Tinashe Bday…Duh!
Jump by K.Kross Released: February 6, 1992
Jack Kirby born Jacob Kurtzberg; DIED – February 6, 1994)
Bob Marley Born today in 1945
"We're Almost There" is a 1975 song released as a single by American singer Michael Jackson, the first release from his final Motown album, Forever, Michael.
Natalie Cole: Natalie Maria Cole, the daughter of R&B legend Nat King Cole, was born on February 6, 1950, in Los Angeles, California. She has followed in her father’s footsteps to become one of the most heard-of R&B, soul and pop musicians of all time. An acclaimed, singer, songwriter and pianist, Cole
Arthur Ashe dies : Tennis player Arthur Ashe dies. Ashe was the first African American to win at Wimbledon.
Peabody Fund established: The Peabody Fund for Black education in the South established.1967
Dellums, Ronald Vernie (1935- )
Ronald Vernie Dellums was born on November 24, 1935 in Oakland, California to Willa Terry Dellums and Vernie Dellums. His father Vernie Dellums was a longshoreman, and his mother was a labor organizer. As a child, Ron attended St. Patrick Catholic School in Oakland.
After high school Ron Dellums served in the United States Marine Corps from 1954 to 1956 after he was denied the college scholarship he had sought. After service in the Marines Dellums, with the help of the G.I Bill and an outside job, attended San Francisco State College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960. This was followed by an M.A. in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley in 1962.
In the same year Dellums began his career as a psychiatric social worker in the California Department of Mental Hygiene in Berkeley. Dellums also taught at San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley. His work soon led him to become involved in community politics. In 1967 at 32, Dellums was elected to the Berkeley City Council. He quickly became known as the spokesperson for African American community affairs and for his radical political beliefs.
After only three years on the Berkeley City Council, Dellums decided to run for Congress. With high name recognition -- partly because his uncle, C.L. Dellums was a well known East Bay political activist and founding member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- and with crucial campaign assistance from Coretta Scott King, the widow of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as from Berkeley’s powerful anti-Vietnam War organizations, 35-year-old Dellums was elected to Congress.
Dellums quickly emerged as one of the most radical and outspoken Congressmen in Washington. Within weeks of his election, Dellums called for Congressional investigations into alleged war crimes in Vietnam and co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus. Two years later he began a long campaign to end the apartheid policies of South Africa
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1617 Prospero Alpini died. An Italian physician and botanist, he is said to have introduced coffee and bananas to Europe and to have been the first to artificially fertilize date palms.
1685 Charles II, king of England, died. Known as the 'Merry Monarch.' Tea was introduced to England during his reign. On December 23, 1675, he issued a proclamation suppressing Coffee Houses. The public response was so negative that he had to revoke it on January 8, 1676.
1788 Massachusetts became the 6th state to ratify the U.S. constitution.
1796 John Stevens Henslow was born. This British clergyman and botanist was a mentor of Charles Darwin. To help get farmers to apply scientific methods, he gave lectures on the fermentation of manure. He also showed Irish farmers how to get starch from rotten potatoes during the potato famine of 1845-1846.
1829 Bollinger Renaudin & Cie. was established. Producers of Champagne Bollinger in the village of Ay in Champagne, France.
1864 Frederic Tudor died (born Sept 4, 1783). 'The Ice King' He created an export trade for block ice harvested from frozen ponds in New England during the winter. The ice was shipped in insulated cargo holds to the Caribbean, India and Europe and stored in insulated warehouses.
1865 A horse meat banquet is held at the Grand Hotel in Paris.
1865 Isabella Beeton died (born, March 12, 1836). A famous Victorian home economist, author of 'Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management.' The book, popularly known as 'Mrs Beeton's Cookbook,' contained a compilation of over 900 recipes and advice on all aspects of running a middle class household.
1894 Ontario, Canada votes in favor of alcohol prohibition.
1898 Rudolf Karl George Friedrich Leuckart died. A German zoologist and pioneer in the modern study of parasites. He showed that trichinosis was caused by a worm-like parasite.
1914 Thurl Ravenscroft was born (died May 22, 2005). Voice actor best known as the voice of 'Tony the Tiger' in Kellogg's Frosted Flakes commercials - "They're grrrreeat!"
1937 Robert H. Brooks was born (died July 16, 2006). Founder of Naturally Fresh Foods in 1966, he also helped create The Hooters restaurant chain.
1985 Perrier introduced Perrier with 'a twist of lemon' - its first new product in 125 years.
1989 At about 11:30 am in the town of Rosewood, Queensland, Australia, a light rain of hundreds of small fish (bream) was reported to police.