Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 6

February 6: Waitangi Day in New Zealand; Ash Wednesday in Western Christianity (2008).

• 1819 – British official Stamford Raffles (pictured) signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as 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.

• 1934 – In an attempted coup d'état against the French Third Republic, far right leagues demonstrated on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

• 1952 – Elizabeth II, today one of the longest-reigning British monarchs, ascended to the thrones of seven countries upon the death of her father, George VI.

• 1958 – British European Airways Flight 609, carrying the Manchester United football team, a number of supporters and journalists, crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany, killing eight players and 15 others.

More anniversaries:

• February 5
• February 6
• February 7