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February 6, 1961: #BOTD: #HBD! J. C.
Kaelin, digital producer, editor, archivist and publisher, founder
of the world's first dedicated world wide web (WWW) historical
digital audio, video and image website on March 26, 1996,
EarthStation1.com, founder of MediaOutlet.com on that same date,
as well as a number of other web enterprises, who collaborated in
a number of documentary productions such as the landmark World War
II documentary series THE WAR THE WAR by Ken Burns and Lynn
Novick, , HISTORY DETECTIVES, The History Channel's WORLD WAR II
IN HD, UNSEALED ALIEN FILES, UNSEALED CONSPIRACY FILES and the
2015 NHK TV documentary THE STORY OF "TOKYO ROSE",
featured on broadcast television and cable documentary networks
such as PBS, The History Channel, The BBC, CNN, The Discovery
Channel, Fox, The Learning Channel, A & E, NHK, Asahi TV,
Altice (formerly) Suburban Cablevision and More, as well as in
movies, radio, books, newspapers and Magazines, exhibited and
archived in musuems and libraries around the world such as The
British Library and The British Museum, part of the New York
Regents Examinations for many years, archived at colleges and
universities worldwide such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown,
UCLA, University Of Maryland and more, approved for teaching
history and media studies by various American state, British,
French and Singapore governments, as well as hundreds of
prestigious schools K-12, college, university and post-graduate
worldwide since 1996, cited by the Israeli Knesset and by the Yad
Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center as an approved academic source
of information about the Holocaust, is #born James Charles Kaelin,
Jr. in Jamaica, Queens, New York City at the dawn of The Space
Age, during the honeymoon period of the Kennedy presidency. On
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6: National Chopsticks Day: -- A
day observed since at least 2012 for people worldwide to celebrate
these humble and ancient utensils. Around 1200 B.C., Chinese cooks
began using chopsticks to prepare food. These tools were likely
long enough to reach into hot cooking pots. Then about 400 B.C.,
when fuels for cooking became scarce, food was prepared in smaller
pieces reducing the number of resources needed to cook it. At the
same time, the need for sharp eating utensils faded, and shorter
chopsticks entered the scene. The Chinese term for chopsticks is
Kuaizi. Once these handy eating tools found their way to the
dinner table, they spread around the world. Portable and elegant
in their design, they also vary in style from region to region.
Today chopsticks may be made from wood such as bamboo or aspen,
plastic or stainless steel. Elaborately carved chopsticks may be
cut from jade, ivory, or wood, and artisans may ornately paint
some chopsticks with miniature scenes. So use chopsticks to eat
your meals. Practice using chopsticks or teach someone how to use
them. Share your favorite set of chopsticks or your favorite meal
to eat with chopsticks. Visit your favorite restaurant where
chopsticks are provided. Make sure you give them a shoutout, too!
Of course, you should invite someone to celebrate with you, also!
Maybe ask them to join you in a chopstick competition to see who
is the most proficient using them. Be sure to use
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6: National Valentine Shopping
Reminder Day: -- As a reminder to shop for Valentine's Day,
National Valentine Shopping Reminder Day is celebrated on February
6 and again on February 13. Remembering to purchase a particular
Valentine's Day present is critical. National Valentine Shopping
Reminder Day is a reminder to place your order now for it to
arrive on time for the holiday on February 14. A special
last-minute Valentine's Day present that will stand out from the
crowd is highlighted on this day. During shopping for Valentine's
Day, we choose gifts that have meaning for the recipient and meet
their expectations. The origin of National Valentine Shopping
Reminder Day is uncertain. This day is marked to prevent you from
making the error of neglecting to organize the perfect day or to
get the ideal gift for your significant other. On Valentine's Day,
most loved ones want to know they are cherished and valued. Don't
make the mistake of putting something off until the last minute.
National Valentine Shopping Reminder Day occurs twice: one week
and one day before Valentine's Day. This window allows you to plan
the perfect date or order the chosen Valentine's Day present to
ensure it arrives on time. So, go to work on the planning or
buying right now. There are a variety of ways to observe this
occasion. Make a list of ideas for a unique gift or think of an
original way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Second, if you intend
to purchase a present, place your order or make your purchase as
soon as possible. If you're looking for something a little more
low-key, try writing a poetry or love note. Repeat your first date
or establish a new habit. Traditions are important and have
importance. Consider recreating your first date or a cherished
moment you spent with someone on Valentine's Day. The point is
that if you establish a tradition for how you celebrate a holiday,
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6: Pay A Compliment Day: --
Nothing cheers a person up quite like hearing someone say
something nice about you. It's time to return the favor on Pay a
Compliment Day and although we shouldn't need a special day to
show our appreciation, most of us need a little nudge, right?
We've often walked away from interactions wishing we had said what
was in our hearts. "Will I embarrass myself?" "Is
it appropriate?" All questions that plague what should be a
simple articulation of the heart. Let's redeem ourselves on Pay a
Compliment Day. Created by Adrienne Koopersmith in 1995, Pay a
Compliment Day is for showing genuine appreciation of the people
around you. The inspiration came on a cold day in Chicago when
Koopersmith was riding a bus. She noticed someone waving at the
bus she was on. The person seemed frantic and although they
weren't standing at a bus stop, the bus driver was kind enough to
stop and let the person on. Before getting off at her stop,
Koopersmith complimented the driver on his kindness. This brief
but heartwarming gesture left such an indelible impression in her
life that Koopersmith decided to turn the day into a holiday.
Paying an honest compliment is more difficult than it sounds. Some
people are so over the top with the gesture that it loses meaning
while others use them too sparingly. Only a few know how to
express themselves openly and naturally. One of our favorite
compliments in history is Carl Sagan's 1986 letter to Chuck Berry
on his birthday. He wrote, "When they tell you your music
will live forever, you can usually be sure they're exaggerating.
But Johnny B. Goode is on the Voyager interstellar records
attached to NASA's Voyager spacecraft-now two billion miles from
earth and bound for the stars. These records will last a billion
years or more. Happy 60th birthday with our admiration for the
music you have given to this world_Go, Johnny, Go." In the
spirit of Sagan's praise, express your admiration to someone you
hold dear. Pay a Compliment Day remembers a stranger's kindness on
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6: Time To Talk Day: -- Draws
attention to mental health and the importance of reaching out to
others. The day aims to help people open up and be honest about
mental health, without the fear and stigma often attached to the
topic. It can be daunting to express personal struggles and
because of this, many people keep everything bottled up. By
opening up, the likelihood of the person suffering seeking help
increases, which can be crucial to the healing process. On Time to
Talk Day, help raise awareness about mental health and be a part
of changing the narrative. Although there is still a long way to
go in changing perceptions about mental health, the past was much
worse, especially for women. In Victorian times, women were
considered mentally unwell for any number of reasons that weren't
necessarily valid. Some of these reasons for such a diagnosis were
post-partum depression, disobedience, and anxiety. In reality,
many women were misdiagnosed due to a lack of information
regarding mental illness, and an unfavorable view of women. During
the 1880s, people were placed in mental facilities, but they
rarely received the help that they actually needed. When a person
entered a mental facility, they were often forgotten about by
society. A writer named Nelly Bly wanted to investigate this, so
she went undercover inside a mental institution, posing as a
mentally ill person. She wrote about the improper treatment she
experienced in a series of articles, and as a result, the
institution she wrote about was reformed. The importance of mental
health started advancing in the 1930's when experts began
understanding the reasons that could drive a person to madness.
Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud developed theories relating to
why this behavior took place with the intent to understand and
help people rather than leaving them at the mercy of facilities
and prisons. His experimental theories, however, weren't very
well-received and not all of them were effective. Fast forward to
the present day, perceptions surrounding mental health and
understanding it has come a long way. Experts have better
knowledge of the causes and how to treat it, but there are still
many misconceptions attached to the subject the public has yet to
fully reconcile with. Because of this, the social movement Time to
Change created Time to Talk Day in 2014, initiating millions of
conversations worldwide through various channels about mental
health. Their goal is to reduce mental health-related stigma and
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February 6, 1665: #BOTD: #HBD! Queen
Anne, Queen Regnant Of England, Scotland, And Ireland, thereafter
styled Queen Of Great Britain And Ireland following the
ratification of The Acts Of Union on May 1, 1707, which merged the
kingdoms of Scotland and England (d. August 1, 1714) is #born Anne
Stuart at 11:39 p.m. at St James's Palace, London, England, the
fourth child and second daughter of the Duke of York (later King
James II and VII), and his first wife, Anne Hyde, during the reign
of her uncle, King Charles II. The younger sister of Queen Mary
II, Ann succeeded her to the thrones after Mary's death on March
19, 1702 (O.S.: March 8, 1702) Their father was Charles's younger
brother and heir presumptive, James, whose suspected Roman
Catholicism was unpopular in England. On Charles's instructions,
Anne and her elder sister Mary were raised as Anglicans. Mary
married their Dutch Protestant cousin, William III of Orange, in
1677, and Anne married the Lutheran Prince George of Denmark in
1683. On Charles's death in 1685, James succeeded to the throne,
but just three years later he was deposed in the Glorious
Revolution of 1688. Mary and William became joint monarchs.
Although the sisters had been close, disagreements over Anne's
finances, status, and choice of acquaintances arose shortly after
Mary's accession and they became estranged. William and Mary had
no children. After Mary's death in 1694, William reigned alone
until his own death in 1702, when Anne succeeded him. During her
reign, Anne favoured moderate Tory politicians, who were more
likely to share her Anglican religious views than their opponents,
the Whigs. The Whigs grew more powerful during the course of the
War of the Spanish Succession, until 1710 when Anne dismissed many
of them from office. Her close friendship with Sarah Churchill,
Duchess of Marlborough, turned sour as the result of political
differences. The Duchess took revenge with an unflattering
description of the Queen in her memoirs, which was widely accepted
by historians until Anne was reassessed in the late 20th century.
Anne was plagued by poor health throughout her life, and from her
thirties she grew increasingly ill and obese. Despite 17
pregnancies, she died without surviving issue as the last monarch
of The House Of Stuart at around 7:30 a.m.. John Arbuthnot, one of
her doctors, thought her death was a release from a life of
ill-health and tragedy; he wrote to Jonathan Swift, "I
believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller than
death was to her." She was buried beside her husband and
children in the Henry VII Chapel on the South Aisle of Westminster
Abbey on August 24, 1702. Under the Act of Settlement 1701, which
excluded all Catholics, she was succeeded by her second cousin
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1756: #BOTD: Aaron Burr,
American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United
States (1801-1805), serving during Thomas Jefferson's first term
(d. September 14, 1836) is #born Aaron Burr Jr. in Newark, New
Jersey. Burr served as a Continental Army officer in the
Revolutionary War, after which he became a successful lawyer and
politician. He was elected twice to the New York State Assembly
(1784-1785, 1798-1799), was appointed New York State Attorney
General (1789-1791), was chosen as a U.S. senator (1791-1797),
from the State of New York, and reached the apex of his career as
vice president. The highlight of Burr's tenure as president of the
Senate, one of his few official duties as vice president, was the
Senate's first impeachment trial, that of Supreme Court justice
Samuel Chase. In 1804, the last full year of his single term as
vice president, Burr killed his political rival Alexander Hamilton
in a famous duel. Burr was never tried for the illegal duel, and
all charges against him were eventually dropped, but Hamilton's
death ended Burr's political career. After leaving Washington,
Burr traveled west seeking new opportunities, both economic and
political. His activities eventually led to his arrest on charges
of treason in 1807. The subsequent trial resulted in acquittal,
but Burr's western schemes left him with large debts and few
influential friends. In a final quest for grand opportunities, he
left the United States for Europe. He remained overseas until
1812, when he returned to the United States to practice law in New
York City. There he spent the rest of his life in relative
obscurity. Aaron Burr died in the village of Port Richmond, Staten
Island, New York in a boarding house that later became known as
the St. James Hotel on the same day his divorce from wealthy New
York socialite Eliza Jumel was officially completed. Soon after
the marriage, Jumel realized her fortune was dwindling due to
Burr's land speculation losses, so she separated from him after
four months of marriage; she tellingly chose Alexander Hamilton
Jr., the son of the man Burr killed in their famous duel, as her
divorce lawyer in 1834, the same year Burr suffered an
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February 6, 1826: #BOTD: Nathaniel
Gordon, American slave trader who was the only person in the
United States to be tried, convicted, and executed by the federal
government for having "engaged in the slave trade" under
the Piracy Law of 1820 (d. February 21, 1862) is #born in
Portland, Maine. He went into shipping and eventually owned his
own ship. He had a wife named Elizabeth and a two-year-old son
named Nathaniel at the time of his final voyage to Africa. When
Gordon was 12, his father was arrested for attempting to smuggle
slaves into the United States. The law stated that he should be
deemed a pirate and given a mandatory death sentence. However,
there are no records of how the case was resolved, albeit it is
known that Gordon's father was not executed. n 1848, Gordon's
boat, Juliet, was searched by the U.S. Navy for evidence of slave
trading. After no evidence of slave trading could be found, Gordon
was released from their custody. However, there were allegations
that Gordon had indeed gone to Africa, taken a cargo of slaves,
and returned to Brazil, where slavery was still legal at the time.
In 1851, Gordon, captaining the Camargo, went on another
expedition from Brazil to Africa. Gordon took on 500 Africans and
set sail for Brazil. He had to take numerous measures to avoid
naval patrol ships. Gordon was nevertheless chased by a British
man-of-war. After arriving in Brazil and dropping off the
Africans, Gordon burned his ship to destroy evidence. The Africans
were seized and some of Gordon's men were arrested and charged.
