February 10 - Snacktime

Snacktime

See, some of us like yogurt.

Overheard
Yesterday morning, I got Will dressed. "How does he look?"
Without looking up from her book, Elanor replied, "Dashing."

This Day In History

1306

In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence

1567

An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.

1840

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

1863

The fire extinguisher is patented.

1863

PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren in New York City

1906

HMS Dreadnought is launched.

1933

The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.

1996

The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.

Famous Birthdays

1775

Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)

1824

Samuel Plimsoll, British politician and social reformer

1880

Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)

1893

Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (d. 1980)

1906

Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)

1927

Leontyne Price, American soprano

1930

Robert Wagner, American actor

1937

Roberta Flack, American singer

1944

Vernor Vinge, American novelist

1950

Mark Spitz, American swimmer

1953

John Shirley, American fantasist, author of noir fiction, and science-fiction writer

1955

Greg Norman, Australian golfer

1963

Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player

1976

Keeley Hawes, English actress