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02/06/1900
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Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist
Type: Birth
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02/06/1900
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Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
Type: Event
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02/06/1900
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Rudolf V„rnlund, Swedish playwright (Heliga Familjen)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1901
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Ben Lyon, Atlanta GA, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1902
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Young Women's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
Type: Event
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02/06/1902
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Louis Nizer, lawyer (defended blacklisted stars in '50s, Catspaw)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1903
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Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (Temptation of Poverty)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1903
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John Dunning, cricketer (NZ medium-fast bowler of 30's)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1904
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Claudio Arrau, Chile, composer/pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1904
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Russian-Japanese war began
Type: Event
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02/06/1905
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Wladislaw Gomulka, premier of Poland
Type: Birth
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02/06/1907
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Sam Green, industrialist/inventor
Type: Birth
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02/06/1908
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Edward Lansdale, general/model (Quiet American, Ugly American)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1908
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Amintore Fanfani, premier of Italy
Type: Birth
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02/06/1908
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Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden
Type: Birth
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02/06/1909
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Israel Citkowitz, composer
Type: Birth
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02/06/1910
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Irmgard Keun, West German writer (Das kunstseidene M„dchen)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1910
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George H Poyser, English soccer player/manager (Brentford)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1911
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1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Ariz
Type: Event
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02/06/1911
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Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
Type: Event
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02/06/1911
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Ronald Reagan, IL, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo)/40th pres (R) (1981-89)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1911
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A W "Dooley" Briscoe, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for S Africa 30's)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1912
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Eva Braun, mistress (Adolph Hitler)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1913
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John Lund, Rochester NY, actor (Wackiest Ship in the Army)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1913
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Mary Nicol Leakey, palaeontologist
Type: Birth
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02/06/1914
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J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Hague School), dies at 69
Type: Death
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02/06/1915
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Derk Roemers, Dutch politician (Soc-Dem)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1916
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Bill Doggett, rocker
Type: Birth
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02/06/1916
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Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist, dies at 73
Type: Death
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02/06/1917
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Liberato Firmino Sifonia, composer
Type: Birth
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02/06/1917
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Arthur Gold, Toronto, Canada, pianist
Type: Birth
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02/06/1917
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Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies at 72
Type: Death
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02/06/1918
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Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at 55
Type: Death
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02/06/1918
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Britain grants women (30 and over) vote
Type: Event
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02/06/1919
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Lindsay Tuckett, cricketer (son of Len, 9 Tests for S Africa 1947-49)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1919
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1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
Type: Event
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02/06/1919
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Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter, dies at 81
Type: Death
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02/06/1919
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Louis Heren, journalist/writer (China's Three Thousand Years)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1920
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Saarland administrated by League of Nations
Type: Event
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02/06/1920
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James H Scheuer, (Rep-D-NY, 1965-73, 75- )
Type: Birth
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02/06/1921
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"The Kid," starring Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan, released
Type: Event
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02/06/1922
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Patrick MacNee, London England, actor (Jonathan Steed-Avengers)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1922
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Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
Type: Event
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02/06/1922
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US, UK, France, Italy and Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
Type: Event
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02/06/1923
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Edward E Barnard, US astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), dies at 65
Type: Death
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02/06/1923
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Maurice Le Roux, composer
Type: Birth
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02/06/1924
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Billy Wright, English soccer player
Type: Birth
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02/06/1924
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Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Road to Rome)
Type: Birth
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02/06/1924
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Billy W William Ambrose right, soccer star
Type: Birth
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02/06/1926
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St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from NY Yankees
Type: Event
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