Today in History - History - February 6th

1862Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi

1948Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia

1951Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago

1958Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid

1819Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore

1967Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1981Beatles Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr & George Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon

2012Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot is presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

1959Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow

1862General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee

1911Ronald Reagan, Tampico IL, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo) and 40th US President (R) (1981-89)

1913Mary Nicol Leakey, palaeontologist

1611Chongzhen Emperor, 16th and last Ming Emperor of China (d. 1644)

1897Louis Buchalter, New York City New York, Jewish American mobster (Murder, Inc.)

1994Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk), dies at 76

1993Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at 49

1685Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660-85), dies at 54

1964Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (1899-1901) (b. 1869)