By Nicole Bernard
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, (Henry Charles Albert David; born 15 September 1984) is a member of the British royal family. As the younger son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, he is fifth in the line of succession to the British throne.
Educated at Wetherby School, Ludgrove School, and Eton College, Harry completed army officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned as a cornet into the Blues and Royals and served temporarily with his elder brother, William. Harry was separately deployed on active duty to Afghanistan on two occasions; the first was in 2007–2008 for ten weeks in Helmand Province. The second was for twenty weeks in 2012–2013 with the Army Air Corps.
Inspired by the Warrior Games in the United States, Harry launched the Invictus Games in 2014 as founding patron and now remains involved in a non-royal capacity. Two years later, alongside his brother William and sister-in-law Catherine, Harry jointly initiated the mental health awareness campaign “Heads Together”.
In 2018 Harry was made Duke of Sussex prior to his wedding to American actress Meghan Markle. They have two children: Archie and Lilibet. Harry and Meghan stepped down as working royals in January 2020, moved to Meghan’s native Southern California, and launched Archewell Inc., a Beverly Hills-based mix of for-profit and not-for-profit (charitable) business organisations. In March 2021, Harry sat for Oprah with Meghan and Harry, a much-publicised American television interview with his wife and Oprah Winfrey. The couple filmed Harry & Meghan, a Netflix docuseries, which was released in December 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
Everyone keeps me on hand, I’ve ever to labor bent; but twist me about and then I’m only an ornament. (What word fits the first clue, but when rearranged, fits the second?)
Finger – fringe
Died
- Andre Le Notre (landscape architect) –
- Robert Penn Warren (poet) –
- Johnny Ramone (guitarist and co-founder of The Ramones) –
Born
- James Fenimore Cooper (author) –
- Alexander Roberts Dunn (Victoria Cross recipient) –
- William Howard Taft (27th U.S. president) –
- Bruno Walter (symphony conductor) –
- Agatha Christie (author) –
- Robert McCloskey (author and illustrator of the children’s classics Make Way for Ducklings and Blueberries for Sal) –
- Bobby Short (jazz musician) –
- Murray Gell-Mann (physicist) –
- Tomie dePaola (children’s author, illustrator) –
- Merlin Olsen (football player) –
- Oliver Stone (director) –
- Tommy Lee Jones (actor) –
- Dan Marino (football player) –
- Tom Dolan (Olympic gold medalist) –
- Dave Annable (actor) –
- Ben Schwartz (actor and comedian) –
- Prince Harry (youngest son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana) –
Events
- British troops occupied New York–
- The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State–
- Orville Wright made first turn with airplane in air–
- A milch goat show started at the Rochester Industrial Exposition in New York state–
- The Lone Ranger TV series debuted with American Clayton Moore and Canadian Jay Silverheels–
- Bomb killed four girls in a Birmingham, Alabama, church that was popular for civil rights meetings–
- Greenpeace, an environmental organization, was founded.–
- 113 lb. 1-oz. black drum caught, Lewes, Delaware–
- 22 lb. 7-oz. summer flounder caught, Montauk, New York–
- First successful portable MP3 player debuted–
- Earth received the last radio signals from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, at 7:55 a.m. EDT. Launched in 1997, Cassini traveled 7 years to reach Saturn. There, it spent 13 years gathering data about the planet and its moons, until the craft’s fuel was almost exhausted. Its mission ended when operators purposely had it dive into Saturn’s atmosphere to disintegrate.–
Weather
- The temperature in Wilmington, Vermont, was 27 degrees F–
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