Gordon himself escaped by dressing into women's clothes. Shortly
after the Camargo voyage, Gordon, captaining Ottawa, made a
slaving voyage to Cuba, where slavery was also still legal, with a
cargo of Africans. Only about 25 percent of the Africans survived,
with Gordon later claiming that a rival trader had poisoned them.
After landing in Cuba, Gordon burned his ship afterwards to
destroy evidence. In late July 1860, Gordon set sail for the west
coast of Africa. On August 7, 1860, he loaded 897 slaves aboard
Erie at Sharks Point, Congo River, West Africa. According to
reports, Gordon was responsible for at least 29 deaths. Those who
died were thrown overboard. Erie was captured by the USS Mohican
50 miles from a Cuban port on August 8, 1860. Commander Sylvanus
William Godon had a prize crew take command of Erie and ordered
them to sail to Liberia, the American colony established in West
Africa by the American Colonization Society for the settlement of
free blacks from the United States, and then return to New York.
There, the ship would be auctioned off, and Nathaniel Gordon,
first mate William Warren, and second mate David Hall would stand
trial. Godon had four other of Gordon's crewmen placed on the USS
Marion: Thomas Nelson, Samuel Sleeper, Thomas Savage, and John
McCafferty. The ship sailed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where
they were put on trial. In November 1860, the four were convicted
of voluntarily serving on a slave ship but acquitted of engaging
in the slave trade. Each of them was fined 1 USD and sentenced to
about ten months in prison. The United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, James I. Roosevelt, offered Gordon
a 2K USD fine and two-year sentence in exchange for information
about his financial backers. However, Gordon, confident that he
wouldn't face any severe consequences, rejected the deal,
believing it was not lenient enough. The case was repeatedly
delayed due to the onset of the Civil War. By the time of Gordon's
trial, a new district attorney, Edward Delafield Smith, had been
appointed. Smith saw the Gordon case as a chance to become
prominent and an opportunity to set an example for all future
slave traders. He wanted Gordon executed. Gordon's first trial in
New York City in June 1861 ended in a mistrial, with the jury
voting 7-5 in favor of a conviction, allegedly due to bribes.
Smith immediately pushed for a retrial. To counter potential
tampering and bribes, the government had the jury sequestered.
Among the arguments used by Gordon's lawyers during his second
trial were technicalities that had successfully been exploited in
other trials; three arguments were dismissed by the judge, while
the fourth argument was contradicted by witnesses' testimony. On
November 9, 1861, Gordon was found guilty of piracy by engaging in
the slave trade. The prosecution was led by Assistant United
States District Attorney George Pierce Andrews. Gordon received
the death sentence mandated under the law. After Gordon's
conviction, his supporters appealed to President Abraham Lincoln
for a pardon. While Lincoln was well known among his
contemporaries for his compassion and for issuing many pardons
during his presidency, he refused to consider one for Gordon, even
going so far as to refuse to meet with Gordon's supporters.
Lincoln said at the time, "I believe I am kindly enough in
nature, and can be moved to pity and to pardon the perpetrator of
almost the worst crime that the mind of man can conceive or the
arm of man can execute; but any man, who, for paltry gain and
stimulated only by avarice, can rob Africa of her children to sell
into interminable bondage, I never will pardon." On the
question of a commutation, Lincoln wrote that "I think I
would personally prefer to let this man live in confinement and
let him meditate on his deeds, yet in the name of justice and the
majesty of law, there ought to be one case, at least one specific
instance, of a professional slave-trader, a Northern white man,
given the exact penalty of death because of the incalculable
number of deaths he and his kind inflicted upon black men amid the
horror of the sea-voyage from Africa." Lincoln did give him a
two-week stay of execution to "[make] the necessary
preparation for the awful change which awaits him", setting
the new execution date for February 21, 1862, on the grounds that
Gordon had been misled into thinking he would not be executed.
Early the morning before the execution, Gordon unsuccessfully
attempted suicide with strychnine poison. Three doctors worked
four hours to keep him alive by pumping his stomach, catheterizing
him, and force-feeding him brandy and whiskey. After regaining
consciousness, he cried out "I've cheated you! I've cheated
you!" Gordon then begged the doctors assist his suicide,
saying he would rather die alone than suffer the humiliation of
being publicly executed. He said he'd "suffered the agony of
a dozen deaths." He was sufficiently revived to be fit enough
for execution. Nathaniel Gordon died by public hanging at Tombs
Prison, New York City, New York, aged 36. Gordon's last words,
spoken to his executioner, were: "Make short work of it now,
Bill. I'm ready." He is buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery,
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February 6, 1833: #BOTD: J. E. B. Stuart,
United States Army officer from the U.S. state of Virginia, who
later became a Confederate States Army general during the American
Civil War (d. May 12, 1864) is #born James Ewell Brown Stuart at
Laurel Hill Farm, a plantation in Patrick County, Virginia, near
the border with North Carolina. He was known to his friends as
"Jeb", from the initials of his given names. Stuart was
a cavalry commander known for his mastery of reconnaissance and
the use of cavalry in support of offensive operations. While he
cultivated a cavalier image (red-lined gray cape, yellow sash, hat
cocked to the side with an ostrich plume, red flower in his lapel,
often sporting cologne), his serious work made him the trusted
eyes and ears of Robert E. Lee's army and inspired Southern
morale. Stuart graduated from West Point in 1854, and served in
Texas and Kansas with the U.S. Army. He was a veteran of the
frontier conflicts with Native Americans and the violence of
Bleeding Kansas, and he participated in the capture of John Brown
at Harpers Ferry. He resigned when his home state of Virginia
seceded to serve in the Confederate Army, first under Stonewall
Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, but then in increasingly
important cavalry commands of The Army Of Northern Virginia,
playing a role in all of that army's campaigns until his death. He
established a reputation as an audacious cavalry commander and on
two occasions (during the Peninsula Campaign and the Maryland
Campaign) circumnavigated the Union Army Of The Potomac, bringing
fame to himself and embarrassment to the North. At the Battle of
Chancellorsville, he distinguished himself as a temporary
commander of the wounded Stonewall Jackson's infantry corps.
Arguably Stuart's most famous campaign, Gettysburg, was marred
when he was surprised by a Union cavalry attack at the Battle Of
Brandy Station and by his separation from Lee's army for an
extended period, leaving Lee unaware of Union troop movements and
contributing to the Confederate defeat at the Battle Of
Gettysburg. Stuart received significant criticism from the
Southern press as well as the postbellum proponents of the Lost
Cause movement, but historians have failed to agree on whether
Stuart's exploit was entirely the fault of his judgment or simply
a result of bad luck and Lee's less-than-explicit orders. During
the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's
cavalry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart. Stuart died at
7:38 p.m. of a .44-caliber gunshot wound of the day prior at the
Battle Of Yellow Tavern, fired by retreating 5th Michigan Cavalry
private John A. Huff, who shot Stuart with his revolver from a
distance of 10-30 yards, striking Stuart in the left side, slicing
through his stomach and exiting his back, one inch to the right of
his spine. He was 31 years old. He suffered great pain as an
ambulance took him to Richmond to await his wife's arrival at the
home of Dr. Charles Brewer, his brother-in-law. Stuart ordered his
sword and spurs be given to his son. Confederate President
Jefferson Davis came to his side, took General Stuart's hand, and
asked, "General, how do you feel?" Stuart answered
"Easy, but willing to die, if God and my country think I have
fulfilled my destiny and done my duty." His last whispered
words were: "I am resigned; God's will be done." He died
the following day, before Flora Stuart reached his side. Stuart
was buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. Upon learning of
Stuart's death, General Lee is reported to have said that he could
hardly keep from weeping at the mere mention of Stuart's name and
that Stuart had never given him a bad piece of information.
Stuart's wife Flora wore the black of mourning for the remainder
of her life, and never remarried. John Huff, the private who had
fatally wounded Stuart, was killed in action just a few weeks
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February 6, 1843: Premieres: Theatre
Premieres: Musical Premieres: Music Of The United States:
Minstrelsy (The Minstrel Show): -- The first minstrel show, The
Virginia Minstrels, opens at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York
City. The site is now part of Confucius Plaza. The minstrel show,
or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in
the early 19th century. Each show consisted of comic skits,
variety acts, dancing, and music performances that mocked people
specifically of African descent. The shows were performed by white
people in make-up or blackface for the purpose of playing the role
of black people. There were also some African American performers
and all-black minstrel groups that formed and toured under the
direction of white people. Minstrel shows lampooned black people
as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, and
happy-go-lucky. The Virginia Minstrels or Virginia Serenaders were
a group of 19th-century American entertainers who helped invent
the entertainment form known as the minstrel show. Led by Dan
Emmett, the original lineup consisted of Emmett, Billy Whitlock,
Dick Pelham, and Frank Brower. After a successful try-out in the
billiard parlor of the Branch Hotel on New York City's Bowery, the
group is said to have premiered to a paying audience nearby at the
Chatham Theatre, probably on January 31, 1843. They followed with
a brief run at the Bowery Amphitheater in early February before an
expanded schedule of venues. Founding member Dan Emmett, who
played bones and banjo, is most famous for writing the song
"Dixie" in 1859. The day after General Lee's April 9,
1865 surrender, Abraham Lincoln addressed a celebratory crowd at
the White House to applause "I have always thought `Dixie'
one of the best tunes I have ever heard. Our adversaries over the
way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we
fairly captured it. I presented the question to the Attorney
General, and he gave it as his legal opinion that it is our lawful
prize. I now request the band to favor me with its performance."
He was assassinated five days later. The Bowery Amphitheatre was a
building in the Bowery neighborhood of New York City. It was
located at 37 and 39 Bowery, across the street from the Bowery
Theatre. Under a number of different names and managers, the
structure served as a circus, menagerie, theatre, a roller rink,
and a branch of the Peniel Mission. The site is now the Confucius
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1862: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Western Theater
Of The American Civil War: The Battle Of Fort Henry: -- Land
forces under the command of Union General Ulysses S. Grant, in
conjuction with Union naval forces under the command of Flag
Officer Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first important victory
of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle Of Fort
Henry. The Battle Of Fort Henry was fought on February 6, 1862, in
Donelson, Middle Tennessee, during the American Civil War. It was
the first victory for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Western
Theater. On February 4 and 5, Grant landed two divisions just
north of Fort Henry on the Tennessee River. The troops serving
under Grant were the nucleus of the Union's successful Army Of The
Tennessee, although that name was not yet in use. Grant's plan was
to advance upon the fort on February 6 while it was being
simultaneously attacked by Union gunboats commanded by Flag
Officer Andrew Hull Foote. A combination of accurate and effective
naval gunfire, heavy rain, and the poor siting of the fort, nearly
inundated by rising river waters, caused its commander, Brig. Gen.
Lloyd Tilghman, to surrender to Foote before the Union Army
arrived. The surrender of Fort Henry opened the Tennessee River to
Union traffic south of the Alabama border. In the days following
the fort's surrender, from February 6 through February 12, Union
raids used ironclad boats to destroy Confederate shipping and
railroad bridges along the river. On February 12, Grant's army
proceeded overland 12 miles (19 km) to engage with Confederate
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1895: #BOTD: #HBD! Babe Ruth,
American professional baseball player and coach whose career in
Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through
1935 (d. August 16, 1948) is #born George Herman Ruth Jr. at 216
Emory Street in the Pigtown section of Baltimore, Maryland.
Nicknamed "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat",
he began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the
Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging
outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth established many MLB
batting (and some pitching) records, including career home runs
(714), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on balls (2,062),
slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (OPS)
(1.164); the latter two still stand as of 2018. Ruth is regarded
as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is
considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time.
In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of
its "first five" inaugural members. At age seven, Ruth
was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory
where he learned life lessons and baseball skills from Brother
Matthias Boutlier of the Xaverian Brothers, the school's
disciplinarian and a capable baseball player. In 1914, Ruth was
signed to play minor-league baseball for the Baltimore Orioles but
was soon sold to the Red Sox. By 1916, he had built a reputation
as an outstanding pitcher who sometimes hit long home runs, a feat
unusual for any player in the pre-1920 dead-ball era. Although
Ruth twice won 23 games in a season as a pitcher and was a member
of three World Series championship teams with the Red Sox, he
wanted to play every day and was allowed to convert to an
outfielder. With regular playing time, he broke the MLB
single-season home run record in 1919. After that season, Red Sox
owner Harry Frazee sold Ruth to the Yankees amid controversy. The
trade fueled Boston's subsequent 86 year championship drought and
popularized the "Curse of the Bambino" superstition. In
his 15 years with the Yankees, Ruth helped the team win seven
American League (AL) pennants and four World Series championships.
