On this Day...February 10

• In 1893, Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante was born in New York City to Italian immigrant parents. His radio program sign-off to the mysterious "Mrs. Calabesh" was, he later revealed, a reference to a sweetheart in grammar school - the only school he ever attended. His famous nose, which he inherited from his mother, was insured at Lloyd's for $100,000, and Louis B. Mayer used to go to Durante's dressing room to rub the "big beak" for luck. His only enemy, said a friend, was the King's English. When he and his wife, former hatcheck girl Marge Little, sought to adopt a daughter, there were questions raised about the prospective father's age. Said the judge, "I've heard Mr. Durante sing 'Young At Heart,' and it sounded as if he meant every word of it - take the baby home."

• In 1894, long-serving British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was born. A publisher as well as politician, he bought the rights of "Gone with the Wind," and played an "indispensable" role in laying the foundation for the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963. Perhaps most famous for his "You've never had it so good" line, which was later borrowed by Lyndon Johnson, he was much admired by Churchill, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and de Gaulle, and praised by, of all people, Nikita Khrushchev! When Khrushchev started banging his shoe on the table during one of Macmillan's speeches at the U.N., the prime minister laconically responded, "I'd like that translated, if I may."

- from Today's the Day! By Jeremy Beadle

In Christian history -

• In 1859, Canadian Presbyterian missionary to Honan and Change, Jonathan Goforth, was born. Goforth was noted for training native evangelists and preachers.

- from This Day in Christian History By William D. Blake

In the Philippines -

• In 2003, Dr. Josette Biyo, a teacher at the Philippine Science High School-Western Visayas Campus, was honored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexiton, Massachusetts by naming a minor planet or planetoid (13241) after her. Planet Biyo is nine kilometers in diameter and is located at the belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dr. Biyo won in 2002 the grand prize in the Intel International Engineering Fair in Louiseville, Kentucky. She presented before the panel of judges and about 150 teachers from all over the world her method of teaching Science Research to high school students in Iloilo.

- kahimyang.info

In Cebu -

• Fiesta of Catmon and Dalaguete, Cebu

• In1888, editor and writer Escolastico Morre (1888-1921), known as "Errome," was born in Compostela, Cebu.

- from Cebuano Studies Center, University of San Carlos