6th February 1895 (126 Years)
George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr., American professional baseball player, was born.
6th February 1916 (105 Years)
Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet and initiator of the "modernismo" movement, dies.
6th February 1917 (104 Years)
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite who was also Miss Hungary in 1936, was born.
6th February 1918 (103 Years)
Gustav Klimt, Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, died.
6th February 1952 (69 Years)
George VI King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth, died.
6th February 1952 (69 Years)
George VI King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth, died.
6th February 1986 (35 Years)
Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, best known for his design of the World Trade Center, dies.
7th February 1964 (57 Years)
The Beatles arrived in America for the first time for their United States Tour.
8th February 1591 (430 Years)
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Italian Baroque painter, best known as Guercino, was born.
8th February 1820 (201 Years)
William Tecumseh Sherman, General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, was born.
9th February 1943 (78 Years)
WWII: The Guadalcanal Campaign, fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943, the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan, ended.
9th February 1943 (78 Years)
The Battle of Shanghai, the 1st and bloodiest battle fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War, ended.
9th February 1986 (35 Years)
Halley's Comet reached perihelion its closest approach to the Sun during its 1986 visit. It will be back in July 2061.
10th February 1567 (454 Years)
Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, dies in alleged assassination.
10th February 1840 (181 Years)
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
10th February 1890 (131 Years)
The Russian poet Boris Pasternak, best known for his novel Doctor Zhivago, was born.
10th February 1939 (82 Years)
Pope Pius XI, the sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state, died.
10th February 2005 (16 Years)
Arthur Miller, American playwright, essayist, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater, dies aged 89.
