By Terrianna Daniels
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Richard Bartlett Schroder (born April 13, 1970) is an American actor and filmmaker. As a child actor billed as Ricky Schroder he debuted in the film The Champ (1979), for which he became the youngest Golden Globe award recipient, and went on to become a child star on the sitcom Silver Spoons (1982–87). He has continued acting as an adult, usually billed as Rick Schroder, notably in the Western miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989) and on the police drama series NYPD Blue (1998–2001). He made his directorial debut with the film Black Cloud (2004) and has produced several films and television series, including the anthology film Locker 13 and the war documentary The Fighting Season.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Born in 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia, Jefferson was the third president of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He began his political career in 1769 in the Virginia legislature. Forty years later, he retired as president of the United States. He died on July 4, 1826, at Monticello, his home in Virginia. He once wrote, “All my wishes end where I hope my days will end—at Monticello.”
Thomas Jefferson was a dedicated farmer, and his interest in agriculture is evident in much of his writings. His plantation Monticello included vegetable gardens, flower gardens, orchards, vineyards, grain fields, and ornamental landscapes. Jefferson worked on improving plant varieties as well as agricultural tools, such as the plow.
To celebrate his birthday, pay a visit to the country home he designed. To fully grasp his political philosophy, called Jeffersonianism, read his collected works, including “The Fundamentals of Government.” It was none other than Abraham Lincoln who said, “The principles of Jefferson are the axioms of a free society.”
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Born
- Thomas Jefferson (3rd U.S. president) –
- Butch Cassidy (American Wild West outlaw) –
- Samuel Beckett (author, playwright, & Nobel Prize winner) –
- Caroline Rhea (comedian & actress) –
- Rick Schroder (actor) –
Died
- Archie “Grey Owl” Belaney (conservationist) –
- Annie Jump Cannon (astronomer) –
- Wallace Stegner (writer) –
- Mark “the Bird” Fidrych (baseball pitcher) –
- Jonathan Frid (actor) –
Events
- Pres. FDR dedicated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.–
- First navigational satellite Transit-1B launched–
- The Beatles recorded their hit song “Help!” –
- An explosion occurred aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon. Short of oxygen and flying a crippled ship, the crew aborted the moon landing and headed back to earth under emergency conditions–
- A dwarf mouse named Yoda celebrated his fourth birthday, making him the oldest of his kind and far beyond 100 in human years. Yoda owes his longevity to genetic modifications that affected his pituitary and thyroid glands and reduced insulin production – and which left him a third smaller than an average mouse and very sensitive to cold–
- Barry Bonds, the San Francisco slugger, hit his 661st career home run, passing Willie Mays (also his Godfather) to take sole possession of third place on baseball’s career list–
Weather
- Zero degrees F at Hanover, New Hampshire–
- Dozen tornadoes in eastern Iowa–
- Tornado tore through Iowa City, Iowa–
- 8.9 inches of snow fell on Great Falls, Montana, setting a new record for this date–
- A tornado struck the states of Bihar and West Bengal in eastern India–
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