📜 This Day in History

February 6

• 590Vistahm and Vinduyih deposed their brother-in-law Hormizd IV, King of Kings of the Sasanian Empire.
• 1788Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the constitution of the United States.
• 1820The first ship of the American Colonization Society departed from New York for West Africa with 86 African-American emigrants aboard to found the colony of Liberia.
• 1918Conscientious objector Henry Firth died in a work camp on Dartmoor, England, triggering a strike over living conditions.
• 1951A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.
• 1987Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia.

Born on this day

• 1665Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1714)
• 1911Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (died 2004)
• 1932François Truffaut, French filmmaker and critic (died 1984)
• 1945Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and cultural icon (died 1981)