TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – FEB 6
1508 Maximilian I proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor, 1st Emperor in centuries not to be crowned by the Pope
1778 France recognizes the United States and signs a treaty of aid in Paris.
1788 Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the Constitution.
1862 The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn., begins the Mississippi Valley campaign.
1891 The Dalton Gang commits its first crime, a train robbery in Alila, Calif.
1899 The Spanish-American War ends.
1916 Germany admits full liability for Lusitania incident and recognizes the United State’s right to claim indemnity.
1926 In Dubuque, Iowa the first doughnut-making machine was launched by a company called Trausch Bakery.
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.
1952 Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne and proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms including Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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.
1968 Charles de Gaulle opens the 19th Winter Olympics in France.
1971 Astronaut Alan B. Shepard hit a golf ball and Edgar Mitchell threw a “javelin” on the moon. They landed in the same crater and remain on the Moon today.
1974 President Nixon has urged Congress to approve a comprehensive national health insurance plan.
1975 President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia.
1998 Washington National Airport is renamed to honor former president President Ronald Reagan to Ronald Reagan National Airport.
1999 Excerpts of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky’s videotaped testimony were shown at President Clinton’s impeachment trial.
2002 A federal judge ordered John Walker Lindh to be held without bail pending trial. Lindh was known as the “American Taliban.”
2004 An explosion rips through a Moscow subway car during rush hour, killing 41 people in a terrorist attack blamed on Chechen separatists.
2006 The Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, told senators that spying on Americans’ phone calls and emails abroad will be a necessary part of the War on Terror.
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