6th February

1778 - Britain declares war on France.

1935 - Monopoly goes on sale for the first time.

1958 - A plane carrying the Manchester United football team crashes on take-off in Munich, killing seven players.

1964 - Britain and France reach an agreement on the construction of a Channel Tunnel.

2001 - Arnold Schwarzenegger announces he is considering a move into politics. He is later elected Governor of California.

2002 - A 17-year-old Romanian girl has 100 steel nails removed from her stomach. She says she had swallowed them as she had felt dizzy and had a headache.