His big swing led to escalating home run totals that not only drew
fans to the ballpark and boosted the sport's popularity but also
helped usher in baseball's live-ball era, which evolved from a
low-scoring game of strategy to a sport where the home run was a
major factor. As part of the Yankees' vaunted "Murderers'
Row" lineup of 1927, Ruth hit 60 home runs, which extended
his MLB single-season record by a single home run. Ruth's last
season with the Yankees was 1934; he retired from the game the
following year, after a short stint with the Boston Braves. During
his career, Ruth led the AL in home runs during a season twelve
times. Ruth's legendary power and charismatic personality made him
a larger-than-life figure during the Roaring Twenties. During his
career, he was the target of intense press and public attention
for his baseball exploits and off-field penchants for drinking and
womanizing. His often reckless lifestyle was tempered by his
willingness to do good by visiting children at hospitals and
orphanages. After his retirement as a player, he was denied the
opportunity to manage a major league club, most likely due to poor
behavior during parts of his playing career. In his final years,
Ruth made many public appearances, especially in support of
American efforts in World War II. In 1946, he became ill with
esophageal cancer and died two years later as a result of the
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1899: The Decolonisation Of
Asia: The Decolonization Of The Americas: The 1896 Philippine
Revolution: The Cuban War Of Independence (The Necessary War): The
Spanish-American War: The Treaty Of Paris (The Treaty Of Peace
Between The United States Of America And The Kingdom Of Spain, The
Treaty of Paris Of 1898, Filipino: Kasunduan Sa Paris Ng 1898;
Spanish: Tratado De Paris De 1898): -- The Treaty Of Paris Of 1898
is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the
Spanish-American War. On December 10, 1898, the treaty was signed
between American and Spanish representatives following Spain's
defeat in the Spanish-American War. Under the terms of the treaty,
Spain relinquished all claims of sovereignty over and title to
Cuba, and also ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the
United States. The cession of the Philippines involved a
compensation of 20M USD from the United States to Spain. The
treaty came into effect on April 11, 1899, when the documents of
ratification were exchanged. The treaty passed by a single vote in
the U.S. Senate on February 6, 1899, and was signed by President
William McKinley four days later. It was the first treaty
negotiated between the two governments since the 1819 Adams-Onis
Treaty. The Treaty Of Paris marked the end of the Spanish Empire,
apart from some small holdings in Northern Africa and several
islands and territories around the Gulf of Guinea, also in Africa.
It marked the beginning of the United States as a world power.
Many supporters of the war opposed the treaty, which became one of
the major issues in the election of 1900 when it was opposed by
Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who opposed imperialism.
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1905: #BOTD: Wladyslaw
Gomulka, Polish communist politician, de facto leader of post-war
Poland from 1947 until 1948, leader again in 1956 following the
Polish October until 1970 (d. September 1, 1982) is #born in
Bialobrzegi Franciszkanskie village on the outskirts of Krosno,
into a worker's family living in the Austrian Partition (the
Galicia region), Austria-Hungary (now Poland). His parents had met
and married in the United States, where each had immigrated to in
search of work in the late 19th century, but returned to occupied
Poland in the early 20th century because Wladyslaw's father Jan
was unable to find gainful employment in America. Gomulka was
initially very popular for his reforms; his seeking a "Polish
way to socialism"; and giving rise to the period known as
"Polish Thaw". During the 1960s, however, he became more
rigid and authoritarian; afraid of destabilizing the system, he
was not inclined to introduce or permit changes. In the 1960s he
supported the persecution of the Catholic Church, intellectuals
and the anti-communist opposition. In 1967 to 1968, Gomulka
allowed outbursts of anti-Zionist and antisemitic political
campaign, pursued primarily by others in the Party, but utilized
by Gomulka to retain power by shifting the attention from the
stagnating economy. Many of the remaining Polish Jews left the
country. At that time he was also responsible for persecuting
protesting students and toughening censorship of the media.
Gomulka supported Poland's participation in the Warsaw Pact
invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. In the treaty with West
Germany, signed in December 1970 at the end of Gomulka's period in
office, West Germany recognized the post-World War II borders,
which established a foundation for future peace, stability and
cooperation in Central Europe. In the same month, economic
difficulties led to price rises and subsequent bloody clashes with
shipyard workers on the Baltic coast, in which several dozen
workers were fatally shot. The tragic events forced Gomulka's
resignation and retirement. In a generational replacement of the
ruling elite, Edward Gierek took over the Party leadership and
tensions eased. A heavy smoker, he died in 1982 at the age of 77
of lung cancer. Gomulka's memoirs were not published until 1994,
long after his death, and five years after the collapse of the
communist regime which he served and led. Gomulka is buried at
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1910: #BOTD: Carlos Marcello,
Tunisian-Sicilian-Italian-American crime boss of The New Orleans
Crime Family from 1947 to 1983 (d. March 3, 1993) is #born
Calogero Minacore to Sicilian immigrants Giuseppe and Luigia
Minacore, in Tunis, French Tunisia. With his family, Marcello
immigrated to the United States in 1911 and settled in a decaying
plantation house near Metairie in Jefferson Parish, a suburb of
New Orleans. His father adopted a different family name to avoid
confusion with his supervisor on the sugar plantation where he had
started work. His overseer, also Minacore, chose the appellation
Marcello. Aside from his role in the American Mafia, he is also
notorious for the reason that G. Robert Blakey and others have
alleged: that Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante Jr., and Sam
Giancana conspired in the 1963 assassination of U.S. President
John F. Kennedy in retaliation for federal investigations and
prosecutions that threatened both the power and the
multibillion-dollar profits of organized crime. Carlos Marcello
died of natural causes at his home in Metairie, Louisiana, aged
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February 6, 1912: #BOTD: Eva Braun,
German longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40
hours, wife of Adolf Hitler (d. April 30, 1945?) is #born Eva Anna
Paula Braun in in Munich, Bavaria, German Empire. Eva Anna Paula
Hitler met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant
and model for his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. She
began seeing Hitler often about two years later. She attempted
suicide twice during their early relationship. By 1936, she was a
part of his household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden and lived
a sheltered life throughout World War II. Braun was a
photographer, and she took many of the surviving colour
photographs and films of Hitler. She was a key figure within
Hitler's inner social circle, but did not attend public events
with him until mid-1944, when her sister Gretl married Hermann
Fegelein, the SS liaison officer on his staff. As Nazi Germany was
collapsing towards the end of the war, Braun swore loyalty to
Hitler and went to Berlin to be by his side in the heavily
reinforced Fuehrerbunker beneath the Reich Chancellery. As Red
Army troops fought their way into the neighbourhood on April 29,
1945, she married Hitler during a brief civil ceremony; she was 33
and he was 56. Less than 40 hours later, they committed suicide
together in a sitting room of the bunker, she by biting into a
capsule of cyanide, and he by a gunshot to the head. The German
public was unaware of Braun's relationship with Hitler until after
their deaths. Nazi researcher and author Peter Levenda asserts
that both Hitler and Braun survived and were relocated under
assumed names to the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, where they
lived together until the mid-1970s when Braun left to attend to
her ailing mother in Germany. According to Levenda, Braun did not
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1917: #BOTD: #HBD! Zsa Zsa
Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, socialite and sex symbol (d.
December 18, 2016) is #born Sari Gabor in Budapest, Hungary, the
middle sister of the Gabor sisters Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919 -
July 4, 1995) and Magda Gabor June 11, 1915 - June 6, 1997). Her
father Vilmos Gabor, a soldier, and mother Jolie (nee Janka
Tilleman) were both Jewish. While her mother escaped Hungary
during the same time period of the Nazi occupation of Budapest,
Gabor left the country in 1941, three years prior to the takeover.
The Gabor sisters were first cousins of Annette Lantos, wife of
the distinguished California Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA). Gabor
began her stage career in Vienna and was crowned Miss Hungary in
1936. She emigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1941.
Becoming a sought-after actress with "European flair and
style", she was considered to have a personality that "exuded
charm and grace". Her first film role was a supporting role
in Lovely to Look At. She later acted in We're Not Married! and
played one of her few leading roles in the John Huston-directed
film, Moulin Rouge (1952). Huston would later describe her as a
"creditable" (bringing or deserving credit, honor,
reputation, or esteem) actress. She was a frequent guest on a
number of Ernie Kovacs television shows, both being from Hungary,
and often cutup in Hungarian during these shows. She also made
frequent cameo vignette appearances on Rowan & Martin's
Laugh-In Outside her acting career, Gabor was known for her great
beauty, her extravagant Hollywood lifestyle, her glamorous
personality, and her many marriages. In total, Gabor had nine
husbands, including hotel magnate Conrad Hilton and actor George
Sanders. She once stated, "Men have always liked me and I
have always liked men. But I like a mannish man, a man who knows
how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles."
Zsa Zsa Gabor died at the age of 99 of cardiac arrest while in a
coma at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on December 18, 2016,
fifty days shy of becoming a centenarian. The causes of death were
given as "Cardiopulmonary arrest, Coronary Artery Disease,
and Cerebral Vascular Disease". She had been on life support
for the previous five years. Her funeral was held on December 30
in a Catholic ceremony at the Church of the Good Shepherd in
Beverly Hills, where around 100 mourners attended. Her ashes,
placed in a gold rectangular box, are interred at the Westwood
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1918: Feminism: The Feminist
Movement (The Women's Movement): Women's Suffrage In The United
Kingdom: The Representation Of The People Act 1918 (The Fourth
Reform Act): -- British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum
property qualifications get the right to vote when The
Representation Of The People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament,
which reformed the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland
to extend the franchise in parliamentary elections, also known as
the right to vote, to men aged over 21, whether or not they owned
property, and to women aged over 30 who resided in the
constituency or occupied land or premises with a rateable value
above 5 Pounds Sterling, or whose husbands did. At the same time,
it extended the local government franchise to include women aged
over 21 on the same terms as men. It was not until the
Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928 that women
gained electoral equality. The 1928 Act gave the vote to women at
age 21 regardless of any property qualification, which added
another five million women to the electorate. As a result of the
Act, the male electorate was extended by 5.2 million to 12.9
million. The female electorate was 8.5 million. The Act also
created new electoral arrangements, including making residence in
a specific constituency the basis of the right to vote,
institutionalising the first-past-the-post method of election (one
in which voters indicate on a ballot the candidate of their
choice, and the candidate who receives the most votes wins, even
if they did not receive a majority of the votes), and rejecting
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1922: The Aftermath Of World
War I: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars):
The Washington Naval Treaty (The Five-Power Treaty, The Four-Power
Treaty, The Nine-Power Treaty): -- The Washington Naval Treaty is
signed among the major nations that had won World War I, who
agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction. It
was negotiated at the Washington Naval Conference, held in
Washington, D.C., from November 1921 to February 1922, and it was
signed by the governments of the United Kingdom, the United
States, France, Italy, and Japan. It limited the construction of
battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers by the
signatories. The numbers of other categories of warships,
including cruisers, destroyers and submarines, were not limited by
the treaty, but those ships were limited to 10,000 tons
displacement each. The treaty was concluded on February 6, 1922.
Ratifications of that treaty were exchanged in Washington on
August 17, 1923, and it was registered in the League Of Nations
Treaty Series on April 16, 1924. Later naval arms limitation
conferences sought additional limitations of warship building. The
terms of the Washington treaty were modified by the London Naval
Treaty of 1930 and the Second London Naval Treaty of 1936. By the
mid-1930s, Japan and Italy renounced the treaties, while Germany
renounced the Treaty Of Versailles which had limited its navy.
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February 6, 1940: #BOTD: #HBD! Tom
Brokaw, American television journalist, tv news anchor and author
is #born Thomas John Brokaw in Webster, South Dakota. Thomas John
Brokaw was the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for
22 years (1982-2004). He is the only person to have hosted all
three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News,
and, briefly, Meet the Press. He now serves as a special
correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other
outlets. Along with his competitors Peter Jennings at ABC News and
Dan Rather at CBS News, Brokaw was one of the "Big Three"
news anchors in the U.S. during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s.
The three hosted their networks' flagship nightly news programs
for over 20 years, and all three started and retired (or died, in
Jennings' case) within a year of each other. Brokaw has also
written several books on American history and society in the 20th
century. He is the author of The Greatest Generation (1998) and
other books and the recipient of numerous awards and honors
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1945: #BOTD: #HBD! Bob
Marley, Black Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist who became
an international musical and cultural icon (d. May 11, 1981) is
#born. Robert Nesta Marley at the farm of his maternal grandfather
in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. Bob Marley blended
reggae, ska and rocksteady in his compositions. Starting out in
1963 with the group the Wailers, he forged a distinctive
songwriting and vocal style that would later resonate with
audiences worldwide. The Wailers would go on to release some of
the earliest reggae records with producer Lee "Scratch"
Perry. After the Wailers disbanded in 1974, Marley pursued a solo
career upon his relocation to England that culminated in the
release of the album Exodus in 1977, which established his
worldwide reputation and elevated his status as one of the world's
best-selling artists of all time, with sales of more than 75
million records. Exodus stayed on the British album charts for 56
consecutive weeks. It included four UK hit singles: "Exodus",
"Waiting in Vain", "Jamming", and "One
Love". In 1978, he released the album Kaya, which included
the hit singles "Is This Love" and "Satisfy My
Soul". The greatest hits album, Legend, was released in 1984,
three years after Marley died. It subsequently became the
best-selling reggae album of all time. Diagnosed with acral
lentiginous melanoma in 1977, Marley died on 11 May 1981 in Miami
at age 36. He was a committed Rastafari who infused his music with
a sense of spirituality. He is credited with popularising reggae
music around the world and served as a symbol of Jamaican culture
and identity. Marley has also evolved into a global symbol and
inspired numerous items of merchandise. Bob Marleydied in Miami,
Florida at the age of 36 due to the spread of melanoma to his
lungs and brain. His final words to his son Ziggy were "Money
can't buy life". He is buried at The Bob Marley Mausoleum in
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Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1952: The Monarchy Of The
United Kingdom (The British Monarchy): Royal Accessions: --
Elizabeth Windsor, upon the death of her father, King George VI,
becomes Elizabeth II, queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the
other Commonwealth realms at the age of 25. The king was found
dead at 07:30 GMT in bed at Sandringham House in Norfolk; he had
died in the night from a coronary thrombosis (a blood clot inside
a blood vessel of the heart) at the age of 56. At the exact moment
of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in
Kenya. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor), Queen of
the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms until her death
(April 21, 1926 - September 8, 2022) was born in Mayfair, London,
England. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her
lifetime and was head of state of 15 realms at the time of her
death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any
British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female head
of state in history. Elizabeth II was the first child of the Duke
and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and
she was educated privately at home. Her father acceded to the
throne on the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII in 1936,
from which time she was the heir presumptive. She began to
undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in
the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In 1947, she married Prince
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, a former prince of Greece and Denmark,
with whom she has four children: Charles, Prince Of Wales; Anne,
Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward,
Earl of Wessex. When her father died in February 1952, she became
head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent
Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon. She has reigned as a
constitutional monarch through major political changes, such as
devolution in the United Kingdom, Canadian patriation, and the
decolonisation of Africa. Between 1956 and 1992, the number of her
realms varied as territories gained independence and realms,
including South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon (renamed Sri Lanka),
became republics. Her many historic visits and meetings include a
state visit to the Republic Of Ireland and visits to or from five
popes. Significant events have included her coronation in 1953 and
the celebrations of her Silver, Golden, and Diamond Jubilees in
1977, 2002, and 2012 respectively. In 2017, she became the first
British monarch to reach a Sapphire Jubilee. She was the
longest-lived and longest-reigning British monarch as well as the
world's longest-reigning queen regnant and female head of state,
and at the time of her death was the oldest and longest-reigning
current monarch and the longest-serving current head of state.
