Today is Friday, February 5, the 36th day of 2010. There are 329 days left in the year.
1816 _ Rossini's Opera ``Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1897 _ Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
1916 _ Enrico Caruso recorded ``O Sole Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company
1922 _ Reader's Digest magazine first published
1937 _ First Charlie Chaplin talkie, ``Modern Times," is released
1945 _ U.S. troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manila
1962 _ French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence
1980 _ Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
1987 _ Dow Jones average closes above 2,200 for 1st time
1989 _ Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes first NBA player to score 38,000 points