6 Feb 07 - Tuesday
1895 George Herman (Babe) Ruth Baltimore MD, baseball great (Yankees)
1911 Ronald Reagan Illinois, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo)/40th President (R) (1981-89)
1931 Rip Torn Texas, actor (Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1939 Mike Farrell St Paul MN, actor (BJ Honeycutt-MASH, Battered)
1945 Bob Marley Jamaican reggae vocalist (Bob Marley & Wailers-Roots Rock Reggae)
1950 Natalie Cole singer (Unforgettable, Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy)
1962 Axl Rose [William Bailey] Lafayette IN, rocker (Guns & Roses)
1778 France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty
1832 US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy
1862 General Ulysses S Grant capturs Fort Henry, and
ten days later Fort Donelson;
Grant earns the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant
1891 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
1921 "The Kid", starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released
1935 Board game "Monopoly" goes on sale for the 1st time
1941 Battle of Beda Fomm Italian 10th army destroyed
1941 British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
1943 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
1943 Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade"
1945 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz
1945 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder
1951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into the
Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago IL
1956 University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy
(because he's black)
1964 France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
1965 Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1
1974 US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for
impeachment of Nixon
1976 Vince Guaraldi jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials), dies at 43
1977 Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become
NWA wrestling champion
1981 Beatles McCartney, Starr & Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon
1982 "Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart
1984 Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
1987 No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
1990 Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album
"A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes & 58.44 seconds backwards!
1991 Danny Thomas comedian/actor (Jazz Singer), dies of a heart attack at 76
1994 Jack Kirby cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk), dies at 76
1997 Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm
1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7½ years
1998 Carl Wilson rock vocalist (Beach Boy), dies of lung cancer at 51
A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
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