By Penny Bancroft
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Kathleen Sue Spielberg (née Nail; born November 3, 1953), known professionally as Kate Capshaw, is an American former actress and painter. She is best known for her portrayal of Willie Scott, an American nightclub singer and performer in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), directed by her eventual husband Steven Spielberg. Since then, she starred in Dreamscape (1984), Power (1986), SpaceCamp (1986), Black Rain (1989), Love Affair (1994), Just Cause (1995), The Locusts (1997), and The Love Letter (1999). Her portraiture work has been shown in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
During the production of the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Capshaw became close to director Steven Spielberg, whom she later married. Originally an Episcopalian, she converted to Judaism before marrying Spielberg on October 12, 1991. They were married in both a civil ceremony and an Orthodox ceremony.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Daylight Saving Time 2022 ends on Sunday, November 6 at 2:00 A.M. Remember to “fall back” by setting your clocks back one hour. (The exceptions are Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.) Credit for Daylight Saving Time belongs to Benjamin Franklin, who first suggested the idea in 1784. The idea was revived in 1907, when William Willett, an Englishman, proposed a similar system in the pamphlet The Waste of Daylight. The Germans were the first to officially adopt the light-extending system in 1915 as a fuel-saving measure during World War I. The British switched one year later, and the United States followed in 1918, when Congress passed the Standard Time Act, which established our time zones. This experiment lasted only until 1920, when the law was repealed due to opposition from dairy farmers (cows don’t pay attention to clocks). During World War II, Daylight Saving Time was imposed once again (this time year-round) to save fuel. Since then, Daylight Saving Time has been used on and off, with different start and end dates. Learn more about Daylight Saving Time and when the clocks change.
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Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- William Cullen Bryant (poet) –
- Vincenzo Bellini (composer) –
- Walker Evans (photographer) –
- Charles Bronson (actor) –
- Michael Dukakis (politician) –
- Larry Holmes (boxer) –
- Kate Capshaw (actress) –
- Charles Kiraly (volleyball champion) –
- Giant panda cub at Zoo Atlanta –
Died
- Annie Oakley (sharpshooter) –
- Henri Matisse (artist) –
- Mary Martin (actress) –
- Bob Kane (creator of the comic, Batman) –
- Bob Forsch (baseball pitcher) –
- Tom Magliozzi (co-host of Car Talk NPR national radio program, run with his brother Ray) –
Events
- John Adams is elected as the second U.S. president–
- Canada’s first chartered bank, Bank of Montreal, opened in Quebec–
- Ulysses S. Grant elected president of the U.S.–
- In California, the poet and outlaw calling himself Black Bart made his last robbery when he stole a Wells Fargo strongbox from a stagecoach. A handkerchief left at the scene led to his arrest–
- The first automobile show in the United States opened at New York’s Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America–
- William Howard Taft elected as president of the U.S.–
- Mary Jacob received a patent for a brassiere–
- Detroit-Windsor tunnel opened–
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected for second term–
- The U.S.S.R. launched space satellite Sputnik II, carrying a dog–
- Mariner 10 spacecraft launched, Cape Canaveral, Florida–
- Good Morning America debuted with co-hosts David Hartman and Nancy Dussault–
- Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton was elected 42nd President of the US. Five women won Senate seats, including Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun, who became the first African-American woman senator–
- U.S. Air Force’s uncrewed X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The space plane had spent 780 days in orbit, breaking the previous record of 718 days in 2017.–
Weather
- Los Angeles, California, reached 96 degrees F–
- A storm dumped more than 8 inches of rain in parts of Vermont, causing floods and claiming 84 lives–
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