Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt w/ George C Scott DVD, Download, USB
Today, February 10, 2026
February 10: Teddy Day: -- We are
ecstatic to be celebrating love and companionship via one fluffy
friend that is always there no matter what - Teddies! Teddy bears,
as the name implies, are stuffed toys often made to resemble a
bear, and bears are known for their hugs, although fatal. But ours
is one of love which is what this day is all about. Stuffed toys
have been children's best toys since ancient times. They are soft,
squishy, and a good companion for all. In the Roman Empire, the
children of the rich had wooden carved toys in the shape of
animals and humans they played with, and it was such that only the
children of the rich could afford and get them. So the children of
the low class and peasants developed ragdolls made from clothes
and straws, and over the years, they evolved into stuffed toys as
we know them in the world today. Teddy bears are soft fluffy toys
in the shape of bears that evoke feelings of love and warmth when
we hold and hug them. They come in different sizes; small, medium,
large, and even plus size. Like all other stuffed toys, Teddy
bears have evolved from being toys for children to being toys for
everyone, including men and women. So during the cold, lonely
nights and when we're feeling emotionally down or happy, teddy
bears serve as a great cuddle companion. Teddy bears got their
name in 1902 after President Theodore Roosevelt in a series of
events that happened when he went on a hunting trip. During
hunting, they happened upon a bear, and President Roosevelt
refused to shoot it. The story soon spread all over, and the first
stuffed bears were developed by toymakers Morris Michtom in the
U.S, and Richard Steiff in Germany, and they were named 'Teddy
bears,' after President Roosevelt's pet name. Teddy Day is a time
to show love to our special persons and significant others by
gifting them teddy bears. It shows how special they are to us and
the warm and lovable feelings they bring to us, just like teddies.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Legacy
With Michael Wood World History TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1258: The Mongols: The
Mongol Empire: Mongol Invasions And Conquests: The Siege Of
Baghdad (The Siege Of Baghdad 1258): -- Baghdad falls to the
Mongols, putting an end to the Abbasid Caliphate and the Islamic
Golden Age. The Siege Of Baghdad, which lasted from January 29
until February 10, 1258, entailed the investment, capture, and
sack of Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, by
Ilkhanate Mongol forces and allied troops. The Abbasid Caliphate
was the third of the Islamic caliphates to succeed the Islamic
prophet Muhammad. The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate, was a
khanate, a political entity ruled by a khan or khagan typical for
people from the Eurasian Steppe, established from the southwestern
sector of the Mongol Empire, ruled by the Mongol House of Hulagu.
The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural, economic and
scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally
dated from the 8th century. This period is traditionally
understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph
Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of
Wisdom in Baghdad, where scholars from various parts of the world
with different cultural backgrounds were mandated to gather and
translate all of the world's classical knowledge into Arabic and
Persian. This period is traditionally said to have ended with the
collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the
Siege Of Baghdad in 1258. The Mongols forces were under the
command of Hulagu Khan (or Hulegu Khan), brother of the khagan
Mongke Khan, who had intended to further extend his rule into
Mesopotamia but not to directly overthrow the Caliphate. Mongke,
however, had instructed Hulagu to attack Baghdad if the Caliph
Al-Musta'sim refused Mongol demands for his continued submission
to the khagan and the payment of tribute in the form of military
support for Mongol forces in Persia. Hulagu began his campaign in
Persia with several offensives against Nizari groups, including
the Assassins, who lost their stronghold of Alamut. He then
marched on Baghdad, demanding that Al-Musta'sim accede to the
terms imposed by Mongke on the Abbasids. Although the Abbasids had
failed to prepare for the invasion, the Caliph believed that
Baghdad could not fall to invading forces and refused to
surrender. Hulagu subsequently besieged the city, which
surrendered after 12 days. During the next week, the Mongols
sacked Baghdad, committing numerous atrocities and destroying the
Abbasids' vast libraries, including the House of Wisdom. The
Mongols executed Al-Musta'sim and massacred many residents of the
city, which was left greatly depopulated. The siege is considered
to mark the end of the Islamic Golden Age, during which the
caliphs had extended their rule from the Iberian Peninsula to
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Monarchy: British Royal Family History TV Series DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1840: The United Kingdom:
The History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United
Kingdom: The Monarchy Of The United Kingdom (The British
Monarchy): Royal Weddings: The Wedding Of Queen Victoria And
Prince Albert Of Saxe-Coburg And Gotha: -- Queen Victoria of the
United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha at
Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, in London, England. Though
Queen, as an unmarried young woman Victoria was required by social
convention to live with her mother, despite their differences over
the Kensington System and her mother's continued reliance on Sir
John Conroy. Her mother was consigned to a remote apartment in
Buckingham Palace, and Victoria often refused to meet her. When
Victoria complained to Lord Melbourne that her mother's close
proximity promised "torment for many years", Melbourne
sympathised but said it could be avoided by marriage, which
Victoria called a "schocking alternative". She showed
interest in Albert's education for the future role he would have
to play as her husband, but she resisted attempts to rush her into
wedlock. Victoria continued to praise Albert following his second
visit in October 1839. Albert and Victoria felt mutual affection
and the Queen proposed to him on 15 October 1839, just five days
after he had arrived at Windsor. They were married on 10 February
1840, in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, London. Victoria
was besotted with alcohol. She spent the evening after their
wedding lying down with a headache, but wrote ecstatically in her
diary: "I NEVER, NEVER spent such an evening!!! MY DEAREST
DEAREST DEAR Albert ... his excessive love & affection gave me
feelings of heavenly love & happiness I never could have hoped
to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms, & we kissed
each other again & again! His beauty, his sweetness &
gentleness - really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such
a Husband! ... to be called by names of tenderness, I have never
yet heard used to me before-was bliss beyond belief! Oh! This was
the happiest day of my life!" Albert became an important
political adviser as well as the Queen's companion, replacing Lord
Melbourne as the dominant, influential figure in the first half of
her life. The lace of Victoria's wedding dress was designed by
William Dyce, head of the then Government School of Design (later
known as the Royal College of Art), and mounted on a white satin
dress made by Mary Bettans. The plain, cream-coloured satin
wedding dress was made from fabric woven in Spitalfields, east
London, and trimmed with a deep flounce and trimmings of lace
hand-made in Honiton and Beer, in Devon. This demonstrated support
for English industry, particularly the cottage industry for lace.
The handmade lace motifs were appliqued onto cotton machine-made
net. Orange flower blossoms, a symbol of fertility, also trimmed
the dress and made up Victoria's wreath, which she wore instead of
a tiara over her veil. The veil, which matched the flounce of the
dress, was four yards in length and 0.75 yards wide. Her jewellery
consisted of diamond earrings and necklace, and a sapphire brooch
given to her by Albert. The slippers she wore matched the white
colour of the dress. The train of the dress, carried by her
bridesmaids, measured 18 feet (5.5 m) long. Queen Victoria
described her choice of dress in her journal thus: "I wore a
white satin dress, with a deep flounce of Honiton lace, an
imitation of an old design. My jewels were my Turkish diamond
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1890: #BOTD: #HBD! Boris
Pasternak, Soviet Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator,
Nobel Prize laureate, best known as the author of Doctor Zhivago
(d. May 30, 1960) is #born Boris Leonidovich Pasternak in Moscow
into a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family. His father was the
post-Impressionist painter Leonid Pasternak, who taught as a
professor at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and
Architecture. His mother was Rosa Kaufman, a concert pianist and
the daughter of Odessa industrialist Isadore Kaufman and his wife.
Pasternak had a younger brother, Alex, and two sisters, Lydia and
Josephine. The family claimed descent on the paternal line from
Isaac Abarbanel, the famous 15th-century Sephardic Jewish
philosopher, Bible commentator, and treasurer of Portugal. Boris
Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life (1917), is one of
the most influential collections ever published in the Russian
language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe,
Schiller, Calderon de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular
with Russian audiences. Outside Russia, Pasternak is best known as
the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel which takes place
between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War.
Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR. At the
instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Doctor Zhivago was
smuggled to Milan and published in 1957 and distributed with the
help of the CIA in the rest of Europe. Pasternak was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event which enraged the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline
the prize, though his descendants were later to accept it in his
name in 1988. Boris Pasternak dies in the evening aged 70 of lung
cancer in his dacha in Peredelkino. He first summoned his sons,
and in their presence said, "Who will suffer most because of
my death? Who will suffer most? Only Oliusha will, and I haven't
had time to do anything for her. The worst thing is that she will
suffer." Pasternak's last words were, "I can't hear very
well. And there's a mist in front of my eyes. But it will go away,
won't it? Don't forget to open the window tomorrow." Shortly
before his death, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church had
given Pasternak the last rites. Later, in the strictest secrecy, a
Russian Orthodox funeral liturgy, or Panikhida, was offered in the
family's dacha. He is buried at Peredelkino Cemetery in Moscow,
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1893: #BOTD: #HBD! Jimmy
Durante, American entertainer, singer, pianist, comedian, and
actor (d. January 29, 1980) is #born James Francis Durante on the
Lower East Side of New York City. Durante's distinctive clipped
gravelly speech, New York accent, comic language-butchery,
jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of
America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s
through the 1970s. He often referred to his nose as the Schnozzola
(Italianization of the American Yiddish slang word schnoz, meaning
"big nose", from the German Schnauze), and the word
became his nickname. Jimmy Durante died of pneumonia in Santa
Monica, California, 12 days before he would have turned 87. He
received Catholic funeral rites four days later, with fellow
entertainers including Desi Arnaz, Ernest Borgnine, Marty Allen,
and Jack Carter in attendance, and was interred at Holy Cross
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1894: #BOTD: #HBD! Harold
Macmillan, nicknamed "Supermac", known for his
pragmatism, wit and unflappability, English captain, British
statesman, politician of the Conservative Party, Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom (d. December 29, 1986) is #born Maurice Harold
Macmillan at 52 Cadogan Place in Chelsea, London, England. He was
nicknamed "Supermac" after a 1958 cartoon image of him
by Victor "Vicky" Weisz which first appeared in the
Evening Standard on November 6, 1958 with the caption, "How
to Try to Continue to be Top Without Actually Having Been There",
which became an enduring nickname for him. Maurice Harold
Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS served in the
Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He was wounded three
times, most severely in September 1916 during the Battle Of The
Somme. He spent the rest of the war in a military hospital unable
to walk, and suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of
his life. After the war Macmillan joined his family business, then
entered Parliament in the 1924 General Election, for the northern
industrial constituency of Stockton-on-Tees. After losing his seat
in 1929, he regained it in 1931, soon after which he spoke out
against the high rate of unemployment in Stockton-On-Tees, and
against appeasement. Rising to high office during the Second World
War as a protege of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
Macmillan then served as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the
Exchequer under Churchill's successor Sir Anthony Eden. When Eden
resigned in 1957 following the Suez Crisis, Macmillan succeeded
him as Prime Minister. As a One Nation Tory of the Disraelian
tradition, haunted by memories of the Great Depression, he
believed in the post-war settlement and the necessity of a mixed
economy, championing a Keynesian strategy of public investment to
maintain demand and pursuing corporatist policies to develop the
domestic market as the engine of growth. Benefiting from
favourable international conditions, he presided over an age of
affluence, marked by low unemployment and high if uneven growth.
In his Bedford speech in July 1957 he told the nation they had
'never had it so good', but warned of the dangers of inflation,
summing up the fragile prosperity of the 1950s. The Conservatives
were re-elected in 1959 with an increased majority. In
international affairs, Macmillan rebuilt the special relationship
with the United States from the wreckage of the Suez Crisis (of
which he had been one of the architects), and redrew the world map
by decolonising sub-Saharan Africa. Reconfiguring the nation's
defences to meet the realities of the nuclear age, he ended
National Service, strengthened the nuclear forces by acquiring
Polaris, and pioneered the Nuclear Test Ban with the United States
and the Soviet Union. Belatedly recognising the dangers of
strategic dependence, he sought a new role for Britain in Europe,
but his unwillingness to disclose United States nuclear secrets to
France contributed to a French veto of the United Kingdom's entry
into the European Economic Community. Near the end of his
premiership, his government was rocked by the Vassall and Profumo
scandals, which seemed to symbolise for the rebellious youth of
the 1960s the moral decay of the British establishment. After his
resignation, Macmillan lived out a long retirement as an elder
statesman. He was as trenchant a critic of his successors in his
old age as he had been of his predecessors in his youth. Macmillan
was the last Prime Minister born during the Victorian era, the
last to have served in the First World War, the last to wear a
moustache when in office, and the last to receive an hereditary
peerage. Harold Macmillan died after a bout with pneumonia at
Birch Grove, the Macmillan family mansion on the edge of Ashdown
Forest, in Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, England, aged 92. His last
words were, 'I think I will go to sleep now'." His lifespan
of 92 years and 322 days was the longest of any British prime
minister until surpassed on February 14, 2005 by Lord Callaghan
(Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979, Leader of the Labour Party 1976
to 1980, the only person to have held all four Great Offices of
State [Chancellor Of The Exchequer, Home Secretary, Foreign
Secretary, Prime Minister], Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to
1987. A private funeral was held on January 5, 1987 at St Giles'
Church, Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, where he had regularly
worshipped and read the lesson. Two hundred mourners attended,
including 64 members of the Macmillan family, Thatcher and former
premiers Lord Home and Edward Heath, as well as Lord Hailsham, and
scores of country neighbours. The Prince Of Wales sent a wreath
"in admiring memory". He was buried in St Giles
Churchyard beside his wife and next to his parents and his son
Maurice, who had died in 1984. The House of Commons paid its
tribute on January 12, 1987, with much reference made to his book
The Middle Way. A public memorial service, attended by the Queen
and thousands of mourners, was held on February 10, 1987 in
Westminster Abbey. Macmillan's estate was assessed for probate on
June 1, 1987, with a value of 51,114 PS (equivalent to 152,955 PS
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1898: #BOTD: Bertolt Brecht,
German director, playwright, theatre practitioner and poet (d.
August 14, 1956) is #born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht in
Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire. Brecht came of age during
Germany's Weimar Republic. He had his first successes as a
playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote
The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a lifelong
collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist
thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstucke and
became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later
preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the
so-called V-effect. During the Nazi period he lived in exile,
first in Scandinavia, and during World War II in the United
States, where he was surveilled by the FBI and subpoenaed by the
House Un-American Activities Committee. Returning to East Berlin
after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner
Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene
Weigel. Bertolt Brecht died in East Berlin, East Germany of a
heart attack at the age of 58. He is buried in the Dorotheenstadt
Cemetery on Chausseestrasse in the Mitte neighbourhood of Berlin,
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Stella
Adler, Jewish American beauty, actress and acting teacher of the
Yiddish Theater's Adler dynasty (d. December 21, 1992) is #born in
Manhattan's Lower East Side in New York City. She was the youngest
daughter of Sara and Jacob P. Adler, the sister of Luther, Jay,
Frances, and Julia Adler and half-sister of Charles Adler and
Celia Adler, star of the Yiddish Theater. All five of her siblings
were actors. The Adlers comprised the Jewish American Adler acting
dynasty, which had its start in the Yiddish Theater District and
was a significant part of the vibrant ethnic theatrical scene that
thrived in New York from the late 19th century to the 1950s.
Stella Adler became the most famous and influential member of her
family. She began acting at the age of four as a part of the
Independent Yiddish Art Company of her parents. She shifted to
producing, directing, and teaching, founding the Stella Adler
Studio of Acting in New York City in 1949. Later in life she
taught part time in Los Angeles, with the assistance of her
protegee, actress Joanne Linville, who continued to teach Adler's
technique. Stella Adler died of heart failure at the age of 91 in
Los Angeles, California. She is buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1905: #BOTD: #HBD! Chick
Webb, African American jazz and swing music drummer and band
leader (d. June 16, 1939) is #born William Henry Webb in
Baltimore, Maryland, From childhood, he suffered from Pott
disease, also known as tuberculosis of the spine, leaving him with
short stature and a badly deformed spine; which caused him to
appear hunchbacked. The idea of playing an instrument was
suggested by his doctor to "loosen up" his bones. He
supported himself as a newspaper boy to save enough money to buy
drums, and first played professionally at age 11. At the age of 17
he moved to New York City and by 1926 was leading his own band in
Harlem. He alternated between band tours and residencies at New
York City clubs through the late 1920s. In 1931, his band became
the house band at the Savoy Ballroom. He became one of the
best-regarded bandleaders and drummers of the new "swing"
style. Drummer Buddy Rich cited Webb's powerful technique and
virtuoso performances as heavily influential on his own drumming,
and even referred to Webb as "the daddy of them all".
Webb was unable to read music, and instead memorized the
arrangements played by the band and conducted from a platform in
the center. He used custom-made pedals, goose-neck cymbal holders,
a 28-inch bass drum and other percussion instruments. Although his
band was not as influential and revered in the long term, it was
feared in the battle of the bands. The Savoy often featured
"Battle of the Bands" where Webb's band would compete
with other top bands (such as the Benny Goodman Orchestra or the
Count Basie Orchestra) from opposing bandstands. By the end of the
night's battles the dancers seemed always to have voted Chick's
band as the best. Webb married Martha Loretta Ferguson (also known
as "Sallyee"), and in 1935 he began featuring a teenaged
Ella Fitzgerald as vocalist. Together Chick and Ella would
electrify the Swing Era of jazz with hits such as "A-Tisket a
Tasket", which was composed by Van Alexander at Fitzgerald's
request. Despite rumors to the contrary, "Ella was not
adopted by Webb, nor did she live with him and his wife, Sallye,"
according to Stuart Nicholson in his Fitzgerald biography. In
November 1938, Webb's health began to decline; for a time,
however, he continued to play, refusing to give up touring so that
his band could remain employed during the Great Depression. He
disregarded his own discomfort and fatigue, which often found him
passing out from physical exhaustion after finishing sets.
Finally, he had a major operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore in 1939. Webb died from spinal tuberculosis on June 16,
1939, in Baltimore. Reportedly his last words were, "I'm
sorry, I've got to go." He was roughly 34 years old. Webb was
buried just outside Baltimore, in Arbutus Memorial Park, in
Arbutus, Maryland. Webb's death hit the jazz/swing community very
hard. After his death, Fitzgerald led the Chick Webb band until
she left to focus on her solo career in 1942 and caused the band
to disband. Art Blakey and Ellington both credited Webb with
influencing their music. Gene Krupa credited Webb with raising
drummer awareness and paving the way for drummer-led bands like
his own. Webb's thundering solos created a complexity and an
energy that paved the way for Rich (who studied him intensely) and
Louie Bellson. Chick Webb died of Pott disease (tuberculosis of
the spine) in his hometown of Baltimore. Reportedly his last words
were, "I'm sorry, I've got to go." Webb is buried in
Baltimore County, in Arbutus Memorial Park, in Arbutus, Maryland.
