Browsing: February 6

A Brief History On February 6, 1862, Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant led American Union forces to victory in the Battle of Fort Henry in Tennessee, the first battle of significance won by the Union Army in the US Civil War.  Grant became known as a Union general that could win battles and rode that success to leadership of the US Army and later to the White House as President of the US. Digging Deeper Union forces got off to a bad start in the Civil War, losing at Fort Sumter and then at the First Battle of Bull Run. …

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A Brief History On February 6, 2023, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 hit Turkey in the area of Gaziantep in the South-Central part of the country.  Major aftershocks ensued, and then, 9 hours later, a second quake measuring 7.5 struck the already devastated region at Kahramanmaraş. Update: As of February 13, 2023, the death count has sadly reached over 36,000 people.  Some remarkable stories of survival have also emerged, such as a lady well into her 80s that was pulled alive from the rubble after more than 5 days being buried. Update #2:  As of February 15,…

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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 6th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 6, 60 AD, in the Roman city of Pompeii, an unknown graffiti artist noted that the day was “dies Solis” (Sunday), the first known instance of being able to attach a date to a day of the week. On February 6, 1820, The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America (better known as the American Colonization…

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A Brief History On February 6, 1959, an engineer at Texas Instruments, Jack Kilby, filed for the first patent for the “integrated circuit,” a small piece of silicon with many circuits called MOSFETs integrated on it, a device we know as the “microchip.” Digging Deeper Incredibly smaller, faster, and cheaper than the circuits that came before the microchip, these little devices have become the backbone of the electronics industry and are found in all sorts of computers, mobile phones, automobiles, industrial machines, and home appliances. The Metal-Oxide-Silicon that makes up the base material for the microchip is a semi-conductor and…

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A Brief History On February 6, 1998, Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. was renamed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.  Many major airports around the country and around the world are named for a real person, and today we look at 10 of those people and the airports they are named after.  (Many of the really big airports in the world are named after a place rather than a person.)  What airports would you add to this list? Digging Deeper Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. Formerly just called Washington National Airport, this is the airfield that serves most…

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