By Danielle Daniels
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Morgan Fairchild (born Patsy Ann McClenny; February 3, 1950, ) is an American actress. She began acting in the early 1970s and has had roles in several television series since.
Fairchild began her career on the CBS daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Jennifer Pace from 1973 to 1977. In 1978, she appeared on the primetime soap opera Dallas as the first actress to portray Jenna Wade, before taking a lead role on the NBC series Flamingo Road in 1980 (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama). In 1984, she co-starred on ABC‘s short-lived television drama Paper Dolls, and then appeared on Falcon Crest as attorney Jordan Roberts from 1985 to 1986. Fairchild has also performed in theater and played guest roles on television comedies, including Murphy Brown (for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series), Two and a Half Men, Roseanne, Cybill and Friends. She is a board member of SAG-AFTRA.
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
- Felix Mendelssohn (composer) –
- Horace Greeley (journalist) –
- Elizabeth Blackwell (first woman to earn an MD degree in the U.S.) –
- Sidney Lanier (poet) –
- Gertrude Stein (author) –
- Norman Rockwell (artist) –
- James Michener (novelist) –
- Joey Bishop (comedian) –
- Shelley Berman (actor) –
- Blythe Danner (actress) –
- Morgan Fairchild (actress) –
- Nathan Lane (actor) –
- Maura Tierney (actress) –
- Warwick Davis (actor) –
- Isla Fisher (actress) –
- Ryne Sanborn (actor) –
Died
- Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. president) –
- Nancy Kulp (actress) –
- Audrey Meadows (actress) –
- James Blackwood (member of the giant gospel group, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet) –
- Al Lewis (actor, most well-known as Grandpa Munster on The Munsters) –
- Frances Reid (actress) –
Events
- U.S. copyright law began protecting music–
- Calcutta Railway opened–
- Teddy Roosevelt visited his sweetheart, Alice Lee, Chestnut Hill, MA–
- Fire destroyed Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ontario–
- The Four Chaplains, having given their life jackets to others, drowned when the torpedoed SS Dorchester sank during WWII–
- XI Winter Olympics open in Sapporo, Japan–
- President Clinton lifted the Trade Embargo on Vietnam–
- Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman in the United States to pilot a space shuttle (Discovery)–
- The New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI–
- A healthy Laysan albatross chick hatched at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Ocean. Its mother was a 62-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom—the oldest known living wild bird at the time.–
- Sumatran tiger triplets born at the London Zoo. Melati was the proud 5-year-old tiger mom.–
Weather
- A storm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, brought 20 inches of snow–
- North America’s coldest temperature was recorded in Snag, Yukon Territory. The temperature dropped to -81.4°F. –
- A rare February EF1 tornado hit Gray, Roberts, and Hemphill counties in Texas–
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