By Brenda June Temple
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta “Leelee” Sobieski (born June 10, 1983) is an American artist and retired actress. She achieved fame in her teens with roles in films such as Deep Impact (1998), Never Been Kissed, Eyes Wide Shut (both 1999), Here on Earth (2000), Joy Ride and The Glass House (both 2001). She received Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations for her portrayal of the title character in the television film Joan of Arc (1999), and a further Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the NBC miniseries Uprising (2001). Sobieski continued to work in films and on television until retiring in 2012, after which she focused on her children and art career.
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
- Gustave Courbet (painter) –
- Hattie McDaniel (actress; the first African American to win an Academy Award) –
- Judy Garland (actress & singer) –
- Eugene Parker (American astrophysicist; proposed the idea of solar wind in 1958 ) –
- F. Lee Bailey (attorney) –
- Jim Shea (Olympic gold medalist, Men’s Skeleton) –
- Pokey Reese (baseball player) –
- Tara Lipinski (figure skater) –
- Princess Madeleine of Sweden –
- Leelee Sobieski (actress) –
Died
- Sir Robert Laird Borden (Canadian prime minister) –
- Spencer Tracy (actor) –
- Louis L’Amour (author) –
- John Gotti (gangster) –
- Ray Charles (singer) –
- John A. Eddy (solar astronomer, coined the term Maunder Minimum) –
- Gordie Howe (hockey player) –
Events
- Bridget Bishop was the first person to be hanged at the Salem Witch trials–
- Ben Franklin’s kite and key experiment proved lightning is electricity–
- Canada Constitution Act is passed by British Parliament, creating Upper and Lower Canada–
- Phoenix steamboat first in U.S. to sail on open sea–
- First boat race between Oxford and Cambridge–
- The United States Naval Academy graduated its first students–
- U.S. Marines landed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba–
- Alcoholics Anonymous founded –
- The Deep premiered–
- United States War Dogs Memorial was dedicated, Holmdel, New Jersey–
Weather
- Yakutat, Alaska, reached 87 degrees F, a record for that town–
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