February 10
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1863 - History was made in New York City. Two of the world’s most famous midgets, General Tom Thumb, (three feet, four inches) and his lovely bride, Lavinia Warren, (two feet, eight inches), exchanged “I do’s” before a small gathering of 2,000 of their closest friends -- most of them standing on the church pews to catch a glimpse of the couple.1863 - The fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane. It became a flaming success...
1897 - “All the news that’s fit to print” appeared on the front page of The New York Times beginning this day. Henry J. Raymond and two associates started The New York Times in 1851. In October of 1896, the paper held a contest offering readers a one-hundred-dollar prize if they could come up with a better slogan ... in ten words or less ... than “All the news that’s fit to print.” No one did. And no one has.
1933 - “It’s a thrill ... to sing to you ... pay this bill ... I hope you will!” The singing telegram (not that one, certainly) was introduced by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York City.
1933 - Primo Carnera knocked out Ernie Schaaf in round 13 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Schaaf died four days later, not from that blow, but from a blow suffered in a previous fight with Max Baer.
1934 - The first imperforated, ungummed sheets of postage stamps were issued by the U.S. Postal Service in New York City. Talk about inconvenience! One had to cut the stamps out of the sheet and then put some glue on the back to get them to stick on an envelope. Fortunately, the Postal Service changed this idea after many complaints. Letters were, literally, gumming up the works...
1935 - The Pennsylvania Railroad began passenger service with its new ‘streamlined’ electric locomotive. This engine was 79-1/2 feet long and weighed in at a hefty 230 tons.
1942 - Ted Fio Rito’s orchestra recorded Rio Rita for Decca Records in Los Angeles. Bob Carroll sang on the disc that became the group’s theme song. Ole!
1945 - Rum and Coca Cola, by the Andrews Sisters, was selling like crazy in U.S. music stores.
1949 - Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock starred in the classic, Death of a Salesman, which opened at the Morosco Theatre in New York City. The play later became a major motion picture.
1951 - John and Marsha, silly song(?) by Stan Freberg became a national catch phrase in the U.S. Do you remember, “John ... Marsha ... John ... Marsha ... John ... Marsha?” Freberg also brought the censors down on himelf when it was decided that at one point John and Marsha sounded a little too romantic; never mind that Freberg was the voice of both John and Marsha.
1956 - Elvis Presley wiggled his way through Heartbreak Hotel this day for RCA Records in Nashville, TN. The record received two gold records, one for each side. The hit on the other side was I Was the One. For those wanting to know even more trivia that will make you a big hit at cocktail parties, tell your friends that the first known million-seller was by Ben Selvin back in 1919. It, too, was a two sided hit, featuring I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles and Darandella. Now, you really are up to date!
1959 - A tornado touched down in St. Louis, MO. The twister killed 21 people and injured 345. Some 2,000 buildings were damaged. It was the fourth tornado to hit the same area since 1871.
1961 - The Los Angeles franchise in the American Football League was transferred to San Diego. The previous year, Hollywood resident Gerald Courtney had won an all-expenses-paid trip to Mexico City and Acapulco after submitting the winning name: Chargers. Three reasons for choosing Chargers have been offered: 1) It sounded dynamic, 2) The club’s new stationary featured a horse and 3) Owner Baron Hilton had recently instituted the Carte Blanche card.
1964 - The press reported on this day that “millions of teenage boys are spending extra time in front of the mirror trying to make their hair look like Paul McCartney’s...,” following an appearance of The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show the night before.
1965 - A quote, often used later by others, was first stated by Hubert H. Humphrey. He said, “The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.” Humphrey was a noted and beloved U.S. Senator from Minnesota and a Vice-President in the Lyndon Johnson administration. He ran for president but lost to Richard M. Nixon.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, was ratified by the U.S. Congress this day. The amendment provided, in part, “In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.”
1972 - The BBC banned Give Ireland Back to the Irish, by Paul McCartney’s Wings. McCartney was condemned by the British media for his seemingly pro-IRA stance on Northern Ireland.
1979 - Rod Stewart’s Do Ya Think I’m Sexy was the #1 US single. It was a track from the album Blondes Have More Fun, which was the #1 U.S. album this day. The album stayed at the top for three weeks. Do Ya Think I’m Sexy was number one for four weeks: If you want my body and you think I’m sexy; come on sugar let me know. “If you really need me just reach out and touch me; come on honey tell me so...”
