6TH
FEBRUARY
NATIONAL DAY OF NEW ZEALAND.
FEAST DAY OF
"ST PAUL MIKI & HIS COMPANIONS;
ST VEDAST OR VAAST; ST HIDEGUND; ST AMAND; SAINTS MEL & MELCHU; & ST GUARINUS OF
PALESTRINA." |
| 6TH |
337 |
"ST. JULIUS I" BEGINS HIS REIGN AS CATHOLIC POPE. |
| 6TH |
1508 |
"MAXIMILIAN I" ASSUMES THE
TITLE "HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR." |
| 6TH |
1643 |
"ABEL TASMAN" DISCOVERS FIJI ISLANDS IN THE
PACIFIC. |
| 6TH |
1840 |
‘WAITANGI DAY;’ TREATY SIGNED
BETWEEN EUROPEAN & NATIVE NEW ZEALANDERS. |
| 6TH |
1851 |
BLACK THURSDAY IN VICTORIA AS BUSHFIRES KILL 10 NEAR
MELBOURNE. |
| 6TH |
1906 |
"BONDI SURF CLUB" IS FORMED. |
| 6TH |
1918 |
WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF 30 & MEN OVER 21 WERE GRANTED THE
RIGHT TO VOTE IN BRITAIN. |
| 6TH |
1922 |
"CARDINAL ACHILLE RATTI"
ELECTED "POPE PIUS XI." |
| 6TH |
1928 |
"GRAND DUCHESS," ‘ANASTASIA CHAIKOVSKY’
ON WHOM THE TALE ‘ANASTASIA’ IS FOUNDED ARRIVES IN U.S.A.
SHE WAS THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF THE BLOODY MASSACRE WHICH CLAIMED THE LIVES OF THE RUSSIAN
ROYAL FAMILY. |
| 6TH |
1932 |
FIRST OLYMPIC DOG SLED RACE IS A
DEMONSTRATION SPORT AT LAKE PLACID, NEW YORK. |
| 6TH |
1933 |
34 METRES, HIGHEST RECORDED SEA WAVE (NOT TSUNAMI), IN
PACIFIC HURRICANE. |
| 6TH |
1935 |
THE BOARD GAME, MONOPOLY GOES ON SALE
FOR THE FIRST TIME. |
| 6TH |
1936 |
THE 4TH WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES OPEN IN GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN,
GERMANY. |
| 6TH |
1938 |
3 ENORMOUS WAVES IN SUCCESSION SWEPT
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE OUT TO SEA AT BONDI BEACH SYDNEY. 5 PEOPLE DIED. |
| 6TH |
1952 |
"QUEEN ELIZABETH II" COMES TO THE THRONE. |
| 6TH |
1952 |
ENGLAND REPLACES "KING GEORGE
VI" STAMP WITH "QUEEN ELIZABTH II." |
| 6TH |
1958 |
7 PLAYERS WERE KILLED WHEN, A PLANE CARRYING THE MANCHESTER
UNITED FOOTBALL TEAM CRASHED ON TAKE-OFF AT MUNICH. |
| 6TH |
1959 |
U.S. FIRST SUCCESSFUL TITAN INTERCONTINENTAL
BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST. |
| 6TH |
1968 |
THE 10TH WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES OPENED IN GRENOBLE, FRANCE. |
| 6TH |
1977 |
"ALAIN PRIEUR" JUMPS HIS
MOTORCYCLE 65 METRES OVER 16 BUSES NEAR PARIS. |
| 6TH |
1991 |
DEBRIS FROM SOVIET SPACE STATION ‘SALYUT 7’
ABANDONED IN 1986, RE-ENTERED THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE, CRASHING INTO THE ATLANTIC
OCEAN. |
| 6TH |
1995 |
THE U.S. SPACE SHUTTLE
‘DISCOVERY’ MADE A SUCCESSFUL RENDEZVOUS WITH THE ORBITING RUSSIAN SPACE STATION
‘MIR’. |
| 6TH |
1995 |
TWO DOGS, STRUGGLING TO STAY AFLOAT IN THE FLOODWATERS OF A
MALAYSIAN RIVER, WERE EATEN BY ENORMOUS CATFISH. |
| 6TH |
1998 |
INTERNATIONAL POP SINGER,
"FALCO" 40, WAS KILLED IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, WHEN HE GOT DRUNK AT A PARTY
& WHILE REVERSING HIS CAR INTO THE STREET, WAS HIT BY A BUS. |
| 6TH |
2001 |
ACTOR, "TOM CRUISE" & ACTRESS, "NICOLE
KIDMAN" ANNOUNCE THEIR 10 YEAR MARRIAGE IS OVER. |
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