6 February It Happened Today
1664 Birth of the English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe.
1783 Death of the English landscape gardener Lancelot “Capability” Brown.
1804 The first locomotive runs on a line near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. The locomotive is designed by Richard Trevithick.
1895 Birth of American baseball player George Herman, better known as Babe Ruth.
1952 Death of King George VI of Great Britain.
