By Annabella Ramirez
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Rider King Strong (born December 11, 1979) is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for starring as Shawn Hunter on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World (1993–2000), which he reprised in its sequel series Girl Meets World (2014–2017). He also headlined the cult classic Cabin Fever (2002) and co-wrote and directed the independent film Irish Twins (2008) with his brother Shiloh. He provided the voices of Brick Flagg in Kim Possible (2002–2004) and Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama (2005), and Tom Lucitor in Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2015–2019). In 2015, Strong was honored with the Young Artist Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award.
Strong began dating actress Alexandra Barreto after they met while filming the 2006 television series Pepper Dennis. They became engaged in December 2012, and married on October 20, 2013, in Oregon. The couple have one son, Indigo “Indy” Barreto Strong, born in December 2014.
TODAY”S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Annie Jump Cannon (cataloged over 225,000 stars) –
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (novelist) –
- Brenda Lee (singer) –
- Terri Garr (actress) –
- Susan Seidelman (director of film) –
- Bess Armstrong (actress) –
- William Joyce (author) –
- Gary Dourdan (actor) –
- Mos Def (actor & rap artist) –
- Rider Strong (actor) –
Died
- Sam Cooke (singer) –
- Benton MacKaye (American conservationist) –
- Andre Braugher (actor) –
Events
- One of earliest recorded sightings of northern lights in North America –
- Edward Bevan’s venetian blinds patented, London, England –
- Indiana is admitted to the Union as the 19th state –
- Bijou Theater, first in the United States to be lit by electricity, opened in Boston, Massachusetts –
- First public demonstration in U.S. of colored moving pictures, New York City –
- Monument to the boll weevil, which had forced farmers to diversify, erected in Enterprise, Alabama –
- The Bank of the United States in New York failed, one of many signs of the looming depression –
- The Statute of Westminster was the last of the Imperial Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain applicable to all the Dominions. It granted Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Australia, the Union of South Africa and the Irish Free State what amounted to independence –
- British King Edward VIII abdicated throne to marry Wallis Simpson –
- George VI became King of England after his brother abdicated the throne –
- The Chesterfield Supper Club, featuring Perry Como, among others, debuted on the radio –
- United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established by the United Nations General Assembly –
- Joe DiMaggio retired from baseball after 13 seasons with the NY Yankees –
Weather
- 2.1 inches rain fell in Vancouver, British Columbia –
- Arctic cold took over central and eastern U.S. –
- Dec. 11-12: Ice storm hit the Northeast –
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