By Annie Walker
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor. Travolta began acting in television before transitioning into a leading man in films. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award.
Travolta came to prominence starring in the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979), followed by leading roles in Carrie (1976), Grease (1978), Urban Cowboy (1980), and Blow Out (1981). He earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Pulp Fiction (1994). His other notable films include Get Shorty (1995), Broken Arrow (1996), Michael (1996), Face/Off (1997), A Civil Action (1998), Primary Colors (1998), The General’s Daughter (1999), Wild Hogs (2007), Hairspray (2007), Bolt (2008), and Savages (2012).
Travolta returned to television portraying lawyer Robert Shapiro in the series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. He received a Primetime Emmy Award as a producer as well as nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. He was also Emmy-nominated for his role in the comedy short Die Hart (2021). Outside of acting, Travolta is also a singer-songwriter. He has released nine albums, including four singles that have charted on the Billboard Hot 100‘s Top 40. His albums have typically accompanied films he has starred in, such as Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1978)–which topped the Billboard 200. Travolta is also a private pilot.
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Born
- Queen Mary I of England –
- Louis Comfort Tiffany (artist) –
- Toni Morrison (author) –
- Cybill Shepard (actress) –
- John Travolta (actor) –
- Vanna White (game show hostess) –
- Matt Dillon (actor) –
- Molly Ringwald (actress) –
Died
- Harry Caray (sportscaster) –
- Dale Earnhardt (race car driver) –
- Wallace Smith Broecker (American geochemist) –
Events
- Jefferson Davis inaugurated as provisional president of Confederate states–
- First session of Confederate Congress, Richmond, Virginia–
- Auguste Bartholdi granted design patent for Statue of Liberty–
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published in the U.S.–
- First coiled postage stamps issued–
- Planet Pluto discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona–
- Elm Farm Ollie, a Guernsey, became the first cow to fly in an airplane. On the same trip she also became the first cow milked in flight–
- First unmanned test flight of space shuttle Enterprise mounted on another aircraft–
- Hiroyuki Goto recited pi to 42,195 digits–
- Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian TV network, cancelled Pat Boone’s weekly gospel music show after he appeared in black leather and fake tattoos on the American Music Awards show–
- Evan Lysacek won the Olympic gold medal in men’s figure skating. He became the first U.S. man to win the gold medal since Brian Boitano in 1988–
- Firenado captured on video, Platte County, Missouri–
Weather
- San Francisco, California, recorded a temperature of 80 degrees F–
- New England experienced extremely high temperatures, with Boston, Massachusetts at 66, Providence, Rhode Island at 72, and Concord, New Hampshire, at 63 degrees F–
- An F4 tornado struck Van Wert County in Ohio –
- Seventy-four degrees, McLean, Virginia–
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