Historical Events In February - 06

1986  William Collier, actor (Up the River, She's My Weakness), dies on February - 06.  

1987  No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings on this day in history.  

1987  On February - 06 uS female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary  

1988  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR on February - 06.  

1988  Lee Goodman, actor (Imitation of Life), dies of TB at 64 on this day in history.  

1989  On this day in history lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government  

1989  On February - 06 andre Cayatte, dies  

1991  On February - 06 debris from the Soviet space station 'Salyut 7' fall into the Atlantic as it breaks up  

1993  On February - 06 former tennis great Arthur Ashe dies in New York at age 49.  

1993  On this day in history riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title  

1994  Actor Joseph Cotten dies in Los Angeles at age 88 on this day in history.  

1994  On this day in history josé Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica  

1994  On this day in history martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland  

1995  Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter on February - 06.  

1995  On February - 06 greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket  

1996  Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence on this day in history.  

1997  On February - 06 diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm  

1998  On this day in history "Africa The Serengeti" becomes the first DVD to include separate language tracks  

1998  Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7½ years on February - 06.  

1998  U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a bill renaming Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan National Airport on this day in history.  

1998  "Africa: The Serengeti" becomes the first DVD to include separate language tracks on this day in history.  

2005  On this day in history death of Merle Kilgore, singer, songwriter (b.1934)  

2005  The New England Patriots won their third Super Bowl title in four years by winning 24-21 over the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX on February - 06.  

2012  On this day in history 6.9 magnitude quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths  

2012  On this day in history the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth.  

2013  A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs Off the Solomon Islands coast causing the death of nine people on February - 06.  

2014  On this day in history jay Leno ends his time on The Tonight Show  

2017  Qatar Airways achieves the longest-ever commercial flight in service when its B777 aircraft lands in Auckland after a 16 hour and 23 minutes flight from Doha on February - 06.  

2018  On this day in history elon Musk 's company SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket  

2018  Maldives President Abdulla Yameen declares state of emergency ordering arrest of two judges on this day in history.  

2018  On this day in history brazilian jockey Jorge Ricardo equals world record number of victories for a jockey - 12,844 in Rio de Janeiro  

2018  On February - 06 uN calls for ceasefire in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area by Syrian government troops after 40 people reportedly killed  

2018  Polish president Andrzej Duda signs controversial Holocaust law, outlaws accusing Poles of complicity under Nazis on February - 06.  

2018  6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Hualien County, Taiwan, leaving 10 dead and over 50 missing on February - 06.  

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1461  Dzore Drzic, Croatian poet was born on February - 06.  

1564  Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus) was born on February - 06.  

1577  On February - 06 birth of beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)  

1608  On this day in history birth of antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher  

1611  On this day in history birth of chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644)  

1612  Antoine Arnauld, [Grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theologist was born on this day in history.  

1637  Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan was born on this day in history.  

1639  On this day in history birth of daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)  

0743  On this day in history hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, 10th Moslem caliph, dies at about 52  

0891  Photius, Byzantine theologist/patriarch of Constantinople/saint, dies on this day in history.  

1140  Thurstan, archbishop of York, dies on this day in history.  

1378  Death of Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338) on February - 06.  

1497  John Ockeghem, Flemish singer/composer, dies at 79 on February - 06.  

1515  On February - 06 death of aldus Manutius, Italian printer  

1585  Death of Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518) on this day in history.  

1593  On February - 06 death of emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)