By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Kim Victoria Fields-Morgan (née Fields, formerly Freeman; born May 12, 1969) is an American actress and director. She first gained fame as a child actress on the television series Good Times (1978–1979), and rose to greater prominence for her role as Dorothy “Tootie” Ramsey in the NBC sitcom Diff’rent Strokes (1979–1981), as well as its spin-off The Facts of Life (1979–1988).
Fields made her transition into mature roles as Regine Hunter on the Fox sitcom Living Single (1993–1998). Afterwards, she began work as a director on the Nickelodeon sitcom Kenan & Kel, as well as Tyler Perry’s House of Payne. She currently stars in the Netflix original series The Upshaws (2021-present).
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
- Florence Nightingale (nurse) –
- Katharine Hepburn (actress) –
- Yogi Berra (baseball player) –
- George Carlin (comedian; first to host Saturday Night Live) –
- Emilio Estevez (actor) –
- Tony Hawk (skateboarder) –
- Kim Fields (actress) –
- Emily VanCamp (actress) –
- Malcolm David Kelley (actor) –
- Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten (actors who played Geoffrey and Michael Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond) –
Died
- John Cadbury (chocolate manufacturer) –
- Winnie (the bear Christopher Robin Milne named his toy bear after) –
- Robert Reed (actor) –
- Adam Petty (race car driver) –
- Perry Como (singer) –
- Emanuel Gluck (Yankee Stadium’s longest-working vendor; wore badge No. 1) –
Events
- The oldest university in Poland, Jagiellonian University, was founded–
- Manitoba Act passed, approving Manitoba to become a Canadian province–
- Charles Sherrill first demonstrated a crouching start for sprinters–
- Adler Planetarium, first in U.S., opened–
- Manitoba’s flag officially adopted–
- Montreal was chosen as the site for the 1976 Summer Olympics–
- U.S. Commerce Department announced hurricanes would no longer be named solely after women–
- Susie Maroney swam from Cuba to Florida in 24.5 hours–
- The discovery of what is likely the Library of Alexandria was announced–
- American sprinter Justin Gatlin, Olympic champion, broke the 100-meter world record with a time of 9.76 seconds at the Qatar Grand Prix in Doha, Qatar. Previous record was 9.77 seconds by Jamaica’s Asafa Powell on June 14, 2005, in Athens, Greece.–
- 7.8-magnitude earthquake, Sichuan province, China–
- A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal less than 3 weeks after a 7.8-magnitude quake–
Weather
- Massive tornado struck Xenia, Ohio–
- The Colorado Rockies were struck by a late-season storm that dropped 46 inches of snow on Coal Creek Canyon, near Boulder–
- Ice out, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH–
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