By Cordillia Marvine
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American comedian, actress, singer, and writer. Burnett played dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen. She has received numerous awards and accolades, including seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and a Tony Award. Burnett has been honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2013, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2015.
Burnett was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, until her family moved to Hollywood, living a block away from Hollywood Boulevard. She attended Hollywood High School and eventually studied theater and musical comedy at UCLA. Later, she performed in nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She soon made her television debut, regularly appearing on The Garry Moore Show for the next three years, and won her first Emmy Award in 1962.
Eventually, Burnett moved back to Los Angeles and began an 11-year run as star of the CBS variety-sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1978. She is the first woman to host a comedy-variety series. With its vaudeville roots, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show that combined comedy sketches with song and dance. The comedy sketches included film parodies and character pieces. Burnett created many memorable characters during the show’s run, and both she and the show won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe Awards.
Burnett’s film roles include Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972), The Front Page (1974), A Wedding (1978), The Four Seasons (1981), Annie (1982), Noises Off (1992), and Horton Hears a Who! (2008). On television, she won an Emmy Award for her guest role in Mad About You and appeared in multiple specials with Julie Andrews. She was Tony-nominated for her role in Moon Over Buffalo (1995). Recently she’s acted in Better Call Saul (2022) Palm Royale (2024), and Hacks (2025). She recorded her memoir In Such Good Company (2016) for which she won a Grammy Award.
In 2019, the Golden Globes created the Carol Burnett Award for career achievement in television, giving Burnett the first award. She was honored with an NBC special Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love celebrating her 90th birthday.
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Born
- John James Audubon (naturalist) –
- Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect) –
- Ma Rainey (blues singer) –
- Charles Richter (seismologist) –
- Carol Burnett (actress) –
- Duane Eddy (musician) –
- Jet Li (actor and martial artist) –
- Kevin James (actor) –
- Tom Welling (actor) –
Died
- John Wilkes Booth (assassin of President Lincoln, was shot by federal troops at a farmhouse near Washington, D.C.) –
- Eduard Suess (geologist) –
- Count Basie (jazz orchestra leader) –
- Lucille Ball (actress) –
- Mason Adams (actor) –
- Phoebe Snow (singer ) –
- George Jones (country music singer) –
Events
- William Shakespeare baptized –
- Meteorites fell on the town of L’Aigle, France –
- First U.S. weather report broadcast, by WEW in St. Louis, Missouri –
- America’s first guide dog for the blind, a German Shepherd named Buddy, was teamed up with its owner, Morris S. Frank –
- The first international satellite, Ariel 1, was launched from Cape Canaveral –
- A herd of buffalo got loose and wandered around an upscale neighborhood in Maryland, disrupting traffic and alarming homeowners before police officers managed to corral them in a tennis court –
- Five explorers reached the North Pole, setting a world record by coming in several hours earlier than a 37-day trek by American explorer Robert Peary for the same journey in 1909 –
- Boston Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury stole home. This was the first straight-steal of home plate by a Red Sox player since Billy Hatcher in April of 1994. –
Weather
- Severe frost, Huntsville, Alabama –
- Boston and the surrounding communities experienced a severe snowstorm –
- Twelve inches of snow, Hanover, NH –
- An F5 tornado hit Andover, Kansas, killing more than 15 people –
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