By StephanieLee Elliott
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Juliette Binoche (French: [ʒyljɛt binɔʃ]; born 9 March 1964) is a French actress. She has appeared in more than 60 films, particularly in French and English languages, and has been the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and a César Award.
Binoche first gained recognition for working with such auteur directors as Jean-Luc Godard (Hail Mary, 1985), Jacques Doillon (Family Life, 1985), and André Téchiné; the latter made her a star in France with a leading role in his drama Rendez-vous (1985). She won the Volpi Cup and César Award for Best Actress for her performance as a grieving music composer in Krzysztof Kieślowski‘s Three Colours: Blue (1993) and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a nurse in The English Patient (1996). For starring in the romantic film Chocolat (2000), Binoche received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her role as an antiques dealer in Abbas Kiarostami‘s Certified Copy. Binoche has since starred in such films as Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), High Life (2018) and The Taste of Things (2023).
Binoche has appeared on stage intermittently, most notably in a 1998 London production of Luigi Pirandello‘s Naked and in a 2000 production of Harold Pinter‘s Betrayal on Broadway for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. In 2008, she began a world tour with a modern dance production in-i devised in collaboration with Akram Khan.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Today is the beginning of Daylight Saving Time, time for moving the clocks one hour ahead. 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 This experiment lasted only until 1920, when the law was repealed due to opposition from dairy farmers (cows don’t pay attention to clocks).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.
Question of the Day
The first definition of a rainbow (by Descartes) was based on tracing the path of a light ray falling on a transparent sphere. If the Sun is at the horizon, the rainbow is an arc of 180 degrees, but it cannot appear if the Sun is high in the sky. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet (ROYGBIV) are the colors of a rainbow, but these are not necessarily the sequence of colors an observer sees. Since the color sequence of a rainbow is the result of refraction, the color order depends on the viewer’s angle of perception. As for the end of a rainbow, it seems always to elude us. However, here at The Old Farmer’s Almanac, we firmly believe that there’s a pot of gold waiting for the person lucky enough to find a rainbow’s end.
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Amerigo Vespucci (merchant & navigator) –
- Edwin Forrest (Shakespearean actor) –
- Will Geer (actor) –
- Samuel Barber (composer) –
- Mickey Spillane (author) –
- Yuri Gagarin (first human to travel in space) –
- Raul Julia (actor) –
- Mark Lindsay (musician; member of Paul Revere & the Raiders ) –
- Bobby Fischer (champion chess player) –
- Charles Gibson (journalist) –
- David Hume Kennerly (photographer) –
- Juliette Binoche (actress) –
- Emmanuel Lewis (actor) –
- Lil’ Bow Wow (rapper, actor) –
- Sunisa “Suni” Lee (Olympic gymnast) –
Died
- Charles Bukowski (poet) –
- Fernando Rey (actor) –
- George Burns (comedian & actor) –
- Chris LeDoux (country musician) –
- Brad Delp (musician) –
- Doris “Granny D” Haddock (political activist) –
Events
- Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais in Paris—he arrived two hours late for the wedding –
- President James Monroe’s daughter, Maria, became the first daughter of a president to be married in the White House –
- A patent for artificial teeth was granted to Charles Graham of New York –
- Abraham Lincoln announced he was running for his first political office. He failed for his bid for a seat in the Illinois legislature –
- First Japanese Ambassador to U.S. arrived in San Francisco, CA –
- Battle of U.S.S. Monitor and U.S.S. Merrimack (renamed C.S.S. Virginia) ended in a draw –
- First V-8 Ford was built by Ford Motor Company –
- The Hundred Days began. President FDR pushed sweeping social and economic reforms of the New Deal through Congress within the next 100 days –
- Journalist Edward R. Murrow accused Sen. McCarthy of misleading the U.S. public and persecuting Congressional witnesses –
- Celebrity premiere of East of Eden, the film version of John Stienbeck’s novel –
- Barbie doll debuted –
- The first animal to return from space was a dog whose Russian name translated as Blackie, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 9 –
- The Smothers Brothers’ television show was cancelled after they refused to censor a comment made by Joan Baez. She wanted to dedicate her song to her husband, David, who was about to go to jail for objecting to the draft –
- Work began on the 789-mile Alaskan oil pipeline, the largest private construction project in U.S. history –
- Health and Welfare Canada banned saccharin as a food additive –
- Anne M. Burford was forced to resign as head of the EPA following a dispute with Congress over the agency’s enforcement of toxic waste regulations –
- Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, and Carole Bayer Sager were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame –
- President George H. W. Bush’s nominee for defense secratary, John Tower, lost Senate ratification vote –
- Chris Bertish, a South African surfer, paddleboarded across the Atlantic solo. The 4,050 trek took him 93 days. –
Weather
- Twelve-inch snowstorm in narrow band from Louisville, Kentucky, into Virginia and North Carolina’s mountains –
- Southern Indiana received up to 9 inches of snow –
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