06 February History
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.