On February 12, 1940 a crowd of about 7,500 people attended a
Chick Webb Benefit in Baltimore, Maryland. In attendance were
Sally Webb, Chick's widow, his mother Marie Webb, his sister Mabel
Porter, Governor Herbert R. O'Conor, Fitzgerald and boxing
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1906: Naval History: The
History Of The Royal Navy: Naval Christenings: The HMS
Dreadnought: -- HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new
breed of battleships knowns as Dreadnoughts, is christened and
launched by King Edward VII. Her name and the type of the entire
class of warships that was named after her stems from archaic
English in which "dreadnought" means "a fearless
person" or "a heavy overcoat for stormy weather".
Dreadnought's entry into service in 1906 represented such an
advance in naval technology that its name came to be associated
with an entire generation of battleships, the "dreadnoughts",
as well as the class of ships named after it. The generation of
ships she made obsolete became known as "pre-dreadnoughts".
Admiral Sir John "Jacky" Fisher, First Sea Lord of the
Board of Admiralty, is credited as the father of Dreadnought.
Shortly after he assumed office, he ordered design studies for a
battleship armed solely with 12-inch (305 mm) guns and a speed of
21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). He convened a "Committee on
Designs" to evaluate the alternative designs and to assist in
the detailed design work. One ancillary benefit of the Committee
was that it would shield him and the Admiralty from political
charges that they had not consulted leading experts before
designing such a radically different battleship. Dreadnought was
the first battleship of her era to have a uniform main battery,
rather than having a few large guns complemented by a heavy
secondary armament of smaller guns. She was also the first capital
ship to be powered by steam turbines, making her the fastest
battleship in the world at the time of her completion. Her launch
helped spark a naval arms race as navies around the world,
particularly the German Imperial Navy, rushed to match it in the
build-up to World War I. Ironically for a vessel designed to
engage enemy battleships, her only significant action was the
ramming and sinking of German submarine SM U-29, becoming the only
battleship confirmed to have sunk a submarine. Dreadnought did not
participate in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 as she was being
refitted. Nor did Dreadnought participate in any of the other
World War I naval battles. In May 1916 she was relegated to
coastal defence duties in the English Channel, not rejoining the
Grand Fleet until 1918. The ship was reduced to reserve in 1919
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1927: #BOTD: #HBD! Leontyne
Price, African American operatic soprano, is #born Mary Violet
Leontyne Price in Laurel, Mississippi, where she was raised. She
rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was the
first African American to become a leading performer at the
Metropolitan Opera, and one of the most popular American classical
singers of her generation. Reviewing her televised farewell opera
performance at the Met in 1985, as Aida, one critic described
Price's voice as "vibrant," "soaring" and "a
Price beyond pearls." Time magazine called her voice "Rich,
supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortless
soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly
spun high C." A lirico spinto (Italian for "pushed
lyric") soprano, she was considered especially well suited to
the heroines of Verdi's "middle period" operas: Aida,
the Leonoras of Il trovatore and La forza del destino. and Amelia
in Un ballo in maschera. She also was noted for her
interpretations of leading roles in operas by Giacomo Puccini and
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. After her retirement from opera, she
continued to appear in recitals and orchestral concerts until
1997. Among her many honors and awards are the Presidential Medal
Of Freedom (1964), the Spingarn Medal (1965), the Kennedy Center
Honors (1980), the National Medal of Arts (1985), the Golden Plate
Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1986), numerous
honorary degrees, and 19 Grammy Awards for operatic and song
recitals and full operas, and a Lifetime Achievement Award, more
than any other classical singer. In October 2008, she was among
the first recipients of the Opera Honors by the National Endowment
for the Arts. In 2019, Leontyne Price was awarded an honorary
doctorate degree from Boston Conservatory at Berklee. At the age
of 14, she was taken on a school trip to hear Marian Anderson sing
a recital in Jackson, an experience she later said was
inspirational. "The minute she came on stage, I knew I wanted
to walk like that, look like that, and if possible, sound
something near that," she told an interviewer in 2008. On
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February 10, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD! Roberta
Flack, African American singer-songwriter and pianist who topped
the Billboard charts with the No. 1 singles "The First Time
Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His
Song", "Feel Like Makin' Love", "Where Is the
Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", the latter two
duets with Donny Hathaway, is #born Roberta Cleopatra Flack in
Black Mountain, North Carolina. Flack influenced the subgenre of
contemporary R & B called quiet storm, and interpreted songs
by songwriters such as Leonard Cohen and members of the Beatles.
Flack was the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of
the Year in two consecutive years: "The First Time Ever I Saw
Your Face" won in 1973 and "Killing Me Softly with His
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1939: The Interwar Period
(The Aftermath Of World War I, The Interbellum, Between The Wars):
The Spanish Civil War: The Catalonia Offensive: -- The Spanish
Nationalists, aided by Italy, conclude their conquest of Catalonia
and Franco seals the border with France. The Catalonia Offensive
(Spanish: La Ofensiva de Cataluna) was begun by the Nationalist
Army on December 23, 1938, and rapidly conquered Republican-held
Catalonia with Barcelona (the Republic's capital city from October
1937). Barcelona was captured on January 26, 1939. The Republican
government headed for the French border. Thousands of people
fleeing the Nationalists also crossed the frontier in the
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1953: #BOTD: Travis Walton,
American forestry worker and controversial alleged alien abductee
by a UFO on November 5, 1975 while he was working in the
Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests near Snowflake, Arizona, is
#born in an unspecified town in the state of Arizona. Walton was
missing for five days and six hours. After days of searching with
scent dogs and helicopters, Walton says he reappeared by the side
of a road near Heber, Arizona. The Walton case received mainstream
publicity and remains one of the best-known alien abduction
stories, while scientific skeptics consider it a hoax. In 1978,
Walton wrote a book about his purported abduction titled The
Walton Experience, which was adapted into the 1993 film Fire in
the Sky. According to Walton and a number of other members from
the logging crew, on November 5, 1975, he was working with a
timber stand improvement crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National
Forest near Snowflake, Arizona. While riding in a truck with six
of his coworkers, they allegedly encountered a saucer-shaped
object hovering over the ground approximately 110 feet (34 m)
away, making a high-pitched buzz. Walton claims that after he left
the truck and approached the object, a beam of light suddenly
appeared from the craft and knocked him unconscious. The other six
men were frightened and supposedly drove away. Walton claimed that
he awoke in a hospital-like room, being observed by three short,
bald creatures. He claimed that he fought with them until a human
wearing a helmet led Walton to another room, where he blacked out
as three other humans put a clear plastic mask over his face.
Walton has claimed he remembers nothing else until he found
himself walking along a highway five days later, with the flying
saucer departing above him. In the days following Walton's UFO
claim, The National Enquirer awarded Walton and his co-workers a
5K USD prize for "best UFO case of the year" after they
were said to have passed polygraph tests administered by the
Enquirer and the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO).
Walton, his older brother, and his mother were described by the
Navajo County, Arizona sheriff as "longtime students of
UFOs". Ufologist Jim Ledwith said, "For five days, the
authorities thought he'd been murdered by his co-workers, and then
he was returned. All of the co-workers who were there, who saw the
spacecraft, they all took polygraph tests, and they all passed,
except for one, and that one was inconclusive." Skeptics
include the story as an example of a UFO hoax promoted by a
credulous media circus with the resulting publicity exploited by
Walton to make money. Controversial UFO researcher Philip J.
Klass, who uniformly refutes ufo sightings and abductions,
asserted that Walton's story was a hoax perpetrated for financial
gain, identified many discrepancies in the accounts of Walton and
his co-workers. After investigating the case, Klass reported that
the polygraph tests were "poorly administered", that
Walton used "polygraph countermeasures," such as holding
his breath, and that Klass uncovered an earlier failed test
administered by an examiner who concluded the case involved "gross
deception". In 1978, Walton wrote the book The Walton
Experience detailing his claims, which became the basis for the
1993 film Fire in the Sky. Paramount Pictures decided Walton's
account was "too fuzzy and too similar to other televised
close encounters", so they ordered screenwriter Tracy Torme
to write a "flashier, more provocative" abduction story.
Walton has occasionally appeared at UFO conventions or on
television. He sponsors his own UFO conference in Arizona called
the "Skyfire Summit". On March 12, 1993, the opening day
of Fire in the Sky, Walton and Mike Rogers appeared on the CNN
program Larry King Live, which also featured Philip J. Klass. On
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1962: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: Prisoner Exchanges (Prisoner Swaps): --
Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for
captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. ========= Francis Gary Powers
(August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977)-often referred to as simply
Gary Powers-was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a
reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960
U-2 incident. On May 1, 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was
shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing
photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. The
single-seat aircraft, flown by pilot Francis Gary Powers, was hit
by an S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missile and
crashed near Sverdlovsk (today's Yekaterinburg). Powers parachuted
safely and was captured. Initially, the US authorities
acknowledged the incident as the loss of a civilian weather
research aircraft operated by NASA, but were forced to admit the
mission's true purpose when a few days later the Soviet government
produced the captured pilot and parts of the U-2's surveillance
equipment, including photographs of Soviet military bases taken
during the mission. The incident occurred during the presidency of
Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev,
around two weeks before the scheduled opening of an east-west
summit in Paris. It caused great embarrassment to the United
States and prompted a marked deterioration in its relations with
the Soviet Union, already strained by the ongoing Cold War. Powers
was convicted of espionage and sentenced to three years of
imprisonment plus seven years of hard labor but was released two
years later. He later worked as a helicopter pilot for KNBC in Los
Angeles and died in a 1977 helicopter crash, aged 47 when his Bell
206 JetRanger helicopter ran out of fuel and crashed at the
Sepulveda Dam recreational area in Encino, California, several
miles short of its intended landing site at Burbank Airport. The
National Transportation Safety Board report attributed the
probable cause of the crash to pilot error. According to Powers'
son, an aviation mechanic had repaired a faulty fuel gauge without
informing Powers, who subsequently misread it. At the last moment,
it is surmised that he noticed children playing in the area and
directed the helicopter elsewhere to avoid landing on them. He
might have landed safely if not for the last-second deviation,
which compromised his autorotative descent. Powers was survived by
his wife, children (Claudia Dee and Francis Gary Powers Jr.), and
five sisters. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery as an
Air Force veteran. ========= Rudolf Abel, English-Russian KGB
colonel, Soviet intelligence officer and spy (July 11, 1903 -
November 15, 1971) was born William August Fisher in the Benwell
area of Newcastle Upon Tyne in Tyne And Wear, England into a
family of emigre revolutionaries of the Tsarist era (his father
was of German origins and his mother was of Russian descent).
