By Cordillia Marvine
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Krista Allen (born April 5, 1971) is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Billie Reed on the NBC Daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives (1996 to 1999), Jenna Avid on Baywatch Hawaii (2000 to 2001), Emmanuelle on the erotic TV series Emmanuelle in Space (1994) and Taylor Hayes on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful (2021 to 2023, for which she earned a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nomination in 2023), and appearing as herself in the HBO series Project Greenlight and Unscripted. Allen’s film credits include Liar Liar (1997), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Anger Management (2003), and The Final Destination (2009). She has also guested or recurred on several television series, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The X-Files, Charmed, Friends, Frasier, Modern Family, Monk, Two and a Half Men, and The L.A. Complex.
Allen was born on April 5, 1971, in Ventura, California, and grew up in Texas. Her parents divorced when she was young and married other people. She has an older brother. When Allen was fourteen, she ran away from home and lived with friends for two years. She said in 1997 that her family was “very disorganized” at the time.
She competed in beauty pageants as a teen and modeled for Budweiser, posing for billboards, catalogs, and calendars. She was also a spokesmodel for World Gym and worked as an aerobics instructor before moving to Los Angeles.
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
- Booker T. Washington (educator & activist) –
- Washington Atlee Burpee (botanist, seedsman) –
- Spencer Tracy (actor) –
- Bette Davis (actress) –
- Gregory Peck (actor) –
- Colin Powell (former U.S. Secretary of State) –
- Agnetha Fältskog (singer in the Swedish rock group ABBA) –
- Franklin Chang-Diaz (astronaut) –
- Krista Allen (actress) –
Died
- Howard Hughes (industrialist & producer) –
- Sam Walton (businessman) –
- Kurt Cobain (musician) –
- Allen Ginsberg (poet) –
- Lee Petty (race car driver) –
- Saul Bellow (author of Humboldt’s Gift and other novels, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) –
- Charlton Heston (actor) –
Events
- Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe –
- New York Chamber of Commerce formed –
- Anne Sullivan made a breakthrough with blind/deaf student Helen Keller, by conveying the meaning of the word water –
- Jess Willard knocked out Jack Johnson to win world heavyweight boxing title –
- Women granted the right to vote in British Columbia –
- Richard J. Daley elected to his first term as Chicago’s 39th mayor –
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist, declared a security risk in 1954, is named winner of the Atomic Energy Commission’s Enrico Ferni award –
- My Fair Lady won an Academy Award for Best Picture –
- Bobby Orr first NHL defenseman to win scoring title –
- Basketball star Kareem Abdul- Jabbar of the L.A. Lakers became the highest scoring player in NBA history. He reached 31,420 points, beating Wilt Chamberlain’s record –
- A camel named Bert was deputized, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, California –
- A minor earthquake shook southeastern Massachusetts –
- Elsie McLean, at 102 years old, became the oldest golfer to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course –
Weather
- This was the last day of a four-day snowstorm in the northern Rockies and the Black Hills, with the town of Lead, South Dakota, receiving 52 inches –
- A blizzard left 27.2 inches of snow in St. John’s, Newfoundland –
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