By Terrianna Daniels
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress. Prolific in film and television since her teens, she is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. In 2012, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Danes first gained recognition for starring in the 1994 teen drama series My So-Called Life, winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and receiving a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She made her film debut in the same year in Little Women (1994), and gained wider fame for starring in the romance Romeo + Juliet (1996). Danes has since appeared in The Rainmaker (1997), Brokedown Palace (1999), The Hours (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Shopgirl (2005), and Stardust (2007). She appeared in an Off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues in 2000 and made her Broadway debut playing Eliza Doolittle in a 2007 revival of Pygmalion.
In 2010, Danes portrayed the title character in the HBO film Temple Grandin for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. From 2011 to 2020, she starred as Carrie Mathison in the Showtime drama series Homeland, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Drama Series.[3][4] In 2022, she starred in the FX on Hulu series Fleishman Is in Trouble.
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
- John George Lambdon (governor-general of British North America) –
- Beverly Cleary (author) –
- Dr. Peter Safar (originator of CPR) –
- Montserrat Caballe (opera singer) –
- Herbie Hancock (musician) –
- David Letterman (talk show host) –
- Tom Clancy (author) –
- David Cassidy (singer and actor) –
- Andy García (actor) –
- Vince Gill (musician) –
- Jennifer Morrison (actress) –
- Claire Danes (actress) –
- Stubbs the Cat (honorary mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska) –
Died
- Clara Barton (founder of the American Red Cross) –
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd U.S. president) –
- Sugar Ray Robinson (boxer) –
- Abbie Hoffman (social and political activist) –
- Georgia Engel (actress, best known as Georgette Franklin on The Mary Tyler Moore Show) –
Events
- Charles A. Gayler received a patent for a fireproof safe–
- Charles Gayler received a patent for a fireproof iron chest –
- First U.S. championship billiards game–
- The US Civil War began–
- Women granted the right to vote in Ontario–
- Nova Scotia’s Moose River gold mine collapsed, trapping 3 people–
- Bill Haley and His Comets recorded Rock Around the Clock–
- The polio vaccine developed by Dr. Salk was found to be successful after subjection to a year of clinical trials–
- Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In by the 5th Dimension topped the charts for 6 weeks–
- Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope across Canada in St. John’s, Newfoundland, by dipping his artificial leg into the Atlantic Ocean–
- Space shuttle Columbia first launched–
- Harold Washington was elected the first African-American mayor of Chicago–
- Texaco Inc. became the largest U.S. company in history to file bankruptcy after it is ordered to pay Pennzoil $8.53 billion in damages for unfair business practices–
- Golfer Fred Couples won the Masters tournament–
Weather
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was hit by a tornado; 150 houses lost their roofs–
- Fourteen inches of snow at Bloomfield, Vermont–
- 231-mph wind gust on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, second highest wind speed in the world–
- 21 inches of snow fell in Selby, South Dakota–
- Ice out, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH–
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