Ephemeris, 10 February

It happened one 10 February

1952 : Election in India On February 10th, 1952, the first general election in India gives a landslide victory to the Congress Party led by Jawaharlal Nehru.
1970 : Avalanche in Val d'Isere On 10 February 1970, an avalanche crashed down on the Val d'Isere ski resort. 42 people were killed.
1996 : Kasparov v. Deep Blue On February 10, 1996, the Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov his first chess game ever to a computer, Deep Blue, developed by IBM.
2006 : Torino Winter Olympics On February 10, 2006, the XX Olympic Winter Games were opened in Turin. During these games, Kjetil Andre Aamodt became the most titled skier of the Winter Olympics (8 medals) by winning the Super-G.

Bertolt Brecht
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (1785)
Alexandre Millerand, French politician (1859)
Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (1890)
Jimmy Durante, American actor (1893)
Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1894)
John Franklin Enders, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1897)
Judith Anderson, Australian actress (1897)
Bertolt Brecht, German writer (1898)
Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (1898)
John Farrow, American director (1904)
Lon Chaney Jr, American actor (1906)
Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (1925)
Leontyne Price, American soprano (1927)
Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (1929)
Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer (1929)
Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer (1929)
Robert Wagner, American actor (1930)
Mary Rand, English athlete (1940)
Maxime Le Forestier, French singer (1949)
Mark Spitz, American swimmer (1950)
Laura Dern, American actress (1967)
Jacky Durand, French cyclist (1967)
Garrett Reisman, American astronaut (1968)
Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer (1970)
Elizabeth Banks, American actress (1974)
Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer (1977)
Ross Powers, American snowboarder (1979)
Andrew Johnson, English footballer (1981)
Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer (1981)
James Ryan, New Zealand All Black rugby player (1983)

Shijō, Emperor of Japan (1242)
Montesquieu, French writer (1755)
Alexandre Pouchkine, Russian poet and writer (1837)
Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (1865)
Laura Ingalls Wilder, American writer (1957)
Billy Rose, American composer (1966)
Arthur Miller, American playwright (2005)