Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 6

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 * 1778 – France and the United States signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance, respectively establishing commercial and military ties between the two nations.
 * 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captured or destroyed five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Domingo in the Caribbean Sea.


 * 1820 – The 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.
 * 1840 – British representatives and Māori chiefs first signed the Treaty of Waitangi, widely regarded to be the founding document of New Zealand.
 * 1862 – Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
 * 1951 – A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.
 * 1976 – Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out approximately US$3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka.
 * 2018 – The SpaceX launch vehicle Falcon Heavy made its first flight (launch pictured).
 * Born/died: | Donnchad Midi |d|797| Thurstan |d|1140| Aldus Manutius |d|1515| Bernard of Corleone |b|1605| Pierre André Latreille |d|1833| Isabella Beeton |d|1865| Victor Negus |b|1887  Eva Braun |b|1912| Zsa Zsa Gabor |b|1917| Gerard K. O'Neill |b|1927| Maria Mies |b|1931| Mary Beth Edelson |b|1933| Axl Rose |b|1962|