Tara Lipinski (born 1982) is an American former competitive figure skater, actress, sports commentator, and documentary film producer. A former competitor in women's singles, she was the 1998 Olympic champion, the 1997 world champion, a two-time Champions Series Final champion (1997–1998), and the 1997 U.S. national champion. Until 2019, she was the youngest single skater to win a U.S. Nationals and the youngest to become an Olympic and world champion. She was the first woman to complete a triple loop–triple loop combination, her signature jump element, in competition. Starting in 1997, Lipinski had a rivalry with fellow skater Michelle Kwan, which was played up by the American press, and culminated when Lipinski won the gold medal at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. She retired from competitive figure skating in 1998. Lipinski became one of NBC's primary figure skating commentators in 2014, alongside sports commentator Terry Gannon and fellow figure skater and good friend Johnny Weir. (Full article...)

Rolling-shutter photograph of a spinning airplane propeller

• ... that a photograph of an airplane propeller taken by a camera with a rolling shutter (pictured) may distort the propeller into curves resembling the quadratrix of Hippias?
• ... that the remains of at least 970 people were discovered at the former Kilkenny Union Workhouse?
• ... that 17-year-old video game developers Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin obtained a contract with Electronic Arts by cold-calling them and sending them a copy of Dream Zone?
• ... that a baby elephant that starred in The Ark was kept in a van outside the director's home the night before filming?
• ... that Welsh-language activist Joseff Gnagbo came to Wales as a refugee from Ivory Coast?
• ... that the Fadettes of Boston was named after the titular character of George Sand's novel La Petite Fadette?
• ... that zoologist Evelyn Shaw also worked in the catering industry alongside her husband?
• ... that the Atlanta Central Library, Marcel Breuer's last completed design, was nearly demolished less than three decades after completion?
• ... that an Alabama TV station deemed "The Puppy Episode" unsuitable for family viewing?

Laura Fernández Delgado

• Laura Fernández Delgado (pictured) is elected as the president of Costa Rica.
• Clashes between the Balochistan Liberation Army and the armed forces in several districts of Balochistan, Pakistan, leave at least 225 people dead.
• The US Department of Justice releases over three million documents from the Epstein files.
• Over 400 people are killed in a mine collapse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

February 6: Sámi National Day (1917); Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840)

Battle of San Domingo

• 1778 – France and the United States signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance, respectively establishing commercial and military ties between the two nations.
• 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captured or destroyed five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Domingo (pictured) in the Caribbean Sea.
• 1918 – Conscientious objector Henry Firth died in a work camp on Dartmoor, England, triggering a strike over living conditions.
• 1951 – A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.
• 1976 – Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admitted that the company had paid out approximately US$3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka.