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Today in History (06 February 2008)

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1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1958 - Eight players of Manchester United were killed in the Munich air disaster.
1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission - Alan Shepard becomes the first person to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
1992 - The Saami people of the Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence.
1996 - A Birgen Air Boeing 757 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Dominican Republic killing 189.
1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
1998 - In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna.
2004 - In Russia, a suicide-attack in a Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on Chechen separatist groups.

Births

1962 - Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
1963 - Kevin Trudeau, American entrepreneur
1966 - Rick Astley, British singer
1967 - Anita Cochran, American singer
1967 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
1968 - Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
1968 - Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer
1970 - Per Frandsen, Danish footballer
1970 - Kitty Yung, American pornographic actress
1971 - Dana Eskelson, American actress
1971 - Brad Hogg, Australian cricket player
1971 - Brian Stepanek, American actor
1972 - David Binn, American football player
1975 - Brett Hawke, Australian swimmer
1975 - Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
1975 - Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist
1976 - Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder
1976 - Colin Teo, Singaporean Grand Prix driver
1976 - Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
1977 - Jason Euell, English-born footballer
1979 - Dan Bălan, Moldovan singer and musician O-Zone
1980 - Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu
1980 - Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
1980 - Luke Ravenstahl, American politician
1981 - Calum Best, American model
1981 - Jens Lekman, Swedish musician
1981 - Ty Warren, defensive lineman for the New England Patriots
1982 - Alice Eve, English actress
1982 - Tank, Mandopop singer.
1983 - Brodie Croyle, American football player
1983 - S Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
1983 - Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
1983 - Myron Wolf Child, Canadian politician
1984 - Darren Bent, English footballer
1984 - Piret Järvis, Estonian singer
1984 - Daisy Marie, American pornographic actress
1985 - Kris Humphries, American basketball player
1985 - Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
1986 - Alice Greczyn, American actress
1986 - Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
1988 - Allison Holker, American dancer
1989 - Craig Cathcart, Irish football
2004 - Princess Louise of Belgium

Deaths

1985 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
1986 - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
1989 - Chris Gueffroy, last person killed escaping over the Berlin wall (b. 1968)
1989 - Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
1989 - Osbourne Ruddock, AKA "King Tubby", Dub pioneer (b. 1941)
1989 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)
1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1991 - Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
1994 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
1994 - Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
1995 - James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
1996 - Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
1997 - Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
1998 - Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
1998 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
2001 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
2001 - Fulgence Charpentier, Quebec journalist, editor and publisher (b. 1897)
2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
2005 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2005 - Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
2007 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007 - Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2007 - Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
2007 - Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)

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