^B{^#!16!6 February^N! National Day of New Zealand. Feast day of St Paul Miki and his Companions, St Vedast or Vaast, St Hidegund, St Amand, Saints Mel and Melchu, and St Guarinus of Palestrina.
^B{1508^B} Maximilian I assumed the title of Holy Roman Emperor. ^B{1778^B} Britain declared war on France. ^B{1840^B} The Treaty of Waitangi was signed by Great Britain and the Maori chiefs of New Zealand, granting British sovereignty. ^B{1918^B} Women over 30 were granted the right to vote in Britain. ^B{1958 ^B}An airplane carrying the Manchester United football team crashed on take-off at Munich, killing seven players. ^B{1964^B} Britain and France reached an agreement on the construction of a Channel Tunnel. ^B{1968^B} The 10th Winter Olympic games opened in Grenoble, France. ^B{1991^B} Debris from ^I{Salyut 7^I}, 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.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist, ^B{1564^B}; Queen Anne, ^B{1665^B}; Babe Ruth, US baseball player, ^B{1911^B}; Ronald Reagan, 40th US president, ^B{1911^B}; Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian actress, ^B{1920^B}; Franτois Truffaut, French film director, ^B{1932^B}; Rick Astley, British pop singer, ^B{1966^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, English landscape gardener, ^B{1783^B}; Carlo Goldoni, Italian dramatist, ^B{1793^B}; Joseph Priestley, English chemist, ^B{1804^B}; Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter, ^B{1918^B}; Marghanita Laski, English author, ^B{1988^B}; Arthur Ashe, US tennis player, ^B{1993^B}.
