Page 9: Historical Events In February - 06

1986  On this day in history william Collier, actor (Up the River, She's My Weakness), dies   

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

1987  US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary on February - 06.   

1988  On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR   

1988  On February - 06 lee Goodman, actor (Imitation of Life), dies of TB at 64   

1989  Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government on this day in history.   

1989  Andre Cayatte, dies on February - 06.   

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

1993  Former tennis great Arthur Ashe dies in New York at age 49 on this day in history.   

1993  Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title on this day in history.   

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

1994  On February - 06 josé Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica   

1994  Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland on February - 06.   

1995  Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter on this day in history.   

1995  Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket on this day in history.   

1996  On February - 06 heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence   

1997  On this day in history diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm   

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

1998  On this day in history mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7½ years   

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

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

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

2005  On February - 06 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.   

2012  6.9 magnitude quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths on February - 06.   

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 this day in history.   

2014  Jay Leno ends his time on The Tonight Show on February - 06.   

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 this day in history.   

2018  Elon Musk 's company SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket on this day in history.   

2018  On this day in history maldives President Abdulla Yameen declares state of emergency ordering arrest of two judges   

2018  Brazilian jockey Jorge Ricardo equals world record number of victories for a jockey - 12,844 in Rio de Janeiro on February - 06.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1564  On this day in history birth of christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus)   

1577  Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599) was born on this day in history.   

1608  On February - 06 birth of antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher   

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

1612  On February - 06 birth of antoine Arnauld, [Grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theologist   

1637  Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan was born on February - 06.   

1639  Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691) was born on February - 06.   

0743  On February - 06 hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, 10th Moslem caliph, dies at about 52   

0891  On this day in history photius, Byzantine theologist/patriarch of Constantinople/saint, dies   

1140  On this day in history thurstan, archbishop of York, dies   

1378  On February - 06 death of jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)   

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

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

1585  On this day in history death of edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)   

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