6 February
Notable Births
Conor Gallagher
b. 2000
English footballer (born 2000)
Adley Rutschman
b. 1998
American baseball player (born 1998)
Kevon Looney
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Nyck de Vries
b. 1995
Dutch racing driver (born 1995)
Leon Goretzka
b. 1995
German footballer (born 1995)
Sam McQueen
b. 1995
English footballer
Teresa Scanlan
b. 1993
Miss America 2011 winner (born 1993)
Tobias Eisenbauer
b. 1991
Austrian ice dancer
Aleksandar Katai
b. 1991
Serbian footballer (born 1991)
Ida Njåtun
b. 1991
Norwegian speed skater (born 1991)
Fei Yu
b. 1991
Chinese footballer
Adam Henrique
b. 1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Jermaine Kearse
b. 1990
American football player and coach (born 1990)
Craig Cathcart
b. 1989
Northern Irish footballer
Jonny Flynn
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Bailey Hanks
b. 1988
American singer, actress, and dancer (born 1988)
Pedro Álvarez (baseball)
b. 1987
Dominican baseball player (born 1987)
Travis Wood
b. 1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Yunho
b. 1986
South Korean musician (born 1986)
Fallulah
b. 1985
Danish-Romanian singer-songwriter and musician
Notable Deaths
Virginia Halas McCaskey
d. 2025
American football executive (1923–2025)
Nigel McCrery
d. 2025
English screenwriter, producer and writer (1953–2025)
Sebastián Piñera
d. 2024
President of Chile (2010–2014; 2018–2022)
Greta Andersen
d. 2023
Danish swimmer (1927–2023)
Lata Mangeshkar
d. 2022
Indian singer (1929–2022)
George Shultz
d. 2021
American economist, diplomat and statesman (1920–2021)
Jhon Jairo Velásquez
d. 2020
Colombian contract killer (1962–2020)
Manfred Eigen
d. 2019
German biophysical chemist (1927–2019)
Donald Lynden-Bell
d. 2018
British theoretical astrophysicist (1935–2018)
Irwin Corey
d. 2017
American comedian and actor (1914–2017)
Inge Keller
d. 2017
German actress (1923–2017)
Alec McCowen
d. 2017
English actor (1925–2017)
Joost van der Westhuizen
d. 2017
South African rugby union player
Dan Gerson
d. 2016
American screenwriter and voice actor (1966–2016)
Dan Hicks (singer)
d. 2016
American singer-songwriter and musician (1941–2016)
André Brink
d. 2015
South African writer (1935–2015)
Alan Nunnelee
d. 2015
American businessman and politician (1958–2015)
Pedro León Zapata
d. 2015
Venezuelan artist, humorist and cartoonist
Vasiľ Biľak
d. 2014
Czechoslovak Communist Statesman
Ralph Kiner
d. 2014
American baseball player and broadcaster (1922–2014)
On This Day in History
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2023
Two earthquakes measuring Mww 7.8 and 7.5 struck near the border between Turkey and Syria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). The earthquakes resulted in numerous aftershocks and a death toll of 57,658 people.
2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes
2021
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries.
Antony Blinken
2018
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight.
SpaceX
2016
An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people.
2016 southern Taiwan earthquake
2012
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead.
2012 Negros earthquake
2006
Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
Stephen Harper
2000
Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
Second Chechen War
1998
Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
1996
Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Willamette Valley flood of 1996
1996
Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.
Birgenair Flight 301
1989
The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
Polish Round Table Agreement
1987
Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
Mary Gaudron
1981
The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
National Resistance Army
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 four inches an hour.
Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978
1976
In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
United States Senate
1973
The Ms 7.6 Luhuo earthquake strikes Sichuan Province, causing widespread destruction and killing at least 2,199 people.
1973 Luhuo earthquake
1959
Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
Jack Kilby
1959
At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
Cape Canaveral
1958
Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
Manchester United F.C.
1952
Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
Elizabeth II