Page 9: Historical Events In February - 06

1986  William Collier, actor (Up the River, She's My Weakness), dies on this day in history.   

1987  No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings on February - 06.   

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  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  Debris from the Soviet space station 'Salyut 7' fall into the Atlantic as it breaks up on February - 06.   

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

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 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  On this day in history greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket   

1996  On this day in history heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence   

1997  On February - 06 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 February - 06.   

1998  On February - 06 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 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  On this day in history 6.9 magnitude quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths   

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  A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs Off the Solomon Islands coast causing the death of nine people on February - 06.   

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 February - 06.   

2018  Elon Musk 's company SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket on February - 06.   

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 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 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  Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus) was born on this day in history.   

1577  On this day in history 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 this day in history birth of antoine Arnauld, [Grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theologist   

1637  Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan was born on this day in history.   

1639  On this day in history birth of daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)   

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

0891  Photius, Byzantine theologist/patriarch of Constantinople/saint, dies on this day in history.   

1140  Thurstan, archbishop of York, dies on this day in history.   

1378  Death of Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338) on this day in history.   

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

1515  Death of Aldus Manutius, Italian printer on this day in history.   

1585  On February - 06 death of edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)   

1593  On this day in history death of emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)