February 6 in history — What Happened Today in History

The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.

The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.

In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.

The Ms 7.6 Luhuo earthquake strikes Sichuan Province, causing widespread destruction and killing at least 2,199 people.

Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.

At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.

Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.

The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.

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.

World War II: The Great Raids Against Helsinki begins.

Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.

The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.

British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.

The municipal administration of Finland is established.

American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.

The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.

The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).

Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.

Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.

The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.

The Treaty of Singapore was signed by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Hussein Shah of Johor, and Temenggong Abdul Rahman, and it is now recognised as the founding of modern Singapore.

Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.

Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.

Eva Wacanno, Dutch tennis player

Fei Yu, Chinese footballer

Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player

Jermaine Kearse, American football player

Aida Rybalko, Lithuanian figure skater

Craig Cathcart, Northern Irish footballer

Jonny Flynn, American basketball player

Bailey Hanks, American actress, singer, and dancer

Pedro Álvarez, Dominican-American baseball player

Travis Wood, American baseball player

Tony Johnson, American mixed martial artist

Yunho, South Korean singer and actor

Fallulah, Danish singer-songwriter

Alec McCowen, English actor (born 1925)

Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby union footballer (born 1971)

Dan Gerson, American screenwriter (born 1966)

Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)

André Brink, South African author and playwright (born 1935)

Alan Nunnelee, American lawyer and politician (born 1958)

Pedro León Zapata, Venezuelan cartoonist (born 1929)

Vasiľ Biľak, Slovak politician (born 1917)

Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1922)

Maxine Kumin, American author and poet (born 1925)

Vaçe Zela, Albanian-Swiss singer and guitarist (born 1939)

Chokri Belaid, Tunisian lawyer and politician (born 1964)

Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (born 1923)