Historical Events In February - 06

1986  On February - 06 william Collier, actor (Up the River, She's My Weakness), dies  

1987  On February - 06 no-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings  

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

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

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

1989  On February - 06 lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government  

1989  Andre Cayatte, dies on this day in history.  

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 February - 06.  

1993  On February - 06 riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title  

1994  On February - 06 actor Joseph Cotten dies in Los Angeles at age 88.  

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

1994  Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland on this day in history.  

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

1995  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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 7� years on this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history 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 this day in history.  

2012  On February - 06 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  On this day in history a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs Off the Solomon Islands coast causing the death of nine people  

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

2017  On this day in history 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  

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

2018  Maldives President Abdulla Yameen declares state of emergency ordering arrest of two judges on February - 06.  

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

2018  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

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1461  Dzore Drzic, Croatian poet was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1608  Antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher was born on February - 06.  

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  On this day in history birth of toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan  

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

0743  Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, 10th Moslem caliph, dies at about 52 on February - 06.  

0891  Photius, Byzantine theologist/patriarch of Constantinople/saint, dies on February - 06.  

1140  On February - 06 thurstan, archbishop of York, dies  

1378  On this day in history death of jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)  

1497  On this day in history john Ockeghem, Flemish singer/composer, dies at 79  

1515  Death of Aldus Manutius, Italian printer on February - 06.  

1585  Death of Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518) on February - 06.  

1593  Death of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517) on this day in history.