By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Phoebe Belle Cates Kline (born July 16, 1963) is an American former actress, who appeared in films such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Gremlins (1984), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Drop Dead Fred (1991) and Princess Caraboo (1994).
In 1983, during her audition for a role (awarded to Meg Tilly) in The Big Chill, Cates met actor Kevin Kline. They were both dating other people but became romantically involved two years later. They married in 1989, and she changed her name to Phoebe Cates Kline. They moved to the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York, across Fifth Avenue from Central Park, where they raised their two children, son Owen Joseph Kline (b. 1991) and daughter Greta Kline (b. 1994). Owen and Greta appeared with their parents in the 2001 movie The Anniversary Party. Owen also appeared in the 2005 film The Squid and the Whale, and made his directorial debut with the coming-of-age black comedy Funny Pages. Greta fronts the band Frankie Cosmos.
In 2005, Cates opened a boutique, Blue Tree, on New York’s Madison Avenue.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Second Summer (also known as “Indian Summer”)
Second Summer (also known as “Indian Summer”) is a period of warm weather following a cold spell or a hard frost. It can occur between St. Martin’s Day (November 11) and November 20, although the Almanac adheres to the proverb, “If All Saints’ brings out winter, St. Martin’s brings out Indian summer.” As for the origin of the term, some say it comes from the Narragansett people, who believed that the condition was caused by a warm wind sent from the court of their southwestern god, Cautantowwit.
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Andrea del Sarto (painter) –
- Pierre Le Moyne (French-Canadian explorer) –
- Giuseppe Piazzi (Italian astronomer) –
- Mary Baker Eddy (religious leader) –
- Shoeless Joe Jackson (baseball player) –
- Barbara Stanwyck (actress) –
- Ginger Rogers (actress) –
- Michael Flatley (dancer & choreographer) –
- Phoebe Cates (actress) –
- Will Ferrell (actor) –
- Barry Sanders (football player) –
- Corey Feldman (actor) –
Died
- Anne of Cleves (fourth wife of King Henry VIII) –
- Mary Todd Lincoln (U.S. First Lady) –
- Harry Chapin (singer & songwriter) –
- John F. Kennedy, Jr. (died in a plane crash on his way to a cousin’s wedding on Martha’s Vineyard. His wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister, Lauren, were also aboard) –
- Charles W. Sweeney (pilot of the U.S. bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, in the last days of World War II) –
Events
- Congress established the District of Columbia on the Potomac River, voting to set up the permanent seat of the government of the U.S. there–
- Dr. Emily Howard Stowe, the first woman to practice medicine in Canada, received her medical license.–
- First parking meters installed, Oklahoma City, OK–
- Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, to become the first manned space mission to land on the moon–
- 135 pilot whales beached at Point au Gaul, Newfoundland and Labrador–
- In the Philippines, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale killed over 1,600 people–
- The 6th book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series sold 6.9 million copies in its first 24 hours — averaging better than 250,000 sales per hour–
- A 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck about 20 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., in Maryland–
- 3.4 earthquake occurred near Germantown, Maryland–
- Bryan Cranston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame–
- To mark the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s launch, U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, launched 5,000 model rockets simultaneously, breaking a Guinness world record–
Weather
- F2 tornado in Grafton County, New Hampshire–
- 15th to 16th: 22.22 inches of rain in 24 hours, Altapass, North Carolina–
- In Churdan, Iowa, a tornado touched down and moved northwest, opposite the normal pattern–
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