TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – FEB 6
1778 France recognizes the United States and signs a treaty of aid in Paris.
1788 Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the Constitution.
1840 New Zealand becomes a British colony
1891 The Dalton Gang commits its first crime, a train robbery in Alila, Calif.
1899 The Spanish-American War ends.
1900 President McKinley appoints W.H. Taft commissioner to report on the Philippines.
1916 Germany admits full liability for Lusitania incident and recognizes the United State’s right to claim indemnity.
1922 The Washington Disarmament Conference comes to an end with signature of final treaty forbidding fortification of the Aleutian Islands for 14 years.
1926 In Dubuque, Iowa the first doughnut-making machine was launched by a company called Trausch Bakery.
1928 Anastasia Tchaikovsky, the young woman who claimed to be the daughter of the late Russian Czar who was murdered had come to the United States. Reporters were skeptical of this claim because there had been about dozen other women who had made the same claim.
1933 Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich begins press censorship.
1933 The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which set the date for the president’s inauguration on Jan. 20, was adopted.
1935 The popular board game Monopoly® went on sale for the first time.
1936 Adolf Hitler opens the Fourth Winter Olympics.
1951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago IL
1952 King George VI dies making Elizabeth II the Sovereign of Great Britain, The future Queen of England heard the news while on a trip to Kenya.
1954 Mercedes introduced the 300SL coupe, the car is far advanced of anything else with its gull-wing doors a six-cylinder engine and a top speed of 155mph. Only 1,400 300SL coupes are ever produced but many consider it to be the most impressive sports car of the decade.
1959 The first microchip is patented For his invention of the integrated circuit, Jack Kilby was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1963 The United States reports that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba.
1964 Cuba blocks the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State’s seizure of four Cuban fishing boats.
1974 US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
1975 President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia.
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