By Nicole Bernard
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Damon Kyle Wayans Sr. (/ˈdeɪmən ˈweɪ.ənz/; born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and writer. He performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a year-long stint on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. He later became a writer and performer on Fox‘s sketch comedy show In Living Color (1990–1992), on his animated series Waynehead (1996–1997) and on his TV series Damon (1998). Since then, he has starred in a number of films and television shows, some of which he has co-produced or co-written, including Mo Money, The Last Boy Scout, Major Payne, Bulletproof, and the sitcom My Wife and Kids. From 2016 to 2019, he starred as Roger Murtaugh in the Fox television series Lethal Weapon. He is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers.
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Born
- Sarah Childress Polk (U.S. First Lady) –
- Anton Bruckner (composer) –
- Richard Wright (author) –
- Paul Harvey (radio personality) –
- Dick York (actor) –
- Mitzi Gaynor (dancer) –
- Damon Wayans (actor) –
- Mike Piazza (baseball player) –
- Jason David Frank (actor) –
- Beyonce Knowles (singer) –
Died
- Albert Schweitzer (physician) –
- Irene Dunne (actress) –
- Steve Irwin (died from a stingray barb wound to the chest while filming a documentary) –
- Joan Rivers (comedienne) –
- Willard Scott (television weatherman) –
Events
- Los Angeles founded by Spanish settlers–
- Russian decree issued concerning Northwest America–
- Ten-year-old Barney Flaherty became first newsboy in the U.S. He worked for New York Sun–
- George Eastman received a patent for the roll-film camera–
- First transit of McClure Strait (Northwest Passage) made by the US Navy icebreaker, Burton Island and US Coast Guard icebreaker, Northwind–
- Ford Motor Company introduced the Edsel–
- U.S. swimmer, Mark Spitz, became the first person to win seven gold medals in a single Olympics–
- Bob Barker began hosting The Price is Right–
- Thieves stole $2 million in art from Montreal Museum of Fine Arts–
- A 127-pound cabbage won a prize at the Alaska State Fair–
- A 50-year overdue library book, The United States in World War I, was returned to the Lexington, Kentucky, public library.–
Weather
- Washington, D.C., got 4.4 inches of rain in 2 hours–
- A tornado struck Minneapolis, Minnesota–
- Tropical storm Delia dumped very heavy rain on Galveston, Texas, resulting in flooding–
- A strong dust devil whirled across the Flagstaff Pulliam Airport in Arizona, flipping a Cessna 182 plane and scattering papers in the National Weather service office.–
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