By Brenda June Temple
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Diana Nicole DeGarmo (born June 16, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in 2004 as the runner-up of the third season of American Idol, releasing her debut studio album, Blue Skies, later that year. The following year, DeGarmo ventured into a career in musical theatre. She has starred in two Broadway, one off-Broadway and three national tours. She made her television acting debut in a six-month arc as Angelina Veneziano on The Young and the Restless. DeGarmo has since released two extended plays, Unplugged in Nashville (2009) and Live to Love (2012). She is married to fifth season American Idol finalist Ace Young.
DeGarmo is the niece of Eddie DeGarmo of the Christian group DeGarmo & Key.
AMERICAN IDOL
DeGarmo took part in the third season of American Idol in 2004, finishing second to winner Fantasia Barrino. She was 16 years old at the time she competed.
During her run on American Idol she was thrice in the bottom three, but was the first contestant sent to safety each time and thus never in the bottom two. She became one of the front-runners by week 6.
She performed around the country with the other third-season top-ten contestants during the summer of 2004.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day has a modern origin. The idea came to Mrs. John Dodd as she sat listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Her father, William Smart, had raised his children alone on his Washington farm after his wife died giving birth to their sixth child. Mrs. Dodd proposed to the Spokane Ministerial Association and the YMCA that they celebrate a “father’s day” on June 5, her father’s birthday. The idea received strong support, but the good ministers of Spokane asked that the day be changed to give them extra time to prepare sermons on the unexplored subject of fathers. The first Father’s Day was observed on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington, and soon other towns had their own celebrations. In spite of widespread support, Father’s Day did not become a permanent national holiday until 1972, when President Richard Nixon signed a law declaring that it be celebrated annually on the third Sunday in June.
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Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Stan Laurel (comedian) –
- Barbara McClintock (geneticist) –
- Joyce Carol Oates (author) –
- Laurie Metcalf (actress) –
- Phil Mickelson (golfer) –
- Kerry Wood (baseball player) –
- Diana DeGarmo (singer) –
- Bianca Andreescu (tennis player ) –
Died
- Brian Piccolo (football player) –
- Jack Montgomery (Medal of Honor recipient) –
Events
- Spain declared war on Britain and the siege of Gibraltar began–
- The first roller coaster in the United States began operation at Coney Island, New York–
- First issue of Klondike Nugget published, Dawson, Yukon–
- Andrew Jackson, Jr. was issued a patent for eye protectors for chickens–
- Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, released–
- Soviet dancer, Rudolph Nureyev, left the touring Kirov Ballet and asked for political asylum in France–
- First female in space, Valentina V. Tereshkova, was launched into orbit in Soviet Vostok VI–
- People were caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building–
- A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off of California’s northern coast to become the fourth significant quake to jolt California in a week–
Weather
- Hail measuring 17 inches in circumference fell in Dubuque, Iowa–
- Mecca, California, recorded temperatures up to 124 degrees F–
- Thunderstorms dropped 14 inches of rain at Palmer Lake and Larkspur, Colorado–
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