By Lady Houston
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress. She rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends from 1994 to 2004, which earned her Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards. Since her career progressed in the 1990s, Aniston has become one of the world’s highest-paid actresses.
The daughter of actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow, she began working as an actress at an early age with an uncredited role in the 1988 film Mac and Me. Her first major film role came in the 1993 horror comedy Leprechaun. She has since starred in a string of successful comedy films such as Office Space (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), The Break-Up (2006), Marley & Me (2008), Just Go with It (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011), We’re the Millers (2013), Dumplin’ (2018), and Murder Mystery (2019). Aniston also starred in the acclaimed independent films The Good Girl (2002), Friends with Money (2006), and Cake (2014). She returned to television in 2019, producing and starring in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Aniston has been included in numerous magazines’ lists of the world’s most beautiful women. Her net worth is estimated as $300 million, and her box office gross is over $1.6 billion worldwide. She is the recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is the co-founder of the production company Echo Films, established in 2008.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
To remind people of the approach of Lent and Easter, the three Sundays immediately preceding Shrove Tuesday were observed as Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima — Latin for 70th, 60th, and 50th, respectively, indicating roughly the number of days left from each of those Sundays to Easter.
Question of the Day
We have robins here in winter, and not just a couple. What gives?
Believe it or not, robins will overwinter as far north as southern Canada when the weather isn’t too severe and food supplies are abundant. A lot of city subdivisions have planted mountain ash trees, whose berries are a favorite of robins. This also contributes to their hanging around during the winter.
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Thomas Alva Edison (inventor) –
- Rudolf Firkusny (pianist) –
- Sidney Sheldon (author & producer) –
- Leslie Nielsen (actor) –
- Tina Louise (actress) –
- Burt Reynolds (actor) –
- Abby Hoffman (Canadian track and field athlete) –
- Sheryl Crow (musician) –
- Jennifer Aniston (actress) –
- Kelly Slater (surfer) –
- Brandy (singer & actress) –
Died
- John Buchan (15th governor-general of Canada) –
- Sylvia Plath (poet) –
- William Conrad (actor) –
- Neil Bonnet (car racer) –
- Victor Posner (owned Arby’s and Royal Crown Cola) –
- Samuel Alderson (inventor of crash test dummies used to test the safety of cars) –
- Peter Benchley (author best known for making millions fear swimming with his novel Jaws”“) –
- Alexander McQueen (British fashion designer known for his unconventional designs and shock tactics) –
- Whitney Houston (singer & actress) –
- Alban Michael (last Nuchatlaht speaker) –
- Vic Damone (singer) –
Events
- Sir Francis Drake climbed tree and saw Pacific Ocean for first time, Isthmus of Panama–
- First use of anthracite coal as a household fuel–
- Mount Holyoke Seminary, the first U.S. college for women, chartered, in South Hadley, Massachusetts–
- The first La-Z-Boy reclining chair was designed –
- I Love Lucy won an Emmy for Best Situation Comedy–
- The Beatles had their first live performance in the U.S. at the Washington, D.C. Coliseum–
- Opening day of first Canada Winter Games, in Quebec City–
- Glowing oval object reported hovering in Milford, Ohio–
- Largest lobster on record at the time (44 lbs. 6 oz.) caught near Nova Scotia–
- Barbara Harris became the first female Episcopal bishop–
- Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa–
- First joint U.S.-Russian space shuttle mission completed–
- Landsat 8 satellite was launched –
Weather
- Fort Logan, Montana, had a record low of -61 degrees F–
- The temperature in Nebraska dipped to -47 degrees F–
- The “megalopolitan blockbuster snowstorm” dumped one to three feet of snow from Virginia to southern New England. New all-time 24-hour snowfall records were set in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Allentown, Pennsylvania. Allentown recorded five inches of snow in one hour. Glen Gary, West Virginia, reported 35 inches of snow.–
- Temperature at International Falls, Minnesota, dipped to -40 degrees F–
- 12.5 inches of snow landed on the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area–
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