What holiday falls on February 6: calendar of events

On Thursday, February 6, 2025, the world celebrates the International Day of Intolerance to Female Genital Mutilation and the International Bartenders' Day. It is also the Day of Compliments and the Day of the Optimist.

Believers today honor the memory of St. Barsanuphius and John the Prophet, St. Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople.

Historical events on February 6

• Władysław IV is crowned King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - 1633.
• Sultan of Johor Tengku Abdul Rahman allows the British Stamford Raffles to establish a trading post in Singapore - 1819.
• Under the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand came under British rule, and the Maori tribes received the patronage of the metropolis - 1840.
• Alexander Popov first transmitted a signal of distress at sea by radio - 1900.
• In Paris, the first public telephones appeared at train stations - 1901.

• The Washington Maritime Conference on Interests in the Pacific and East Asia ended; the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan signed the Washington Agreement on the Limitation of Naval Arms - 1922.
• The first Ukrainian pioneer newspaper "Na Zminu" (later "Zirka") is published - 1925.
• Charlie Chaplin's film City Lights was released in the United States in 1931.
• The Monopoly board game goes on sale for the first time in 1935.
• A flagship Soviet airship crashes in the Murmansk region. 13 crew members were killed, 6 survived - 1938.
• A resolution is passed to return the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from evacuation to Kyiv - 1944.
• Queen Elizabeth II of the Windsor dynasty ascends to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - 1952.
• In Munich in 1958, a plane with the Manchester United football team on board (the Busby Boys) crashed. Among the 23 dead were eight players, coaches, and journalists.

• The Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine is founded - 1958.
• During a walk on the moon, American astronaut Alan Shepard demonstrates a golf ball strike - 1971.
• Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, left the company in protest against its transformation into a cumbersome and inefficient bureaucratic enterprise - 1985.
• Microsoft announces the creation of Word, a word processor designed for IBM PC computers - 1985.
• Ukraine establishes diplomatic relations with Burkina Faso - 1992.
• The British Antarctic station Faraday is transferred to Ukrainian polar explorers. The Ukrainian Akademik Vernadsky station is established on its basis - 1996.
• In Thailand, 357 paratroopers set a record for dome acrobatics - they formed a giant flower in the sky, the colors of which matched the colors of the country's flag - 2004.

• A massive explosion occurs in a train car between Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya stations of the Moscow metro. In 2004, 39 people died and 120 were injured. Chechen separatists were accused of organizing the explosion.
• SpaceX successfully launches the first flight of the Falcon Heavy 2018 super-heavy rocket from the Cape Canaveral Spaceport.
• Powerful earthquake in Turkey and Syria, more than 50,000 dead - 2023.

Which famous people were born on February 6

• Joana of Portugal, Princess, Catholic Blessed - 1452.
• Anne Stuart, Queen of England and Scotland - 1665.
• Evariste de Parney, French poet - 1753.
• Orest Novytskyi, Ukrainian philosopher, historian of philosophy, theologian - 1806.
• Mykola Zelinsky, Ukrainian chemist, inventor of the gas mask - 1861.
• Dmytro Hryhorovych, aircraft designer, creator of the first seaplane - 1883.

• Yuriy Shovkoplias, Ukrainian writer - 1903.
• Ronald Reagan, President of the United States - 1911.
• Mary Leakey, British and Kenyan anthropologist and archaeologist - 1913.
• Rip Torn, American film actor - 1931.
• François Truffaut, French film director - 1932.
• Bob Marley, Jamaican composer and singer - 1945.
• William Bailey, American singer - 1962.
• Olena Zelenska, first lady of Ukraine - 1978.

February 6 name day

Ivan, Maksym, Oleksandr, Anatoliy, Varsonofiy, Vasyl, Vukol, Dmytro, Maria, Marfa, Khrystyna, Yulian.

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