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Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 6
- 300th: 1724 - Birth of Paul-Louis Cyfflé Flemish sculptor (Terre de Lorraine).
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Milton Bennett Medary; US architect (Washington Chapel).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Billy W William; Ambrose right soccer star.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Paolo Volponi; Italian communist/author (Road to Rome).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Martin Sklar in New Jersey, USA; created The Disneyland News, Vacationland manazine, scripts for Disney TV shows, worked on Disney promotional materials, vice president and vice chairman of Walt Disney Imagineering, named Disney Legend in 2001.
- 90th: 1934 - Cincinnati Reds purchases 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Saint Louis Cardinals for $7,500.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Michael Tucker in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actor (Stuart Markowitz - L.A. Law).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Scott Kempner; "Top Ten" rocker (Del Lords).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Matt Hayes; Australian soling yachtsman (Olympics-1996).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Skip Ewing in Redlands, California, USA; country vocalist (Coast of Colorado).
- 60th: 1964 - France and Great Britain sign accord over building tunnel under English Channel.
- 60th: 1964 - Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 1950-51), dies at age 69.
- 60th: 1964 - W L Cornford, England cricket wicket-keeper (4 Tests versus New Zealand 1930), dies.
- 50th: 1974 - Third time Texas Rangers shut-out New York Islanders 6-0.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Nathan Davis; defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Olaf Lindenbergh; soccer player (Ajax, De Graafschap).
- 50th: 1974 - Dutch automobile speed limit set at 100 km due to oil crisis.
- 50th: 1974 - US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Brandon Hammond; actor (Gregory Hines Show).
- 40th: 1984 - Muslim militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army.
- 30th: 1994 - Dawn Coe-Jones win LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic.
- 30th: 1994 - The Disney Channel first airs the animated TV series Disney's Aladdin.
- 30th: 1994 - Jack Kirby, American cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk), dies at age 76 (born 1917).
- 30th: 1994 - Joseph Cotten, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at age 88.
- 30th: 1994 - José Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica.
- 30th: 1994 - Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77 metres.
- 30th: 1994 - Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland.
- 30th: 1994 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-3.
- 30th: 1994 - Norman Del Mar, conductor/writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at age 74.
- 30th: 1994 - A Bosnian Serb Army mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Jimmy Roberts; American singer (The Lawrence Welk Show) (born 1924).
- 20th: 2004 - Birth of Princess Louise of Belgium, granddaughter of King Albert II of Belgium.
- 20th: 2004 - A suicide bomber kills 41 people on a metro car in Moscow.
- 15th: 2009 - Kyrgyzstan decides to shut a U.S. air base in Manas, used as an important staging post for U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan.
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