1981 - Eight people were killed in a fire at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel and Casino. Another 198 people were injured in the blaze. A busboy, high on cocaine dipped in PCP, set an eighth-floor lobby curtain on fire with a cigarette lighter.
1985 - One of the Houston Rockets’ ‘Twin Towers’, seven-foot-four-inch Ralph Sampson (the Rockets star center), scored 24 points to lead the West over the East, 140-129 in the NBA All-Star Game in Indianapolis, IN. Sampson was named the games’ Most Valuable Player.
1992 - An Indianapolis jury convicted former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson of raping a beauty pageant contestant.
1992 - Alex Haley, who was on a lecture tour, died of a heart attack in Seattle, Washington. He was 70 years old. Haley was the author of Autobiography of Malcolm X and Roots, among others.
1996 - An IBM computer called Deep Blue made chess history by beating world champion Garry Kasparov (only 34 moves). It was the first win for a machine under classic tournament rules.
1997 - A civil jury heaped 25 million dollars in punitive damages on O.J. Simpson for the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend. This in additon to $8.5 million in compensatory damages awarded earlier.
1998 - AOL raised its monthly flat access rate from $19.95 to $21.95, explaining it needed to upgrade its network to handle the onslaught of people taking advantage of its flat price.
1998 - Monica Lewinsky’s mother began two days of testimony before a grand jury investigating allegations that U.S. President Bill Clinton had ‘an affair’ with Monica, a former White House intern.
2001 - Astronauts on the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis installed the $1.4 billion Destiny laboratory on the international space station.
2002 - Snowboarder Kelly Clark won America’s first gold medal at the Salt Lake City Olympics -- in the women’s halfpipe. Claudia Pechstein of Germany shattered her own world record in the three-thousand-meter speedskating event, crossing the line in 3:57.70.
2003 - Ron Ziegler, former press secretary to President Richard M. Nixon, died in Coronado, CA. He was 63 years old.
2004 - The White House released documents pertaining to the time U.S. President George Bush (II) spent in the Air National Guard. Questions remained about his service in Alabama in 1972.
2004 - U.S. presidential front-runner John Kerry rolled to wins in Virginia and Tennessee, scoring a Southern sweep that knocked rival Wesley Clark out of the race and put the Democratic nomination within reach.
2005 - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller died in Roxbury, CT. He was 89 years old. Some of Miller’s more memorable works were The Crucible (1953), the screenplay for the movie, The Misfits (1961), A View from the Bridge (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968) and Playing for Time (1981). And Miller’s famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (1947), has come to symbolize the American Dream gone awry.
2006 - Films debuting in the U.S.: The animated Curious George (“Show Me the Monkey”), featuring the voices of Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Eugene Levy, Dick Van Dyke, Joan Plowright and Ed O’Ross; Final Destination 3, with Ryan Merriman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kris Lemche and Alex Johnson; Firewall, starring Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen, Jimmy Bennett, Carly Schroeder, Beverly Breuer and Matthew Currie Holmes; and The Pink Panther, with Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyonce Knowles, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Kristin Chenoweth and Henry Czerny.
2006 - The 20th Winter Olympics opened in Turin, Italy, with opening ceremonies at the Stadio Olimpico.
2007 - U.S. Senator Barack Obama announced in Illinois that he was starting a campaign to become the Democratic nominee for president in 2008.
2008 - The 50th annual Grammy Awards celebration was held at Staples Centre, Los Angeles. Amy Winehouse was honored as Best New Artist. The singer’s Rehab, which she performed live via satellite from London, won for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Album of the Year went to Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters, beating out works by Winehouse, the Foo Fighters, Kanye West and Vince Gill. However, the Foo Fighters, West and Gill did win Best Rock Album, Best Rap Album and Best Country Album respectively.
2008 - State media reported that China had lost about one tenth of its forest resources because of recent snow storms that had been the most severe in half a century.
2008 - Actor Roy Scheider died in Little Rock, Arkansas, while battling multiple myeloma (Kahler’s disease). He was 76 years old. Scheider is fondly remembered as police chief Martin Brody in Jaws; as Joe Gideon in All That Jazz; as detective Sonny Grosso in The French Connection; and for many other roles. In Jaws he uttered the phrase, “You're gonna need a bigger boat,” one of cinematic history’s most memorable lines.
2009 - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner outlined a government stimulus package. As much as $2.5 trillion, including $350 billion from the bailout fund, was to come from the Federal Reserve and private investors.
