Here are the birthdays, historic dates, and deaths Daniel highlighted on his show today.
Birthdays:
- Boris Pasternak – Russian poeat and author, wrote the novel Doctor Zhivago. (Feb 10, 1890 – May 30, 1960)
- Alan Hale Sr. – American movie actor and director, best known for his many supporting character roles, in particular as frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn. He was the father of lookalike actor Alan Hale Jr., best known as “the Skipper” on television’s Gilligan’s Island. (Feb 10, 1892 – Jan 22, 1950)
- Jimmy Durante – American singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose had a distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose (Feb 10, 1893 – Jan 29, 1980)
- Bill Tilden – American tennis player who was the World No. 1 player for 7 years, the last time when he was 38 years old (Feb 10, 1893 – Jun 5, 1953)
- Harold Macmilan – British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963 (10 Feb 1894 – 29 Dec 1986)
- Stella Adler – American actress, and for decades was regarded as America’s foremost acting teacher (Feb 10, 1901 – Dec 21, 1992)
- Lon Chaney, Jr. – American character actor, well-known mainly for his roles in monster movies and as the son of silent film actor Lon Chaney (Feb 10, 1906 – Jul 12, 1973)
- Roberta Flack – American singer, notable in the areas of jazz, soul, and folk. Best known for single “Killing Me Softly With His Song”, which won the 1974 Grammy for Record of the Year (born February 10, 1937 in Asheville, North Carolina)
- Mark Spitz – American swimmer. Holds the record for most gold medals won in a single Olympic Games (seven), which he set at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. As of 2006, he is the only person ever to win the gold medal in every single event in which he entered that year, and created a new world record in every one of those events as well (born Feb 10, 1950)
- Roxanne Pulitzer – Was a Cinderella tale gone horribly wrong. She came out on the losing end of a sensational divorce trial in 1983 with Herbert “Peter” Pulitzer, a wealthy real estate mogul and grandson of the famed publisher. In the media-circus trial she was accused of being an “incorrigible coke slut” and an unfit mother who “humped almost everything she could get her hands on”. The most outrageous accusation was that she had “slept with a trumpet” leading to the moniker “the strumpet with the trumpet”. She parlayed her notoriety into an appearance in Playboy Magazine in June 1985 (born Feb 10, 1951 in upstate Cassadaga, New York)
- Sharon Stone – Everything I can find says she was born March 10, 1958, but Daniel mentioned her name anyway. Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe and Emmy winning American actress, producer, and former fashion model. She came to international attention for her performance in the 1992 Hollywood blockbuster film Basic Instinct.
- George Stephanopoulos – American broadcaster and political adviser. He is currently ABC News’s Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC’s Sunday morning news show This Week. Prior to joining ABC News, he was a senior political adviser to the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and later became Clinton’s communications director (born Feb 10, 1961)
Deaths:
- Laura Ingalls Wilder – American author. She wrote the series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood in a pioneer family. Her best known book is Little House on the Prairie (Feb 7, 1867 – Feb 10, 1957)
- Alex Haley – American writer. He is best known for The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which he ghostwrote, and his book Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Aug 11, 1921 – Feb 10, 1992)
Historic:
- 1824 – Simon Bolivar was named dictator by the Congress of Peru
- 1846 – Mormon march to the west began
- 1896 – Daniel says it was 1897 but Wiki says it was 1896. Adolph Ochs, publisher of The Chattanooga Times, acquired The New York Times and in 1897, he coined the paper’s celebrated slogan, “All The News That’s Fit To Print,” widely interpreted as a jab at competing papers in New York City (the New York World and the New York Journal American) that were known for lurid yellow journalism
- 1920 – Major League Baseball outlawed all pitcher tampering with the baseball
- 1933 – First singing telegram was delivered in New York City
- 1949 – Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman premiered in New York City
- 1954 – President Eisenhower warned against U.S. intervention in Vietnam
- 1962 – U.S.S.R. swapped U2 spy plane Capt. Francis Gary Powers for Soviet intelligence officer Rudolph Abel
- 1990 – Buster Douglas knocked out then undefeated Mike Tyson with 1:37 left in the 10th round to win the heavyweight boxing championship
- 1992 – Mike Tyson was convicted of raping Miss Black Rhode Island Desiree Washington in an Indianapolis hotel room. He served 3 years of a 6 year sentence.
