The Almanac
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2016 with 325 to follow.
The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mercury and Venus. Evening stars
are Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Those born on this date
are under the sign of Aquarius. They include essayist Charles Lamb in
1775; journalist William Allen White in 1868; Russian author Boris
Pasternak in 1890; entertainer Jimmy Durante in 1893; tennis player
Bill Tilden in 1893; German dramatist Bertolt Brecht in 1898; actor
Judith Anderson in 1897; actor Lon Chaney Jr. in 1906; Nobel Peace
Prize laureate Georges Pire in 1910; operatic soprano Leontyne Price in
1927 (age 89); actor Robert Wagner in 1930 (age 86); singer Roberta
Flack in 1937 (age 79); Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Mark Spitz
in 1950 (age 66); golfer Greg Norman in 1955 (age 61); television
commentator and host George Stephanopoulos in 1961 (age 55); political
commentator Glenn Beck in 1964 (age 52); actor Laura Dern in 1967 (age
49); actor Elizabeth Banks in 1974 (age 42); actor Emma Roberts in 1991
(age 25); actor Chloë Grace Moretz in 1997 (age 19). On this date in
history: In 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War
between Britain and Spain and also the French and Indian War, with
France ceding Quebec to Great Britain. In 1870, the Young Women's
Christian Association was founded in New York. In 1897, the slogan All
The News That's Fit To Print first appeared on Page One of The New York
Times. In 1931, New Delhi was made the capital of India. In 1962,
captured U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was returned to the
United States by Russia in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. In
1964, 82 Australian sailors died when an aircraft carrier and a
destroyer collided off New South Wales, Australia. In 1992, an
Indianapolis jury convicted former heavyweight boxing champion Mike
Tyson in the rape of a beauty pageant contestant. Tyson was sentenced
to six years in prison and released after three. In 1996, a computer --
IBM's Deep Blue -- won a game against world champion chess player Garry
Kasparov. But Kasparov won three games and drew two others in winning
the overall match with Deep Blue. In 2005, Prince Charles, Britain's
heir to the throne, announced plans to marry longtime companion Camilla
Parker Bowles. Their wedding was on April 9. In 2006, the Winter
Olympic Games opened in Turin -- also called Torino -- Italy. In 2007,
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus assumed control of the U.S. forces in
Iraq at a ceremony in Baghdad. He described his new job as hard but not
hopeless. In 2008, U.S. military officials filed capital charges
against six al-Qaida members for their roles in the Sept. 11, 2001,
terror attacks. The admitted mastermind, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and the
others were detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In 2011, a 14-year-old
suicide bomber in a school uniform attacked an army parade ground in
Pakistan, killing at least 27 soldiers and injuring more than 40
others. In 2013, the northeastern United States was digging out from a
monster snowstorm that killed nine people and left at least 400,000
households without power. In 2014, Shirley Temple Black, who was often
called the most famous child star in history (movies Little Miss Marker
and Bright Eyes, and songs On the Good Ship Lollipop and Animal
Crackers in My Soup ) died at her home in Woodside, Calif. She was 85.
A thought for the day: We all have dreams, but in order to make dreams
come into reality it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication,
self-discipline and effort. -- Jesse Owens .