2009 - The Utah state Department of Agriculture reported that Africanized honey bees had been found for the first time in Utah (the Beehive State).
2010 - A Brazilian health official reported the deaths of 32 elderly people in the southeastern city of Santos because of a heat wave.
2011 - A natural gas explosion rocked a downtown Allentown, Pennsylvania neighborhood, leveling two houses and spawning fires that burned for hours. Five people were killed. 47 buildings, including 10 businesses, were affected by the explosion and fire.
2012 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, with Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson, Vanessa Hudgens, Michael Cain, Kristin Davis, Luis Guzmán, Anna Colwell and Michael Beasley; Safe House, starring Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington, Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Cunningham and Joel Kinnaman; The Vow, with Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Scott Speedman, Jessica Lange, Sam Neill, Dillon Casey and Wendy Crewson; Perfect Sense, with Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen, Stephen Dillane, Ewen Bremner, Denis Lawson and Alastair Mackenzie; and Rampart, starring Sigourney Weaver, Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Brie Larson, Anne Heche, Jon Bernthal and Ice Cube.
2012 - Former San Diego police officer Anthony Arevalos was sentenced to nine years in prison on multiple felony counts of sexual battery, assault and soliciting sexual favors in exchange for not issuing traffic tickets to young women.
2012 - U.S. President Barack Obama offered a contraception compromise that would allow women to obtain free contraception, but would require them to obtain it directly from their insurance companies. This, if their employers objected to birth control because of religious beliefs.
2013 - The Carnival Triumph lost power and began floating aimlessly about 150 miles off the Yucatan Peninsula after a fire in the aft engine room. Passengers had limited access to bathrooms, food and hot coffee as they waited for tugboats to arrive to tow them to port. The ship arrived into Mobile Bay, Alabama on Feb 14.
2014 - The European Union agreed to launch negotiations with Cuba to increase trade, investment and dialogue on human rights. It was the most significant diplomatic shift since Brussels lifted sanctions on the island in 2008.
2015 - NBC-TV announced its suspension of Nightly News anchor/star/managing editor Brian Williams. The suspension came without pay as punishment for Williams misleading the public about his experiences covering the Iraq war. Williams had lied about being in an army helicopter that was shot down during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2015 - Three police officers arrived at a grocery store parking lot in Pasco, Washington where Antonio Zambrano-Montes reportedly threw rocks at them. Police said they first used a stun gun to try to incapacitate Zambrano-Montes after he would not obey commands to surrender. They then opened fire and killed him. In a 22-second video by a motorist, Zambrano-Montes is seen running away from the officers before he was killed. The three officers fired 17 shots and an autopsy later said he was hit seven times with at least two entrance wounds on the back of his body.
2016 - Italian police said Monsignor Patrizio Benvenuti, clergyman of the Roman Curia of the Catholic Church, had been arrested for defrauding hundreds of elderly people out of millions of euros through an elaborate money-laundering scheme.
2016 - Office supply giant Staples said it had received European approval for its buyout of Office Depot. In exchange, it planned to split off some operations in Europe to allay monopoly fears. The merger was called off in May 2016 after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ruled that “there is a reasonable probability that the proposed merger will substantially impair competition in the sale and distribution of consumable office supplies to large business-to-business customers.” It was Staples’ second failed Office Depot merger attempt.
2017 - New movies showing in the U.S. included: Fifty Shades Darker, starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan and Bella Heathcote; God Bless the Broken Road, with Lindsay Pulsipher, Jordin Sparks and LaDainian Tomlinson; John Wick: Chapter Two, starring Ruby Rose, Keanu Reeves and Ian McShane; and the animated The Lego Batman Movie, featuring the voices of Jenny Slate, Ralph Fiennes, Zach Galifianakis, Rosario Dawson, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Mariah Carey and Billy Dee Williams.
2017 - Police in Turkey used tear gas to disperse protesters who were trying to enter Ankara University. The crowd was denouncing a government decree that dismissed 330 academics.
2018 - Israel said an Iranian drone infiltrated its airspace from Syria. In response, Israeli planes struck 12 targets including three aerial defense batteries and four Iranian targets that were part of Iran’s military establishment in Syria. The Israeli army later said the drone was on an attack mission.
2019 - Jan-Michael Vincent, American TV and film star, died in Ashville, NC. He was 73 years old. Vincent was famous for the TV series Airwolf (1984-1986). His films include The Undefeated (1969), The World’s Greatest Athlete (1973), Buster and Bille (1974), Bite the Bullet (1975), Hooper (1978) and Big Wednesday (1978).