Elizabeth had occasionally faced republican sentiments and press
criticism of the royal family, in particular after the breakdown
of her children's marriages, her "annus horribilis"
("horrible year", an expression used by Queen Elizabeth
II in her speech at London's Guildhall on November 24, 1992
marking the 40th anniversary of her accession) and the death in
1997 of her former daughter-in-law Diana, Princess of Wales.
However, support for the monarchy has consistently been and
remains high, as does her personal popularity. Elizabeth II died
peacefully at 15:10 BST at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire,
Scotland at the age of 96, with two of her children, Charles and
Anne, by her side, the first monarch to die in Scotland since
James V in 1542; her death certificate recorded her cause of death
as "old age". Her death was announced to the public at
18:30. She is buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Elizabeth's
reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British
monarch. She was succeeded by her eldest son, Charles III.
Elizabeth's death set in motion the most recent version of
Operation London Bridge, a funeral plan first devised in the
1960s, and Operation Unicorn, the plan for the Queen's death in
Scotland. Elizabeth's coffin lay at rest in St Giles' Cathedral in
Edinburgh from 12 to 13 September, after which it was flown to
London, where it lay in state in Westminster Hall from 14 to 19
September. An estimated 33,000 people filed past the Queen's
coffin in Edinburgh, and approximately 250,000 people queued to
pay their respects in London. The United Kingdom observed a
national mourning period of 10 days. Elizabeth's state funeral on
19 September was the first held in Britain since Winston
Churchill's in 1965. A funeral service was held at Westminster
Abbey, followed by a procession to Wellington Arch which featured
around 3,000 military personnel and was watched by approximately
one million people in central London. The state hearse then
transported the Queen's coffin to Windsor, followed by another
procession through Windsor Great Park and a committal service at
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. The Queen was interred later
that evening with her husband, Prince Philip, in the King George
VI Memorial Chapel, in a private service attended only by her
closest family. Designated as a public holiday in the UK and
several Commonwealth states, the state funeral included
dignitaries from around the world and featured the largest
security operation ever mounted in the UK. Coverage of the state
funeral was one of the UK's most watched special television
broadcasts, surpassing the wedding of Prince William and Catherine
Middleton, the previous most-watched royal event of the 21st
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: King: A
Filmed Record: Montgomery To Memphis DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1961: The American Civil
Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States:
Discrimination: The Sit-In Movement (The Sit-In Campaign, The
Student Sit-In Movement): The Jail-No-Bail Movement: -- The
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sends four
volunteers to Rock Hill, South Carolina to stage sit-ins: Charles
Sherrod, Charles Jones, Diane Nash, and Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson.
The four of them were sentenced to jail for 30 days. Following a
sit-in a week prior when 10 African American students in Rock Hill
(who ultimately become known as the Friendship Nine) were arrested
for requesting service at a segregated lunch counter, both groups
(except for one person) refused to post bail, and demanded jail
time rather than paying fines, as a political statement "that
paying bail or fines indicates acceptance of an immoral system and
validates their own arrests", and as a practical financial
strategy as their financial resources were limited. This tactic,
formulated at an October 1960 SNCC strategy conference in Atlanta,
Georgia, became known as the "Jail-No-Bail" tactic. The
conference decided to incorporate a Gandhian position that paying
bail or fines indicated acceptance of an immoral system,
validating their own arrests, and that choosing instead to serve
out their sentences, they dramatized the injustice and intensifid
the struggle, and thereby gain additional media coverage. This
tactic was ultimately adopted by the Freedom Riders; more than 300
of those arrested in Jackson, Mississippi refused to pay their
fines bravely chose instead to serve hard time in Mississippi's
notorious Parchman Prison. In later years, however, "Jail-No-Bail"
was rarely used, and only as a tactic-of-necessity when there was
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Wings Over
The World: Aviation History Series + Bonus MP4 Or DVD Set
Today, February 6, 2026
February 6, 1976: The History Of
Aviation: Corporate Scandals: The Lockheed Bribery Scandals: -- In
testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed
Corporation vice chairman and president Carl Kotchian admits that
the company had paid out approximately 3M USD in bribes to the
office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to have all Nippon
Airways purchase (21) Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airliners. The
scandal nearly led to Lockheed's downfall, as it was already
struggling due to the commercial failure of the L-1011 TriStar,
and it led to the arrest and conviction of Prime Minister Kakuei
of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws. This scandal
ultimately became part of what is now known as The Lockheed
Bribery Scandals, encompassing of bribes and contributions made by
Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s, scandals causing
considerable political controversy in West Germany, Italy and the
Netherlands as well as Japan. After Kotchian's subcommittee
testimony, Henry Kissinger tried to stop the details from making
their way to the Japanese government, fearing that it would harm
the two countries' security relationship; however, Prime Minister
of Japan Takeo Miki pushed a bill through the Diet that requested
information from the Senate. Many Tanaka supporters viewed the
scandal as an effort by American multinational corporations to
"get" Tanaka in response to his hard-line stance in
trade talks with the United States, based on the fact that the
scandal originated with congressional testimony in the US. On July
27, 1976, Tanaka was arrested on suspicion of violating foreign
exchange and foreign trade laws in 1972 during his term as prime
minister by not reporting his acceptance of 1.8M USD in bribes
from the Lockheed Corporation. Tanaka was released from the Tokyo
Detention House jail in August on a 200 Y E N (690K USD) bond.
Tanaka's trial did not end his political influence. His faction
had 70 to 80 members prior to his arrest in 1976, but grew to over
150 members by 1981, more than one-third of the total LDP
representation in the Diet. In retaliation for Miki's actions,
Tanaka persuaded his faction to vote for Fukuda in the 1976
"Lockheed Election". The two old rivals did not
cooperate for long, however: in 1978, Tanaka threw his faction
behind Ohira's. After Ohira died in 1980, the Tanaka faction
elected Zenko Suzuki. In 1982, Yasuhiro Nakasone was elected
president of the LDP (and therefore as prime minister) amid
allegations from opponents that he would be under Tanaka's
control. The Lockheed trial ended on October 12, 1983. Tanaka was
found guilty of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws
in 1972 during his term as prime minister, by not reporting the
payment in connection with accepting 1.8M USD in bribes from the
Lockheed Corporation, and sentenced to 4 years in jail and a 500
million yen fine. Rather than cave in, he filed an appeal and
announced that he would not leave the Diet as long as his
constituents supported him. This sparked a month-long war in the
Diet over whether or not to censure Tanaka; eventually, Prime
Minister Nakasone, himself elected by Tanaka's faction, dissolved
the Diet and called for a new election, stating that "in view
of the current unusual parliamentary situation, there is a need
for refreshing the people's minds as quickly as possible." In
the "Second Lockheed Election" of December 1983, Tanaka
retained his Diet seat by an unprecedented margin, winning more
votes than any other candidate in the country. The LDP performed
poorly, and Prime Minister Nakasone publicly vowed to distance the
party from Tanaka's politics, stating that the party should be
"cleansed" with a new code of ethics. Nakasone placed
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Dwight
D. Eisenhower: In War And Peace DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, February 6, 2026
February 6: National Lame Duck Day: --
The History Of The United States: The Constitution Of The United
States: The History Of American Politics: The Twentieth Amendment
To The United States Constitution (Amendment XX): -- Observes the
day the 20th Amendment was passed, reducing what's known as the
congressional lame-duck period or the weeks between the
congressional elections and their inauguration day. During this
time, elected officials on their way out of office tend to have
less clout and are just waiting for their term to end, thus, they
are considered lame ducks. There are other types of political lame
ducks that also deserve our attention today so read on to learn
more about celebrating National Lame Duck Day! In the literal
sense, a lame duck is a duck that is unable to keep up with its
flock or reach safety on its own - basically, it is vulnerable to
predators and just waiting for the end. The first known use of
this term for a person was in the 1700s with reference to a
stockbroker who had defaulted on his debts. The term made its way
to the political world by the 19th century when cited in the
Congressional Globe on January 14, 1863. In this political
context, 'lame duck' refers to an elected official who is nearing
the end of his or her political term and finds they have
diminished influence to effectively carry out their
responsibilities. Most commonly, we see lame ducks when they have
not won re-election or their term limit is expiring and they must
leave office. Today, we hear this term most frequently regarding
the office of the president of the United States. Thankfully,
Congress passed the 20th Amendment in 1933 in order to shorten the
lame-duck period between election and inauguration. This is why a
day has been set aside to observe our lame ducks. It should be a
time for a meaningful transition of power. While this does happen,
it is not always the case. There have been several congressional
and presidential lame-duck periods in which the outgoing official
slammed down last-minute legislations, granted multiple pardons,
and took politically unpopular actions. It has been argued that
the lame-duck period should be even shorter, given today's
technology and speed of business compared to prior centuries, even
in the 1900s! One of history's greatest lame duck moments was
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address To The Nation of
January 17, 1961, which has become known as The
Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) Speech.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Ronald
Reagan Documentary Biography DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, February 6, 2026February 6: Ronald Reagan Day: --
February 6, 1911: #BOTD: #HBD! Ronald Reagan, American actor and
politician, 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989
(d. June 5, 2004) is #born Ronald Wilson Reagan in an apartment on
the second floor of a commercial building in Tampico, Illinois. He
was, prior to the presidency, a Hollywood actor and union leader
before serving as the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to
1975. Reagan was raised in a poor family in small towns of
northern Illinois. He graduated from Eureka College in 1932 and
worked as a sports announcer on several regional radio stations.
After moving to Hollywood in 1937, he became an actor and starred
in a few major productions. Reagan was twice elected President of
the Screen Actors Guild, the labor union for actors, where he
worked to root out Communist influence. In the 1950s, he moved
into television and was a motivational speaker at General Electric
factories while appearing in television shows that GE sponsored.
Reagan had been a Democrat until 1962, when he became a
conservative and switched to the Republican Party. In 1964,
Reagan's speech, "A Time for Choosing", supported Barry
Goldwater's foundering presidential campaign and earned him
national attention as a new conservative spokesman. Building a
network of supporters, he was elected Governor of California in
1966. As governor, Reagan raised taxes, turned a state budget
deficit to a surplus, challenged the protesters at the University
of California, ordered in National Guard troops during a period of
protest movements in 1969, and was re-elected in 1970. He twice
ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for the U.S.
presidency in 1968 and 1976. Four years later in 1980, he easily
won the nomination outright and became the oldest elected U.S.
president up to that time, when he defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter
in a landslide. Entering the presidency in 1981, Reagan
implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His
supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics",
advocated tax rate reduction to spur economic growth, economic
deregulation, and reduction in government spending. In his first
term he survived an assassination attempt, spurred the War on
Drugs, and fought public sector labor. Over his two terms, the
economy saw a reduction of inflation from 12.5% to 4.4%, and an
average annual growth of real GDP of 3.4; while Reagan did enact
cuts in domestic discretionary spending, tax cuts and increased
military spending contributed to increased federal outlays
overall, even after adjustment for inflation. During his
re-election bid, Reagan campaigned on the notion that it was
"Morning in America", winning a landslide in 1984 with
the largest electoral college victory in American history. Foreign
affairs dominated his second term, including ending of the Cold
War, the bombing of Libya, and the Iran-Contra Affair. Publicly
describing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire", and
during his famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate, President Reagan
challenged Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear
down this wall!". He transitioned Cold War policy from
detente to rollback by escalating an arms race with the USSR while
engaging in talks with Gorbachev. The talks culminated in the INF
Treaty, which shrank both countries' nuclear arsenals. Reagan
began his presidency during the decline of the Soviet Union, and
the Berlin Wall fell just ten months after the end of his term.
