more events on February 6
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1982
Civil rights workers begin a march from Carrolton to Montgomery, Alabama.
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1977
Queen Elizabeth marks her Silver Jubilee.
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1975
President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia.
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1968
Charles de Gaulle opens the 19th Winter Olympics in France.
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1965
Seven U.S. GIs are killed in a Viet Cong raid on a base in Pleiku.
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1964
Paris and London agree to build a rail tunnel under the English Channel.
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Cuba blocks the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State’s seizure of four Cuban fishing boats.
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1963
The United States reports that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba.
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1945
Bob Marley, reggae musician.
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MacArthur reports the fall of Manila, and the liberation of 5,000 prisoners.
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1944
Kwajalein Island in the Central Pacific falls to U.S. Army troops.
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1941
The RAF clears the way as British take Benghazi, trapping thousands of Italians.
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1940
Tom Brokaw, NBC News anchorman.
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1936
Adolf Hitler opens the Fourth Winter Olympics.
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1933
Walter E. Fountroy, politician and civil rights leader.
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Adolf Hitler‘s Third Reich begins press censorship.
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1932
Francois Truffaut, French film director (The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player).
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1929
Germany accepts Kellogg-Briand pact.
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1926
Mussolini warns Germany to stop agitation in Tyrol.
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1922
The Washington Disarmament Conference comes to an end with signature of final treaty forbidding fortification of the Aleutian Islands for 14 years.
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1916
Germany admits full liability for Lusitania incident and recognizes the United State’s right to claim indemnity.
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1913
Mary Douglas Leakey, archaeologist and paleoanthropologist.
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1911
Ronald Reagan, film actor and 40th U.S. President (1981-1989).
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1904
Japan’s foreign minister severs all ties with Russia, citing delaying tactics in negotiations over Manchuria.
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1900
President McKinley appoints W.H. Taft commissioner to report on the Philippines.
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1899
The Spanish-American War ends.
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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.
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1891
The Dalton Gang commits its first crime, a train robbery in Alila, Calif.
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1862
The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn., begins the Mississippi Valley campaign.
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1788
Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the Constitution.
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1778
France recognizes the United States and signs a treaty of aid in Paris.
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1756
Aaron Burr, 3rd U.S. Vice President.
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1626
Huguenot rebels and the French sign the Peace of La Rochelle.