2019 - Hollywood and English stars and British royalty gathered at the Royal Albert Hall in London for the British Academy Film and Television Arts [BAFTA] Awards. The period comedy-drama The Favourite lived up to its name winning the most trophies, seven, including Outstanding British Film, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Olivia Colman, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Rachel Weisz. Roma won four awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón. Rami Malek won Best Actor in a Leading Role for Bohemian Rhapsody, thanking Freddie Mercury in his acceptance speech. Thelma Schoonmaker won the BAFTA Fellowship, presented by Cate Blanchett and Prince William. She joined the fellowship along with her late husband Michael Powell and long-term collaborator Martin Scorsese. Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley won the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award for their contributions to Number 9 Films.
2020 - The U.S. Justice Dept unveiled charges against four members of China’s military for hacking into the credit agency Equifax and stealing the personal information of millions of Americans in 2017. The four charged were Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke and Liu Lei, all members of the 54th Research Institute, a part of China’s People’s Liberation Army. Equifax settled a class action lawsuit over the breach in 2019 -- for $700+ million.
2020 - The COVID-19 coronavirus had killed 909 people and sickened 40,235 in China. This, as an advance World Health Organization team of medical experts arrived in China to help investigate the outbreak. Outside China, there were 319 cases in 24 countries, with 1 death.
2021 - Tianwen-1, China’s uncrewed spacecraft, successfully entered orbit around Mars after a 6-1/2-month journey from Earth. It was the country’s first independent mission to Mars. (On May 22, 2021, the Zhurong rover drove onto the Martian surface and China became the second nation to accomplish this feat, after the United States.)
2021 - The European Union police agency Europol announced the arrest of 10 people in the UK, Belgium and Malta for hijacking mobile phones belonging to U.S. celebrities, including internet influencers, sports stars and musicians. This, to steal personal information and millions in cryptocurrency.
2021 - The United Nations reported a recovery in global trade was expected to slow again (it had contracted 9% in 2020) as the coronavirus pandemic kept disrupting the travel industry.
2022 - Musician Sting sold his entire songwriting catalog of roughly 600 songs for $300M to Universal Music Publishing Group.
2022 - Beijing Olympics: The giants of German luge combined their talents to take gold in the team relay. The German team took home all the luge gold this Beijing Olympics had to offer. Nathan Chen of the U.S. won a gold medal at the men’s singles figure skating event. U.S. snowboarder Chloe Kim won a 2nd gold medal in the halfpipe. And Martina Sablikova became the most decorated Czech Olympian when she won a bronze medal, the seventh speed skating medal of her career.
2023 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Consecration, with Jena Malone, Danny Huston and Thoren Ferguson; and Magic Mike’s Last Dance, starring Salma Hayek, Channing Tatum and Caitlin Gerard.
2023 - Four New Jersey teenage girls were charged in the savage beating that her family said drove 14-year-old Adriana Kuch to take her own life. The group was seen on video ruthlessly attacking Adriana in a Central Regional High School hallway as she was walking with her boyfriend on Feb 1. Her assailants threw a drink at Adriana, kicked and punched her, and dragged her down the hallway. They pushed her into lockers, pulled her hair, and hit her with a 20-ounce water bottle as onlookers laughed. Other parents claimed that bullying is a pervasive issue at Central Regional High School. One parent, who said her daughter was jumped by students despite looking to staff for help, launched a change.org petition to “Stop the Violence” at the school, and it has garnered over 8,300 signatures.
2023 - New York City had spent half a billion dollars on the migrant crisis since July 2022. The city’s Office of Management and Budget said it had spent $500 million “in costs associated with asylum seekers” between Jul 1, 2022 and Jan 31, 2023. That’s also half of the $1 billion Mayor Eric Adams requested from President Joe Biden last year. All of this, thanks to an influx of over 44,000 asylum seekers who had flooded into the Big Apple since the spring.
2023 - Toronto Mayor John Tory, 68, admitted to having a relationship with a 31-year-old advisor and said he was stepping down so he could “take the time to reflect on my mistakes.” Tory’s announcement came just an hour after the Toronto Star broke the news that the mayor developed a relationship with an employee during the pandemic.
