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{{*mp}} [[1840]] - The [[United Kingdom|British]] and the [[Māori]] signed the '''[[Treaty of Waitangi]]''', considered as the founding document of [[New Zealand]]. |
{{*mp}} [[1840]] - The [[United Kingdom|British]] and the [[Māori]] signed the '''[[Treaty of Waitangi]]''', considered as the founding document of [[New Zealand]]. |
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{{*mp}} [[1922]] - [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Japan]], the [[United Kingdom]], and the [[United States]] signed the '''[[Washington Naval Treaty]]''' to limit [[navy|naval]] [[arms race|armaments]]. |
{{*mp}} [[1922]] - [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Japan]], the [[United Kingdom]], and the [[United States]] signed the '''[[Washington Naval Treaty]]''' to limit [[navy|naval]] [[arms race|armaments]]. |
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{{*mp}} [[1934]] - In an attempted [[coup d'état]] against the [[French Third Republic]], [[far right leagues]] '''[[6 February 1934 crisis|demonstrated]]''' on the [[Place de la Concorde]] in [[Paris]]. |
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{{*mp}} [[1959]] - [[Jack Kilby]] filed the [[patent]] for the first '''[[integrated circuit]]'''. |
{{*mp}} [[1959]] - [[Jack Kilby]] filed the [[patent]] for the first '''[[integrated circuit]]'''. |
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Revision as of 01:20, 4 February 2007
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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