Royal Mail stamp of the coronation of Elizabeth II

Today in History

• Sir Stamford Raffles founds Singapore (1819)
• The first African-American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in Liberia (1820)
• British women over 30 get the right to vote (1918)
• Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom upon the death of her father, George VI (1962)
• Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby files the first patent for an integrated circuit (1959)

Birthdays

• Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati (1748)
• Aaron Burr, US Vice President (1756)
• J. E. B. Stuart, Confederate general (1833)
• Babe Ruth, baseball player (1895)
• Ronald Reagan, actor and 40th US President (1911)
• Eva Braun, wife of Adolf Hitler (1912)
• Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress and media personality (1917)
• Patrick Macnee, actor (1922)
• Rip Torn, actor (1931)
• François Truffaut, filmmaker (1932)
• Mike Farrell, actor (1939)
• Tom Brokaw, television journalist and anchor (1940)
• Sarah Brady, gun control activist and wife of White House Press Secretary James Brady, shot during an assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan (1942)
• Bob Marley, reggae musician (1945)
• Kate McGarrigle, singer-songwriter (1946)
• Natalie Cole, singer-songwriter (1950)
• Axl Rose, musician with Guns n’Roses (1962)
• Rick Astley, singer-songwriter (1966)

Deaths

• Charles II, English monarch (1685)
• Joseph Priestley, chemist (1804)
• Gustav Klimt, painter (1918)
• George VI, UK monarch (1952)
• Vince Guaraldi, musician known for the Charlie Brown theme song (1976)
• Hugo Montenegro, composer (1981)
• Barbara Tuchman, historian (1989)
• Danny Thomas, actor (1991)
• Arthur Ashe, tennis player (1993)
• Jack Kirby, comics artist (1994)
• Frankie Laine, singer-songwriter (2007)
• James Whitmore, actor (2009)
• Dan Hicks, singer-songwriter (2016)
• “Professor” Irwin Corey, comedian (2017)

Holidays and Celebrations

• Constitution Day (Mexico)
• International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (UN)
• Ronald Reagan Day (California)
• Sami National Day (Russia, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
• Waitangi Day (marking the founding of New Zealand)

February 6 is the 37th day of the year. There are 328 days (329 in leap years) remaining until the end of the year.