Germany reunified the following year, and on December 26, 1991
(nearly three years after he left office), the Soviet Union
collapsed. When Reagan left office in 1989, he held an approval
rating of sixty-eight percent, matching those of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and later Bill Clinton, as the highest ratings for
departing presidents in the modern era. He was the first president
since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms, after a
succession of five prior presidents did not. Although he had
planned an active post-presidency, Reagan disclosed in November
1994 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier
that year. Afterward, his informal public appearances became more
infrequent as the disease progressed. He died at home on June 5,
2004, an icon among Republicans.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: To The
Moon: The Story In Sound Set CD, MP3 Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1966: The History Of
Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The
Space Age: The Space Race: Missions To The Moon: Space Probes:
Lunar Space Probes: The Soviet Space Program: The Luna Programme
(Pejorative: The Lunik Program): Outer Space Firsts: Luna 9 (Ye-6
No.13, Pejorative: Lunik 9, Lunik IX): -- At 22:55 GMT, the last
contact is made with Lunik IX, which had become the first
spacecraft to achieve a survivable landing on a celestial body
when it made a soft landing on the Moon three days prior on
February 3, and had also become the first spacecraft to take
pictures from the surface of the Moon, as part of the Soviet
Union's Luna program, a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent
to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976. On February
3, at an altitude of 8,300 kilometres (5,200 mi) from the Moon,
the spacecraft was oriented for the firing of its retrorockets and
its spin was stopped in preparation for landing. From this moment
the orientation of the spacecraft was supported by measurements of
directions to the Sun and the Earth using an optomechanical
system. At 74.885 kilometres (46.531 mi) above the lunar surface,
the radar altimeter triggered the jettison of the side modules,
the inflation of the airbags and the firing of the retro rockets.
Approximately at 250 metres (820 ft) from the surface, the main
retrorocket was turned off by the integrator of an acceleration
having reached the planned velocity of the braking manoeuver. The
four outrigger engines were used to slow the craft. Approximately
5 metres (16 ft) above the lunar surface, a contact sensor touched
the ground triggering the engines to be shut down and the landing
capsule to be ejected. The craft landed at 22 kilometres per hour
(14 mph). The spacecraft bounced several times before coming to
rest in Oceanus Procellarum west of Reiner and Marius craters at
approximately 7.08 N, 64.37 W on 3 February 1966 at 18:45:30 GMT.
The spacecraft was developed in the design bureau then known as
OKB-1, under Chief Designer Sergei Korolev (who had died before
the launch). The first 11 Luna missions were unsuccessful for a
variety of reasons. At that time the project was transferred to
Lavochkin design bureau since OKB-1 was busy with a manned
expedition to the Moon. Luna 9 was the twelfth attempt at a
soft-landing by the Soviet Union; it was also the first successful
deep space probe built by the Lavochkin design bureau, which
ultimately would design and build almost all Soviet (later
Russian) lunar and interplanetary spacecraft. All operations prior
to landing occurred without fault, and the 58 centimetres (23 in)
spheroid ALS capsule landed on the Moon at 18:45:30 GMT on 3
February 1966 west of the craters Reiner and Marius in the Ocean
of Storms (at 7_8' north latitude and 64_22' west longitude).
Approximately five minutes after touchdown, Luna 9 began
transmitting data to Earth, but it was seven hours (after the Sun
had climbed to 7_ elevation) before the probe began sending the
first of nine images (including five panoramas) of the surface of
the Moon. Approximately 250 seconds after landing in the Oceanus
Procellarum, four petals that covered the top half of the
spacecraft opened outward for increased stability. The television
camera system began a photographic survey of the lunar
environment. Seven radio sessions with a total of 8 hours and 5
minutes were transmitted, as well as three series of TV pictures.
After assembly the photographs gave a panoramic view of the
immediate lunar surface, comprising views of nearby rocks and of
the horizon, 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) away. The pictures from Luna
9 were not released immediately by the Soviet authorities, but
scientists at Jodrell Bank Observatory in England, which was
monitoring the craft, noticed that the signal format used was
identical to the internationally agreed Radiofax system used by
newspapers for transmitting pictures. The Daily Express rushed a
suitable receiver to the Observatory and the pictures from Luna 9
were decoded and published worldwide. The BBC speculated that the
spacecraft's designers deliberately fitted the probe with
equipment conforming to the standard, to enable reception of the
pictures by Jodrell Bank. The radiation detector, the only
scientific instrument on board, measured dosage of 30 millirads
(0.3 milligrays) per day. The mission also determined that a
spacecraft would not sink into the lunar dust; that the ground
could support a lander. The last contact with the spacecraft was
at 22:55 GMT on 6 February 1966. The Soviet Union launched Luna 9
on January 31, 1966 atop a Molniya-M 8K78M (R-7 Semyorka) rocket,
serial number 103-32, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 launch
site in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic at 22:55 GMT. The
lander had a mass of 99 kilograms (218 lb). It used a landing bag
to survive the impact speed of 22 kilometres per hour (14 mph). It
was a hermetically sealed container with radio equipment, a
program timing device, heat control systems, scientific apparatus,
power sources, and a television system. The first three stages of
the four-stage carrier rocket injected the payload and fourth
stage into low Earth orbit, at an altitude of 168 by 219
kilometres (104 by 136 mi) and an inclination of 51.8 dg. The
fourth stage, a Blok-L, then fired to raise the perigee of the
orbit to a new apogee approximately 500,000 kilometres (310,000
mi), before deploying Luna 9 into a highly elliptical geocentric
orbit. For thermal control, the spacecraft then spun itself up to
0.67 rpm using nitrogen jets. On February 1 at 19:29 GMT, a
mid-course correction took place involving a 48-second burn and
resulting in a delta-v of 71.2 metres per second (234 ft/s). At an
altitude of 8,300 kilometres (5,200 mi) from the Moon, the
spacecraft was oriented for the firing of its retrorockets and its
spin was stopped in preparation for landing. From this moment the
orientation of the spacecraft was supported by measurements of
directions to the Sun and the Earth using an optomechanical
system. At 74.885 kilometres (46.531 mi) above the lunar surface,
the radar altimeter triggered the jettison of the side modules,
the inflation of the airbags and the firing of the retro rockets.
Approximately at 250 metres (820 ft) from the surface, the main
retrorocket was turned off by the integrator of an acceleration
having reached the planned velocity of the braking manoeuver. The
four outrigger engines were used to slow the craft. Approximately
5 metres (16 ft) above the lunar surface, a contact sensor touched
the ground triggering the engines to be shut down and the landing
capsule to be ejected. The craft landed at 22 kilometres per hour
(14 mph). The spacecraft bounced several times before coming to
rest in Oceanus Procellarum west of Reiner and Marius craters at
approximately 7.08 N, 64.37 W on February 3, 1966 at 18:45:30 GMT.
The spacecraft was developed in the design bureau then known as
OKB-1, under Chief Designer Sergei Korolev (who had died before
the launch). The first 11 Luna missions were unsuccessful for a
variety of reasons. At that time the project was transferred to
Lavochkin design bureau since OKB-1 was busy with a manned
expedition to the Moon. Luna 9 was the twelfth attempt at a
soft-landing by the Soviet Union; it was also the first successful
deep space probe built by the Lavochkin design bureau, which
ultimately would design and build almost all Soviet (later
Russian) lunar and interplanetary spacecraft. All operations prior
to landing occurred without fault, and the 58 centimetres (23 in)
spheroid ALS capsule landed on the Moon at 18:45:30 GMT on
February 3, 1966 west of the craters Reiner and Marius in the
Ocean of Storms (at 7_8' north latitude and 64_22' west
longitude). Approximately five minutes after touchdown, Luna 9
began transmitting data to Earth, but it was seven hours (after
the Sun had climbed to 7_ elevation) before the probe began
sending the first of nine images (including five panoramas) of the
surface of the Moon. Approximately 250 seconds after landing in
the Oceanus Procellarum, four petals that covered the top half of
the spacecraft opened outward for increased stability. The
television camera system began a photographic survey of the lunar
environment. Seven radio sessions with a total of 8 hours and 5
minutes were transmitted, as well as three series of TV pictures.
After assembly the photographs gave a panoramic view of the
immediate lunar surface, comprising views of nearby rocks and of
the horizon, 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) away. The pictures from Luna
9 were not released immediately by the Soviet authorities, but
scientists at Jodrell Bank Observatory in England, which was
monitoring the craft, noticed that the signal format used was
identical to the internationally agreed Radiofax system used by
newspapers for transmitting pictures. The Daily Express rushed a
suitable receiver to the Observatory and the pictures from Luna 9
were decoded and published worldwide. The BBC speculated that the
spacecraft's designers deliberately fitted the probe with
equipment conforming to the standard, to enable reception of the
pictures by Jodrell Bank. The radiation detector, the only
scientific instrument on board, measured dosage of 30 millirads
(0.3 milligrays) per day. The mission also determined that a
spacecraft would not sink into the lunar dust; that the ground
could support a lander. The last contact with the spacecraft was
at 22:55 GMT on February 6, 1966.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Muhammad Ali Documentaries And Entire Fights DVD, Download, USB
Drive
Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1993: #DOTD: #RIP: Arthur
Ashe, African American professional tennis player who won three
Grand Slam singles titles (b. July 10, 1943) #dies from
AIDS-related pneumonia at the age of 49 in New York City. Two
weeks after his death, on June 20, 1993, he was posthumously
awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom by United States
President Bill Clinton. Ashe is believed to have contracted HIV
from a blood transfusion he received during heart bypass surgery
for congenital heart disease in 1983. He publicly announced his
illness in April 1992 and began working to educate others about
HIV and AIDS. He founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat
of AIDS and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health before his
death. Arthur Ashe was born Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. in Richmond,
Virginia. He started to play tennis at six years old. He was the
first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team,
and remains the only Black man to win the singles title at
Wimbledon, the US Open, or Australian Open. He is one of only two
men of black African ancestry to win any Grand Slam singles title,
the other being France's Yannick Noah, who won the French Open in
1983. He also led the United States to victory for three
consecutive years (1968-70) in the Davis Cup. He retired in 1980.
He was ranked world No. 1 by Rex Bellamy, Bud Collins, Judith
Elian, Lance Tingay, World Tennis and Tennis Magazine (U.S.) in
1975. In 1975 Ashe was awarded the 'Martini and Rossi' Award,
voted for by a panel of journalists, and the ATP Player of the
Year award. In the ATP computer rankings, he peaked at No. 2 in
May 1976.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Eyes On
The Prize II: America At The Racial Crossroads DVD MP4 USB
Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1971: White Supremacy:
Terrorism: Anti-Black Racism: Anti-Black Racism In The United
States: Race Riots: Race Riots In The United States: The
Wilmington Ten: -- Several hundred National Guard troops move into
Wilmington, North Carolina after a week of racial violence that
led to the deaths of two men and the wounding of several others.
Community leaders blamed the violence on black "agitators"
from outside the city who arrived there earlier in the month to
work with high school students who were boycotting two Wilmington
high schools due to tensions caused by their racial integration.
By nightfall, the police and National Guard troops had cordoned
off an area inside the black community where most of the violence
occurred. Governor Robert W. Scott ordered the troops to support
city policemen and 75 State Highway patrolmen who were already on
duty inside the area. Sporadic sniping and fire-bombings were
reported late that night, but there were no injuries. Mike's
Grocery, a white-owned business, was one of the businesses
firebombed. Firefighters responding to the fire said they were
shot at by snipers from the roof of the nearby Gregory
Congregational Church. Benjamin Chavis, a 23-year-old from the
United Church of Christ, who had sent him from their Commission
for Racial Justice to Wilmington to work with the students and to
calm the situation, had been meeting with several students at the
church, which also held other people. The neighborhood erupted
into rioting that lasted through the next day, in which two people
died. The North Carolina National Guard entered the church on
February 8 and removed the suspects. The Guard claimed to have
found ammunition in the building. The violence resulted in two
deaths, six injuries, and more than 500K USD (equivalent to 3.3M
USD in 2021) in property damage. Chavis and nine others, eight
young black men who were high school students, and an older,
white, female anti-poverty worker, who became known as The
Wilmington Ten, were arrested on charges of arson related to the
grocery fire. They were tried and wrongfully convicted in state
court of arson and conspiracy in connection with the firebombing
of Mike's Grocery, based on testimony of two black male witnesses;
one testified that he was given a minibike in exchange for his
testimony against the group, and another, Allen Hall, had a
history of mental illness and had to be removed from the
courthouse after recanting on the stand under cross examination.
The sentences of The Wilmington Ten were: Benjamin Chavis (age 24)
- 34 years; Connie Tindall (age 21) - 31 years; Marvin "Chilly"
Patrick (age 19) - 29 years; Wayne Moore (age 19) - 29 years;
Reginald Epps (age 18) - 28 years; Jerry Jacobs (age 19) - 29
years; James "Bun" McKoy (age 19) - 29 years; Willie
Earl Vereen (age 18) - 29 years; William "Joe" Wright,
Jr. (age 19) - 29 years; and Ann Shepard (age 35) - 15 years. The
case became an international cause celebre, in which many critics
of the city and state characterized the activists as political
prisoners. Several national magazines, including Time, Newsweek,
Sepia and The New York Times Magazine, published articles in the
late 1970s on the trial and its aftermath. When then President
Jimmy Carter admonished the Soviet Union in 1978 for holding
political prisoners, the Soviets cited the Wilmington Ten as an
example of American political imprisonment. Amnesty International
took up the case in 1976 and provided legal defense counsel to
appeal the convictions. In 1978, Governor Jim Hunt reduced the
sentences of the ten defendants. In Chavis v. State of North
Carolina, 637 F.2d 213 (4th Cir., 1980), the convictions were
overturned by the federal appeals court on the grounds that the
prosecutor and the trial judge had both violated the defendants'
constitutional rights. They were not retried. All of The
Wilmington Ten served nearly a decade in jail before their appeal
won their release. In May 2012, Benjamin Chavis and six surviving
members of the group petitioned North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue
for a pardon. The NAACP supported the pardon, as well as arguing
for compensation to be paid to the men and their survivors for
their years in jail. On December 22, 2012 The New York Times
published an editorial entitled "Pardons for the Wilmington
Ten", urging Governor Perdue to "finally pardon"
the group of civil rights activists. Perdue granted a pardon of
innocence for each of the ten on December 31, 2012. The pardon
qualified each of the ten to state compensation of 50K USD per
year of incarceration. The claims were approved by the North
Carolina Industrial Commission and signed off on by the North
Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's office in May 2013. As four
of the Wilmington Ten were deceased before the December 2012
pardons, their families received no compensation. As of February
2014, a case was pending before the NC Industrial Commission,
seeking that compensation be awarded to the families of the four
deceased: Jerry Jacobs (d. 1989), Joe Wright (d. 1991), Ann
Shepard (d. 2011), and Connie Tindall (d. 2012).
