By Michelle Dumas
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FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967) is a Canadian actress. After early roles on television, she rose to international prominence for her role of Trinity in The Matrix series (1999–present). She has starred in Memento (2000), for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, Red Planet (2000), Chocolat (2000), Fido (2006), Snow Cake (2006), for which she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Disturbia (2007), Unthinkable (2010), Silent Hill: Revelation (2012), and Pompeii (2014). She also portrayed Jeri Hogarth in several television series produced by Marvel Television for Netflix, most notably Jessica Jones (2015–2019).
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Born
- Asher Brown Durand (American painter) –
- Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator) –
- Count Basie (bandleader) –
- Christopher Robin Milne (A. A. Milne’s son who he modeled Christopher Robin after in the Winnie the Pooh stories) –
- Princess Margaret (younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II) –
- Wilt Chamberlain (basketball player) –
- Kenny Rogers (singer) –
- Clarence Williams, III (actor) –
- Kim Cattrall (actress) –
- Jim McMahon (football player) –
- Carrie-Anne Moss (actress) –
- Hayden Panettiere (actress) –
Died
- Ernest Lawrence Thayer (poet) –
- Charles Eames (designer & architect) –
- Ray-Bernice Eames (designer) –
Events
- Nat Turner, a deeply religious enslaved man, led a violent rebellion of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia –
- The American Bar Association was founded–
- William S. Burroughs received a patent for an adding machine–
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee, Vincenzo Peruggia–
- Arthur R. Eldred became the first Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America–
- United Nations building opened in New York City–
- Family claimed home invaded by goblin-like space creatures, Kelly, KY–
- Hawaii became the U.S.’s fiftieth state–
- Executive Order for a 50-star U.S. flag issued–
- Gemini 5 was launched and went on to break a record, spending eight days in space–
- Four men possibly abducted by UFO, Allagash waterway, Maine–
- The Young and the Restless shot its 10,000th episode–
Weather
- Deadly tornado hit Wilmington Delaware–
- Tornado hit Tyler, Michigan–
- The temperature in Fayetteville, North Carolina, reached a record high 110 degrees F–
- Hurricane Dean hit the Caribbean coast of Mexico as a Category 5 hurricane–
- Tropical Storm Fay made landfall in Florida for the third time in a week. Fay was the fourth storm in history to make landfall as a tropical storm three times.–
- Deadly tornado struck Goderich, Ontario–
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