By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Manoj Nelliyattu “M. Night“ Shyamalan (/ˈʃɑːməlɑːn/ SHAH-mə-lahn; born August 6, 1970) is an American filmmaker. His films often employ supernatural plots and twist endings. The cumulative gross of his films exceeds $3.3 billion globally. Shyamalan has received various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe.
Shyamalan was born in Mahé, India, and raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. His early films include Praying with Anger (1992) and Wide Awake (1998) before his breakthrough film The Sixth Sense (1999), which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. He then released Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002) and The Village (2004). Following a string of poorly received films—Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010), and After Earth (2013)—he experienced a critical and commercial career resurgence with The Visit (2015), Split (2016), Glass (2019), Old (2021), Knock at the Cabin (2023), and Trap (2024).
Shyamalan was also one of the executive producers and occasional director of the 20th Television science fiction series Wayward Pines (2015–2016) and the Apple TV+ psychological horror series Servant (2019–2023), for which he also served as showrunner.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare’s wife) –
- Bix Beiderbecke (jazz musician) –
- Sir Cedric Hardwicke (actor) –
- Rick James (singer) –
- John Hughes (writer & director) –
Born
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (poet) –
- The Duke of Argyll, Marquess of Lorne (Canadian Governor General 1878 – 1883) –
- Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (U.S. First Lady) –
- Alexander Fleming (Scottish bacteriologist) –
- Scott Nearing (sociologist) –
- Lucille Ball (actress) –
- Robert Mitchum (actor) –
- Andy Warhol (artist) –
- M. Night Shyamalan (film director, writer, producer) –
Events
- At Auburn Prison, Auburn, NY, William Kemmler became the first man to be executed by electrocution–
- Baseball pitcher Cy Young made his major league debut–
- Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. She did it in record time, 14 hours and 31 minutes–
- The first atomic bomb, named Little Boy, was dropped out of an American B-29 bomber over the center of the city Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.–
- Jamaica became independent–
- A miscalculation in a practice flight for an air show the following day caused a U.S. Blue Angel pilot to break the sound barrier. This, in turn, broke many windows in downtown Kelowna, British Columbia, and caused some injuries.–
- Microsoft and Apple agreed to share technology–
- Asteroids renamed to honor final Shuttle Columbia crew–
Weather
- Adair and Union counties in Iowa received 4 inches of hail–
- The temperature soared to 106 degrees F in Washington, D.C., and Maryland–
- Large hail, some softball size, struck areas of Colorado, including the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. Although hail was not quite softball size there, it injured 14 people, killed a 4-year-old muscovy duck named Daisy and a 13-year-old Cape vulture named Motswari, injured other animals, and damaged windows and an estimated 400 cars. The storm also knocked out power to nearly 2,000 customers in the region.–
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