02-05-2011, 09:30 PM
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Location: Maryland
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February 6th
1840 ~ Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
1895 ~ Birthday of Babe Ruth, Athlete.
1913 ~ Birthday of Mary Leakey, Anthropologist.
1922 ~ Birthday of Patrick Macnee, British actor (John Steed in 'The Avengers').
1952 ~ The UK’s King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.
1959 ~ Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1971 ~ Alan Shepard became the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
1983 ~ Former Gestapo commandant Klaus Barbie extradited to France from Bolivia to stand trial for war crimes.
1993 ~ Death of Arthur Ashe, Athlete.
2004 ~ An explosion in a Moscow subway car during rush hour killed 41 people in a terrorist attack blamed on Chechen separatists.
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