Editing February 6 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1918]] &ndash; British women over the age of 30 who meet [[Property qualification|minimum property qualifications]], get [[Women's suffrage|the right to vote]] when  [[Representation of the People Act 1918]] is passed by [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]].
*  [[1919]]   &ndash; The five-day [[Seattle General Strike]] begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of [[Seattle|Seattle, Washington]], walk off the job.<ref>{{cite book|last=Friedheim|first=Robert L.|title=The Seattle General Strike|location=Seattle|publisher=University of Washington Press|date=2018|isbn=9780295744438|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rv1zDwAAQBAJ|pages=ix, 129}}</ref>
*[[1922]] &ndash; The [[Washington Naval Treaty]] is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, [[British Empire|Britain]], Japan, France, and Italy.
*[[1934]] &ndash; [[Far-right leagues]] rally in front of the [[Palais Bourbon]] in an attempted [[coup d'état|coup]] against the [[French Third Republic]], creating a [[6 February 1934 crisis|political crisis in France]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Bombing of Helsinki in World War II#Great raids of February 1944|Great Raids Against Helsinki]] begins.<ref>{{cite book | author= Aake Pesonen | title= Tuli-iskuja taivaalle| year= 1982| chapter=Taistelu Helsingistä | publisher = Kirjayhtymä| isbn =951-26-2318-8| language = fi}}</ref>
*[[1951]] &ndash; The [[Canadian Army]] enters combat in the [[Canada in the Korean War|Korean War]].
*  1951   &ndash; ''The Broker'', a [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] passenger train [[Woodbridge train wreck|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.
*[[1952]] &ndash; [[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 [[Order of succession|succession]], she was in a [[tree house]] at the [[Treetops Hotel]] in [[Kenya]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The day Princess Elizabeth became Queen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jan/08/queen-elizabeth-treetops-kenya |website=the Guardian |access-date=12 December 2021 |language=en |date=8 January 2012}}</ref>
*[[1958]] &ndash; Eight [[Manchester United F.C.]] players and 15 other passengers are killed in the [[Munich air disaster]].
*[[1959]] &ndash; [[Jack Kilby]] of [[Texas Instruments]] files the first [[patent]] for an [[integrated circuit]].
*  1959   &ndash; At [[Cape Canaveral]], [[Florida]], the first successful test firing of a [[Titan intercontinental ballistic missile]] is accomplished.
*[[1973]] &ndash; The {{M|s}} 7.6 [[1973 Luhuo earthquake|Luhuo earthquake]] strikes Sichuan Province, causing widespread destruction and killing at least 2,199 people.<ref name="Utsu">{{cite web|url=http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/utsu/utsuweq_bak_eng.html|title=Search Page|last=Utsu|first=T.|work=Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World (Through 2008)|access-date=June 3, 2010}}</ref>
*[[1976]] &ndash; In testimony before a [[United States Senate]] subcommittee, [[Lockheed Corporation]] president [[Carl Kotchian]] admits that the company had paid out approximately [[Lockheed bribery scandals|$3 million in bribes]] to the office of Japanese Prime Minister [[Kakuei Tanaka]].
*[[1978]] &ndash; The [[Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978|Blizzard of 1978]], one of the worst [[Nor'easter]]s in [[New England]] history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65&nbsp;mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.
*[[1981]] &ndash; The [[National Resistance Army]] of [[Uganda]] launches an attack on a [[Uganda National Liberation Army|Ugandan Army]] installation in the central [[Mubende District]] to begin the [[Ugandan Bush War]].
*[[1987]] &ndash; Justice [[Mary Gaudron]] becomes the first woman to be appointed to the [[High Court of Australia]].
*[[1989]] &ndash; The [[Polish Round Table Talks|Round Table Talks]] start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of [[communism]] in Eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite book|author=Andr?s Boz?ki|title=The Roundtable Talks of 1989|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4VQhQqCmSaoC&pg=PA365|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=978-963-9241-21-3|pages=365}}</ref>
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[Willamette Valley flood of 1996|Willamette Valley Flood]]: Floods in the [[Willamette Valley]] of [[Oregon]], United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the [[Pacific Northwest]].
*  1996   &ndash; [[Birgenair Flight 301]] crashed off the coast of the [[Dominican Republic]], killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a [[Boeing 757]].
*[[1998]] &ndash; Washington National Airport is renamed [[Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport|Ronald Reagan National Airport]].
*[[2000]] &ndash; [[Second Chechen War]]: Russia [[Battle of Grozny (1999–2000)|captures]] [[Grozny]], [[Chechnya]], forcing the separatist [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]] government into [[government in exile|exile]].
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[Stephen Harper]] becomes [[Premiership of Stephen Harper|Prime Minister of Canada]].
*[[2012]] &ndash; A [[2012 Negros earthquake|magnitude 6.7 earthquake]] hits the central Philippine island of [[Negros (island)|Negros]], leaving 112 people dead.<ref>{{cite web|title=Deaths from Earthquakes in 2012|url=http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/2012/2012_deaths.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327084344/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/2012/2012_deaths.php |publisher= [[USGS]] |archive-date=March 27, 2013 |access-date= March 9, 2022 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; An [[2016 Taiwan earthquake|earthquake of magnitude 6.6]] strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people.
*[[2018]] &ndash; [[SpaceX]]'s [[Falcon Heavy]], a [[Super heavy-lift launch vehicle|super heavy]] [[launch vehicle]], makes [[Falcon Heavy test flight|its maiden flight]].<ref name="wire-2018-02-07">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-successfully-launches-the-falcon-heavyand-elon-musks-roadster/ |title=SpaceX Successfully Launches the Falcon Heavy—And Elon Musk's Roadster |magazine=[[WIRED]] |first=Robin |last=Seemangal |access-date=February 7, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207003954/https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-successfully-launches-the-falcon-heavyand-elon-musks-roadster/ |archive-date=February 7, 2018 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*[[2021]] &ndash; U.S. Secretary of State [[Antony Blinken]] suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send [[Asylum in the United States|asylum seekers]] back to their home countries.<ref>{{cite news |title=US to end deals to send asylum seekers back to Central America |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/6/us-to-end-deals-to-send-asylum-seekers-to-central-america |access-date=March 11, 2021 |work=aljazeera.com |publisher=Al Jazeera English |date=February 6, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; [[2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes|Two earthquakes]] measuring {{M|ww|link=yes}} 7.8 and 7.5 struck near the border between [[Turkey]] and [[Syria]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of XII (''Extreme''). The earthquakes resulted in numerous aftershocks and a death toll of 57,658 people.<ref>{{Cite web|author=National Earthquake Information Center|title=M 7.8 - 26 km E of Nurdağı, Turkey|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/executive|date=6 February 2023|publisher=[[United States Geological Survey]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=National Earthquake Information Center|title=M 7.5 - 4 km SSE of Ekinözü, Turkey|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jlqa/executive|date=6 February 2023|publisher=[[United States Geological Survey]]}}</ref>