By Linda Loons
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976)[1] is an American actress. She played the title role in the drama series Felicity (1998–2002), which won her a Golden Globe Award, and later portrayed Elizabeth Jennings in the spy thriller series The Americans (2013–2018), which earned her nominations for several Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. For playing the lead role in the political drama series The Diplomat (2023), she received further Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
Russell has appeared in the films Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992), We Were Soldiers (2002), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Waitress (2007), August Rush (2007), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), Antlers (2021), and Cocaine Bear (2023).
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Purim will begin at sundown on Monday, March 6 and conclude at nightfall on Tuesday, March 7. One of the merriest days of the Jewish year is the early-spring holiday of Purim, celebrated on the 14th day of the month of Adar. It commemorates the deliverance of the Jews from the massacre plotted by Haman, the chief minister of King Ahasuerus of Persia. The source of the holiday is the biblical Book of Esther, which is read during special Purim services that are marked by great revelry. Each time Haman’s name is read, congregants drown it out by making as much noise as possible—whistling, catcalling, hissing, booing, stomping, or using groggers (special Purim noisemakers). One of the traditional foods of this celebration is hamantaschen, a three-cornered filled pastry supposed to represent Haman’s hat.
Question of the Day
I’m curious about Gregorian chants. Who was Gregory?
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Occultation
Puzzle of the Day
There is a word of five syllables; take away the first, and no syllable will remain.
Born
- John Bartram (botanist) –
- Fannie Farmer (cookery expert) –
- Eric Fromm (psychoanalyst) –
- Joan Crawford (actress) –
- Werner von Braun (rocket scientist) –
- Roger Bannister (runner) –
- Ron Jaworski (football player) –
- Teofilo Stevenson (boxer) –
- Chaka Khan (singer) –
- Moses Malone (basketball player) –
- Amanda Plummer (actress) –
- Keri Russell (actress) –
- Nicholle Tom (actress) –
Died
- Barney Clark (first person to receive a permanent artificial heart) –
- Arthur Lithgow (actor, producer, and director who was a pioneer in American regional theater) –
- Elizabeth Taylor (actress) –
- Gary Dahl (creator of the Pet Rock) –
- Madeleine Albright (first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state ) –
Events
- The first standing ovation was recorded at the first performance of Handel’s Messiah. King George was so inspired (or restless) that he jumped to his feet; when the king did that, everyone else did–
- Halifax Gazette became Canada’s first newspaper–
- In a speech to the Virginia Provincial Convention, Patrick Henry made a plea for independence from Britain, saying I know not what course others might take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.–
- Society L’Institut Canadien du Quebec incorporated–
- Elisha Graves Otis installed the first commercial passenger elevator, in NYC store–
- Opera diva Nellie Melba recounted how she prepared toast, the original melba toast–
- SS Yongala sank in cyclone, near Townsville, Australia–
- Herbert Hoover became the first president to have a telephone installed on his desk–
- WWII relocation of Japanese-Americans away from the West Coast began–
- The World Meteorological Organization established by the UN–
- U.S. Army sold its last homing pigeons–
- NASA astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich onboard Gemini 3–
- America’s first two-person space flight began as Gemini 3 blasted off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young on board–
- President Reagan first proposed development of technology to intercept enemy missiles — a proposal that came to be known as the strategic defense initiative, or Star Wars–
- Billy Joel married model Christie Brinkley in NYC–
- Sandinistas and Contras signed a 60-day ceasefire accord–
- A 1910 Honus Wagner baseball card was sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $451,000 to hockey great Wayne Gretzky and Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall–
- Wayne Gretzky scored his 802nd career goal in front of a sellout crowd at the Great Western Forum, to break the legendary Gordie Howe’s NHL all-time goal record–
- Mir space station deorbited as planned, falling into the South Pacific Ocean–
- An oil refinery explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas–
Weather
- Edmonton, Alberta, reached 22.2 degrees C (72 degrees F)–
- Easter Sunday tornado killed 94 in Omaha, Nebraska–
- First robin of the season seen, Dublin, N.H.–
- 65 degrees F, Montreal, Quebec–
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