February 6: Day Of The Week
February 6, 2013 is the 37th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.
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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
| February | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | ||
Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
February 6 Historical Events
- 1649 –The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
- 1817 –The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
- 1819 –Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
- 1951 –The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
- 1951 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- 1952 –Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
- 1959 –At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
- 1989 –The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
- 1996 –Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
- 2000 –Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
Who were born on February 6?
- 1833 –James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart, American Civil War figure (d. 1864)
- 1833 –José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
- 1866 –Karl Sapper, German explorer and linguist (d. 1945)
- 1908 –Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (d. 1981)
- 1918 –Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
- 1931 –Rip Torn, American actor
- 1950 –Jane Gordon-Cumming, British writer
- 1975 –Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
- 1981 –Ty Warren, American football player
- 1986 –Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
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