By Penny Bancroft
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Famke Beumer Janssen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfɑmkə ˈbøːmər ˈjɑnsə(n)]; born 5 November 1964) is a Dutch actress and former model. She played Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye (1995), Jean Grey / Phoenix in the X-Men film series (2000–2014), and Lenore Mills in the Taken film trilogy (2008–2014). In 2008, she was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for Integrity by the United Nations. She made her directorial debut with Bringing Up Bobby in 2011. She is also known for her roles in the Netflix original series Hemlock Grove (2013–2015), FX‘s Nip/Tuck (2003–2010), and ABC‘s How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020). Janssen starred in the 2017 NBC crime thriller The Blacklist: Redemption.
Janssen was born 1964 in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. She has two sisters, director Antoinette Beumer and actress Marjolein Beumer, both of whom changed their surnames to Beumer after their parents divorced.
In addition to her native Dutch, Janssen speaks English and French. She learned German, but has not kept up with it. Following her high school graduation, Janssen studied economics for a year at the University of Amsterdam, which she later called “the stupidest idea I ever had.” In the early 1990s, she enrolled at Columbia University‘s School of General Studies to study creative writing and literature.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
By an act of Congress in 1845, the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November was designated Election Day for future presidential elections. The first such election took place on November 7, 1848. Whig Party candidate Zachary Taylor won out over Democrat Lewis Cass and Free-Soil candidate (and former president) Martin Van Buren. Taylor’s running mate was Millard Fillmore, who became the nation’s 13th president on July 10, 1850, upon Taylor’s untimely death. Learn more about Election Day.
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Washington Allston (painter) –
- Ida Minerva Tarbell (journalist) –
- James Ward Packard (manufacturer) –
- Will Durant (historian) –
- Roy Rogers (actor) –
- Vivien Leigh (actress) –
- Art Garfunkel (musician) –
- Sam Shepard (actor & playwright) –
- Bryan Adams (musician) –
- Tatum O’Neal (actress) –
- Famke Janssen (actress) –
- Corin Nemec (actor) –
- Johnny Damon (baseball player) –
Died
- George M. Cohan (songwriter) –
- Guy Lombardo (big band leader) –
- Al Capp (cartoonist, created Li’l Abner) –
- Vladimir Horowitz (pianist) –
- Fred MacMurray (actor) –
- Bobby Hatfield (singer, half the singing duo known as the Righteous Brothers) –
Events
- Susan B. Anthony cast her ballot, earning a fine–
- Tripoli annexed by Italy–
- The board game Monopoly was released by the Parker Brothers–
- Edwin Armstrong first demonstrated FM radio transmission–
- Dominion Observatory time signal first broadcast by CBC Radio–
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office by defeating Republican challenger Wendell Willkie–
- A Global Positioning System (GPS) was patented–
- Bronze Fred Rogers memorial statue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was dedicated–
- A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck Lincoln County, Oklahoma. It was the state’s strongest earthquake since 1952.–
- Voyager-2 probe crossed the heliopause and left our solar system to enter interstellar space–
Weather
- An Election Day storm brought 10 to 12 inches of snow to Connecticut and 78 mph winds to Block Island, Rhode Island–
- Thunderstorms brought dime-size hail to Las Vegas, Nevada–
- 2 inches of snow fell in Salisbury, Missouri–
- First snow of the season fell in Dublin, New Hampshire–
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