THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Today is Sunday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2019. There are 324 days left in the year.

IN THE NATION

1863: Showman P.T. Barnum staged the wedding of General Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren — both little persons — in New York City.

IN THE WORLD

1840: Great Britain’s Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-coburg and Gotha.

1936: Nazi Germany’s Reichstag passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority, exempt from any legal review.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Opera singer Leontyne Price is 92. Actor Robert Wagner is 89. Singer Roberta Flack is 82. Olympic champion swimmer Mark Spitz is 69. Walt Disney Co. chairman and chief executive Robert Iger is 68. World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman is 64. ABC News correspondent George Stephanopoulos is 58. Political commentator Glenn Beck is 55. Actress Laura Dern is 52. Actress Elizabeth Banks is 45. Actress Emma Roberts is 28.