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What happened in history on this day: February 10?
On February 10 in ...
- 1940 - MGM debuts animated cat and mouse characters "Tom and Jerry", created by Hanna and Barbera.
- 1956 - CBS TV debuts the My Friend Flicka TV show.
- 1992 - Final episode of Dangerous Women airs on WWOR-TV.
Births on February 10
- 1890 - Birth of Cor Ruys; Dutch actor (Princess Stage).
- 1892 - Birth of Alan Hale AKA Rufus Alan Mackahan in Washington DC, USA; actor (Little John - Adventures of Robin Hood).
- 1893 - Birth of Jimmy Durante in New York City, New York, USA; long-nosed comedian.
- 1894 - Birth of Roy D'Arcy in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Warning Shadows, Revolt of Zombies).
- 1896 - Birth of Olin Howlin in Denver, Colorado, USA; actor (Swifty - Circus Boy).
- 1898 - Birth of Judith Anderson in Adelaide, Australia; actress (Laura, Rebecca, Tycoon).
- 1898 - Birth of Robert Keith in Fowler, Indiana, USA; actor (Battle Circus, Branded, Wild One).
- 1902 - Birth of Stella Adler in New York, USA; actress (My Girl Tisa).
- 1904 - Birth of John Farrow in Sydney, Australia; director/actor (Botany Bay, Wake Island).
- 1905 - Birth of John Dierkes in Ohio, USA; actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll, Hanging Tree).
- 1906 - Birth of Erik Rhodes [Ernest Sharpe]; actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz).
- 1906 - Birth of Lon Chaney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; actor (Dracula vs. Frankenstein, The Phantom, Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats).
- 1910 - Birth of Douglas Spencer; actor (The Thing, This Island Earth, River of No Return).
- 1922 - Birth of Neva Patterson in Nevada, Iowa, USA; actress (Governor and JJ, Doc Elliot, Nichols).
- 1930 - Birth of Robert Wagner in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart).
- 1964 - Birth of Francesca Neri in Trento, Italy; actress (Ages of Lulu).
- 1965 - Birth of Marjolein Macrander; Dutch actress (Drowned).
- 1967 - Birth of Laura Dern in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Blue Velvet, Mask, Small Talk).
Deaths on February 10
- 1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at age 50.
- 1958 - Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue), dies at age 42.
- 1983 - Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro), dies at age 80.
- 1986 - Death of Brian Aherne of heart failure at age 83; actor (Juarez, My Sister Eileen, Rosie, Lux Video Theatre, Robert Montgomery Presents, Goodyear Theatre, Star & The Story, Disneyland, Simon Templar - The Saint on radio, host on Lux Radio Theatre).
- 1992 - Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies.
- 1993 - John Grossman, Czechoslovakian director (Process, Revisor), dies.
- 1999 - Death of Robert Clothier at age 77; actor (Relic - Beachcombers).
- 2000 - Death of Jim Varney of lung cancer at age 50; American actor (Ernest P. Worrell in commercials, Fernwood Tonight, Pop! Goes the Country, The Rousters, Hey Vern It's Ernest, Ernest Goes to Camp).
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