By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Vivica Anjanetta Fox (born July 30, 1964) is an American actress, producer and television host. Fox began her career on Soul Train (1982–1983) and played roles on the daytime television soap operas Days of Our Lives (1988) and Generations (1989–1992). In prime time she starred opposite Patti LaBelle in the NBC sitcom Out All Night (1992–1993). Fox’s breakthrough came in 1996, with roles in two box-office hit films, Roland Emmerich‘s Independence Day and F. Gary Gray‘s Set It Off.
Fox has starred in the films Booty Call (1997), Soul Food (1997), Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998), Kingdom Come (2001), Two Can Play That Game (2001), and Boat Trip (2002). She played Vernita Green in Kill Bill and landed supporting roles in films like Ella Enchanted (2004). She scored leading roles in the short-lived Fox sitcom Getting Personal (1998) and the CBS medical drama City of Angels (2000). From 2003 to 2006, she co-starred in and produced the Lifetime crime drama series, Missing, for which she received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series. Fox starred in more than 25 The Wrong… movies for Lifetime and played Candace Mason in the Fox musical drama series, Empire. Fox’s involvement in the entertainment industry goes beyond acting, as she has produced films and TV shows, some of which she did not star in. She made her directorial debut with the 2023 biographical crime film, First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story.
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Born
- Giorgio Vasari (artist) –
- Emily Brontë (novelist) –
- Henry Ford (industrialist) –
- Robert Rutherford McCormick (newspaper editor) –
- Casey Stengel (baseball player) –
- Henry Moore (sculptor) –
- Paul Anka (singer) –
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor & politician) –
- Delta Burke (actress) –
- Kate Bush (singer) –
- Laurence Fishburne (actor) –
- Alton Brown (television host) –
- Lisa Kudrow (actress) –
- Vivica A. Fox (actress) –
- Tom Green (actor & comedian) –
- Christine Taylor (actress) –
- Hilary Swank (actress) –
Died
- Lynn Fontanne (actress) –
- Lane Frost (bull rider) –
- Buffalo Bob Smith (actor and puppeteer, best known for Howdy Doody) –
- Sam Phillips (rock’n’roll pioneer, Sun Records founder, and the man who discovered Elvis and also launched the careers of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and B.B. King) –
- Ingmar Bergman (filmmaker) –
- Michelangelo Antonioni (director) –
- Nichelle Nichols (American actress ) –
- Paul Reubens (actor, best known for Pee-Wee Herman) –
Events
- Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was first to observe what we now know are Saturn’s rings–
- First legislative assembly in America, the House of Burgesses, convened at Jamestown, VA–
- Caspar Wistar began operation of the first successful glass factory in America, in Allowaystown, New Jersey–
- Malden Island was discovered–
- Hawaii’s first English-language newspaper published–
- New York Yacht Club founded–
- The Olympic Games of Los Angeles, celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era, opened–
- Japanese warships sank the USS Indianapolis, killing over 800 seamen (WW II)–
- Elvis Presley made his debut performance at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis, TN–
- Mister Roberts premiered–
- President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation establishing the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs–
- Apollo 15 landed on the Moon–
- Jake, a 65-pound golden retriever, was the only non-human in the 10th annual 1.25-mile swim from Alcatraz island to the San Francisco shore. The 4-year-old dog swam across the water in just under 42 minutes, finishing 72nd out of the more than 500 swimmers. Organizers say it was the first known crossing by a dog–
- In Bethel, Maine, the largest snowwoman (122 feet, 1 inch tall) melted completely–
Weather
- During Tropical Storm Brenda, 4.5 inches of rain fell in 11 hours on New York City–
- 107 degrees F in Portland, Oregon–
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