Cheshiresoft CDAY Almanac

Today is Wednesday, February 10, 2010.

Birthdays

1747 A. Yasuaki --1817
1775 Charles Lamb, English critic, poet, essayist
1868 William Allen White, American writer and journalist
1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist, "Dr. Zhivago" (Nobel 1958)
1890 Boris Pasternak
1893 Jimmy Durante, comedian
1893 Jimmy Durante
1898 Bertolt Brecht
1905 Lon Chaney, Jr.
1927 Leontyne Price
1930 Robert Wagner
1939 Roberta Flack
1950 Mark Spitz
1955 Greg Norman
1967 Laura Dern

Events

Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
1720 Edmund Halley is appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1763 Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War
1870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
1879 First electric arc light used (in California Theater).

That's all for today.