The Almanac
Today is Friday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2017 with 324 to follow. The
moon is full. Morning stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury. Evening
stars are Neptune, Venus, Mars and Uranus. 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 90);
actor Robert Wagner in 1930 (age 87); singer Roberta Flack in 1937 (age
80); Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Mark Spitz in 1950 (age 67);
golfer Greg Norman in 1955 (age 62); television commentator and host
George Stephanopoulos in 1961 (age 56); political commentator Glenn
Beck in 1964 (age 53); actor Laura Dern in 1967 (age 50); actor
Elizabeth Banks in 1974 (age 43); actor Emma Roberts in 1991 (age 26);
actor Chloe Grace Moretz in 1997 (age 20). 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 .
