Monday 6 February 2012
On this Day - 6 February
1508 Maximilian I assumed the title of Holy Roman Emperor 1778 Britain declared war on France 1778 France and American Colonists signed an offensive and defensive alliance and also a commercial treaty 1840 The Treaty of Waitangi was signed by Great Britain and the Maori chiefs of New Zealand, granting British sovereignty. 1918 Women over 30 were granted the right to vote in Britain. 1958 An aeroplane carrying the Manchester United football team crashed on take-off at Munich, killing seven players 1964 Britain and France reached an agreement on the construction of a Channel Tunnel. 1968 The 10th Winter Olympic games opened in Grenoble, France 1991 Debris from Salyut 7, a Soviet space station abandoned in 1986, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere; it was believed that most of it landed in the Atlantic Ocean 1995 The US space shuttle Discovery made a successful rendezvous with the Russian orbiting space station Mir, the first such successful operation since the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz docking. 1996 Cedric Brown, the controversial 'fat cat' chief executive of British Gas, announced that he was to leave the company. 2004 World heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis annouced his retirement from professional boxing.
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