William August Fisher adopted the alias of "Rudolf Ivanovich
Abel", a deceased friend of Fisher's and a fellow KGB
colonel, only when he was arrested on charges of conspiracy by the
FBI in 1957. Fisher/Abel moved to Russia in the 1920s, and served
in the Soviet military before undertaking foreign service as a
radio operator in Soviet intelligence in the late 1920s and early
'30s. He later served in an instructional role before taking part
in intelligence operations against the Germans during World War
II. After the war, he began working for the KGB, who sent him to
the United States where he worked as part of a spy ring based in
New York City. In 1957, the U.S. Federal Court in New York
convicted Fisher on three counts of conspiracy as a Soviet spy for
his involvement in what became known as the Hollow Nickel Case,
also known as The Hollow Coin, in which the spies used a container
disguised as a U.S. coin to contain a coded message concerning
Fisher's espionage activities. He was sentenced to 30 years
imprisonment at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Georgia. He served
just over four years of his sentence before he was exchanged for
captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. After his return
to Moscow, Fisher was employed by the Illegals Directorate of the
KGB's First Chief Directorate, giving speeches and lecturing
school children on intelligence work, but he became increasingly
disillusioned. He made a notable appearance in the foreword to the
Soviet spy film Dead Season and also worked as a consultant on the
film. (Vladimir Putin once stated that the lead part the film's
star Donatas Banionis was the reason why he joined the KGB.)
Fisher, a heavy smoker, died of lung cancer aged 68 in Moscow,
Russia. His ashes were interred at the Donskoye Cemetery under his
real name; next to Konon Molody, who had died the previous year. A
few Western correspondents were invited there to view for
themselves the true identity of the spy who never "broke".
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10, 1967: Aesthetics: The
Performing Arts: Music: Music History: The History Of Rock And
Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll,
Rock N' Roll): British Rock And Roll (British Rock & Roll,
British Rock-N-Roll, British Rock 'N' Roll, British Rock 'N Roll,
British Rock N' Roll): The Swinging Sixties: Music Of The United
Kingdom: Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N'
Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): Concerts: British Rock (Beat
Music, British Beat, Merseybeat): The Swinging Sixties: Music Of
The United Kingdom: Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll,
Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): The British Invasion:
The Rolling Stones: Record Releases: -- Between The Buttons, the
fifth British and seventh American studio album by the English
rock band the Rolling Stones, is released in the United States; it
has been released in the UK on January 20. Reflecting the band's
brief foray into psychedelia and baroque pop balladry during the
era, the album is among their most eclectic works;
multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones frequently abandoned his guitar
during the sessions in favour of instruments such as organ,
marimba, dulcimer, vibraphone, kazoo, and theremin. Keyboard
contributions came from two session players: former Rolling Stones
member Ian Stewart (piano, organ) and frequent contributor Jack
Nitzsche (piano, harpsichord). Between the Buttons would be the
last album produced by Andrew Loog Oldham, who had, to this point,
acted as the band's manager and produced all of their albums. As
with prior albums, the American and British versions contained
slightly different track listings. The American version of Between
the Buttons, which includes "Let's Spend the Night Together"
and "Ruby Tuesday", is on the 2003 and 2012 versions of
Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Between
the Buttons reached number 3 on the British album charts and
number 2 on the US Billboard Top LPs chart. On the previous album,
Aftermath, Brian Jones introduced a large number of different
instruments to the recording sessions, a trend he continued on
this album. Jones only contributed electric guitar on one track
apiece on the American release and the British version. Bill Wyman
plays bass on all except three tracks (which instead feature
Richards on bass), and drummer Charlie Watts and lead singer Mick
Jagger appear on all tracks. Piano duties were split by two
session players: original Rolling Stones member Ian Stewart and
frequent contributor Jack Nitzsche. Early sessions for the album
occurred between 3 August 1966 and the 11th at Los Angeles' RCA
Studios during the Rolling Stones' 1966 American Tour. David
Hassinger was the engineer for the album. Several songs were
worked on; the backing tracks of six songs that would appear on
the album were recorded, as were those of "Let's Spend the
Night Together" and "Who's Driving Your Plane?",
the B-side of "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in
the Shadow?", released as a single in late September. During
this time, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was invited down to RCA
Studios during the recording of "My Obsession", which
remains one of his favourite Rolling Stones songs. The band
returned to London, and sessions continued at IBC Studios from
August 31 to September 3. "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby,
Standing in the Shadow?" was completed and released on 23
September before the Stones embarked on their seventh British
tour, which lasted into early October and was their last UK tour
until 1971. The second block of recording sessions for Between the
Buttons began on 8 November at the newly opened Olympic Sound
Studios in Barnes, London, alternating between Olympic and Pye
Studios until 26 November. During this time, the bulk of the album
was completed, including vocal and other overdubs on the
previously recorded backing tracks and mixing. "Ruby Tuesday"
was also completed. Around the same time, producer Andrew Loog
Oldham was also preparing the US-only live album Got Live If You
Want It!, a contractual requirement from London Records that
contained live performances from their recent British tour as well
as studio tracks overdubbed with audience noise. After that
album's release on 10 December, a final overdubbing session for
Buttons was held at Olympic Studios on 13 December 1966 before
Oldham took the tapes back to RCA Studios in Hollywood for final
mixing and editing.The album was recorded using four-track
machines, with tracks of the initial sessions mixed down in order
to free the tracks for use as overdubs. Mick Jagger felt this
process lost the clarity of the songs, commenting during an
interview that "we bounced it back to do overdubs so many
times we lost the sound of it. [The songs] sounded so great, but
later on, I was really disappointed with it." He commented
further: "I don't know, it just isn't any good. 'Back Street
Girl' is about the only one I like." In an interview with New
Musical Express, he even called the rest of the album "more
or less rubbish." Between the Buttons would be the last album
wholly produced by Oldham, with whom the Stones fell out in
mid-1967 during the recording sessions for Their Satanic Majesties
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February 10, 1968: Labor Union Disputes
(Trade Union Disputes): Strikes (Strike Actions, Labor Strikes,
Labour Strikes): Sanitation Strikes: The 1968 New York City
Sanitation Strike: -- With the union winning a wage increase above
the city's offer -- double-time pay for Sunday work and a 2.5
percent increase in the city's contribution to their pension funds
-- The 1968 New York City Sanitation Strike (February 2-10, 1968)
ends. Most of all, this was a victory for dignity and respect for
the sanitation workers and for labor solidarity. Two days after
the NYC sanitation workers' strike ended on Feb. 12, the
predominantly African American sanitation workers in Memphis,
Tenn., went on strike. The union on the ground in the strike was
AFSCME Local 1733. This was the famous "I Am a Man"
strike, which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was supporting
when he was assassinated. During the two years after the New York
City and Memphis strikes, sanitation workers in Baltimore, Md.;
Washington, D.C.; Charlotte, N.C.; Atlanta, Ga.; Miami and St.
Petersburg, Fla.; and Corpus Christi, Texas, all went out on
strike. The 1968 New York City Sanitation Strike began on February
2, 1968 as seven thousand sanitation workers of Teamsters Local
831 flood City Hall Park demanding higher wages and benefits. That
crowd was 70 percent of the entire sanitation workforce. For years
the city had had an unfair policy by which sanitation workers'
salaries had to be lower than police and firefighters' salaries.
And sanitation workers contributed more from their paychecks but
got lower pensions compared to police and firefighters. The
importance of the strike was underlined by a flier handed out by
Local 831, which pointed out the life expectancy of a sanitation
worker was 54 years compared to 67 for the entire U.S. population.
Even today, according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics,
"refuse and recyclable material collectors" consistently
have one of the highest rates of on-the-job fatalities. Seventeen
NYC sanitation workers were killed on the job between 2000 and
2014. The workers' decision to strike was about far more than
money. One sanitation worker, a shop steward, said it all at a
standing-room-only union meeting two days before the vote: "We
may handle garbage but we're not garbage." The sanitation
workers' contract with the city had run out in May 1967. The city
offered the workers a mere 400 annual wage increase. When NYC
mayor John Lindsay refused the union's demand for only 200 more a
year and other improved benefits, the workers shouted, "No
contract, no work!" Then they "persuaded" (!) their
union leadership to waive the Teamsters' constitutional
requirement for a mail-ballot strike vote and launched the great
NYC sanitation workers' strike of 1968. The 1968 New York City
Sanitation Strike continued for nine days until Feb. 10, despite
the media opposition to the union. The New York Times wrote on
Feb. 9: "The runaway strike by the city's unionized garbage
collectors is the latest miscarriage of civil service unionism
that relies on the illegal application of force to club the
community into extortionate wage settlements. _ Mayor Lindsay has
taken the right and necessary course in moving for an injunction
under the state's new Taylor Law. The city cannot surrender to
such tyrannical abuse of union power." The President of the
Sanitation Workers' Union, John Delury, was jailed. Mayor Lindsay
asked other unions, including District Council 37 of the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the city's
largest public employee union, to provide scabs and have their
members pick up the garbage. In solidarity with the striking
workers, other city workers refused. When Mayor Lindsay appealed
to Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to call in the New York National Guard
to break the strike, all the city unions, including DC37 and the
New York City Central Labor Council, threatened a general strike.
