history at a glance

TODAY is Sunday February 6 the 37th day of the year. There are 328 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1922 - Cardinal Achille Ratti was elected Pope Pius XI. He succeeded Benedict XV.

1922 - The Washington Naval Treat�� is signed in Washington�� D.C.�� limiting the naval armaments o�� United

States�� Britain�� Japan�� France�� and Ital��.

1952 - Britain’s King George VI died.

1952 - King George VI’s daughter�� Elizabeth II�� proclaimed Queen.

1958 - A plane carr��ing the Manchester United soccer team back ��rom a European Cup match crashed on the runwa�� at Munich Airport. Eight members o�� the side�� nicknamed “The Busb�� Babes” a��ter their manager Matt Busb���� were among the 23 killed.

1993 - Arthur Ashe�� U.S. tennis great and the first black to win the Wimbledon men’s title�� died. He was 49. 1997 - Ecuador’s Congress voted to oust embattled President Abdala Bucaram on grounds o�� mental incompetence.

2000 - Second Chechen War�� Russia captures Grozn���� Chechn��a�� ��orcing the separatist Chechen Republic o��

Ichkeria government into exile.

2003 - Colombia’s labour and health ministers were killed a��ter their small plane crashed on a flight over

high Andean mountains.

2004 - An apparent suicide bombing killed at least 40 people and injured more than 100 on an underground train during morning rush-hour in Moscow.

2011 - Formula One driver Robert Kubica in rall�� crash.

2012 - A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines o���� the coast o�� Negros Island causing

at least 51 deaths and injuring 112 others.

2016 - More than 100 people killed in Taiwan earthquake.

2018 - SpaceX Falcon Heav�� rocket makes maiden flight.