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February 6: Sámi National Day (1917); Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840)

News reel of the Munich air disaster

1788 – Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the constitution of the United States.
1819 – British official Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the East India Company.
1919 – More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of U.S. World War I wage controls.
1958 – The aircraft carrying the Manchester United football team crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany, killing 8 players and 23 people in total (news reel featured).

Joseph Priestley (d. 1804)
Barbara W. Tuchman (d. 1989)
Jack Kirby (d. 1994)
Gary Moore (d. 2011)

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