On February 12, 1999, the five-week impeachment trial of Bill
Clinton came to an end, with the Senate voting to acquit the
president on both articles of impeachment: perjury and
obstruction of justice.

Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel         Francis Gary Powers
                                                    

On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers 
was released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel
Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United
States five years earlier.

The Glienicke bridge (known as the Bridge of Spies) just
after the Powers swap.

Francis Gary Powers
(August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977)

Powers later worked as a helicopter pilot
for KNBC in Los Angeles and died in a
1977 helicopter crash.

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)

As the 40th president of the United States, the former movie star
was called the “Great Communicator” for his ability to get through
to ordinary Americans and give them hope and optimism for their
own future and that of their country.

But before his years of Hollywood stardom, and long before
Washington, Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911,
in Tampico, a small town in northwestern Illinois.

Biden tells crowd he recently met with former French president
who died over 25 years ago.       

          
       

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden easily won South
Carolina’s Democratic primary on Saturday, clinching a state he
pushed to lead off his party’s nominating process after it revived
his then-struggling White House bid four years ago.