By Nicole Bernard
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Michelle Stafford (born September 14, 1965) is an American actress, screenwriter and producer. She currently plays Phyllis Summers on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, for which she has won three Daytime Emmy Awards. In 2013, Stafford created and starred in her own comedy web series, The Stafford Project. She also played Nina Reeves on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital.
In October 1994, Stafford began what was supposed to be a short term role of Phyllis Summers on the American CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless; however, her work impressed the producers and she was placed on contract. In 1997, Stafford left the series to pursue other career opportunities, and she was replaced by Sandra Nelson.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Holy Cross Day is also known as the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Triumph of the Cross, or Holyrood Day (“rood” meaning “cross”. It commemorates the recovery of the Holy Cross on which Jesus was crucified. (It had been taken from Jerusalem by the Persians in a war in A.D. 614. In A.D. 629, Byzantine Emperor Heraclius recovered and returned the Cross to Jerusalem.)
Holy Cross Day is one of four annual markers for the “Ember Days,” which occur on the first Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday following Holy Cross Day, Whit Sunday (Pentecost), the first Sunday in Lent, and St. Lucy Day. The Ember Days are special times for prayer, fasting, and the ordination of clergy in certain Christian denominations. The weather on each of the three Ember Days is supposed to foretell the weather for each of the three succeeding months. A Spanish proverb notes, “On Holy Cross Day / Vineyards are gay.”
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Complete, I am an ill-placed zephyr; behead me, and I am floating logs; behead me again, and I am part of a ship. (What word fits the first clue? Follow the directions to form new words from it.)
Draft – raft – aft
Born
- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (physiologist) –
- Margaret Higgins Sanger (founder of the birth control movement) –
- Douglas Kennedy (“Lone Ranger” actor) –
- Kate Millett (feminist writer) –
- Sam Neill (actor) –
- Michelle Stafford (actress) –
- Kimberly Williams-Paisley (actress) –
- Katie Lee Biegel (chef) –
Died
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (architect) –
- Arthur Wellesley (1st Duke of Wellington) –
- Henry Bliss (first American automobile fatality) –
- William McKinley (25th U.S. president) –
- Princess Grace of Monaco (former actress Grace Kelly) –
- Mickey Hargitay (actor & world champion bodybuilder) –
- Patrick Swayze (actor) –
- Norm Macdonald (comedian) –
Events
- The first lighthouse in North America, Boston Light, was lit–
- Composer George Handel completed The Messiah–
- Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” –
- Typewriter ribbon patented–
- Sound-absorbing material patented–
- The world’s largest airship, Graf Zeppelin II, made its first flight–
- The first helicopter flight was made by Igor Sikorsky–
- Zond 5 was launched; 4 days later it became the first spacecraft to circle the Moon and return to Earth–
- The Waltons premiered on CBS–
- Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, the first U.S. born saint, was canonized by Pope Paul VI–
- World Series was cancelled due to strike–
- Roger Craig, a University of Delaware graduate student, won $77,000 on Jeopardy!. It was the show’s highest one-day total ever.–
- Crayola announced crayon name “Bluetiful” –
Weather
- Seattle, Washington, had a high temperature of 92 degrees F–
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