Thomas John Brokaw is an American author and retired network television journalist. He first served as the co-anchor of The Today Show from 1976 to 1981 with Jane Pauley, then as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982–2004). In the previous decade he served as a weekend anchor for the program from 1973 to 1976. He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He formerly held a special correspondent post for NBC News.

1940Petr Hájek, Czech mathematician and academic (died 2016)^[†]

Petr Hájek was a Czech scientist in the area of mathematical logic and a professor of mathematics. Born in Prague, he worked at the Institute of Computer Science at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and as a lecturer at the faculty of mathematics and physics at the Charles University in Prague and at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

1940Jimmy Tarbuck, English comedian and actor^[†]

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Headlines from February 6, 1940

ROOSEVELT CITES GAINS IN NEW DEAL; UPHOLDS SPENDING; SAYS DEBT IS LESS Federal Rise Is Offset by Cut in State and Local Obligation, He Says WAGES AND DIVIDENDS UP Budget Can Be Balanced by a Year of National Income of $80,000,000,000, He Adds

JAPAN BARS OFFER OF BRITISH ON NAZIS; Foreign Minister Rejects Plan to Free 9 of 21 Taken From Liner, Demanding All

LIBERTIES UNION BARS FROM OFFICE REDS AND FASCISTS; Foes of Democracy May Not Hold Committee Posts, It Votes After Bitter Row 'HYSTERIA,' SAYS MINORITY Dissenters Call It a 'Purge' Resulting from the 'Recent International Events'

PRESIDENT FORBIDS 3D TERM QUESTION; He Tells Reporters He Will Choose Time When Anything Is to Be Said on Subject

Nazis Torpedo Canadian Pacific Freighter; Planes Rescue a Liner From U-Boat Attack; FREIGHTER SUNK BY NAZI TORPEDO

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