By Cynthia Charlene Greason
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Mary Stuart Masterson (born June 28, 1966) is an American actress and director. After making her acting debut as a child in The Stepford Wives (1975), Masterson took a ten-year hiatus to focus on her education. Her early film roles include Heaven Help Us (1985), At Close Range (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), and Chances Are (1989). Her performance in the film Immediate Family (1989) won her the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress, and she earned additional praise for her roles in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Benny & Joon (1993).
Masterson later shifted her focus to television projects, appearing in Kate Brasher (2001) which she also produced, Something the Lord Made (2004), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2004–2007), Mercy (2010), NCIS (2017), Blindspot (2017–2019), and For Life (2020). She also performed in the Broadway revival of Nine (2003) for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and directed The Cake Eaters (2007). She returned to mainstream film with As You Are (2017), and has since appeared in Skin (2018), Daniel Isn’t Real (2019), and Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023).
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Six-eighths of a discoverer, a preposition, and a vowel. (Use these clues to find the three “words” that, when combined, form the name of a flower.)
Answer: Columbine
Died
- Pope Paul I –
- James Madison (4th U.S. president) –
- Maria Mitchell (astronomer) –
- Rod Serling (screenwriter) –
- Terrance Stanley Fox (cross-country runner, Canadian hero) –
- Queen Modjadji V (the rain queen” of South Africa’s Lobedu tribe”) –
- Billy Mays (popular TV pitchman) –
- Meshach Taylor (actor) –
Born
- Henry VIII ( King of England) –
- Peter Paul Rubens (painter) –
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (philosopher) –
- Richard Rodgers (composer) –
- Mel Brooks (director & actor) –
- Pat Morita (actor) –
- Gilda Radner (actress) –
- Kathy Bates (actress) –
- John Elway (football player) –
- Mary Stuart Masterson (actress) –
- John Cusack (actor) –
Events
- Molly Pitcher took her mortally wounded husband’s place at a cannon at the Battle of Monmouth, NJ. As a recognition of her heroism, the valiant woman was commissioned a sergeant by General George Washington–
- Cholera epidemic began in N.Y.C.–
- Labor Day became an official U.S. holiday–
- The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending WW I–
- First Corvette car assembled–
- Israel annexed East Jerusalem–
- The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities–
- 7.3 earthquake shook Landers, California–
- A brief 4.5 earthquake struck the Midwest rattling windows and awakening sleeping residents from Wisconsin south to Missouri and from Indiana west to Iowa–
- Pope Benedict XVI waived the five year waiting period for a cause for beatification to be opened and the official process for beatification of Pope John Paul II began in the Diocese of Rome–
Weather
- Laughlin, Nevada, reached 124 degrees F–
- Tornado tossed tractor 1.5 miles in Camp Crook, South Dakota–
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