06 February History


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  • 1626    -    Huguenot rebels and the French sign the Peace of La Rochelle.
  • 1778    -    France recognizes the United States and signs a treaty of aid in Paris.
  • 1788    -    Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the Constitution.
  • 1862    -    The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn., begins the Mississippi Valley campaign.
  • 1891    -    The Dalton Gang commits its first crime, a train robbery in Alila, Calif.
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  • 1899    -    The Spanish-American War ends.
  • 1900    -    President McKinley appoints W.H. Taft commissioner to report on the Philippines.
  • 1904    -    Japan's foreign minister severs all ties with Russia, citing delaying tactics in negotiations over Manchuria.
  • 1916    -    Germany admits full liability for Lusitania incident and recognizes the United State's right to claim indemnity.
  • 1922    -    The Washington Disarmament Conference comes to an end with signature of final treaty forbidding fortification of the Aleutian Islands for 14 years.
  • 1926    -    Mussolini warns Germany to stop agitation in Tyrol.
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  • 1929    -    Germany accepts Kellogg-Briand pact.
  • 1933    -    Adolf Hitler's Third Reich begins press censorship.
  • 1936    -    Adolf Hitler opens the Fourth Winter Olympics.
  • 1941    -    The RAF clears the way as British take Benghazi, trapping thousands of Italians.
  • 1944    -    Kwajalein Island in the Central Pacific falls to U.S. Army troops.
  • 1945    -    MacArthur reports the fall of Manila, and the liberation of 5,000 prisoners.
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  • 1963    -    The United States reports that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba.
  • 1964    -    Cuba blocks the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State's seizure of four Cuban fishing boats.
  • 1964    -    Paris and London agree to build a rail tunnel under the English Channel.
  • 1965    -    Seven U.S. GIs are killed in a Viet Cong raid on a base in Pleiku.
  • 1968    -    Charles de Gaulle opens the 19th Winter Olympics in France.
  • 1975    -    President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia.
  • 1977    -    Queen Elizabeth marks her Silver Jubilee.
  • 1982    -    Civil rights workers begin a march from Carrolton to Montgomery, Alabama.

  • 06 February Birthdays

  • 1756    -    Aaron Burr, 3rd U.S. Vice President.
  • 1895    -    George Herman "Babe" Ruth, baseball player with the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees and the Boston Braves. The first player to hit 60 home runs in one season.
  • 1911    -    Ronald Reagan, film actor and 40th U.S. President (1981-1989).
  • 1913    -    Mary Douglas Leakey, archaeologist and paleoanthropologist.
  • 1932    -    Francois Truffaut, French film director (The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player).
  • 1933    -    Walter E. Fountroy, politician and civil rights leader.
  • 1940    -    Tom Brokaw, NBC News anchorman.
  • 1945    -    Bob Marley, reggae musician.