By Feb. 10, the New York Times was begging Rockefeller not to call
in the Guard to avoid "insuring a general strike by all
municipal civil service employees, and perhaps by all New York
labor." Rockefeller flinched, saying: "The National
Guard was used to break a strike in which a family corporation was
involved when I was a child. Men and women were killed. _ I will
not use the National Guard." Rockefeller was referring to the
1914 Ludlow massacre, when his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller,
the owner of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, got the Colorado
governor to call in the National Guard to break a mine workers'
strike. The miners and their families were huddled in tents when
the militia opened fire. Over 60 strikers and family members were
shot dead or burned alive when their tents were set ablaze by the
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Today, February 10, 2026
February 10: National Umbrella Day: -- An
annual honoring of one of the world's most useful inventions, the
umbrella! Not only does the umbrella help keep us dry from the
rain, but it also protects us from the heat of the sun. You can
also use an umbrella as a fashion accessory. While the umbrella is
primarily practical, they also decorate cocktails. These brightly
colored paper umbrellas make fun party favors, especially when
visiting sunny locations. Umbrellas have also found their way into
the art world. Their color and shape make sharp silhouettes. They
also serve as the canvas for art. In movies, umbrellas play a
role, too. For example, they played vital parts in Singing in the
Rain in 1952 and Mary Poppins in 1964. The word umbrella comes
from the Latin word umbra, meaning shade or shadow. Brolly is a
slang word for umbrella, often used in Britain, New Zealand,
Australia, and South Africa. Bumbershoot is a fanciful Americanism
for an umbrella from the late 19th century. The basic umbrella was
invented over four thousand years ago. There is evidence of
umbrellas in the ancient art and artifacts of Egypt, Assyria,
Greece, and China. We can credit the Chinese for being the first
to protect us from the rain. Their paper parasols received a layer
of wax followed by lacquer that made the umbrella withstand the
elements. One of the first umbrella shops opened in 1830 at 53 New
Oxford Street in London, England. The shop, operated by James
Smith and Sons, still operates regular hours at the same location
today. In 1928, Hans Haupt's pocket umbrellas appeared. Then, in
1969, Bradford E. Phillips, the owner of Totes Incorporated of
Loveland, Ohio, obtained a patent for the first "working
folding umbrella." Umbrellas have also been fashioned into
hats as early as 1880 and as recently as 1987. Photographers use
umbrellas with a reflective inside as a diffusion device when
employing artificial lighting and as a glare shield and shade,
most often in portrait situations. So spring for a new umbrella
and prepare for rainy days ahead! Use an umbrella as a parasol on
a sunny day. Have an umbrella photoshoot modeling your favorite
rain gear and umbrella. Order a drink that comes with a paper
umbrella. Watch movies with iconic umbrella scenes such as Singing
in the Rain and Mary Poppins. And use #NationalUmbrellaDay to post
on social media! While the origins of the utilitarian holiday
remain a mystery, the world has been celebrating it since at least
2004.
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10: National Flannel Day: -- Did
you know that it has been more than 400 years since flannel was
first created? National Flannel Day is a day dedicated to one of
the most popular pieces of fabric, flannels. Many people fancy
flannel clothes and they come in different shapes, sizes, and
styles. There are many stories surrounding flannel's first
appearance in society. Some suggest that the early origins of
flannel can be traced back to Wales during the 16th century.
During those times, the fabric was called Welsh cotton, which was
strange as the material was not made from cotton but rather, from
coarse woolen fabric. It is said that during the 17th century, the
term 'Flanelle' started being used in France. By the 19th century,
towns in Wales like Hay on Wye and Llanidloes became the epicenter
of flannel production. The Drapers Company of Shrewsbury undertook
the job of marketing these Welsh woolens. It is said that soldiers
in the Civil War may have used flannels as undershirts. Mixtures
of silk and cotton in flannels became popular by the 20th century.
Flannel trousers became extremely prominent, especially in games
like cricket. Flannel was seen as a symbol of ruggedness as it was
mostly worn by blue-collar workers. It was also used in both World
War I and World War II as undershirts and also as the lining of
jackets. In the 1900s, flannels made a comeback but in a different
form. It was popular amongst singers and rappers who wore cheaper
flannels more ruggedly. Though the exact origins of National
Flannel Day are not known, it has been celebrated worldwide,
especially in the U.S. as this fabric has been a favorite amongst
people of all age groups and ethnicities.
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10: National Home Warranty Day:
-- Since National Home Warranty Day was first observed in 2020,
home warranties that help save money by providing subsidized
repair and replacement work of home appliances have been
celebrated. This day was created so that we could appreciate the
value of home warranties. The importance and prevalence of
warranties can be seen throughout history. 'Caveat Emptor,' a
Latin term that means 'Let the buyer be known,' was a contract
protected under the common law. Initially, warranties had a
Privity Requirement, which meant that taxes applied to only those
who were directly involved in the transaction. Gradually, the
Privity Requirement was reduced to protect the consumers, and in a
few years, it was completely abolished. In the 1880s, the United
States decided to include the characterization of the quantity and
quality of an article sold by expanding warranty doctrines. It was
in the 1900s when a warranty for food and drink safety was
introduced. By 1964, it was applied to most of the daily products
used by consumers. This was also the time when Tort Law was
introduced. Sales Laws in the United States were governed by the
Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.). In 1975, the Magnuson-Moss
Warranty Act was introduced so that the consumers could read the
coverage of warranties. The Contract For The International Sales
of Goods (C.I.S.G.), which was established in the 1980s, had given
out similar instructions and laws to make the consumer more aware
of the overall coverage of warranties. By the late 1990s, home
warranties had become immensely popular. It protected consumers
from the high cost of repair of common household appliances and
systems. Though the exact origins of National Home Warranty Day
are not known, it is said that it was 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty, a
home warranty provider company that first created National Home
Warranty Day. Since then it has been celebrated annually on
February 10 to show appreciation for home warranties.
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10: All The News That's Fit To
Print Day: -- February 10, 1897: First Publications: -- "All
the news that's fit to print" slogan of The New York Times is
first printed, appearing as at the top left corner of the front
page; it continues to appear there ever since on print copies of
The New York Times, but it doesn't appear in the digital version
of the newspaper, as it is not "printed" online, but
rather "published" there. The words "all the news
that's fit to print" are some of the most famous words in
American journalism. The words took a permanent place in the upper
left corner, or left "ear", of the "New York Times"
masthead. There was no notice, commentary, or fanfare when the
motto appeared on the daily's front page. Over time, the phrase
has been admired as a timeless statement of purpose. It is
considered to be a "war cry" for honest journalism.
Before the use of the slogan, the top left corner of the first
page of The New York Times was used to note the number of pages in
that day's edition. The use of the slogan happened a few months
after Adolph Ochs became the publisher of the newspaper. The
company had been facing difficulties and nearly went bankrupt
before Ochs took over. His mission was to try and elevate the
quality of the paper's reporting. He believed this would
distinguish it from the "yellow journalism" newspapers
that were dominant at the time. Those newspapers were usually
filled with stories that tended to be lurid and sensationalized.
Sometimes they carried information that was factually inaccurate
or outright false. Ochs coined the slogan "all the news
that's fit to print" as a way to sum up his vision for "The
Times." The slogan debuted publicly in October 1896 on a sign
that Ochs had placed in New York's Madison Square.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10: Plimsoll Day (Waterline Day,
International Load Line Day): -- Celebrates the series of events
that brought about safety to our ships and dock - and Samuel
Plimsoll, the great man who championed the initiative that brought
about this safety. Did you know that in the early years,
Commercial sailing was one of the world's deadliest means of
transport? But thanks to Samuel Plimsoll, that has gradually
become a thing of the past as a greater percentage of commercial
ships travel and return safely with heavy cargoes all over the
world today. Plimsoll lines are an important aspect of ships that
have radically changed the narratives of commercial sailing over
centuries, but before they came on board, numerous casualties and
accidents marred the ship transport sector. It was not unusual to
hear news of capsized commercial ships in the middle of the ocean
leading to crew members' deaths or accidents on the docks as
cargoes were being loaded or unloaded on the ships. The reasons
for all these shipping accidents were not too far-fetched. The
majority of these ships were overloaded or poorly loaded. Samuel
Plimsoll, an English politician and social reformer in 1853,
ventured into the coal shipping business, but he ended up failing
woefully and losing a lot of fortune. It was at this time he got
to know and understand the challenges those sailors faced in their
line of work, and he began to make moves to secure safer practices
in the commercial shipping sector. Samuel Plimsoll led the motions
for reforms and regulations of the shipping industry when he
finally became a member of the British Parliament, advocating for
and leading the institution of England's Merchant Shipping act of
1876 and the Unseaworthy Ships Bill, which both saw to the birth
of Plimsoll lines. Plimsoll lines appear at the hulls of ships,
and they help to indicate the maximum safe draft. They are still
very relevant even today, and Plimsoll Day is both to celebrate
Samuel Plimsoll for his achievements and remind shipping companies
and sailors that their safety is paramount even as they live their
daily seafaring lives.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: LBJ
1991 TV Documentary Series Lyndon Johnson DVD Download USB Drive
Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1964: Civil Rights
Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968):
Anti-Racism: Anti-Racism In The United States: Anti-Discrimination
Law In The United States: The Civil Rights Act Of 1964: -- After
12 days of debate and voting on 125 amendments, the U.S. House of
Representatives passes the Civil Rights Act Of 1964 by a vote of
290-130. The bill prohibited any state or local government or
public facility from denying access to anyone because of race or
ethnic origin. It further gave the U.S. Attorney General the power
to bring school desegregation law suits. The bill allowed the
federal government the power to bring school desegregation law
suits and to cut off federal funds to companies or states who
discriminated. It forbade labor organizations or interstate
commercial companies from discriminating against workers due to
race or ethnic origins. Lastly, the federal government could
compile records of denial of voting rights. After passage in the
House, the bill went to the Senate, which after 83 days of debate
passed a similar package on June 19 by a vote of 73 to 27.
