Talk:February 6

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February 6: Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840); Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins (2007).

• 1819 - Stamford Raffles (pictured) founded Singapore, a new trading post for the British East India Company.
• 1840 - The British and the Māori signed the Treaty of Waitangi, considered as the founding document of New Zealand.
• 1922 - France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the Washington Naval Treaty to limit naval armaments.
• 1934 - In an attempted coup d'état against the French Third Republic, far right leagues demonstrated on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
• 1959 - Jack Kilby filed the patent for the first integrated circuit.

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