By Mona Hatfield
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Janine Turner (born Janine Loraine Gauntt; December 6, 1962) is an American actress best known for her roles as Maggie O’Connell in the television series Northern Exposure, as Jessie Deighan in the feature film Cliffhanger, and as Katie McCoy in Friday Night Lights. She is an author, public speaker and founder and co-chair of Constituting America 2010.
In 1978, the 15-year-old Turner left home to pursue a modeling career with the Wilhelmina Modeling Agency in New York City. She began her acting career in 1980 in Hollywood, appearing in several episodes of Dallas. In October 1981 Turner could be seen in a television commercial for Buf-Puf body sponge. She continued to make guest appearances on television shows throughout the 1980s before landing the role of Laura Templeton on General Hospital.
Turner has never married. Her daughter, Juliette Turner-Jones, was born in 1997. Juliette legally hyphenated her surname in 2006 to include the name of her father, Jerry Jones Jr., son of the Dallas Cowboys’ owner. Turner was once engaged to Alec Baldwin and also dated Troy Aikman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Sylvester Stallone. As of 2014, Turner was living on a longhorn cattle ranch outside Dallas with her daughter.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
St. Nicholas (whose feast day is December 6) was likely a fourth-century bishop of Myra in what is now Turkey. Known for his generosity, he is said to have given a purse filled with gold as a dowry to each of three destitute young ladies so that they could be married. St. Nicholas’s life eventually merged with folklore, and the legend of Santa Claus was born. Learn more about St. Nicholas Day here.
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- Jefferson Davis (served as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War) –
- Roy Orbison (musician) –
- Don Ameche (actor) –
- Phillip Berrigan (priest who fought Vietnam War and nuclear weapons) –
Born
- Ira Gershwin (lyricist) –
- Agnes Moorehead (actress) –
- Steven Wright (comedian & actor) –
- Nick Park (filmmaker & animator) –
- Janine Turner (actress) –
Events
- First international football game–
- Monongah, West Virginia, coal mine disaster killed 362 men. One of the worst in U.S. history–
- Ship explosion devastated Halifax, Nova Scotia–
- The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed, giving Ireland dominion status and establishing Irish Free State–
- President Truman dedicated Everglades National Park in Florida.–
- The Burl Ives narrated holiday classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer made its television debut–
- Kitty Hambleton reached 512.71 mph land speed–
- Gunman kills 14 women at University of Montreal–
Weather
- 5” snow, Savannah, Georgia–
- A windstorm on this day toppled the national Christmas tree on the grounds of the White House–
- Strong storms spread 60 mph winds throughout northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio–
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