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Birthdays on This Day February 10
1775 - Charles Lamb
writer: Oxford in the Vacation, Ibid, Mrs. Battle’s Opinions on Whist, A Chapter on Ears, A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; died Dec 27, 18341868 - William Allen White
newspaper publisher: Emporia Gazette; coined phrase: tinhorn politician; died Jan 29, 19441890 - Boris Pasternak
poet, writer: Doctor Zhivago; died May 30, 19601892 - Alan Hale
actor: Colt .45, Adventures of Don Juan, Robin Hood; married to actress Gretchen Hartman; father of actor Alan Hale Jr; died Jan 22, 19501893 - Jimmy (James Francis) Durante
actor, comedian: “Good night Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.”; Ziegfeld Follies, The Man Who Came to Dinner, It Happened in Brooklyn, The Jimmy Durante Show; died Jan 29, 19801898 - Dame Judith (Frances Margaret) Anderson
actress: Rebecca, The Ten Commandments, Star Trek 3, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Man Called Horse; died Jan 3, 19921905 - Walter Brown
Basketball Hall of Fame founder and contributor: spearheaded the amalgamation of the NBL (National Basketball League) and the BAA (Basketball Association of America) into the NBA (National Basketball Association), founded the Boston Celtics; son of George V. Brown, originator of the Boston Marathon; died Sep 7, 19641906 - Lon Chaney Jr.
actor: The Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, The Mummy’s Curse; died July 12, 19731914 - Larry Adler
composer: movie scores: A Cry from the Streets, Genevieve, Great Chase; died Aug 6, 20011915 - Allie (Pierce) Reynolds
‘Superchief’: baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1945], NY Yankees [World Series: 1947, 1949-1953/all-star: 1949, 1950, 1952-1954/shares individual record with 3 others for season no-hitters [2 in 1951]; died Dec 26, 19941920 - Alex Comfort
author: The Joy of Sex, Reality and Empathy, Barbarism & Sexual Freedom; died Mar 26, 20001922 - Neva Patterson
actress: An Affair to Remember, The Runaways; died Dec 14, 20101923 - Allie Sherman
football: Brooklyn College; head coach: NY Giants; author: Allie Sherman’s Book of Football; died Jan 3, 20151924 - Bud (Norman) Poile
hockey: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, NY Rangers, Boston Bruins; GM: Philadelphia Flyers; died Jan 4, 20051927 - Leontyne Price
soprano: Metropolitan Opera1933 - Don Wilson
musician: rhythm guitar: group: The Ventures: Walk Don’t Run, Perfidia, Hawaii Five-O theme; died Jan 22, 20221930 - Robert Wagner
actor: Hart to Hart, The Mountain, The Towering Inferno, Titanic, It Takes a Thief, Pink Panther, Midway, NCIS; more1939 - Roberta Flack
singer: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Feel Like Making Love, Killing Me Softly With His Song1940 - Jimmy Merchant
singer: group: Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers: Why Do Fools Fall in Love, The ABCs of Love1940 - Kenny Rankin
musician; guitar: played guitar on early Bob Dylan songs; songwriter: In the Name of Love [Peggy Lee], Haven’t We Met [Carmen McRae, Mel Torme]; singer: LPs: The Kenny Rankin Album, Mind Dusters, Family, Like a Seed, Inside, Silver Morning; died Jun 7, 20091943 - Ral Donner
singer: You Don’t Know What You’ve Got, She’s Everything; narrator and Presley’s voice in film: This is Elvis; died Apr 6, 19841944 - Peter Allen
songwriter: I Honestly Love You, Don’t Cry Out Loud, I Still Call Australia Home, Just a Gigalo; flamboyant stage performer; died June 18, 19921944 - Frances Moore Lappé
author: Diet for a Small Planet, Rediscovering America’s Values1949 - Joe Lavender
football: Washington Redskins cornerback: Super Bowl XVII1949 - Nigel Olsson
musician: drums: backup for Elton John; more1950 - Mark Spitz
swimmer: U.S. Olympic 9-time gold medal winner [seven in 1972 and two in 1968]; more1951 - Bob Iger
chairman, chief executive of The Walt Disney Company; oversaw the acquisition of Pixar [2006]; led the company to acquire Marvel Entertainment [2009] and Lucasfilm [2012]1952 - Mike Varty
football: Baltimore Colts [LB]1955 - Jim Cramer
hedge fund manager, TV host: Mad Money [CNBC]; author: Jim Cramer’s Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World, Jim Cramer’s Getting Back to Even1955 - Greg Norman