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Black
Civil Rights Films: African-American History DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 2009: #DOTD: #RIP: James
Whitmore, American marine, film, theatre, and television actor (b.
October 1, 1921) #dies of lung disease at the age of 87 on
February 6, 2009, at his Malibu, California home. Born James Allen
Whitmore Jr. in White Plains, New York, Whitmore won three of the
four EGOT honors: a Tony, a Grammy, and an Emmy. Whitmore also won
a Golden Globe and was nominated for two Academy Awards. Whitmore
attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, for
three years, before transferring to the Choate School in
Wallingford, Connecticut, on a football scholarship. He went on to
study at Yale University, but he had to quit playing football
after severely injuring his knees. After giving up football, he
turned to the Yale Dramatic Society and began acting. While at
Yale, he was a member of Skull and Bones, and was among the
founders of the Yale radio station (the student-run WOCD-AM, later
renamed WYBC-AM). Whitmore planned on becoming a lawyer and
graduated with a major in government from Yale University. When
World War II broke out, he enlisted in the United States Marine
Corps Reserve in 1942 while finishing his degree, which he
completed in 1944. In the Marines, he trained at Parris Island and
Quantico, Virginia and Officers Candidate School, and was
commissioned a second lieutenant. After further training he was
assigned to the 4th Marine Division on Saipan in July 1944. While
at Tinian, he contracted amoebic dysentery and was hospitalized.
He served on guard duty at the Panama Canal Zone until his
discharge in March 1946. After serving in the Marines he toured
the South Pacific in a USO tour, then returned to America, where
he studied acting for six months as an early student at the
American Theatre Wing in New York and the Actors Studio.
Afterward, he was hired by a summer stock company in Peterborough,
New Hampshire - The Peterborough Players. Whitmore often returned
to New Hampshire to the Peterborough Players, where he got his
start in summer stock - in 2008 he played the stage manager in Our
Town. Each year the Peterborough Players award the "James
Whitmore Award" to an excellent intern at the theatre. In
1947 he was selected to appear in a production of All My Sons,
representing the U.S. at the World Youth Festival in Prague. His
first play on Broadway - Command Decision - in which Whitmore
played the part of Tech Sergeant Harold Evans, was the smash hit
of 1947, and Whitmore won the Tony Award for "Best Newcomer
of the Season." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave Whitmore a contract,
but his role in the film adaptation was played by Van Johnson.
Whitmore continued to be active in the theatre for all of his
career, performing on Broadway, at Ford's Theatre in Washington
DC, and on tour. He later won the title "King of the One Man
Show" after appearing in the solo vehicles Will Rogers' USA
(1970) (repeating the role for TV in 1972); as Harry Truman in
Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975) (repeating the role in the film
version, for which he was nominated for an Oscar); and as Theodore
Roosevelt in Bully (1977), although the latter production did not
repeat the success of the first two. He taught an acting workshop
after moving to Hollywood. Among his students in the early '50s
was young James Dean, whom Whitmore advised to go to New York. 'I
owe a lot to Whitmore,' Dean told Seventeen magazine in 1955. 'One
thing he said helped more than anything. He told me I didn't know
the difference between acting as a soft job and acting as a
difficult art.'" His first major picture for MGM was
Battleground, in a role that was turned down by Spencer Tracy, to
whom Whitmore bore a noted physical resemblance. He was nominated
for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role, and
won the Golden Globe Award as Best Performance by an Actor In A
Supporting Role. Other major films included Angels in the
Outfield, The Asphalt Jungle, The Next Voice You Hear, Above and
Beyond, Kiss Me, Kate, Them!, Oklahoma!, Black Like Me, Guns of
the Magnificent Seven, Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Give 'em Hell,
Harry!, a one-man show for which Whitmore was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of former U.S.
President Harry S Truman. In the film Tora! Tora! Tora!, he played
Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey. Whitmore appeared
during the 1950s on many television anthology series. He was the
host and narrator of the weekly documentary series "Survival!".
He was cast as Father Emil Kapaun in the 1955 episode "The
Good Thief" in the ABC religion anthology series Crossroads.
Other roles followed on Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theater,
Lux Video Theatre, Kraft Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Schlitz
Playhouse, Matinee Theatre, and the Ford Television Theatre. In
1958, he carried the lead in "The Gabe Carswell Story"
of NBC's Wagon Train, with Ward Bond. In the 1960-1961 television
season, Whitmore starred in his own ABC crime drama, The Law and
Mr. Jones, in the title role, with Conlan Carter as legal
assistant C.E. Carruthers and Janet De Gore as Jones' secretary.
The program ran in the 10:30 pm Eastern half-hour slot on Friday.
It was cancelled after one year, but returned in April 1962 for 13
additional episodes on Thursdays. In 1963, Whitmore played Captain
William Benteen in The Twilight Zone episode "On Thursday We
Leave for Home." Whitmore also appeared in Route 66 on
January 18, 1963, as Ralph Vincent in "A Gift for a Warrior."
He appeared twice in Twelve O'Clock High. In 1965, Whitmore
guest-starred as Col. Paul "Pappy" Hartley in Season 1,
Episode 32 "The Hero" and as Col. Harry Connelly in 1966
Season 3, Episode 12 "The Ace". He also appeared in an
episode of Combat! titled "The Cassock", as a German
officer masquerading as a Catholic priest. In 1967, he
guest-starred as a security guard in The Invaders episode,
"Quantity: Unknown". That same year, Whitmore also
appeared on an episode of ABC's Custer starring Wayne Maunder in
the title role. In 1968, he appeared as head of the Simian
Assembly in the Planet of the Apes. In 1969, he played the leading
character of Professor Woodruff in the TV series My Friend Tony,
produced by NBC. Whitmore also made several memorable appearances
on the classic ABC Western The Big Valley starring Barbara
Stanwyck, and the classic NBC Western The Virginian starring James
Drury, during the second half of the 1960s. From 1972 to 1973,
Whitmore played Dr. Vincent Campanelli in the short-lived ABC
medical sitcom Temperatures Rising. Whitmore appeared as General
Oliver O. Howard in the 1975 television film I Will Fight No More
Forever, based on the 1877 conflict between the United States Army
and the Nez Perce tribe, led by Chief Joseph. In 1979, Whitmore
hosted a talk show of 22 episodes called simply Comeback. One of
those segments focuses on the helicopter inventor Igor Sikorsky.
In 1986, Whitmore voiced Mark Twain in the first claymation
feature film The Adventures of Mark Twain. In 1994, Whitmore
played the role of prison librarian Brooks Hatlen in the
critically acclaimed and Academy Award-nominated 1994 Frank
Darabont film The Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and
Morgan Freeman; Whitmore received much praise for his poignant
portrayal of Brooks, the old con and the role won him a legion of
new fans. Two years later, he co-starred in the 1996 horror/sci-fi
film The Relic. In 1999, he played Raymond Oz in two episodes of
The Practice, earning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in
a Drama Series. In 2002, Whitmore played the role of the
grandfather in the Disney Channel original film A Ring of Endless
Light. Also in 2002, Whitmore played a supporting role in The
Majestic, a film that starred Jim Carrey. In 2003, Whitmore
appeared as Josh Brolin's father on the short-lived NBC drama
series Mister Sterling, for which he was nominated for an Emmy
Award. In April 2007, he made his last screen appearance in a
C.S.I. episode titled "Ending Happy" as Milton, an
elderly man. Whitmore has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at
6611 Hollywood Boulevard. The ceremony was held on February 8,
1960. Whitmore said he often found acting in films and television
boring because of the long waits between scenes; his passion was
for the theater, and that is why he continued to act on stage
throughout his long career.
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Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1994: #DOTD: #RIP: Joseph
Cotten, American film, stage, radio and television actor (b. May
15, 1905) #dies of pneumonia in Los Angeles, California, aged 88.
He is buried at Blandford Cemetery in the city of his birth,
Petersburg, Virginia. Joseph Cotten was born Joseph Cheshire
Cotten Jr. in Petersburg, Virginia. Cotten achieved prominence on
Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The
Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair. He then gained worldwide fame
in three Orson Welles films: Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent
Ambersons (1942), and Journey Into Fear (1943), for which Cotten
was also credited with the screenplay. Cotten went on to become
one of the leading Hollywood actors of the 1940s, appearing in
films such as Shadow Of A Doubt (1943), Gaslight (1944), Love
Letters (1945), Duel In The Sun (1946), Portrait Of Jennie (1948)
for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, The Third Man
(1949) and Niagara (1953). One of his final films was Michael
Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980). Multiple film critics and media
outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have
received an Academy Award nomination.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1931: #BOTD: #HBD! Rip Torn,
American actor whose career spanned more than 60 years (d. July 9,
2019) is #born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. in Temple, Texas, the son of
Elmore Rual "Tiger" Torn Sr., and Thelma Mary Torn (nee
Spacek). The senior Elmore was an agriculturalist and economist
who worked to promote the consumption of black-eyed peas,
particularly as a custom on New Year's Day. Thelma was an aunt of
actress Sissy Spacek. The family is of German, Austrian, and
Czech/Moravian ancestry. The nickname "Rip" is a family
tradition among men in the Torn family, having been used by his
father, uncle, and a cousin. Rip Torn was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Marsh Turner
in Cross Creek (1983). Torn's portrayal of Artie the producer on
The Larry Sanders Show received six Emmy Award nominations,
winning in 1996. He also won an American Comedy Award for Funniest
Supporting Male in a Series, and two CableACE Awards for his work
on the show, and for his roles as Zed in the Men in Black
franchise (1997-2002) and Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True
Underdog Story (2004). Appearing as an interview subject in Studs
Terkel's 1974 oral-history book Working, Torn confessed, "I
have certain flaws in my make-up. Something called irascibility. I
get angry easily. I get saddened by things easily." While
filming Maidstone (1968), Torn struck director and star Norman
Mailer in the head with a hammer. With the camera rolling, Mailer
bit Torn's ear and they wrestled to the ground. The fight
continued until it was broken up by cast and crew members. The
fight is featured in the film. Although the scene may have been
planned by Torn, the blood shed by both actors was real, and Torn
was reportedly outraged by Mailer's direction. In 1994, he filed a
defamation lawsuit against Dennis Hopper over a story Hopper told
on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Hopper claimed that Torn pulled
a knife on him during pre-production of the film Easy Rider
(1969). According to Hopper, Torn was originally cast in the film,
but was replaced with Jack Nicholson after the incident. Torn
claimed in his lawsuit that Hopper pulled the knife on him. A
trial court judge ruled in Torn's favor and Hopper was ordered to
pay 475K USD in compensatory damages, but denied Torn's request
for punitive damages, ruling Hopper had not acted with malice.
