By StephanieLee Elliott
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
James Joseph Parsons (born March 24, 1973) is an American actor. From 2007 to 2019, Parsons played Sheldon Cooper in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. He has received various awards, including four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy. From 2015 to 2018, Forbes named him the world’s highest-paid television actor.
Parsons made his Broadway debut portraying Tommy Boatwright in the Larry Kramer play The Normal Heart (2011). He has since acted in the Broadway plays Harvey (2012), An Act of God (2015), The Boys in the Band (2018), Mother Play (2024), and Our Town (2024).
In film, Parsons has voiced the lead character in Home (2015) and played supporting roles in Hidden Figures (2016), A Kid Like Jake (2018), Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), The Boys in the Band (2020), and Spoiler Alert (2022). On television he was Emmy-nominated for playing Tommy Boatwright in the HBO film The Normal Heart (2011) and Henry Willson in the Netflix series Hollywood (2020).
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
- Queen Elizabeth I (English monarch) –
- Jules Verne (author) –
- Archbishop Oscar Romero (Salvadorian human rights activist) –
- Richard Widmark (actor) –
- Robert Culp (actor) –
- Garry Shandling (comedian) –
- Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain (Canadian politician) –
Born
- Horace Gray (Supreme Court justice) –
- John Wesley Powell (explorer) –
- Harry Houdini (magician) –
- Edward Weston (photographer) –
- Fatty Arbuckle (comedian) –
- George Sisler (baseball player) –
- Ub Iwerks (animator, cartoonist) –
- Thomas E. Dewey (politician) –
- Clyde Barrow (bank robber) –
- Joseph Barbera (cartoonist, producer) –
- Steve McQueen (actor) –
- Billy Stewart (singer) –
- Tommy Hilfiger (fashion designer) –
- Jim Parsons (actor) –
- Peyton Manning (football player) –
- Keisha Castle-Hughes (actress) –
- Christopher Briney (actor) –
Events
- Roger Williams granted charter for colony Rhode Island –
- Clement Hardy was issued a patent for a rotary disk plow –
- NYC Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck formally broke ground for construction of the NYC subway system –
- President FDR issued statement appealing to Hungarians to help Jews escape from Nazis (WWII) –
- Nicholas Alkemade survived an 18,000-foot fall from a plane –
- The Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened on Broadway, with Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie, Ben Gazarra as Brick, and Burl Ives as Big Daddy –
- Entertainer Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army –
- Maser patented –
- Senator Robert Kennedy was first to reach summit of Mt. Kennedy in Yukon Territory –
- U.S. spacecraft Ranger 9 crash-landed precisely on target in the Alphonsus crater of the moon after transmitting to Earth 5,814 photographs of the crater region –
- The beaver became a symbol of Canadian sovereignty –
- French premier Jacques Chirac signed a contract to build the first Disneyland-type amusement park in Europe, on the outskirts of Paris –
- The largest oil spill in U.S. history, initially estimated at 240,000 barrels, occurred after the Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound –
- An 18.7-inch-long goldfish set a world record –
- Boston archbishop Sean O’Malley was elevated to cardinal at a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square in Rome –
Weather
- Eighty-three degrees F at Plymouth, Indiana –
- Twenty-five inches of snow, Kansas City, Missouri –
- 92 degrees F in St. Louis, Missouri –
- Snow in the mid-Atlantic states covered cherry blossoms, which had bloomed in the previous week’s 80-degree temperatures –
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