golf champion: British Open [1986, 1993], holds record for lowest 72-hole total [267-1993]; more1960 - Robert Addie
actor: Intimacy, Mary, Mother of Jesus, Lost Belongings, Dutch Girls, Robin Hood and the Sorcerer, Excalibur Friends and Other Lovers; died Nov 20, 20031960 - Lionel Cartwright
musician: guitar, mandolin, piano; singer, songwriter: You’re Gonna Make Her Mine, Give Me His Last Chance, Chasin’ the Sun, Leap of Faith; actor: I-40 Paradise, Pickin’ at the Paradise1961 - Robbie Nevil
singer: C’Est la Vie, Somebody Like You, Just Like You, Wot’s It to Ya, Back on Holiday, Dominoes, For Your Mind, Look Who’s Alone Tonight, Neighbors, Love Is Only Love1961 - George Stephanopolous
senior political adviser to Bill Clinton Presidential campaign [1992]; later Clinton’s press secretary and communications director; political broadcaster: host: This Week1962 - Cliff Burton
musician: bass guitar: group: Metallica: King Nothing, Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters, Blackened, Battery, For Whom the Bell Tolls; died Sep 27, 19861963 - Lenny (Leonard Kyle) Dykstra
baseball: NY Mets [World Series: 1986], Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1990, 1994, 1995/World Series: 1993/led league in hits: 192-1990, 194-1993]1964 - Glenn Beck
faaar right wing radio, TV host: CNN Headline News, Fox cable TV1965 - Lenny Webster
baseball [catcher]: Minnesota Twins, Montreal Expos, Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox1967 - Laura Dern
actress: Jurassic Park, Blue Velvet, Rambling Rose; daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd1968 - Peter Popovic
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins1972 - Jason Olive
actor: All My Children, Raising Helen, Feast of All Saints, Punks, Love Goggles, Spenser: Small Vices1974 - Elizabeth Banks
actress: The Sisters, Spider-Man, Seabiscuit, Catch Me If You Can, Shaft, Surrender Dorothy; more1974 - Ty Law
football [cornerback]: Univ of Michigan; NFL: New England Patriots, New York Jets1976 - Lance Berkman
baseball [right field, first base: Houston Astros, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals: 2011 World Series champs; more1979 - Brandy Norwood
actress: Moesha, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Cinderella, Double Platinum, Drop Dead Diva, The Game; singer: I Wanna Be Down, Baby, The Boy Is Mine, What About Us?, Full Moon, Put It Down1981 - Uzo Aduba
actress: Orange Is the New Black, Tallulah, The Wiz Live!; Broadway: Coram Boy, Godspell, Venice1981 - Stephanie Beatriz
actress: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Short Term 12, In the Heights, Encanto, Bob’s Burgers, BoJack Horseman, Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous1981 - Barry Sloane
actor: Revenge, Pleasureland, The Mark of Cain, The Whispers1982 - Justin Gatlin
sprinter: 2004 summer Olympics [Athens: 100 m: gold]; 2012 summer Olympics [London: bronze medal]1984 - Alex Gordon
baseball [outfielder]: Kansas City Royals [2007–2020]: 2014 World Series, 2015 World Series champs1984 - Zaza Pachulia
basketball [center]: NBA: Orlando Magic [2003–2004]; Milwaukee Bucks [2004–2005]; Atlanta Hawks [2005–2013]; Milwaukee Bucks [2013–2015]; Dallas Mavericks [2015–2016]; Golden State Warriors [2016–2018]: 2017, 2018 NBA champs; Detroit Pistons [2018]1984 - Ashleigh Ann Wood
actress: Repetition, Saint Henry, From the Earth to the Moon, The Bloodknot, Lost, Like Family1991 - Emma Roberts
actress: Unfabulous, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Valentine’s Day, Hotel for Dogs, Nancy Drew, Spymate, BigLove, The Flight Before Christmas1994 - Makenzie Vega
actress: The Good Wife, The Family Man, Made, Saw, Sin City, Just My Luck, X-Men: The Last Stand1995 - Alexis ‘Lexi’ Thompson
golf champ: youngest player to win an LPGA tournament: 2014 ANA Inspiration1997 - Chloë Grace Moretz
actress: The Amityville Horror, Days of Summer, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Kick-Ass, Let Me In, Hugo, Dark Shadows2000 - Yara Shahidi
actress: Black-ish, Imagine That, Salt, Alex Cross
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Hit Music on This Day February 10
1944Shoo, Shoo, Baby (facts) - The Andrews Sisters
My Heart Tells Me (facts) - The Glen Gray Orchestra (vocal: Eugenie Baird)
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