By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Marlee Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a BAFTA Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
Deaf since she was 18 months old, Matlin made her acting debut playing Sarah Norman in the romantic drama film Children of a Lesser God (1986), winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. She is the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award, as well as the youngest winner in the Best Actress category. Matlin starred in the police drama series Reasonable Doubts (1991–1993), which earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations, and her guest roles in Seinfeld (1993), Picket Fences (1993), The Practice (2000), and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2004–05) earned her four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. For her role in CODA (2021), she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Matlin is a prominent member of the National Association of the Deaf, and her interpreter is Jack Jason. In 2009, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
One of the original 12 Apostles, St. Bartholomew is commemorated on August 24. In England, many fairs were held on this day, including the famous St. Bartholomew Fair in Smithfield. Eventually, the saint’s feast day appeared in weather lore, such as “At St. Bartholomew, there comes cold dew,” or “As Bartholomew’s Day, so the whole autumn.” After this date, thunderstorms were said to be more violent.
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Born
- Geoffrey Plantagenet (Count of Anjou) –
- Alexander II of Scotland –
- René Lévesque (Quebec premier) –
- Louis Teicher (pianist) –
- A. S. Byatt (novelist) –
- Steve Guttenberg (actor) –
- Cal Ripken Jr. (baseball player) –
- Marlee Matlin (actress) –
- Reggie Miller (basketball player) –
- Chad Michael Murray (actor) –
- Rupert Grint (actor) –
Died
- E. G. Marshall (actor) –
- Jerry Clower (Grand Ole Opry humorist) –
- Richard Attenborough (actor) –
Events
- British troops set the White House on fire during the War of 1812–
- Treaty of Cordoba signed, granting Mexico independence from Spain–
- Cornelius Swartwout patented the waffle iron –
- Mark David Chapman sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of John Lennon–
- For the final episode of CBS’s first Survivor program, approximately 51 million people (41% of America’s viewing public) watched Richard Hatch win the $1 million prize–
- Julie Krone became the first female jockey to win a million-dollar race in the U.S. when she finished first in the Pacific Classic in Del Mar, CA, mounted atop her horse Candy Ride–
- GPS navigation signals off by up to 3 feet for 3 hours due to rocket-made ionospheric hole–
Weather
- The temperature at Saint Cloud, Minnesota, was 37 degrees F–
- Thunderstorms dropped five to seven inches of rain on Long Island, New York, closing major highways–
- Hurricane Andrew came ashore damaging South Florida–
- Twisters, heavy rain, and hail as big as grapefruit struck the Dakotas–
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