This day in History - February 6

407 Historic Events for February 6
1926 Event NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates
1927 Birth Smokey Burgess, baseball catcher (Pitts Pirates)
1927 Death Dani‰l F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71
1929 Birth Keith Waterhouse, English writer (Billy Liar, Say Who Are You?)
1929 Birth Sixten Jernberg, Sweden, skier (Olympic-gold-1956/60/64)
1929 Event Rudy Vallee recorded "Deep Night"
1930 Death Eva Strittmatter, writer, dies at 17
1931 Birth Fred Trueman, [Fiery Fred], English cricket player
1931 Birth Freddie Trueman, cricketer ("Fiery Fred", 307 wickets for England)
1931 Birth Rip Torn, Tx, actor (Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1932 Event Fascist coup in the Memel territory
1932 Event 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport)
1932 Birth Fran‡ois Truffaut, Paris, director (Jules and Jim, Fahrenheit 451)
1933 Birth Mamie Van Doren, Rowena SD, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters) [or 2/2]
1933 Birth Leslie Crowther, English TV-comic/quizmaster
1933 Event Pres von Hindenburg and von Papen end Prussian parliament
1933 Event Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane
1933 Event 20th amendment (terms of office) passed
1933 Event 20th Amendment goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March
1933 Event 112' ocean wave observed near Manila
1933 Event -90øF (-68øC), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
1933 Birth Walter E Fauntroy, (Rep-D-DC, 1971- )
1934 Event Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500
1935 Event 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
1935 Event "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time