President Lyndon Johnson signed the legislation on July 2. Later,
future Georgia governor Lester Maddox would become the first
person prosecuted under the Civil Rights Act.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Peter
Ustinov's Russia TV Documentary Series DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1837: #DOTD: #RIP: Alexander
Pushkin, African Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the
Romantic era, considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet
and the founder of modern Russian literature, and Freemason (b.
June 6, 1799) #dies aged 37 in a duel with his wife's alleged
lover and her sister's husband Georges-Charles de Heeckeren
d'Anthes, also known as Dantes-Gekkern, a French officer serving
with the Chevalier Guard Regiment. The funeral service was held at
Konyushennaya church in St. Petersburg. Many people attended.
Pushkin is buried on the grounds of the Svyatogorsky monastery in
present-day Pushkinskiye Gory, near Pskov and St. Petersburg,
beside his mother. His last home is now a museum. Alexander
Pushkin was born Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin into the Russian
nobility in Moscow, Russian Empire. His father, Sergey Lvovich
Pushkin, belonged to an old noble family. His maternal
great-grandfather was Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a
nobleman of Sub-Saharan African origin (Cameroon) who was adopted
and raised in the Emperor's court household as his godson. He
published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely
recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his
graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from
the Lycee, Pushkin recited his controversial poem "Ode to
Liberty", one of several that led to his exile by Tsar
Alexander I. While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's
political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most
famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene
Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Arthur
Miller Documentaries DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 2005: #DOTD: #RIP: Arthur
Miller, American author, actor, essayist, playwright, screenwriter
and figure in twentieth-century American theater (b. October 17,
1915) #dies on the evening of the 56th anniversary of the Broadway
debut of Death Of A Salesman at age 89 of bladder cancer and heart
failure, at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He had been in
hospice care at his sister's apartment in New York since his
release from hospital the previous month. He was surrounded by his
partner Agnes Barley, family and friends. His body is interred at
Roxbury Center Cemetery in Roxbury. He was born Arthur Asher
Miller in Harlem, New York City into a family of Polish-Jewish
descent. Arthur Miller's most popular plays are All My Sons
(1947), Death Of A Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953) and A View
from the Bridge (1955, revised 1956). He also wrote several
screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961).
The drama Death Of A Salesman has been numbered on the short list
of finest American plays in the 20th century. Miller was often in
the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and
early 1960s. During this time, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
for Drama; testified before the House Un-American Activities
Committee; and was married to Marilyn Monroe.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Malcolm
X: Make It Plain Biography Documentary DVD Download USB Drive
Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1992: #DOTD: #RIP: Alex
Haley, African American soldier, journalist, writer and Freemason,
author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family (b.
August 11, 1921) #dies in Seattle, Washington, of a heart attack,
aged 70. He is buried beside his childhood home in Henning,
Tennessee. Born Alexander Murray Palmer Haley in Ithaca, New York,
his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, published in 1976, explored
seven generations of his family from its origins in Africa through
slavery in America and eventual hard-fought freedom. Roots was
translated into 37 languages and also became an eight-part TV
miniseries in 1977 which attracted a record American audience and
raised awareness concerning the legacy of slavery. Haley' first
book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a
collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with the
subject. Alex Haley was a Prince Hall Freemason and held the 32nd
degree in the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Lost TV
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1906: #BOTD: #HBD! Lon
Chaney Jr, American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the
film The Wolf Man (1941) and its various crossovers, Count Alucard
(Dracula spelled backward) in Son of Dracula, Frankenstein's
monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), the Mummy in three
pictures, and various other roles in many Universal horror films,
including six films in their 1940s Inner Sanctum series, making
him a horror icon (d. July 12, 1973) is #born Creighton Tull
Chaney in Oklahoma City, the son of then-stage performer Lon
Chaney and Frances Cleveland Creighton, a singing stage performer
who traveled in road shows across the country with Chaney. In a
1965 interview, Lon Chaney Jr., also known as simply Lon Chaney,
revealed that he was a stillborn baby. "I was all black and
not breathing when I was born," he shared. "My father
ran out of the house with me and broke a hole in the ice in a
nearby lake, and dunked me in time after time until he revived
me". His parents' troubled marriage ended in divorce in 1913
following his mother's scandalous public suicide attempt in Los
Angeles. Young Creighton lived in various homes and boarding
schools until 1916, when his father (now employed in the film
industry) married Hazel Hastings and could provide a stable home.
From an early age, he worked hard to avoid his famous father's
shadow. In young adulthood, his father discouraged him from show
business, and he attended business college and became successful
in a Los Angeles appliance corporation. Creighton, who had begun
working for a plumbing company, married Dorothy Hinckley, the
daughter of his employer Ralph Hinckley. They had two sons: Lon
Ralph Chaney and Ronald Creighton Chaney. Creighton's life changed
when his father was diagnosed with throat cancer and died on
August 26, 1930, at the age of 47. Many articles and biographies
over the years report that Creighton was led to believe his mother
had died while he was a boy, and he only learned that she was
still alive after his father's death. Creighton always maintained
he had a tough childhood. In addition to his horror film roles, he
also portrayed Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men (1939) and
supporting parts in dozens of mainstream movies, including High
Noon (1952), The Defiant Ones (1958), and numerous Westerns,
musicals, comedies and dramas. Originally referred to in films as
Creighton Chaney, he was later credited as "Lon Chaney, Jr."
in 1935, and after Man Made Monster (1941), beginning as early as
The Wolf Man later that same year, he was almost always billed
under the name of his immensely more famous father, the deceased
cinema giant Lon Chaney, at the studio's insistence. Chaney had
English, French, and Irish ancestry, and his career in movies and
television spanned four decades, from 1931 to 1971. Lon Chaney Jr.
died in San Clemente, California at the age of 67 after suffering
from a series of illnesses in the year prior to his death. He
donated his remains to Medical Science. In April 1973, he was
released from the hospital after undergoing surgery for cataracts
and treatment for beriberi. He also suffered from liver problems
and gout. His cause of death was not immediately released to the
public; Chaney's death certificate listed his cause of death as
cardiac failure due to arteriosclerotic heart disease and
cardiomyopathy. He was honored by appearing as the Wolf Man on one
of a 1997 series of United States postage stamps depicting movie
monsters (his father appeared as the Phantom of the Opera, while
Bela Lugosi appeared as Dracula, and Boris Karloff had two stamps
as Frankenstein's monster and the original Mummy). His grandson
Ron Chaney Jr. has appeared frequently as a guest at horror movie
conventions.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Glenn
Miller: America's Musical Hero DVD, Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1942: Aesthetics: The
Performing Arts: Music: Music History: The Music Industry: Music
Recording Certifications: Gold Records: -- The first gold record
ever awarded is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga
Choo Choo". The 78-rpm record was recorded on May 7, 1941 for
RCA Victor's Bluebird label, and became a certified gold disc for
1,200,000 sales. The composition was nominated for an Academy
Award in 1941 for Best Song from a movie, from the film "Sun
Valley Serenade". The song achieved its success that year
even though it could not be heard on network radio for much of
1941 due to the ASCAP boycott. As of 2024, Music Recording
Certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has
shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units. The
threshold quantity varies by type (such as album, single, music
video) and by nation or territory (see List of music recording
certifications). Almost all countries follow variations of the
RIAA certification categories, which are named after precious
materials (gold, platinum and diamond). Some recording artists
received special and symbolic recognitions, including Raphael with
a "Uranium disc" granted by Hispavox and SGAE in 1980,
and Luis Fonsi received the "Plutonium disc" from
Universal Music Group recognizing the global sales of "Despacito"
in 2017. The threshold required for these awards depends upon the
population of the territory where the recording is released.
Typically, they are awarded only to international releases and are
awarded individually for each country where the album is sold.
Different sales levels, some perhaps 10 times greater than others,
may exist for different music media (for example: videos versus
albums, singles, or music download).
