Today is Saturday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2021. There are 328 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Todays Highlight in History:<\/p>\n
On Feb. 6, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, the United States won official recognition and military support from France with the signing of a Treaty of Alliance in Paris.<\/p>\n
In 1756, Americas third vice president, Aaron Burr, was born in Newark, N.J.<\/p>\n
In 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n
In 1815, the state of New Jersey issued the first American railroad charter to John Stevens, who proposed a rail link between Trenton and New Brunswick. (The line, however, was never built.)<\/p>\n
In 1862, during the Civil War, Fort Henry in Tennessee fell to Union forces.<\/p>\n
In 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born in Tampico, Illinois.<\/p>\n
In 1933, the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the so-called lame duck amendment, was proclaimed in effect by Secretary of State Henry Stimson.<\/p>\n
In 1952, Britains King George VI, 56, died at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he was succeeded as monarch by his 25-year-old elder daughter, who became Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n
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