By Brenda June Temple
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Ryan John Seacrest (born December 24, 1974) is an American media personality, game show host, and producer. Seacrest co-hosted and served as executive producer of Live with Kelly and Ryan, and has hosted other media shows including American Idol, American Top 40, and On Air with Ryan Seacrest. He became co-host and executive producer of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve in 2006, and stayed on as host and executive producer following Clark’s death in 2012.
Seacrest received Emmy Award nominations for American Idol every year from 2004 to 2013, and again in 2016. He won an Emmy for producing Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution in 2010 and was nominated again in 2012. In 2018, he received nominations for Live with Kelly and Ryan in the categories of Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment as well as Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host.
In September 2024, Seacrest will become the host of Wheel of Fortune, replacing Pat Sajak.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Kit Carson (frontiersman) –
- Eliza Cook (poet) –
- Charles Wakefield Cadman (composer) –
- Juan Ramon Jimenez (poet) –
- Ava Gardner (actress) –
- Mary Higgins Clark (author) –
- Robert Joffrey (dancer) –
- Ricky Martin (singer) –
- Ryan Seacrest (television host) –
- Pepper (Bolivian gray titi monkey) –
Died
- Peter Lawford (actor) –
- Michael Vale (actor) –
- Cheetah (chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s) –
- Charles Durning (actor) –
- Jack Klugman (actor) –
Events
- Treaty of Ghent signed between the U.S. and Great Britain, ending the War of 1812–
- Stille Nacht (Silent Night) first performed, Oberndorf, Austria–
- Clement Moore’s “A Visit From St. Nicholas” likely written–
- The Eggnog Riot began at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York–
- First great fire of San Francisco–
- Two-thirds of the collection of the Library of Congress (35,000 volumes) and a portion of the Capitol were destroyed by fire–
- Canadian-born Reginald A. Fessenden sent the first extended radio broadcast from Brant Rock, Massachusetts–
- O Holy Night was played on the world’s first radio program broadcast, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts–
- Unofficial Christmas truce began in areas of the Western Front during World War I–
- CONAD (later, NORAD) began to track Santa Claus–
- Catcher Jason Varitek was named captain of the Boston Red Sox–
Weather
- Chicago set a record low temperature of -23 degrees F–
- In Fairfield, Montana, the temperature dropped from 63 degrees F at noontime to a chilly 21 degrees below zero F at midnight–
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