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Today's
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Television: A History Of Broadcast TV DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1978: Aesthetics: Performing
Arts: Finales: Television Finales: American Television Finales: --
Zoom, stylized as ZOOM, a half-hour educational television program
created almost entirely by children, airs it's last broadcast.
though reruns would be shown until September 12, 1980. It first
aired on PBS on January 9, 1972. It was originated and produced by
WGBH-TV in Boston. Inspired by educational shows like Sesame
Street and The Electric Company, but designed to give the kids who
watched it a voice without adults on screen, it was, for the most
part, unscripted. Far from seeking to make stars of the child
performers, their contracts prohibited them from making any
television appearances or doing commercials for three years after
they left the show. The show was revived in 1999 and aired on PBS
until 2005.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Horatio
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1744: #BOTD: #HBD! William
Cornwallis, English Royal Navy Admiral Of The Red and politician
(d. July 5, 1819) is #born in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. Sir
William Cornwallis, GCB (Most Honourable Order of the Bath) was
the brother of Charles Cornwallis, the 1st Marquess Cornwallis,
British commander at the Siege Of Yorktown. Cornwallis took part
in a number of decisive battles including the Siege of Louisbourg
in 1758 and the Battle of the Saintes but is best known as a
friend of Lord Nelson and as the Commander-In-Chief of the Channel
Fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. He is depicted in the Horatio
Hornblower novel, Hornblower and the Hotspur, by C. S. Forester,
which was made into the 1952-1953 Radio Luxembourg radio drama
series. William Cornwallis died at the Newlands estate (now known
as Newlands Manor) in Milford on Sea in Hampshire, South East
England, aged 75. According to his biographer George Cornwallis
West, the Admiral had left instructions that he was to be 'buried
at Milford near Captain Whitby' also that no tomb-stone or any
kind of memorial was to be erected in his memory. This last
injunction Mrs Whitby obeyed to the letter. However, Mrs Whitby's
daughter, Theresa West, erected a memorial in the church to the
Admiral and her parents and the inscription confirms that all
three were "in the same vault at the western end of this
churchyard". So to find the Admiral's grave it was necessary
to find Captain Whitby's grave. The general area was known
although the grave was not immediately identifiable. Towards the
end of 2013, The Milford On Sea Historical Record Society (MOSHRS)
received three files of material from a former Hon Sec of the
Society in the 1970s. Included was a transcription of Mrs West's
memorial and also a transcription of what was said to be the
original wording on Captain Whitby's grave. There were some
additional notes "Adm Man died 1813.... the position of his
grave next to Capt Whitby but now beneath the vestry". The
graveyard survey of 1922 shows Admiral Man at B28A and B29 as
"Whitby, John (Cresswell Hall) b1784 d1793 or 1800".
Early in 2014 one of the members of the Society chanced to look at
the ledger on the grave outside the vestry door. Despite the
wording being very worn, the low sun caught it at just the right
angle and some of the wording could be made out. After researching
safe methods of highlighting the inscription on the ledger, the
first of which was inconclusive, the inscription was finally
revealed: " ========= In Memory of JOHN WHITBY Esq Son of the
Rev THOs WHITBY of Cresswell Hall STAFFORDSHIRE [Born 7th October
1774] He was promoted to the Rank of POST CAPTAIN in His MAJESTIES
NAVY [on the 29 April 1793] and departed this life on the 7th of
April 1806 (Note: The parts in square brackets are indistinct and
taken from the transcript) ========= The Admiral's grave had been
found. In May 2014 it was proposed that MOSHRS together with The
1805 Club, and with church agreement, should erect some form of
identification for the Admiral's grave. MOSHRS members were
informed in Spring 2015 about a proposal to conserve the
Cornwallis/Whitby grave ledger and repair the memorial to Rear
Admiral John Peyton who served at the same time as Cornwallis;
re-siting the memorial when it was returned from repair. Faculty
approval from the church had been received in autumn 2016 and
permission to proceed was received in March 2017. Donations were
sought to support this work. Further research into the careers of
Cornwallis and Whitby caused the Society to realise that there was
a very important story to be told about the achievements of
Admiral Cornwallis. This in turn led to the determination to
prepare a commemoration of Cornwallis on the 200th anniversary of
his death - and so "Cornwallis Remembered 1819-2019" was
born.
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1755: #DOTD: #RIP:
Montesquieu, French lawyer, judge, man of letters, historian and
political philosopher of the enlightenment (b. January 18, 1689)
#dies from a high fever at the age of 66 in Paris, France. He was
buried in the Eglise Saint-Sulpice, Paris, and the Revolution
obliterated all trace of his remains. Montesquieu was born
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu at
the Chateau de la Brede in southwest France, 25 kilometres (16 mi)
south of Bordeaux. Generally referred to simply as Montesquieu, he
is the principal source of the theory of separation of powers,
which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world.
He is also known for doing more than any other author to secure
the place of the word despotism in the political lexicon. His
anonymously published The Spirit of Law (1748), which was received
well in both Great Britain and the American colonies, influenced
the Founding Fathers of the United States in drafting the U.S.
Constitution.
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 2002: #DOTD: #RIP: Vernon A.
Walters, United States Army general and diplomat, 17th United
States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. January 3, 1917) #dies
of natural causes in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. at the age of
85. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Walters was born
in New York City, his father being a British immigrant and
insurance salesman. Vernon Walters most notably served from 1972
to 1976 as Deputy Director and then acting Director of Central
Intelligence under President Richard Nixon, from 1985 to 1989 as
the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President
Ronald Reagan, and from 1989 to 1991 as Ambassador to the Federal
Republic of Germany under President George H. W. Bush during the
decisive phase of German Reunification. Walters rose to the rank
of lieutenant general in the U.S. Army and is a member of the
Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Duck &
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1923: #DOTD: #RIP: Wilhelm
Rontgen (Anglicized: Roentgen), German mechanical engineer,
physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. March 27, 1845)
#dies of colorectal cancer at age 77 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen was born Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen in Lennep,
Prussia, German Confederation. He produced, detected and
discovered X-rays (electromagnetic rays) at the University of
Wuerzburg in Germany on November 8, 1895. The following December
28, Roentgen published a paper detailing his discovery. This
achievement earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
In honour of his accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union
of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named element 111,
roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable
isotopes, after him. The unit of measurement roentgen was also
named after him. Wilhelm Rontgen died of colorectal cancer at age
77 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He is buried at the Alter Friedhof
(Old Cemetery) in Giessen, Germany.
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1722: Crime: Crime:
Organized Crime: Piracy: The History Of Piracy: The Golden Age Of
Piracy (1650s-1730s): The Battle Of Cape Lopez: -- #DOTD:
Bartholomew Roberts, infamous as Black Bart (Welsh: Barti Ddu) and
The Great Pyrate, Welsh pirate and the most successful pirate of
the Golden Age of Piracy (measured by vessels captured), taking
over 400 prizes in his career (b. May 17, 1682) #dies aged 39
during The Battle Of Cape Lopez off the coast of Gabon, West
Africa when Captain Roberts was killed by grapeshot, which struck
him in the throat while he stood on the deck of the pirate ship
Royal Fortune, fired by the pursuing ship of the line HMS Swallow
under the command of Captain (later Admiral of the Fleet) Chaloner
Ogle. Before Roberts' body could be captured by Ogle, Roberts's
wish to be buried at sea with all his arms and ornaments on (a
request he had repeated in life) was fulfilled by his crew, who
weighed his body down and threw it overboard after wrapping it in
his ship's sail. It was never found. Bartholomew Roberts was born
John Roberts in Casnewydd Bach, between Fishguard and
Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Roberts raided ships off
the Americas and the West African coast between 1719 and 1722; he
is also noted for creating his own Pirate Code, and adopting an
early variant of the Skull and Crossbones flag. Roberts' infamy
and success made him a popular subject for writers of both fiction
and non-fiction. To this day, Roberts continues to feature in
novels, films and video games, as well as inspire fictional
characters (such as the Dread Pirate Roberts).
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1966: #DOTD: J. F. C.
Fuller, nicknamed "Boney", senior British Army officer,
military historian, strategist, fascist and occultist, notable as
an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including
categorizing principles of warfare, nazi sympathizer and apologist
(b. September 1, 1878) #dies aged 87 in Falmouth, Cornwall,
England. His burial place is not publicly disclosed. J. F. C.
Fuller was born John Frederick Charles Fuller in Chichester, West
Sussex, the son of an Anglican clergyman. With 45 books and many
articles, Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller CB (The Most
Honourable Order Of The Bath, of which a ceremonial bath was an
elecment of initiation) CBE (Commander Of The Most Excellent Order
Of The British Empire) DSO (Distinguished Service Order) was a
highly prolific author whose ideas reached army officers and the
interested public. He explored the business of fighting, in terms
of the relationship between warfare and social, political, and
economic factors in the civilian sector. Fuller emphasized the
potential of new weapons, especially tanks and aircraft, to stun a
surprised enemy psychologically. Fuller was highly controversial
in British politics because of his support for the organized
fascist movement. He was also an occultist and Thelemite who wrote
a number of works on esotericism and mysticism. On April 20, 1939
Fuller was an honoured guest at Hitler's 50th birthday parade,
watching as "for three hours a completely mechanised and
motorised army roared past the Fuhrer." Afterwards Hitler
asked, "I hope you were pleased with your children?"
Fuller replied, "Your Excellency, they have grown up so
quickly that I no longer recognise them." During the Second
World War, 1939-1945, Fuller was under suspicion for his Nazi
sympathies. He continued to speak out in favour of a peaceful
settlement with Germany. Alan Brooke (in his war diaries, p. 201)
comments that "the Director of Security called on him to
discuss Boney Fuller and his Nazi activities", but Brooke
commented that he did not think Fuller "had any unpatriotic
intentions". Although he was not interned or arrested, he was
the only officer of his rank not invited to return to service
during the war. There was some suspicion that he was not
incarcerated in May 1940 along with other leading officials of the
BUF because of his association with General Edmund Ironside and
other senior officers. Mosley himself admitted to "a little
puzzlement" as to why Fuller had not been imprisoned. Fuller
spent his last years believing that the wrong side had won the
Second World War. He most fully announced that thesis in the 1961
edition of The Reformation of War. There, he announced his belief
that Hitler was the saviour of the West against the Soviet Union
and denounced Churchill and Roosevelt for being too stupid to see
so : / .
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Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1567: #DOTD: Henry Stuart,
Lord Darnley, English nobleman who was the second husband of Mary,
Queen Of Scots, and the father of James VI Of Scotland And James I
Of England (b. December 7, 1545) #dies less than a year after the
birth of his son, murdered at Kirk O' Field, apparently smothered.
