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This is a list of selected February 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 328 days remain until the end of the year (329 in leap years). Events. Pre-1600. 590 – ...
February 12: Lantern Festival in China (2025); Lincoln's Birthday in some states of the United States; Red Hand Day Edvard Munch's The Scream 1691 – A papal conclave convened to select a new pope after the death of Pope Alexander VIII .
Bob Marley (February 6, 1945 –May 11, 1981), Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist, would have turned 79 this year. John London (February 6, 1942 –February 12, 2000), American songwriter, would have turned 82 this year. Bill Doggett (February 6, 1916 –November 13, 1996), American pianist, would have turned 108 this year.
Image credits: Tommy Phillips The Historic Film Locations group on Facebook is a community of almost 900k members, most of whom are cinema fans and film tourists. The group believes that movies ...
Hugh Hefner, the man who created a magazine empire, died Wednesday at the age of 91. His legacy includes some of the most famous Playboy playmates ever to grace the cover and go one to become ...
1753 - February 17 is followed by March 1 as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar; 1792 - Birth of Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876) 1874 - Death of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796) 1888 - Birth of Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
Ronald Reagan Day is a day of recognition that occurs every February 6, starting in 2011, in the state of California for Ronald Reagan, who was that state's governor from 1967 to 1975 and President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.