Hopper appealed. On April 1, 1998, a California appellate court
upheld the ruling for compensatory damages, and reversed the
ruling for the punitive damages, requiring Hopper to pay another
475K USD. Rip Torn died at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut, at
the age of 88 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease. He is
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Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1945: #BOTD: #HBD! Michael
Tucker, American actor, author, and playwright is #born in
Baltimore, Maryland. He is best known for his role in the
television series L.A. Law (1986-1994), for which he received two
Golden Globe nominations and three Primetime Emmy Award
nominations. Tucker co-starred in L.A. Law as Stuart Markowitz
along with his wife, Jill Eikenberry, who portrayed the character
Ann Kelsey; the first film appearance by Eikenberry was in David
L. Wolper's 1971 docudram The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln,
which also starred Michael Tucker. Tucker's acting experience
includes early appearances with Joseph Papp and a major stint at
the Arena Theatre, in Washington, D.C. He also has worked with
Lina Wertmuller, Woody Allen, and Barry Levinson. Tucker has
written several books, including Living in a Foreign Language: A
Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy, which describes his
buying a house in a small Italian village and mastering the fine
art of Italian cooking. He is the author of Notes From A Culinary
Wasteland, a blog about food, travel and the good life. In March
2015 Tucker co-starred with Eikenberry in The M Spot, a play
written by Tucker and presented at the New Jersey Repertory
Company. He wrote the dramedy Fern Hill, of which a production
starring Eikenberry, directed by Nadia Tass, was performed by New
Jersey Repertory Company in Philadelphia in August 2018, and then
at 59E59 Theaters in September 2019. Both Tucker and Eikenberry
are active in fund-raising for breast cancer research and
treatment. After meeting artist Emile Norman, Eikenberry and
Tucker purchased land from him to become his neighbors in Big Sur,
California. In 2006, they produced a PBS documentary entitled
Emile Norman: By His Own Design.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: An
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Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Irwin
Corey, often billed as Professor Irwin Corey, The World's Foremost
Authority, American stand-up comic, actor and activist (b. July
29, 1914) #dies at the age of 102 at his apartment in Manhattan
with his son, Richard, at his side. His remains were cremated, and
the ashes given to Richard. Born Irwin Eli Cohen in Brooklyn, New
York, he introduced his unscripted, improvisational style of
stand-up comedy at the San Francisco club, the hungry i. Lenny
Bruce described Corey as "one of the most brilliant comedians
of all time". Poverty-stricken after his father deserted the
family, his mother was forced to place him and his five siblings
in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, where Corey remained
until his early teens. He then rode in boxcars out to California,
and enrolled himself at Belmont High School in Los Angeles. During
the Great Depression he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps
and, while working his way back East, became a featherweight
Golden Gloves boxing champion. In 1938, Corey returned to New
York, where he got a job writing and performing in Pins and
Needles, a musical comedy revue about a union organizer in the
"garment district". He claimed that he was fired from
this job for his union organizing activities. Five years later, he
was working in New Faces of 1943 and appearing at the Village
Vanguard, doing his stand-up comedy routine. He was drafted during
World War II, but was discharged after six months, after he
claimed he convinced an Army psychiatrist that he was a
homosexual. From the late 1940s, he cultivated his "Professor"
character. Dressed in seedy formal wear and sneakers, with his
bushy hair sprouting in all directions, Corey would amble on stage
in a preoccupied manner, then begin his monologue with "However
..." He created a new style of double-talk comedy; instead of
making up nonsense words like "krelman" and "trilloweg",
like double-talker Al Kelly, the Professor would season his speech
with many long and florid, but authentic, words. The professor
would then launch into observations about anything under the sun,
but seldom actually making sense. Changing topics suddenly, he
would wander around the stage, pontificating all the while. His
quick wit allowed him to hold his own against the most stubborn
straight man, heckler or interviewer. One fan of Corey's comedy,
despite their radically different politics, was Ayn Rand. Theatre
critic Kenneth Tynan wrote of the Professor in The New Yorker,
"Corey is a cultural clown, a parody of literacy, a travesty
of all that our civilization holds dear, and one of the funniest
grotesques in America. He is Chaplin's tramp with a college
education". During the 1960 election, Corey campaigned for
president on Hugh Hefner's Playboy ticket. In 1951, Corey appeared
as "Abou Ben Atom", the Genie, in the cult flop Broadway
musical Flahooley along with Yma Sumac, the Bil and Cora Baird
Marionettes and Barbara Cook (in her Broadway debut). Corey's
performance of "Springtime Cometh" can be heard on the
show's original cast album. Corey supported Communist/Socialist
left-wing politics. He appeared in support of Cuban children,
Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the American Communist Party, and was
blacklisted in the 1950s, the effects of which he stated lingered
throughout his life. Corey appeared occasionally in 1950s
television as a character actor. He appeared in an episode of The
Phil Silvers Show titled "Bilko's Grand Hotel", in which
Corey plays an unkempt Bowery bum being passed off as a hotelier
by Sgt. Bilko. The Professor was a frequent guest comic on variety
shows and a guest panelist on game shows during the 1960s and
1970s. Corey became so synonymous with comic erudition that, when
a Providence, Rhode Island television station, WJAR-TV, wanted a
spokesman to explain changes in network affiliations, Corey got
the job. Lecturing with pointer in hand, Corey manipulated
magnetic signs to demonstrate how television schedules would be
disrupted. By the end of the commercial, the visual aids were in
shambles and the professor had meandered from his original point.
Corey would do the same promos for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee in 1977
during the time that rival stations WITI and WISN-TV switched
affiliations. Corey often appeared on The Steve Allen Show
(1962-1964), whereupon he would end his rambling stand-up routine
with Allen and stage hands literally chasing Corey with a giant
butterfly net. He later guest starred on The Donald O'Connor Show
in 1968. Corey appeared in various Broadway productions, including
as a gravedigger in a production of Hamlet. Corey became so
synonymous with comic erudition that, when a Providence, Rhode
Island television station, WJAR-TV, wanted a spokesman to explain
changes in network affiliations, Corey got the job. Lecturing with
pointer in hand, Corey manipulated magnetic signs to demonstrate
how television schedules would be disrupted. By the end of the
commercial, the visual aids were in shambles and the professor had
meandered from his original point. Corey would do the same promos
for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee in 1977 during the time that rival
stations WITI and WISN-TV switched affiliations. Corey often
appeared on The Steve Allen Show (1962-1964), whereupon he would
end his rambling stand-up routine with Allen and stage hands
literally chasing Corey with a giant butterfly net. He later guest
starred on The Donald O'Connor Show in 1968. Corey was a frequent
guest on The Tonight Show hosted by Johnny Carson during the late
1960s and early 1970s. During the last 1970s and early 1980s, he
was a frequent guest on The Merv Griffin Show. Corey appeared in
various Broadway productions, including as a gravedigger in a
production of Hamlet. When the publicity-shy Thomas Pynchon won
the National Book Award Fiction Citation for Gravity's Rainbow in
1974, he asked Corey to accept it on his behalf. The New York
Times described the resulting speech as "...a series of bad
jokes and mangled syntax which left some people roaring with
laughter and others perplexed." In 1975, Corey gave a
typically long-winded, nonsensical performance in New York City
for journalists waiting for the Rolling Stones to announce the
band's 1975 Tour of the Americas. The press was still listening to
Corey ramble on when they finally noticed that the Stones were
playing "Brown Sugar" on a flatbed truck driving down
Fifth Avenue. Corey first performed on Late Night with David
Letterman in 1982, but never returned, which Cory claimed was a
result of the blacklist still being in effect. In 2009, filmmaker
Jordan Stone began filming what was to become an award-winning
documentary film called "Irwin and Fran". Political
activist and fellow stand-up comedian Dick Gregory shared some
in-depth and provocative memories and Academy Award-winning
actress Susan Sarandon narrated in a very personal tone. The film
won The People's Film Festival Best Film Award in 2013. Corey was
married for 70 years to Frances Berman Corey, who died in May
2011. The couple had two children, the late Margaret Davis, nee
Corey, an actress, and Richard Corey, a painter. In 2011, the New
York Times reported that Corey was still performing, and also had
been soliciting change from drivers near his Manhattan residence,
and donating the money to Cuban children. His agent said that
Corey was not in financial distress, and a neighbor described it
as a performance. During the 2016 Democratic Party presidential
primaries, Corey endorsed Vermont United States Senator Bernie
Sanders for the nomination and presidency.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Subways
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Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1951: #DOTD: #RIP: The
History Of Rail Transport (The History Of Railways): The History
Of Rail Transportation In The United States: Railroad Accidents:
Railroad Accidents In The United States: The 1961 Woodbridge Train
Derailment: -- The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train
derails at 5:43 p.m on a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge,
New Jersey, killing 85 passengers and injuring over 500 more. It
remains New Jersey's deadliest train wreck, the deadliest U.S.
derailment since 1918, and the deadliest peacetime rail disaster
in the United States. Around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, February 6, 1951,
Pennsylvania Railroad Train No. 733 left Exchange Place in Jersey
City. An express train to Bay Head via the North Jersey Coast
Line, No. 733 was crowded that day due to a labor strike on the
nearby Jersey Central Railroad. It carried over 1,000 passengers
in 11 cars drawn by PRR K4 4-6-2 steam locomotive No. 2445. That
afternoon, rail traffic through Woodbridge was being diverted onto
a temporary wooden trestle and a shoofly (a temporary stretch of
track that takes trains around construction sites or an accident
scene) near Fulton Street, allowing laborers building the New
Jersey Turnpike to work on the main line. A notice had gone out to
train engineers in late January: after 1:01 p.m. on February 6,
they were to proceed through Woodbridge not at the normal 60 mph
(97 km/h) but at 25 mph (40 km/h). Before Train No. 733 left
Jersey City, conductor John Bishop reminded engineer Joseph
Fitzsimmons about the speed restriction. It was not the railroad's
practice to install warning lights in such cases, and Fitzsimmons
failed to slow the train as it approached Woodbridge. Bishop,
alarmed at the train's speed, tried to pull the emergency cord,
but the crush of passengers made it impossible. The train was
traveling faster than 50 mph (80 km/h) when it reached the curve
approaching the trestle, according to a subsequent inquiry. At
5:43 p.m., the tracks shifted under the massive locomotive, and
eight of the train's eleven passenger cars derailed. The first two
cars fell on their sides. The third and fourth cars crashed into
each other as they hurtled down a 26-foot-high (7.9 m) embankment.
It was in these two cars that most of the 85 deaths occurred. The
fifth and sixth cars were left hanging in mid-air over a street
that glistened from rain. Some passengers may have jumped to their
deaths, believing they would land in water. The accident occurred
in a heavily populated area, so help soon arrived. Neighbors
opened their houses and businesses to those in need. The
critically injured were taken to nearby hospitals. Although
Fitzsimmons initially claimed that he had been traveling at only
25 mph (40 km/h), the inquiry estimated that the train's speed was
between 50 and 60 mph (80 and 97 km/h). The report concluded that
the wreck was caused by "excessive speed on a curve of a
temporary track". Fitzsimmons continued working for the
railroad, but never operated a train again. Near the derailment
site, the victims are memorialized by a pair of historical
markers, installed by New Jersey Transit in 2002 and by Woodbridge
Township in 2013.
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Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1939: #BOTD: #HBD! Mike
Farrell, American actor, director, and producer is #born. Michael
Joseph Farrell Jr. in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for
his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the television series
M*A*S*H (1975-83). He is also an activist and public speaker for
various political causes. Farrell was a producer of Patch Adams
(1998) starring Robin Williams, and starred in the television
series Providence (1999-2002). He appeared as Milton Lang, the
father of Victor Lang (John Slattery), husband of Gabrielle Solis
(Eva Longoria) on Desperate Housewives (2007-08). He was seen in
the season 10 episode "Persona" of Law and Order:
Special Victims Unit. He appeared as the character Fred Jones in
the season 8 episode "Hunteri Heroici" of Supernatural.
In 2014 he was a supporting cast member on the Sundance TV Network
criminal drama series The Red Road. Most recently, he portrayed
Lee Miglin, a real estate baron who fell victim to serial killer
Andrew Cunanan, in FX's anthology series American Crime Story: The
Assassination of Gianni Versace.
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Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! Fabian
Forte, known as Fabian, American pop singer and actor, is #born
Fabiano Anthony Forte in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fabian rose
to national prominence after performing several times on American
Bandstand. He became a teen idol of the late 1950s and early
1960s. Eleven of his songs reached the Billboard Hot 100 listing,
of which "Turn Me Loose", "Tiger", "Hound
Dog Man" and "This Friendly World" were his most
popular. Fabian Forte is the son of Josephine and Dominic Forte;
his father was a Philadelphia police officer. He is the eldest of
three brothers. Forte was discovered in 1957 by Bob Marcucci and
Peter DeAngelis, owners of Chancellor Records. At the time, record
producers were looking to the South Philadelphia neighborhoods in
search of teenage talents with good looks. Marcucci was a friend
of Fabian's next door neighbor. One day, Fabian's father had a
heart attack, and, while he was being taken away in an ambulance,
Marcucci spotted Fabian. Fabian later recalled, "He kept
staring at me and looking at me. I had a crew cut, but this was
the day of Rick Nelson and Elvis. He comes up and says to me, 'So
if you're ever interested in the rock and roll business...' and
hands me his card. I looked at the guy like he was out of his
mind. I told him, 'Leave me alone. I'm worried about my dad.'"
When Fabian's father returned from the hospital he was unable to
work, so when Marcucci persisted, Fabian and his family were
amenable, and he agreed to record a single. Frankie Avalon, also
of South Philadelphia, suggested Forte as a possibility. "They
gave me a pompadour and some clothes and those goddamned white
bucks," recalled Fabian, "and out I went." "He
was the right look and right for what we were going for",
wrote Marcucci later. The film The Idolmaker (1980), written by
Edward Di Lorenzo and the first feature film directed by Taylor
Hackford, was a thinly disguised biography of Fabian (called
Caesare in the film), as well as songwriter/producer Marcucci
(called Vinnie Vacarri) and Frankie Avalon (called Tommy Dee). In
the movie version, singer Caesare-a pretty boy with little singing
talent-goes through a whirlwind of success in a short time, and in
a fit of pique, he abruptly fires his songwriters and quits his
record label. The real-life Fabian launched a 64M USD lawsuit at
the time of the picture's release, claiming the film made him look
like "a totally manufactured singer, a mere pretty face
without any singing ability or acting talent." The filmmakers
insisted that the movie presented only fictional characters
(although Marcucci was a paid consultant on the film). Forte
claimed they settled out of court, where he and his wife received
apologies and Marcucci's 7.5% ownership of the film passed to
Forte. He appeared in a 1982 television commercial for The Idols
of Rock n' Roll and in the documentary film The Bituminous Coal
Queens of Pennsylvania. In the 1980s, he developed some sitcoms
for television. Forte hosted and headlined in the hit show The
Original Stars of Bandstand at The Dick Clark Theater in Branson,
Missouri. The show starred Forte and Bobby Vee and featured The
Chiffons, Brian Hyland, Chris Montez and rare footage of the
performers and Dick Clark. As part of a long-running concert tour,
Fabian has toured with fellow Philadelphian 1950s teen idols Bobby
Rydell and Frankie Avalon as Dick Fox's Golden Boys.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Old
Time Radio History MP3 MegaSet DVD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1952: #DOTD: #RIP: George VI,
King Of The United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British
Commonwealth from December 11, 1936 until his death, concurrently
the last Emperor Of India until August 1947, when the British Raj
was dissolved (b. December 14, 1895) #dies, found dead at 07:30
GMT in bed at Sandringham House in Norfolk, a house the same
grounds where he had been born; he had died in the night from a
coronary thrombosis (a blood clot inside a blood vessel of the
heart) at the age of 56. Upon the discovery of the death of her
father, King George VI, Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the
United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms at the age of 25.
