murska Croat opera singer.
• 1834 - Richard Lemon Lander dies (b. 1804). British explorer.
• 1838 - Yisrael Meir Kagan was born (d. 1933). Chafetz Chayim.
• 1840 - Maori tribes of New Zealand signed the Treaty of Waitangi, with Great Britain.
• 1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
• 1851 - Eduardo Brasão was born. Portuguese actor and entrepreneur of theatre.
• 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 .
• 1853 - Ignacij Klemenčič was born (d. 1901). Slovenian physicist.
• 1855 - Josef Munzinger dies (b. 1791). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
• 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 (d. 1978). Archbishop of Cologne.
• 1889 - Elmo Lincoln was born (d. 1952). Actor.
• 1892 - William Parry 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 (d. 1979). New Zealand lexicographer.
• 1895 - Babe Ruth was born (d. 1948). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1899 - Ramon Novarro was born (d. 1968). Mexican actor.
• 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.
• 1900 - Melvin Tolson was born (d. 1966). American poet, educator. He is best known for his volume "Harlem Gallery" and his Washington Tribune column, "Caviar and Cabbage".
• 1901 - Ben Lyon was born (d. 1979). American actor.
• 1901 - Tomás António Ribeiro dies (b. 1831). Portuguese ultra-romantic writer and politician.
• 1902 - George Brunies was born (d. 1974). American jazz musician.
• 1903 - Claudio Arrau was born (d. 1991). Chilean-born pianist.
• 1904 - Inesperadamente, o Japão rompe suas relações diplomáticas com a Rússia.
• 1905 - Władysław Gomułka was born (d. 1982). Polish leader.
• 1910 - Irmgard Keun was born (d. 1982). German author.
• 1910 - Carlos Marcello was born (d. 1993). Tunisian-born gangster.
• 1911 - Ronald Reagan was born (d. 2004). 40th President of the United States.
• 1912 - Eva Braun was born (d. 1945). Adolf Hitler's mistress.
• 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. American voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger") .
• 1916 - Rubén Darío dies (b. 1867). Nicaraguan writer .
• 1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor was born. Hungarian actress ("Three Ring Circus," 1954, and many others).
• 1918 - Gustav Klimt dies (b. 1862). Austrian painter.
• 1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim was born. German author.
• 1918 - No Reino Unido, é concedido o direito de voto às mulheres com mais de 30 anos de idade.
• 1919 - A German constitutional assembly met to form the Weimar Republic.
• 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 - Bill Johnston was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1922 - Patrick Macnee was born. British actor
• 1922 - Denis Norden was born. British television abd radio personality and scriptwriter
• 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 - Augusto Bernardino Leguía dies. President of Peru.
• 1926 - Haskell Wexler was born. American 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. French actor.
• 1931 - Rip Torn was born. American actor and director.
• 1931 - Mamie Van Doren was born. American actress.
• 1932 - Camilo Cienfuegos was born (d. 1959). Cuban revolutionary.
• 1932 - François Truffaut was born (d. 1984). French film director .
• 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. American actor .
• 1939 - Jair Rodrigues de Oliveira was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1940 - Tom Brokaw was born. American news anchorman .
• 1941 - O general Erwin Rommel é nomeado chefe das Afrika Korps, tropas especiais alemãs destinadas a operar no norte da África.
• 1942 - Sarah Brady was born. American gun-control activist
• 1943 - Fabian Forte was born. American singer .
• 1943 - Gayle Hunnicutt was born. American actress.
• 1944 - Michael Tucker was born. American actor.
• 1945 - Bob Marley was born (d. 1981). Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician.
• 1946 - Jim Turner was born. American politician.
• 1949 - Jim Sheridan was born. Irish film director.
• 1950 - Natalie Cole was born. American singer .
• 1950 - Georges Imbert dies (b. 1884). Alsatian chemist.
• 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 on the worst rail disasters in American history.
• 1951 - Estêvão Amarante dies. Portuguese actor.
• 1951 - Princess Daphné of Belgium was born.
• 1951 - Marco Antonio was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 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. American occultist, author.
• 1957 - Kathy Najimy was born. American actress, comedian .
• 1957 - Robert Townsend was born. American comedian, actor, director and producer .
• 1958 - Bobby Charlton survived the Munich air disaster in Germany, which killed eight of his teammates with Manchester United F.C.
• 1958 - Barry Miller was born. American actor.
• 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.
• 1960 - Megan Gallagher was born. American actress.
• 1962 - Axl Rose was born. American musician ("Guns N'Roses") .
• 1965 - Cláudia Ohana was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1966 - José Joaquín Trejos is elected President of Costa Rica.
• 1966 - Rick Astley was born. British singer.
• 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.
• 1972 - David Binn was born. American football player.
• 1972 - Anastasio Somoza is reelected President of 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.
• 1974 - Olaf Lindenbergh was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1975 - Svend-Allan Sørensen was born. Danish artist .
• 1975 - Tomoko Kawase was born. Japanese singer/songwriter, better known as Tommy
• 1976 - Kim Zmeskal was born. American gymnast .
• 1976 - Vince Guaraldi dies (b. 1928). American musician.
• 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.
• 1981 - Luis García was born in Oviedo. Spanish footballer.
• 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.
• 1983 - Myron Wolf Child was born. Politican and author.
• 1984 - Darren Bent was born. English footballer.
• 1984 - Jorge Guillén dies. Spanish poet.
• 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 (b. 1912). American architect.
• 1989 - Roy Eldridge dies (b. 1911). American jazz musician.
• 1989 - Chris Gueffroy dies. Last person killed escaping over the GDR border
• 1989 - Barbara Tuchman dies (b. 1912). American historian, Pulitzer awarded.
• 1989 - 30.000 soldados soviéticos abandonan Afganistán, mientras la capital, Kabul, queda sumida en el caos.
• 1991 - María Zambrano dies. Spanish writer and philosopher.
• 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 - Kara Borden was born. American Causes Celebre
• 1991 - Danny Thomas dies (b. 1914). Singer, comedian and actor.
• 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 (b. 1943). American tennis star.
• 1993 - Joseph Mankiewicz dies (b. 1909). American director, producer, writer .
• 1994 - Joseph Cotten dies (b. 1905). American actor.
• 1994 - Jack Kirby dies (b. 1917). American comic book writer.
• 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 (b. 1926). American poet.
• 1996 - Guy Madison dies (b. 1922). American 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 (b. 1957). Austrian singer.
• 1998 - Carl Wilson dies. American 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 (b. 1914). Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 2002 - Guy Stockwell dies. American 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.
• 2005 - Jerrick De Leon born 13 weeks premature, becomes the world's smallest infant to survive an open-heart procedure called an arterial switch.
• 2006 - The Conservative Party of Canada takes control of the Canadian government, ending more than twelve years of Liberal rule.