Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 6
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February 6: Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840); Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins (2006).
- 1819 - Stamford Raffles (pictured) founded Singapore, a new trading post for the British East India Company.
- 1820 - Sponsored by the American Colonization Society, the first African American immigrants established a settlement in present-day Liberia.
- 1922 - France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the Washington Naval Treaty to limit naval armaments.
- 1952 - The Duchess of Edinburgh learned of her accession to the British throne while in the Treetops Hotel in Kenya, becoming Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1959 - Jack Kilby filed the patent for the first integrated circuit.
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