By Terrianna Daniels
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Lauren Zoe Hernandez (born June 9, 2000) is an American retired artistic gymnast. During her debut year as a senior gymnast, she competed as a member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team dubbed the “Final Five” at the 2016 Summer Olympics that won the team gold medal. Individually, Hernandez earned the silver medal on the balance beam. She returned to training in late 2018 and expressed interest in making a comeback to earn a spot on the U.S. women’s gymnastic team for the 2020 Summer Olympics, but she did not qualify for the Olympic Gymnastics Trials.
Outside of gymnastics, Hernandez has appeared on season 23 of Dancing with the Stars in 2016, where she won the competition along with partner Val Chmerkovskiy. Hernandez hosted the first season of American Ninja Warrior Junior as the on-course reporter and starred as Valeria in the Nickelodeon animated miniseries Middle School Moguls. She is the author of two books, I Got This: To Gold and Beyond, a New York Times Bestseller and She’s Got This, a children’s book.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
What is root beer, and who created it?
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Antlophobia
Puzzle of the Day
The state of exclamation. (Abbreviation of a U.S. state)
Born
- Peter the Great (emperor of Russia) –
- Cole Porter (composer & lyricist) –
- Donald Duck (cartoon character) –
- Patricia Cornwell (author) –
- Michael J. Fox (actor) –
- Johnny Depp (actor) –
- Tedy Bruschi (football player) –
- Natalie Portman (actress) –
- Laurie Hernandez (Olympic gymnast) –
Died
- Charles Dickens (author) –
- Roosevelt Brown (football player) –
- Richard Eberhart (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet) –
- Adam West (actor) –
Events
- Jacques Cartier became the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River–
- Church of England fully adopted Book of Common Prayer–
- The first copyright for a book was given to The Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry–
- Irish-born British private Timothy O’Hea put out a fire in a gunpowder-loaded railcar in Danville, Quebec. The train had also been carrying hundreds of German immigrants who were locked in their cars. O’Hea was later awarded the Victoria Cross for his courage.–
- First degree earned via radio given to Clifford Lideen by University of Iowa–
- Donald Duck made his debut in the cartoon The Wise Little Hen”“–
- Secretariat won the Triple Crown–
- Deanna Brasseur and Jane Foster became Canada’s first female CF-18 jet fighter pilots–
Weather
- Worst tornado in New England history in Worcester County, MA – 90 people killed, $60 million in damages. Also a tornado in Exeter, NH, injured 5–
- Deadly tornado struck Worcester County, Massachusetts–
- Eastern Florida was hit by Hurricane Alma, the earliest hurricane landfall on the U.S. continent since 1825–
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