Darnley was buried in the Royal Vault at Holyrood Abbey in 1567
alongside the bodies of several royals: King James II, Arthur,
Duke of Rothesay, Madeleine of Valois, James, Duke of Rothesay,
Arthur, Duke of Albany and King James V. In 1668, the vault was
opened by mobs, and sometime later (between 1776 and 1778), the
vault was raided, and the skull of Lord Darnley was stolen. In
1928, a paper was published by Karl Pearson, detailing his vast
research into the skull of Lord Darnley. In his paper, Pearson
discussed the possibility of Darnley's skull residing in the Royal
College of Surgeons' museum. In 2016, at the request of the
University of Edinburgh, research was undertaken to identify
whether a skull once held in the university's collection (until
destroyed in the Blitz) could be Darnley's stolen remains. The
Royal College of Surgeons' skull and detailed pictures and
measurements from 1928 of the destroyed Edinburgh skull were
examined and compared to portraits of Darnley by Emma Price at the
University of Dundee. The conclusion was that the Edinburgh skull
could not be Darnley's, but the Royal College of Surgeons' one was
a good match. A historical facial reconstruction was then
produced. Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley was born in Temple Newsam,
Yorkshire, England. Through his parents, he had claims to both the
Scottish and English thrones, and from his marriage in 1565 he was
king consort of Scotland. Many contemporary narratives describing
his life and death refer to him as simply Lord Darnley, his title
as heir apparent to the Earldom of Lennox. Suspicion regarding
Hentry Stuart's murder quickly fell on James Hepburn, 4th Earl of
Bothwell, and his supporters, notably Archibald Douglas, Parson of
Douglas, whose shoes were found at the scene, and on Mary herself.
Bothwell had long been suspected of having designs on the throne,
and his close relationship with the queen gave rise to rumours
they were sexually intimate. This was viewed as a motive for
Bothwell to have Darnley murdered, with help from some of the
nobility and seemingly with royal approval. Mary had been looking
at options for removing Darnley, and had discussed ideas at
Craigmillar Castle in November 1566, though her ideas were for
divorce. The problem was the risk of making her son illegitimate.
Soon after Darnley's death, Bothwell and Mary left Edinburgh
together. There are two points of view about the circumstances: in
the first, Bothwell kidnapped the queen, took her to Dunbar
Castle, and raped her. In the second, Mary was a willing
participant in the kidnapping, and the story of rape was a
fabrication, so her honour and reputation were not ruined by her
marriage to a man widely suspected of murder. Mary later
miscarried twins by Bothwell while a prisoner at Lochleven Castle.
A soldier under the pay of Bothwell, Captain William Blackadder of
the Clan Blackadder, was one of the first non-participants to
happen upon the scene, and for that reason was treated as a
suspect. He was convicted and executed by being hanged, drawn and
quartered before each of his limbs was nailed to the gates of a
different Scottish town. Bothwell was put on trial in Edinburgh
and found not guilty. Suspicions that Mary colluded with
conspirators in her husband's death or that she took no action to
prevent his death led to the loss of her supporters and the loss
of the Scottish crown.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Secret War Historic WWII TV Series + Bonus Title DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 1999: #DOTD: #RIP: Joan
Curran, Welsh physicist who played important roles in the
development of radar, the proximity fuse and the electromagnetic
isotope separation process for the atomic bomb during the Second
World War, inventor of chaff, the radar countermeasure technique
credited with reducing losses among Allied bomber crews that is
still used today (b. February 26, 1916) #dies of cancer in
Glasgow, Scotland aged 82. She was cremated at the Daldowie
Crematorium. Joan, Lady Curran was born Joan Elizabeth Strothers
in Swansea, Wales. In later life she became a founding member of
the Scottish Society for the Parents of Mentally Handicapped
Children. She was married to Sir Samuel Crowe Curran (May 23, 1912
- February 15, 1998), a physicist who invented of the
scintillation counter (an instrument for detecting and measuring
ionizing radiation, including nuclear radiation), the proportional
counter (a type of gaseous ionization detector device used to
measure particles of ionizing radiation), and the proximity fuze,
and was the first Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University
of Strathclyde - the first of the new technical universities in
Britain. R. V. Jones, Great Britain's leading physicist and
scientific military intelligence expert during the war, later
declared: "In my opinion, Joan Curran made an even greater
contribution to victory, in 1945, than Sam." Joan Strothers
was educated at Swansea Girls' High School, and in 1934 won an
open scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1935, she rowed
for the ladies' university eight, in the first real Women's boat
race against Oxford. She gained an honours degree in physics,
which was not awarded because it was before women were allowed
Cambridge degrees. In her seventies, in 1987, she was honoured
with the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa by the University
of Strathclyde. Strothers, who "had the scientific equivalent
of gardening green fingers", was awarded a government grant
to study for a higher degree, and elected to go to the Cavendish
Laboratory at Cambridge, where she joined Sam Curran in a team
under the direction of Philip Dee. She soon established a
reputation for "extreme dexterity and being outstandingly
neat and skilful in the deployment of equipment." In 1939,
Dee proposed that the team spend a month at the Royal Aircraft
Establishment at Farnborough Airfield. They arrived on 1 September
1939. Two days later, Britain declared war on Germany, and Britain
entered the Second World War. Instead of returning to the
Cavendish, the team moved to Exeter, where Dee and three others
worked on developing rockets as anti-aircraft weapons, while
Strothers and Curran joined a group under John Coles working on
the development of the proximity fuse. Strothers was based at
Leeson House and Durnford School. She and Curran developed a
workable fuse, which was codenamed VT, an acronym of "Variable
Time fuze". The system was a small, short-range, Doppler
radar that used a clever circuit. However, Britain lacked the
capacity to mass-produce the fuze, so the design was shown to the
United States by the Tizard Mission in late 1940. The Americans
perfected and mass-produced the fuse. In due course, these
proximity fuses arrived in the United Kingdom, where they played
an important part in the defence of the kingdom against the V-1
flying bomb. Strothers married Curran on November 7, 1940. Soon
afterwards they were transferred to the Telecommunications
Research Establishment near Swanage, where Sam worked on
centimetric radar, while Joan joined the Counter Measures Group in
an adjoining lab. It was with this group, at Swanage, and later at
Malvern, that Joan devised the technique that was codenamed
Window, which is also known as chaff. She tried various types of
radar reflectors, including wires and sheets, before settling on
strips of tin foil 1 to 2 centimetres (0.39 to 0.79 in) wide and
25 centimetres (9.8 in) long that could be scattered from bombers,
thus disrupting the enemy's radar. Window was first employed in
Operation Gomorrah, a series of raids on Hamburg, and resulted in
a much lower loss rate than usual. As part of Operation Taxable on
June 5-6, 1944, Window was dropped by Avro Lancasters of 617
Squadron to synthesise a phantom invasion force of ships in the
Straits of Dover and keep the Germans unsure as to whether the
brunt of the Allied assault would fall on Normandy or in the Pas
de Calais area. In early 1944 the Currans were part of a group of
British scientists invited to go to the US to take part in the
Manhattan Project - the Allied project to develop an atomic bomb.
They joined the British Mission at the Berkeley Radiation
Laboratory in California, headed by Mark Oliphant, a distinguished
Australian scientist that Joan knew from the Cavendish Laboratory.
Oliphant also acted as de facto deputy to Ernest Lawrence, the
director of the Radiation Laboratory. The mission of the
laboratory was to develop the electromagnetic isotope separation
process to create enriched uranium for use in atomic bombs.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Shirley
Temple Black Biography Documentary DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, February 10, 2026February 10, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP: Shirley
Temple, American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman and
diplomat (b. April 23, 1928) #dies at age 85 at her home in
Woodside, California, caused according to her death certificate
released on March 3, 2014 by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD). Temple was a lifelong cigarette smoker but avoided
displaying her habit in public because she did not want to set a
bad example for her fans. She is buried at Alta Mesa Memorial
Park. Shirley Temple Black was Hollywood's number one box-office
draw as a child actress from 1935 to 1938. As an adult, she was
named United States ambassador to Ghana and to Czechoslovakia, and
also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States. Temple
began her film career at the age of three in 1932. Two years
later, she achieved international fame in Bright Eyes, a feature
film designed specifically for her talents. She received a special
Juvenile Academy Award in February 1935 for her outstanding
contribution as a juvenile performer in motion pictures during
1934. Film hits such as Curly Top and Heidi followed year after
year during the mid-to-late 1930s. Temple capitalized on licensed
merchandise that featured her wholesome image; the merchandise
included dolls, dishes, and clothing. Her box-office popularity
waned as she reached adolescence. She appeared in 29 films from
the ages of 3 to 10 but in only 14 films from the ages of 14 to
21. Temple retired from film in 1950 at the age of 22. In 1958,
Temple returned to show business with a two-season television
anthology series of fairy tale adaptations. She made guest
appearances on television shows in the early 1960s and filmed a
sitcom pilot that was never released. She sat on the boards of
corporations and organizations including The Walt Disney Company,
Del Monte Foods, and the National Wildlife Federation. She began
her diplomatic career in 1969, when she was appointed to represent
the United States at a session of the United Nations General
Assembly, where she worked at the U.S. Mission under Ambassador
Charles W. Yost. In 1988, she published her autobiography, Child
Star. Temple was the recipient of numerous awards and honors,
including the Kennedy Center Honors and a Screen Actors Guild Life
Achievement Award. She is 18th on the American Film Institute's
list of the greatest female American screen legends of Classic
Hollywood cinema. She is the only person on the Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover who is depicted thrice.
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