By StephanieLee Elliott
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Nicholle Tom (born March 23, 1978) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Maggie Sheffield on the CBS sitcom The Nanny (1993 to 1999). She appeared as Ryce Newton in the film Beethoven (1992) and its sequel Beethoven’s 2nd (1993). She provided the voice of Ryce for the animated series, Beethoven (1994 to 1995). She voiced Supergirl in the DC Animated Universe.
Tom was born in Hinsdale, Illinois. She is the twin sister of actor David Tom. They have an older sister, Heather Tom who also acts. She guest starred with her brother on an episode of Criminal Minds in 2008. She has guest starred with her sister on The Wedding Bells and Hollywood Darlings. Her siblings worked together on The Young and the Restless and on One Life to Live.
When Tom was eight, her family moved from Chicago to Seattle because her father transferred because of his job. A year later, her mother brought the three children to Los Angeles for pilot season. They moved there permanently, with Tom’s father staying in Seattle; her parents soon divorced. Her mother worked as a speech therapist for the Pasadena school system, while the children started their acting careers.
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
- John Bartram (botanist) –
- Fannie Farmer (cookery expert) –
- Eric Fromm (psychoanalyst) –
- Joan Crawford (actress) –
- Werner von Braun (rocket scientist) –
- Roger Bannister (runner) –
- Ron Jaworski (football player) –
- Teofilo Stevenson (boxer) –
- Chaka Khan (singer) –
- Moses Malone (basketball player) –
- Amanda Plummer (actress) –
- Keri Russell (actress) –
- Nicholle Tom (actress) –
Died
- Barney Clark (first person to receive a permanent artificial heart) –
- Arthur Lithgow (actor, producer, and director who was a pioneer in American regional theater) –
- Elizabeth Taylor (actress) –
- Gary Dahl (creator of the Pet Rock) –
- Madeleine Albright (first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state ) –
Events
- The first standing ovation was recorded at the first performance of Handel’s Messiah. King George was so inspired (or restless) that he jumped to his feet; when the king did that, everyone else did –
- Halifax Gazette became Canada’s first newspaper –
- In a speech to the Virginia Provincial Convention, Patrick Henry made a plea for independence from Britain, saying I know not what course others might take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. –
- Society L’Institut Canadien du Quebec incorporated –
- Elisha Graves Otis installed the first commercial passenger elevator, in NYC store –
- Opera diva Nellie Melba recounted how she prepared toast, the original melba toast –
- SS Yongala sank in cyclone, near Townsville, Australia –
- Herbert Hoover became the first president to have a telephone installed on his desk –
- WWII relocation of Japanese-Americans away from the West Coast began –
- The World Meteorological Organization established by the UN –
- U.S. Army sold its last homing pigeons –
- NASA astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich onboard Gemini 3 –
- America’s first two-person space flight began as Gemini 3 blasted off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young on board –
- President Reagan first proposed development of technology to intercept enemy missiles — a proposal that came to be known as the strategic defense initiative, or Star Wars –
- Billy Joel married model Christie Brinkley in NYC –
- Sandinistas and Contras signed a 60-day ceasefire accord –
- A 1910 Honus Wagner baseball card was sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $451,000 to hockey great Wayne Gretzky and Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall –
- Wayne Gretzky scored his 802nd career goal in front of a sellout crowd at the Great Western Forum, to break the legendary Gordie Howe’s NHL all-time goal record –
- Mir space station deorbited as planned, falling into the South Pacific Ocean –
- An oil refinery explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas –
Weather
- Edmonton, Alberta, reached 22.2 degrees C (72 degrees F) –
- Easter Sunday tornado killed 94 in Omaha, Nebraska –
- First robin of the season seen, Dublin, N.H. –
- 65 degrees F, Montreal, Quebec –
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