407 Historic Events for February 6
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| 1900 |
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Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist
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| 1900 |
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Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
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| 1900 |
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Rudolf V„rnlund, Swedish playwright (Heliga Familjen)
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| 1901 |
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Ben Lyon, Atlanta GA, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse)
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| 1902 |
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Young Women's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
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| 1902 |
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Louis Nizer, lawyer (defended blacklisted stars in '50s, Catspaw)
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| 1903 |
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Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (Temptation of Poverty)
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| 1903 |
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John Dunning, cricketer (NZ medium-fast bowler of 30's)
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| 1904 |
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Claudio Arrau, Chile, composer/pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
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| 1904 |
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Russian-Japanese war began
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| 1905 |
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Wladislaw Gomulka, premier of Poland
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| 1907 |
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Sam Green, industrialist/inventor
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| 1908 |
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Edward Lansdale, general/model (Quiet American, Ugly American)
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| 1908 |
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Amintore Fanfani, premier of Italy
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| 1908 |
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Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden
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| 1909 |
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Israel Citkowitz, composer
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| 1910 |
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Irmgard Keun, West German writer (Das kunstseidene M„dchen)
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| 1910 |
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George H Poyser, English soccer player/manager (Brentford)
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| 1911 |
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1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Ariz
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| 1911 |
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Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
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| 1911 |
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Ronald Reagan, IL, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo)/40th pres (R) (1981-89)
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| 1911 |
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A W "Dooley" Briscoe, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for S Africa 30's)
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| 1912 |
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Eva Braun, mistress (Adolph Hitler)
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| 1913 |
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John Lund, Rochester NY, actor (Wackiest Ship in the Army)
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| 1913 |
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Mary Nicol Leakey, palaeontologist
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