On this day: February 6
POSTED: 02:58 PM PST Feb 05, 2013
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 05, 2013
The Union gets its first victory of the Civil War, Ronald Reagan is born, The Righteous Brothers hit No. 1, and astronaut Alan Shepard works on his lunar golf game, all on this day.
20th Century Fox
1994: Actor Joseph Cotten, best known for his roles in movies such as "Citizen Kane," "The Magnificent Ambersons," "Journey into Fear," "Shadow of a Doubt," "Duel in the Sun" and "The Third Man," dies of pneumonia, a complication of throat cancer, at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, Calif.
