By Tatiana Ponil
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Rachel Susan Dratch (born February 22, 1966) is an American actress, comedian and writer. After she graduated from Dartmouth College, she moved to Chicago to study improvisational theatre at The Second City and ImprovOlympic. Dratch’s breakthrough role was her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1999 to 2006. During her time on SNL, she portrayed a variety of roles including Debbie Downer. She has since occasionally returned to SNL as a guest portraying Senator Amy Klobuchar.
Other television credits include The King of Queens (2002–2004), Frasier (2004), 30 Rock (2006–2012) and Broad City (2014–2016). She has also played the recurring role of Wanda Jo Oliver on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and acted in films such as Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003), Spring Breakdown (2009), That’s My Boy (2012), and Plan B (2021).
In 2022, Dratch made her Broadway stage debut in POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play at the 75th Tony Awards. In 2012 she published her autobiographical book Girl Walks into a Bar…: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle.
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
- Amerigo Vespucci (explorer) –
- Francisco I. Madero (Mexican President; was assassinated) –
- Ed Flanders (actor) –
- Jonas Savimbi (Angola’s rebel leader) –
- Chuck Jones (Warner Bros. animator, created Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck) –
- Dennis Johnson (basketball player) –
Born
- George Washington (1st U.S. president) –
- Rembrandt Peale (artist) –
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet) –
- Edward Moore “Teddy” Kennedy (politician) –
- George “Sparky” Anderson (baseball manager) –
- Steve Irwin (herpetologist and host of The Crocodile Hunter) –
- Rachel Dratch (actress) –
- Drew Barrymore (actress) –
Events
- Popcorn was first introduced to English colonists by Native Americans –
- Florida Purchase treaty signed –
- The F.W. Woolworth discount store chain started in Utica, New York –
- Ancient Egyptian obelisk that had been erected in Central Park was officially presented to New York City –
- A fist fight broke out on the Senate floor between Senator John McLaurin and Senator Ben Tillman –
- Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast speech from the White House –
- A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck near Zarand in Iran –
- 10-pound 14-ounce ‘aweoweo caught, Penguin Bank, O’ahu, Hawaii –
- A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand –
- Babe Ruth’s 1923 World Series pocket watch sold for $717,000 at auction –
- Baseball bat that belonged to Shoeless Joe Jackson sold for $958,000 at auction –
Weather
- The Susquehanna River ice bridge at Havre de Grace, Maryland, began to break up after 40 days of use –
- 11 inches of snow fell in Blue Lick, Missouri –
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