What Happened on February 6, 1998

• In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna.
• Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years

• Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to NY Yankees for $3M & 4 minor leaguers

• Carl Wilson, American rock vocalist and guitarist (Beach Boys), dies of lung cancer at 51
• Falco [Johann Hoelzel], Austrian singer (Rock Me Amadeus), dies at 40
• Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
• Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian PM (1949, 1950-51)/pres (1961-63), dies

Holidays: Waitangi Day (New Zealand)

• #1 Song: Together Again - Janet
• #1 Song: Doctor Jones - Aqua