February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
Rights are not a matter of numbers – and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
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Massachusetts Ratification Day. In 1788 Massachusetts became the sixth state.
- Capital: Boston
- Nickname: Bay State/Old Colony
- Motto: By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty
- Artist – Norman Rockwell
- Beverage – cranberry juice
- Bird: Chickadee
- Building and Monument Stone – granite
- Cookie – chocolate chip cookie
- Dessert – Boston cream pie
- Flower: Mayflower
- Gem – rhodonite
- Historical Rock – Plymouth rock
- Inventor – Ben Franklin
- Sport – basketball
- Tree: American Elm
See our page on the state of Massachusetts for more interesting facts and trivia about the state of Massachusetts
Birthday of George Herman (Babe) Ruth (February 6, 1895), American baseball player.
Birthday of Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1911), 40th president of the United States.
1918 Per The Fact Site In the United Kingdom, women over the age of 30 were granted the right to vote.
91st Birthday of my sister, a very good reason to celebrate this day!
February 6, 1952 – 
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom became Queen upon the death of her father, King George VI, (Albert Frederick Arthur George) Per BBC.co.uk:
The King had suffered a coronary thrombosis – a fatal blood clot to the heart – soon after falling asleep. He was also revealed to have been suffering from lung cancer.
He had always been a frail, nervous man, and had not expected to become King: but he was catapulted onto the throne by the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII.
Three years later, he was leading the country through the Second World War. His steadfastness won him the hearts of the people, most notably when he and his wife, Elizabeth, (who became the Queen Mother on his death), insisted on sharing the dangers of the Battle of Britain with the people of London.
However, the stressful nature of his accession to the throne, and the particularly traumatic times through which he led the country left him physically exhausted, and are thought to have contributed to his failing health and his early death.
Queen Elizabeth II surpassed her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, to become the longest-lived British monarch on 21 December 2007. She died Sept 8, 2022 and was succeeded by her son, Charles.
2012- The U.N. General Assembly announces February 6 as the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. Senator Rand Paul talked at length about the ills of genital mutilation, saying it “is recognized internationally as a violation of international human rights,” and drew a comparison between that and gender confirmation surgeries.