By Annabella Ramirez
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Marla Sokoloff (born 1980) is an American actress. She is known for playing Gia Mahan on Full House and Fuller House, Cokie Mason in The Babysitters Club movie, and Lucy Hatcher on the legal drama series The Practice. She also appeared as Joey’s sister Dina on Friends and as the nanny Claire on Desperate Housewives. She has starred in the films True Crime (1996), The Climb (1999), Whatever It Takes (2000), Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), Sugar & Spice (2001), The Tollbooth (2004), Love on the Side (2006), Play the Game (2009), and The Merry Gentlemen (2024).
Sokoloff dated actor James Franco for five years after they met on the set of Whatever It Takes in 1999.
In 2004, she began dating Deadsy drummer Alec Puro. They married in 2009, and have three daughters.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- Emily Brontë (writer) –
- Walter Williams (age 117: last known Civil War vet) –
- Hope Lange (actress) –
Born
- Joe “King” Oliver (jazz musician) –
- Fritz Reiner (conductor) –
- Cicely Tyson (actress) –
- Tim Reid (actor) –
- Jennifer Beals (actress) –
- Criss Angel (illusionist) –
- Alyssa Milano (actress) –
- Jake Gyllenhaal (actor) –
- Marla Sokoloff (actress) –
Events
- Fictional Robinson Crusoe left island after 28 years. Daniel Defoe’s story is based on an actual person, Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, who was found on an island where he had been stranded for 52 months. (He was rescued on Feb. 1, 1709) –
- Mark Twain received a patent for suspenders –
- The National Hockey League began its first professional season with four teams –
- Robert Ripley’s column, Believe It or Not!, first appeared in The New York Globe –
- The first known radio broadcast from outer space was transmitted when President Eisenhower’s recorded voice issued a holiday greeting for the whole world from the Atlas satellite which was launched the previous day –
- New transatlantic submarine cable, CANTAT-1, between Britain and Canada (first link in a proposed around-the-world Commonwealth system) is inaugurated by a telephone conversation between Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Diefenbaker of Canada –
- Intelsat III F-2 communications satellite launched –
Weather
- Louisiana Purchase explorer William Dunbar wrote, “… the e[a]ves of our cabin hang with beautiful icicles” –
- The temperature at Yellowstone National Park was -59 degrees F –
- It was so cold in Moosomin, Saskatchewan, that several children got stuck to their playground equipment and had to be thawed off. (It was -43F or -41.5C.) –
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