Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 6

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

• 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.

More anniversaries:

• February 5
• February 6
• February 7