On This Day: February 6th

It is the 6th day of the 2nd month of the 10th year of the 1st decade of the 21st century, also known as International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation. Time for the show!

• 1788 – Massachusetts becomes the 6th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• 1815 – New Jersey grants the first railroad charter in the U.S.
• 1819 – The British East India Company establishes a trading post at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula, also known as Singapore.
• 1820 – 86 African-American immigrants form a settlement in the present-day Liberia.
• 1840 – Various Maori Chiefs and representatives of the British monarchy sign the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
• 1862 – Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry, Tennessee; the first Union victory in the Civil War.
• 1899 – The Senate ratifies the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the Spanish-American War.
• 1933 – The 20th amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.  One of the chief accomplishments of this amendment was moving the presidential inauguration from March to January.
• 1952 – Queen Elizabeth II ascends to the throne of the United Kingdom upon the death of her father, George VI.
• 1959 – Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.

I forgot to mention that February 6th is also Bob Marley Day in Rastafarianism, celebrated in Jamaica and Ethiopia.  Video of Bob Marley below:

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