On Feb. 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born in Tampico, Ill.

Ten years ago

President George W. Bush submitted a $2.77 trillion budget blueprint for fiscal 2007. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Isabelle Dinoire, the Frenchwoman who’d received the world’s first partial face transplant, showed off her new features at a news conference.

Five years ago

Egypt’s vice president met with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition groups and offered sweeping concessions. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady became the first unanimous choice for The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award.

One year ago

A message purportedly from the Islamic State group said an American hostage, 26-year-old aid worker Kayla Mueller, had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike in Syria. Jordan dismissed the claim as “criminal propaganda.” (Her death was later confirmed by U.S. officials.) President Barack Obama warned against American “overreach” as he outlined a new national security blueprint for his last two years in office.

— By The Associated Press