Historical events of February 6:
~1191 - Pope Clement III approves a bull for the care of the sick in Palestine
~1508 - in the city of Trento Maximilian I with the consent of the pope Julius II took the title of emperor
~1788 - Massachusetts becomes sixth US state
~1819 - Sultan Johor Tengku Abdul Rahman allowed the British Stemford Raflz to establish a trading post in Singapore
~1840 - New Zealand was under British administration by the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Maori tribes were given patronage
~1922 - Washington Maritime Conference on the Pacific and East Asia
~1952 - Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Head of the 14 Commonwealth States
~1958 - In Munich, an airplane with the football team "Manchester United" on board crashed. Among the 23 dead were eight club players, coaches, journalists
~1996 - British Antarctic station "Faraday" transferred to Ukrainian polar men, on its base created a Ukrainian station "Academician of Vernadsky"
~2000 - The second round of the presidential election in Finland was won by Tarja Halonen, who became the first woman president in the country’s history
~2017 - Qatar Airways aircraft successfully completed the world’s longest direct flight from the capital of Qatar Doha to New Zealand Auckland - it has covered 14.5 thousand kilometers in 16 hours 15 minutes