Today in History for 6th February 2018:
Historical Events
1902 – Young Women’s Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
1951 – “Broker Special” train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
1973 – 6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah
1986 – NJ Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals
1994 – “Government Inspector” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
2005 – Tony Blair, now the longest-serving Labour PM, marks 2,838 days as British Prime Minister
Famous Birthdays
1637 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan
1818 – William Maxwell Evarts, (Union), (d. 1901)
1901 – Ben Lyon, American actor (Hell’s Angels, I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1979)
1913 – Mary Leakey, British paleoanthropologist, discovered earliest human footprints ((3.6 million years old), born in London (d. 1996)
1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor [Zsa Sari], Hungarian-born actress (Queen of Outer Space), born in Budapest (d. 2016)
1958 – Mark Hamilton, sprint kayak Olympics 1996), born in Louisville, Kentucky
Famous Deaths
1919 – Friedrich Wulhelm Mengelberg, German sculptor, dies at 81
1930 – Eva Strittmatter, writer, dies at 17
1958 – Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
1985 – James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
1986 – Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th Salvation Army General, dies at 86
1994 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Airport 77, Hearse), dies from pneumonia at 88