| 14491 | February 6 | Event | 1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour. |
| 14492 | February 6 | Event | 1981 – The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War. |
| 14493 | February 6 | Event | 1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed. |
| 14494 | February 6 | Event | 1988 – Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo. |
| 14495 | February 6 | Event | 1989 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe. |
| 14496 | February 6 | Event | 1996 – Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest. |
| 14497 | February 6 | Event | 1996 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and all 189 people inside the airplane are killed. This is the worst accident/incident involving a Boeing 757. |
| 14498 | February 6 | Event | 1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. |
| 14499 | February 6 | Event | 2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile. |
| 14500 | February 6 | Event | 2012 – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 51 deaths and injuring 112 others. |
| 14501 | February 6 | Event | 2013 – A 8.0 magnitude earthquake hits the Solomon Islands killing 10 people and injuring 17 others. |
| 14502 | February 6 | Birth | 976 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan (d. 1017) |
| 14503 | February 6 | Birth | 1347 – Dorothea of Montau, Prussian saint (d. 1394) |
| 14504 | February 6 | Birth | 1452 – Joanna, Princess of Portugal (d. 1490) |
| 14505 | February 6 | Birth | 1461 – Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1501) |
| 14506 | February 6 | Birth | 1465 – Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician and theorist (d. 1526) |
| 14507 | February 6 | Birth | 1536 – Sassa Narimasa, Japanese samurai (d. 1588) |
| 14508 | February 6 | Birth | 1577 – Beatrice Cenci, Italian murderer (d. 1599) |
| 14509 | February 6 | Birth | 1582 – Mario Bettinus, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (d. 1657) |
| 14510 | February 6 | Birth | 1605 – Bernard of Corleone, Italian saint (d. 1667) |
| 14511 | February 6 | Birth | 1608 – António Vieira, Portuguese priest and philosopher (d. 1697) |
| 14512 | February 6 | Birth | 1611 – Chongzhen Emperor of China (d. 1644) |
| 14513 | February 6 | Birth | 1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (d. 1694) |
| 14514 | February 6 | Birth | 1639 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German author and scholar (d. 1691) |
| 14515 | February 6 | Birth | 1643 – Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, Prussian politician, 1st Minister President of Prussia (d. 1712) |
| 14516 | February 6 | Birth | 1664 – Mustafa II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1703) |
| 14517 | February 6 | Birth | 1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1726) |
| 14518 | February 6 | Birth | 1665 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714) |
| 14519 | February 6 | Birth | 1721 – Christian Heinrich Heineken, German scholar (d. 1725) |
| 14520 | February 6 | Birth | 1726 – Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (d. 1805) |