Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/February 6

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• 1685 - James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King.
• 1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
• 1936 - Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
• 1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican musician, is born. (d. 1981)
• 1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.