By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
John M. Slattery Jr. (born August 13, 1962) is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Roger Sterling in the AMC drama series Mad Men (2007–15), for which he was nominated four times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. For his role he won two Critics’ Choice Television Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
He is also known for his film roles including for his portrayal of Ben Bradlee, Jr., in the Best Picture-winning film Spotlight (2015), and the role of Howard Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Iron Man 2 (2010), Ant-Man (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). He has also acted in Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Reservation Road (2007), Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Churchill (2017), and Confess, Fletch (2022). Slattery made his directorial film debut with God’s Pocket (2014).
Slattery’s lead television roles include Homefront (1991–1993), Maggie (1998–1999), Jack & Bobby (2004–2005), and neXt (2020). He has also had recurring roles in shows such as Desperate Housewives (2004–2007), 30 Rock (2010), Arrested Development (2013), Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015), Veep (2016), Modern Love (2019), Mrs. America (2020), and The Good Fight (2022).
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
- William Caxton (printer) –
- Lucy Stone (women’s rights activist) –
- Goldwin Smith (historian & journalist) –
- Annie Oakley (sharpshooter) –
- Alfred Hitchcock (filmmaker) –
- Sir Basil Spence (architect) –
- Fidel Castro (politician) –
- Don Ho (musician) –
- John Slattery (actor) –
- Debi Mazar (actress) –
Died
- Eugene Delacroix (painter) –
- Florence Nightingale (pioneer of modern nursing) –
- Herbert George [“H. G.”] Wells (English writer) –
- Mickey Mantle (baseball player) –
- Julia Child (chef and author) –
- Sandy Allen (world’s tallest woman, 7 foot, 7 inches tall) –
- Les Paul (guitar pioneer) –
- Johnny Pesky (baseball player) –
Events
- Canada first used to indicate region–
- Oregon Institute (later named Willamette University) opened in Salem, Oregon–
- Andrew Campbell discovered the Luray Caverns in Virginia, when cold air from a sinkhole on a large hill extinguished his candle–
- Last spike driven for first stage of Esquimalt-Nanaimo Railway in Cliffside, B.C.–
- Samuel Leeds Allen granted patent for Flexible Flyer sled–
- L’il Abner comic strip debuted–
- The Walt Disney classic, Bambi, opened this day at Radio City Music Hall in New York City–
- Canso Causeway, linking Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, opened–
- A plane flew into a hurricane for the first series of bumpy flights for the National Hurricane Research Project, then part of the U.S. Weather Bureau–
- The East German government closed the border between east and west sectors of Berlin with barbed wire fencing to discourage further population movement to the west. Later in the week a concrete wall was erected to strengthen the barrier between official crossing points–
- 3-year-old Jamie Gavin became the youngest heart/lung transplant patient–
- American swimmer Michael Phelps won his 10th and 11th Olympic gold medals making him the most decorated Olympian in history–
Weather
- Blue sun observed widely in the South, thought to presage Nat Turner slave uprising: phenomenon continued for several days–
- Hurricane Connie hit the North Carolina coast with winds up to 87 miles per hour–
- Four people were injured when lightning hit and shattered a utility pole in Belmont, New Hampshire–
- Nine people were injured after a lightning strike at a day camp in Pelham, New Hampshire–
- A small tornado hit Meredith, New Hampshire–
- Hurricane Charley struck Florida–
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