TODAY’S HISTORY

1840: Britain’s Queen Victoria married Prince Albert. 1967: The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, establishing presidential succession, was ratified. 1996: The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated reigning world champion Garry Kasparov for the first time in a game of chess. 2005: North Korea publicly announced that it had produced nuclear weapons.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Charles Lamb (1775-1834), author; William Allen White (1868-1944), author/journalist; Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), author; Jimmy Durante (1893-1980), singer/ comedian; Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright; Robert Wagner (1930-), actor; Mark Spitz (1950-), swimmer; Greg Norman (1955-), golfer; John Calipari (1959-), basketball coach; George Stephanopoulos (1961-), journalist; Laura Dern (1967-), actress; Vince Gilligan (1967-), TV writer/ producer; Elizabeth Banks (1974-), actress/director; Uzo Aduba (1981-), actress; Justin Gatlin (1982-), sprinter; Emma Roberts (1991-), actress; Chloe Grace Moretz (1997-), actress.

TODAY’S FACT: Playwright Arthur Miller died exactly 56 years after his “Death of a Salesman” opened in New York on this date in 1949.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1968, Peggy Fleming won the women’s figure skating gold for the United States at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “I’ve heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I’ve never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.” — Uzo Aduba

TODAY’S NUMBER: 9 — children Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had together. All married into royal houses in Europe.

TODAY’S MOON: Between full moon (Feb. 5) and last quarter moon (Feb. 13).