Daily Almanac for Wednesday July 31, 2024

By Michelle Dumas

Actress Susan Flannery is 85 today. She played Laura Horton on Days of Our Lives and Stephanie Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful Here she is at the 39th Daytime Emmy Awards, 2009. By Greg Hernandez – P1010797, CC BY 2.0, https commons.wikimedia

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS

Susan Flannery (born July 31, 1939) is an American actress and director. She made her screen debut appearing in the 1965 Western film Guns of Diablo and later appeared in some television series. From 1966 to 1975, Flannery starred as Laura Horton on the NBC daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives for which she received her first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Flannery received Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for her performance in the 1974 disaster film, The Towering Inferno. For her starring role in the 1976 miniseries The Moneychangers, she received Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series. Flannery later acted on prime-time shows and made-for-television movies, before returning to daytime with the role of Stephanie Forrester on the CBS soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful (1987–2012, 2018), receiving three Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2000, 2002 and 2003.

TODAY’S ALMANAC

Question of the Day

Why are most of the potatoes we buy at the store green? Are they poisonous?

Green potatoes seem to be showing up more and more in stores these days. The green color is the result of the potato being exposed to sunlight after protruding from the soil’s surface. The green parts are not poisonous, but they can be bitter and should be cut out of the potato before cooking.

Advice of the Day

Pick beans when pods just reveal the beans inside.

Home Hint of the Day

To treat a skin irritation, sponge the area with vinegar. If the itching stops, the condition is on the outside of the skin and has been cured. If it persists, the condition is internal, and it’s time to call the doctor.

Word of the Day

Chowder

From the French chaudiere, a kettle, a pot. A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

Puzzle of the Day

The (Blank) is (Blank).(What’s the saying? Fill in the blanks!)

1) die 2) cast

Born

John Ericsson (engineer) – 1803
Theobald Smith (bacteriologist) – 1859
Jean Dubuffet (artist) – 1901
Primo Levi (author) – 1919
Whitney Moore Young Jr. (civil rights activist) – 1921
Susan Flannery (actress) – 1943
Geraldine Chaplin (actress) – 1944
Wesley Snipes (actor) – 1962
J. K. Rowling (author) – 1965
Dean Cain (actor) – 1966
Tim Couch (football player) – 1977

Died

Andrew Johnson (17th U.S. president) – 1875
Robert A. Taft (politician) – 1953

Events

George Washington signed the first United States Patent Grant to Samuel Hopkins of Pittsford, Vermont, for a new method of making Potash– 1790
David Rittenhouse, Director of the Mint, laid the cornerstone of the building being built in Philadelphia for the U.S. Mint– 1792
Alys McKey Bryant first woman to fly a plane in Canada– 1913
The first automobile, a Ford Model T, was permitted into Yellowstone National Park– 1915
The Shadow radio program first aired– 1930
5-pound 3-ounce white crappie caught, Enid Dam, Mississippi– 1957
IBM released the Selectric typewriter– 1961
U.S. probe Ranger 7 relayed first moon close-ups– 1964
Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin became the first people to drive a vehicle on the Moon– 1971
French became the official language of Quebec– 1974
Former Teamsters Union president, James R. Hoffa, was reported missing– 1975
NASA released the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1– 1976
The ashes of astrogeologist Eugene Shoemaker were deposited on the Moon– 1999

Weather

Hail fell 12 inches deep in Scituate, Massachusetts, remaining on the ground for 30 hours– 1769
The Edmonton Tornado struck Alberta’s capital city, killing 27 people and causing more than $250 million in damage.– 1987
Roswell, New Mexico, set a record for monthly rainfall with 6.68 inches– 1991

COURTESY www.almanac.com

Mega Sports News