By Lucy Santiago
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Craig Theodore Nelson (born April 4, 1944) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Hayden Fox in the sitcom Coach (for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series), Deputy Ward Wilson in the 1980 film Stir Crazy, Steve Freeling in the 1982 film Poltergeist, Burt Nickerson in All The Right Moves (1983), Peter Dellaplane in Action Jackson, Chief Howard Hyde in Turner & Hooch (1989), Alex Cullen in The Devil’s Advocate (1997), Chief Jack Mannion in The District (2000–2004), The Warden in My Name is Earl, and the voice of Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in the 2004 film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel. He also starred as Zeek Braverman in the television series Parenthood and plays Dale Ballard on Young Sheldon.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- Jérôme Lalande (French astronomer) –
- William Henry Harriso (Ninth U.S. President; died of pneumonia a month after inauguration) –
- Martin Luther King Jr. (U.S. civil rights leader; was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee) –
- Roger Ebert (film critic) –
Born
- Linus Yale Jr. (inventor) –
- Jules Léger (Canadian statesman) –
- Muddy Waters (musician) –
- Maya Angelou (poet) –
- Craig T. Nelson (actor) –
- Evelyn Hart (ballerina) –
- Robert Downey Jr. (actor) –
- James Roday (actor) –
- Heath Ledger (actor) –
Events
- John Tyler first US vice president to take over after a president died–
- Susanna Madora Salter became the first woman to be elected mayor of an American community (Argonia, Kansas)–
- First one-way radio telephone communication, New York to Delaware–
- Ben Hur won 11 Academy Awards–
- The Beatles occupied all the top 5 positions on the Billboard singles chart in the U.S.–
- The world’s first totally artificial heart was implanted in a human by US surgeon Dr. Denton A. Cooley. The patient, Haskell Karp, lived only a few days, dying of pneumonia and kidney failure.–
- Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith’s son accepted the nation’s highest award for valor for his late father, who exposed himself to enemy fire in Iraq and saved at least 100 of his fellow U.S. soldiers. It was the first medal of honor awarded in the Iraq War–
- A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck just south of the U.S. border near Mexicali–
Weather
- Augusta, Georgia, and six Georgia counties, were hit by a tornado–
- Nineteen degrees F in Boston, Massachusetts–
- Fifteen degrees F in Concord, New Hampshire–
- Thirteen states (including Alabama, Kentucky, and Ohio), as well as Ontario, experienced 148 tornadoes, with numerous fatalities and injuries between April 3 and today–
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