By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Jared Tristan Padalecki (born July 19, 1982) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Sam Winchester in the TV series Supernatural. He rose to fame in the early 2000s after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls as well as the films New York Minute (2004) Flight of the Phoenix (2004) and House of Wax (2005), later starring in Friday the 13th (2009).
Padalecki’s engagement to his Supernatural co-star Genevieve Cortese was announced in January 2010. They met when Cortese guest-starred as Ruby on the show’s fourth season. Padalecki proposed to her in front of their favorite painting, Joan of Arc, by French realist Jules Bastien-Lepage at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in October 2009. The pair married on February 27, 2010, in Cortese’s hometown of Sun Valley, Idaho. They have three children.
Padalecki and Supernatural co-stars Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins supported Beto O’Rourke for the 2018 Senate election in Texas.
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
- Samuel Colt (inventor) –
- Edgar Degas (painter) –
- Lizzie Borden (accused murderess) –
- Charles Horace Mayo (surgeon) –
- A.J. Cronin (writer) –
- Vikki Carr (singer) –
- Ilie Nastase (tennis player) –
- Anthony Edwards (actor) –
- Scott Walker (hockey player) –
- Benedict Cumberbatch (actor ) –
- Jared Padalecki (actor) –
Died
- Margaret Fuller (writer) –
- Rose Alnora Hartwick Thorpe (poet) –
- Elwyn Marshall Meader (plant breeder) –
- James Aparo (illustrator; drew Batman and other DC Comics heroes) –
- Jack Warden (actor) –
- Frank McCourt (Pulitzer Prize-winning author) –
- James Garner (actor) –
- Garry Marshall (director, producer, actor) –
Events
- Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having the title for only nine days–
- Bloomers (long, loose, trousers) were introduced to delegates of the first Women’s Right’s Convention in Seneca Falls, New York–
- Morris Nourse earned a Carnegie Medal by saving a drowning boy in Des Moines, Iowa–
- Fiberglass sutures were first used, by Dr. Roy Scholz in St. Louis, Missouri–
- N.Y.C. subway’s first air-conditioned cars began service–
- Canada and United States agreed to transfer certain prisoners who wish to finish sentence in own country–
- New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was selected to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle–
- 26th Summer Olympics began in Atlanta, Georgia–
- Don Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin ate his 20,000th Big Mac sandwich at a local McDonald’s restaurant. He already had made the Guinness World Records book for eating a record number of Big Macs before he hit number 19,000 in March 2003–
Weather
- The third hurricane within a month hit the northern Florida peninsula–
- Saguenay flood began in Quebec, Canada–
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