“Look Mickey,” by Roy Lichtenstein

Today in History

• Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert (1840)
• The YWCA is founded (1970)
• Crowds gather to see Christian Dior’s “New Look” fashions (1947)
• US President Dwight Eisenhower warns against American intervention in Vietnam (1954)
• Captured U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is released in a prisoner exchange (1962)
• Roy Lichtenstein’s first solo exhibition, including “Look Mickey,” opens (1962)
• IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Gary Kasparov in chess (1996)

Birthdays

• Charles Lamb, poet (1775)
• Boris Pasternak, novelist (1890)
• Jimmy Durante, entertainer (1893)
• Harold Macmillan, UK prime minister (1894)
• Bertolt Brecht, playwright (1898)
• Stella Adler, actress and educator (1901)
• Chick Webb, drummer and bandleader (1905)
• Lon Chaney Jr., actor (1906)
• Leontyne Price, soprano (1927)
• Jerry Goldsmith, composer (1929)
• E. L. Konigsburg, author (1930)
• Robert Wagner, actor (1930)
• Roberta Flack, singer-songwriter (1939)
• Mark Spitz, swimmer (1950)
• George Stephanopoulos, television journalist (1961)
• Laura Dern, stress (1967)

Deaths

• Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots  (1567)
• Montesquieu, philosopher (1755)
• Alexander Pushkin, poet (1837)
• Honoré Daumier, illustrator and sculptor (1879)
• Joseph Lister, pioneer of antiseptic surgery (1912)
• William Röntgen, physicist (1923)
• Pius XI, pope (1939)
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1957)
• Billy Rose, composer and songwriter (1966)
• Alex Haley, author (1992)
• Jim Varney, comedian (2000)
• Dave Van Ronk, singer-songwriter (2002)
• Arthur Miller, playwright (2005)
• Roy Scheider, actor (2008)
• Shirley Temple, actress and diplomat (2014)

Holidays and Celebrations

• Feast of St. Paul’s Shipwreck (Malta)
• Fenkil Day (Eritrea)
• Kurdish Authors Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
• National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy)

February 10 is the 41st day of the year. There are 324 days (325 in leap years) remaining until the end of the year.