Known as "Bertie" among his family and close friends,
George VI was born Albert Frederick Arthur George at York Cottage,
Sandringham, Norfolk, England during the reign of his
great-grandmother Queen Victoria, and was named after his
great-grandfather Albert, Prince Consort. As the second son of
King George V, he was not expected to inherit the throne and spent
his early life in the shadow of his elder brother, Edward. He
attended naval college as a teenager and served in the Royal Navy
and Royal Air Force during the First World War. In 1920, he was
made Duke of York. He married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923,
and they had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. In the
mid-1920s, he had speech therapy for a stammer, which he learned
to manage to some degree. George's elder brother ascended the
throne as Edward VIII after their father died in 1936. Later that
year, Edward abdicated to marry the American socialite Wallis
Simpson, and George became the third monarch of the House of
Windsor. In September 1939, the British Empire and Commonwealth -
except Ireland - declared war on Nazi Germany. War with the
Kingdom of Italy and the Empire Of Japan followed in 1940 and
1941, respectively. George was seen as sharing the hardships of
the common people and his popularity soared. Buckingham Palace was
bombed during the Blitz while the King and Queen were there, and
his younger brother, the Duke of Kent, was killed on active
service. George became known as a symbol of British determination
to win the war. Britain and its allies were victorious in 1945,
but the British Empire declined. Ireland had largely broken away,
followed by independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. George
relinquished the title of Emperor Of India in June 1948 and
instead adopted the new title of Head of the Commonwealth. He was
beset by smoking-related health problems in the later years of his
reign and died of coronary thrombosis in 1952. He was succeeded by
his daughter, Elizabeth II.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Guns Of August (1964) WWI Film DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1989: #DOTD: #RIP: Barbara
Tuchman (Barbara W. Tuchman), American historian and author,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962),
a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of
World War I, and Stilwell And The American Experience In China
(1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell (b. January 30,
1912) #dies in 1989 in Greenwich, Connecticut, following a stroke,
at age 77. She is buried at Temple Israel Cemetery in
Hastings-On-Hudson, New York. Barbara Tuchman was born Barbara
Wertheim into the distinguished family of the banker Maurice
Wertheim and his first wife Alma Morgenthau. Her father was an
individual of wealth and prestige, the owner of The Nation
magazine, president of the American Jewish Committee, prominent
art collector, and a founder of the Theatre Guild. Her mother was
the daughter of Henry Morgenthau, Woodrow Wilson's ambassador to
the Ottoman Empire during World War I; Morgenthau was one of the
most prominent Americans who spoke about the Greek genocide and
the Armenian genocide of which he stated, "I am firmly
convinced that this is the greatest crime of the ages".
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman focused on writing popular history. While
she did not explicitly mention it in her book The Guns of August,
Tuchman was present for one of the pivotal events of the book: the
pursuit of the German battle cruiser Goeben and light cruiser
Breslau. In her account of the pursuit she wrote, "That
morning there arrived in Constantinople the small Italian
passenger steamer which had witnessed the Gloucester's action
against Goeben and Breslau. Among its passengers were the
daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren of the American
ambassador Mr. Henry Morgenthau." As she was a grandchild of
Henry Morgenthau, she is referring to herself, which is confirmed
in her later book Practicing History, in which she tells the story
of her father, Maurice Wertheim, traveling from Constantinople to
Jerusalem on August 29, 1914, to deliver funds to the Jewish
community there. Thus, at two, Tuchman was present during the
pursuit of Goeben and Breslau, which she documented 48 years
later.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Navy Vs The Night Monsters 1966 Mamie Van Doren DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, February 6, 2026February 6, 1931: #BOTD: #HBD! Mamie Van
Doren, American actress, model, singer, sex symbol and beauty, is
#born Joan Lucille Olander in Rowena, South Dakota. She is perhaps
best remembered for the rock 'n' roll, juvenile delinquency
exploitation film Untamed Youth (1957) and the science-fiction
horror film The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966). In early 1946,
at the age of 15, Van Doren began working as an usher at the
Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The following year, she had a bit
part on an early television series. She sang with Ted Fio Rito's
band and entered several beauty contests. At age 17, she eloped to
Santa Barbara, California, with Jack Newman, but because of his
abusive nature the marriage was quickly dissolved. In the summer
of 1949, at age 18, she won the titles Miss Eight Ball and Miss
Palm Springs. She was engaged to heavyweight boxing champion Jack
Dempsey, but broke the engagement upon signing a contract with
Universal Studios. Producer Howard Hughes discovered Van Doren
when she was crowned Miss Palm Springs. The pair dated for several
years. Hughes launched her career by placing her in several RKO
films. Hughes provided Van Doren with a bit part in Jet Pilot at
RKO Radio Pictures, which was her film debut. Her line of dialogue
consisted of one word, "Look!" and she appears
uncredited in the film. Though production of the movie was from
1949 to 1953 (delays by Hughes), it was not released until 1957.
The following year, 1951, she posed for pin-up girl artist Alberto
Vargas. Van Doren did a few more bit parts in movies at RKO,
including His Kind of Woman (1951) starring Robert Mitchum, Jane
Russell and Vincent Price. About her appearance in this movie, Van
Doren said "If you blinked you would miss me. I look barely
old enough to drive." Van Doren then began working on the
stage. She was a showgirl in New York City in Monte Proser's
nightclub version of Billion Dollar Baby. Songwriter Jimmy McHugh
discovered her for his musicals, then decided she was too good for
the chorus line and should have dramatic training. She studied
with Ben Bard and Bliss-Hayden. While appearing in the role of
Marie in a showcase production of Come Back, Little Sheba, Van
Doren was seen by Phil Benjamin, a casting director at Universal
International. On January 20, 1953, Van Doren signed a contract
with Universal Studios. They had big plans for her, hoping she
would bring the same kind of success that 20th Century Fox had
with Marilyn Monroe. Van Doren, whose signing day coincided with
the inauguration of President Eisenhower, was given the first name
Mamie for Ike's wife, Mamie Eisenhower. Other Van Dorens, who were
unrelated to Mamie, were a prominent and noted family of American
intellectuals; these Van Dorens included two Pulitzer
Prize-winning brothers, Carl (biographer) and Mark (poet), and
Mark's wife Dorothy, an academic and historian. Universal first
cast Van Doren in a minor role as a singer in Forbidden, starring
Tony Curtis. Interested in Van Doren's allure, Universal then cast
her in The All American (1953), (also starring Tony Curtis),
playing her first major role as Susie Ward, a wayward girl who is
the man-trap at a campus beer joint. In Yankee Pasha (1954),
starring Jeff Chandler and Rhonda Fleming, she played a slave girl
in a supporting role. In 1955, she had a supporting role in the
musical Ain't Misbehavin' and starred in the crime-drama Running
Wild. Van Doren turned down a Broadway role in the play Will
Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and was replaced by newcomer Jayne
Mansfield. In 1956, Van Doren appeared opposite a young and
unknown Clint Eastwood in Star in the Dust. Though Van Doren
garnered prominent billing alongside John Agar and Richard Boone,
she appears rather briefly, as the daughter of a ranch owner. By
this time, Van Doren had grown tired of Universal, which was
casting her in non-breakthrough roles. Van Doren began accepting
bigger and better roles in better movies from other studios. Van
Doren went on to star in several bad girl movies that later became
cult films. She also appeared in some of the first movies to
feature rock 'n' roll music and became identified with this
rebellious style, and she made some rock records. One of her rock
'n' roll films, Untamed Youth, later was featured in the 1990
Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Untamed Youth".
Some of Van Doren's more noteworthy movies include Teacher's Pet
(1958) at Paramount Pictures, Born Reckless (1958) at Warner
Brothers, High School Confidential (1958), and The Beat Generation
(1959), the latter two at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. But Van Doren was
just as well known for her provocative roles. She was in prison
for Girls Town (1959), which provoked censors with a shower scene
where audiences could see Van Doren's naked back. As Eve in The
Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960) she wore only fig leaves, and
in other films, like The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina (1959), Sex
Kittens Go to College (1960), and Vice Raid (1960) audiences
understood the nature of the films from the titles. Many of Van
Doren's film roles showcased her ample curves, and her onscreen
wardrobe usually consisted of tight sweaters, low-cut blouses,
form-fitting dresses, and daring (for the era) swimsuits, but she
and such other blonde bombshell contemporaries as Jayne Mansfield,
Cleo Moore, Sheree North, Anita Ekberg, Barbara Lang, Joi Lansing,
Greta Thyssen, and Barbara Nichols did not attain the same level
of superstar status as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn, Mamie, and
Mansfield were known as "The Three M's". But by
comparison, where Monroe succeeded in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and
Mansfield had big success replacing Van Doren in Will Success
Spoil Rock Hunter?, and The Tender Trap at the Arlington Park
Theater. In the 1970s, Van Doren performed a nightclub act in Las
Vegas. After Universal Studios chose not to renew her contract in
1959, Van Doren was then a free agent and struggled to find work.
Some of her later movies were foreign and independent productions,
which did little to keep her image in the public's eye. Many of
the productions were low-budget B movies with some having gained a
cult following for their high camp value. The first of these later
films was Sex Kittens Go to College (1960), which co-starred
Tuesday Weld. Following the completion of the Argentine film The
Blonde from Buenos Aires (1961), Van Doren took time off from her
career. She came back in The Candidate (1964), soon followed by
Freddy in the Wild West, both of which were low-budget films that
left little impact. In 1964, Tommy Noonan convinced Van Doren to
appear in 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt. Van Doren had turned down
Noonan's previous offer to star opposite Jayne Mansfield in
Promises! Promises!, and was replaced with Marie McDonald. In 3
Nuts in Search of a Bolt, Mamie did a beer-bath scene but is not
seen nude. She posed for Playboy to promote the film. Van Doren
next appeared in The Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966) released by
Woolner Brothers. This film co-starred Mansfield; this was the
only time two of "The Three M's" appeared together in a
film. A sequel was titled Hillbillys in a Haunted House, but Van
Doren turned this role down, and was replaced by Joi Lansing. She
then appeared in The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966), a
science-fiction movie. In 1967, she appeared in You've Got to Be
Smart, and starred in Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
(1968), the following year, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Van
Doren also developed a nightclub act and did live theater. She
performed in stage productions of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and
Dames at Sea at the Drury Lane Theater in Chicago as well as
appeared in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and The Tender Trap at
the Arlington Park Theater. In the 1970s, Van Doren performed a
nightclub act in Las Vegas. In 1970, Van Doren had a supporting
role in The Arizona Kid. Since then, Van Doren has appeared only
in cameos in low-budget films. To this date, Van Doren's last film
appearance was a role in the direct-to-video drama The American
Tetralogy (2013). Van Doren's guest appearances on television
include Jukebox Jury, What's My Line, The Bob Cummings Show, The
Jack Benny Show, Fantasy Island, Burke's Law, Vegas and L.A. Law.
Van Doren released Playing the Field (1987), her autobiography,
which brought much new attention and proved to be her biggest
media splash in over 25 years. She has consistently denied in
interviews ever having breast implants. In 2006, Mamie posed for
photographs for Vanity Fair with Pamela Anderson as part of its
annual Hollywood issue. Van Doren has been married five times. In
1949, she married sportswear manufacturer Jack Newman; she
divorced him later that same year. Her second marriage was to
bandleader, composer and actor Ray Anthony whom she married in
1955. They had one son, Perry Ray Anthony, born March 18, 1956.
The couple divorced in 1961. When Van Doren's early 1960s, highly
publicized, on-again off-again engagement to baseball player Bo
Belinsky ended in 1964, she married baseball player Lee Meyers in
1966. They divorced in 1968. Her fourth marriage was to
businessman Ross McClintock in 1972. They met while working on
President Nixon's re-election campaign; the marriage was annulled
in 1973. Since 1979, she has been married to Thomas Dixon, an
actor and dentist. In her autobiography, Van Doren acknowledged
that she had numerous affairs with celebrities, including Clark
Gable, Howard Hughes, Johnny Carson, Elvis Presley, Burt Reynolds,
Jack Dempsey, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Johnny Rivers, Robert
Evans, Eddie Fisher, Warren Beatty, Tony Curtis, Steve Cochran,
and Joe Namath. Claiming fidelity to each lover, she said "I
don't wear panties anymore - this startles the Hollywood wolves so
much they don't know what to pull at, so they leave me alone."
She was never a Playboy Playmate, but she posed twice for the
magazine in 1963 to promote her movie 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt
(1964). By this point in her career, her figure measured
38DD-26-36 (self-described in 1997). She said "I don't even
want to say double-D because they're even bigger than that."
In 1964, Van Doren was a guest at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset
Strip in West Hollywood, California when The Beatles were at the
club visiting with Jayne Mansfield, and an inebriated George
Harrison accidentally threw his drink on her when trying to throw
it on some bothersome journalists. During the Vietnam War, she did
tours for U.S. troops in Vietnam for three months in 1968, and
again in 1970. In addition to USO shows, she visited hospitals,
including the wards of amputees and burn victims. In 1980, Van
Doren was referenced in the controversial Canadian Top 20 hit
"High School Confidential" by the popular 1980s Canadian
new wave band Rough Trade. In recent years, Van Doren has made use
of multimedia, including Facebook and Twitter. She and her husband
Thomas maintain her website where various merchandise along with
home-made short films starring herself, such as A Girl and Her
Banana, are available. It provides contemporary topless and nude
photos and her outspoken political views, especially critical of
Donald Trump. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7057
Hollywood Boulevard. In 2005, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm
Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to her.
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