Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: February 6
February 6, 2024 is the 37th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aquarius is your zodiac sign. Amethyst is your modern birthstone. Bloodstone is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: February 6
- 1788 –Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1817 –The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
- 1820 –The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
- 1833 –Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
- 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.
- 1976 –In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
- 1987 –Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
- 1998 –Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Who were born on February 6?
- 1605 –Bernard of Corleone, Catholic saint (d. 1667)
- 1772 –Karl von Kügelgen, German landscape and history painter (d. 1832)
- 1847 –Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (d. 1918)
- 1852 –C. Lloyd Morgan, British zoologist and psychologist (d. 1936)
- 1922 –Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
- 1923 –Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian football player and manager (d. 1981)
- 1929 –Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist, inventor of the tranquilliser gun (d. 2008)
- 1941 –Gigi Perreau, American actress
- 1949 –Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
- 1976 –Princess Marie of Denmark
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