Feb 6 1911
Ronald Reagan, who appeared in such films as Jap Zero, Girls on Probation, and Bedtime for Bonzo, born in Tampico IL.
Feb 6 1917
Zsa Zsa Gabor born in Budapest.
Feb 6 1943
Actor Errol Flynn acquitted of raping an adolescent. The woman had actually tried this shakedown with other celebrities and wasn't quite an adolescent despite her testifying with pigtails and a lollipop. Flynn had just finished a film called "Gentleman Jim" and at the end of the film when he says to Maureen O'Hara: "I never said I was a Gentleman." Peals of knowing laughter rang out from audiences.
Feb 6 1943
Having left the Tommy Dorsey Band four months prior, Frank Sinatra makes his vocalist debut on the radio show, "Your Hit Parade."
Feb 6 1951
Radio personality Paul Harvey is arrested for trying to break into Argonne Atomic Lab.
Feb 6 1983
Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon" who had been living as a mild-mannered Bolivian businessman, charged with Nazi war crimes. He is later sentenced to life imprisonment and dies in 1991.
Feb 6 2004
President and Alzheimer's sufferer Ronald Reagan dies from pneumonia in Los Angeles, CA. Praise for the man gushes in from all over the world, dominating the news cycle for a week.
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