By Cassie Lee
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Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, Eastwood rose to international fame with his role as the “Man with No Name” in Sergio Leone‘s Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Eastwood’s greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and its action comedy sequel Any Which Way You Can (1980). Other popular Eastwood films include the Westerns Hang ‘Em High (1968), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and Pale Rider (1985), the action-war film Where Eagles Dare (1968), the prison film Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the war film Heartbreak Ridge (1986), the action film In the Line of Fire (1993), and the romantic drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995). More recent works include Gran Torino (2008), The Mule (2018), and Cry Macho (2021). Since 1967, Eastwood’s company Malpaso Productions has produced all but four of his American films.
An Academy Award nominee for Best Actor, Eastwood won Best Director and Best Picture for his Western film Unforgiven (1992) and his sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004). In addition to directing many of his own star vehicles, Eastwood has directed films in which he did not appear, such as the mystery drama Mystic River (2003) and the war film Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations, as well as the legal thriller Juror #2 (2024). He also directed the biographical films Changeling (2008), Invictus (2009), American Sniper (2014), Sully (2016), and Richard Jewell (2019).
Eastwood’s accolades include four Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, three César Awards, and an AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2000, he received the Italian Venice Film Festival‘s Golden Lion award, honoring his lifetime achievements. Bestowed two of France’s highest civilian honors, he received the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1994, and the Legion of Honour in 2007.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Walt Whitman (poet) –
- Emily Perkins Bissell (social worker) –
- Sir Victor Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire (Canadian Governor-General 1916-1921) –
- Clint Eastwood (actor & director) –
- Joe Namath (football player) –
- Jim Craig (hockey player & Olympic gold medalist) –
- Lea Thompson (actress) –
- Brooke Shields (actress) –
- Colin Farrell (actor) –
Died
- Elizabeth Blackwell (first woman to earn an MD degree in the U.S.) –
- Jack Dempsey (boxer) –
- Alberta Martin (one of the last widows from the Confederate side, died nearly 140 years after the Civil War ended) –
- Millvina Dean (last survivor of the RMS Titanic) –
- Jean Stapleton (American actress ) –
HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY
Events
- The first Catholic cathedral in the United States was dedicated in Baltimore, Maryland. –
- The Great Clock (aka Big Ben) in London officially began keeping time. (On July 11, the Great Bell first struck the hour.) The 315-foot-high tower, part of the Houses of Parliament building, has no elevator; there are 334 steps to the belfry. The four quarter bells, or chimes, ring out every 15 minutes. The Great Bell tolls every hour. The minute hand measures almost 14 feet long. The clock mechanism weighs 5.6 tons, and is wound three times a week. The clock’s time is adjusted by changing the number of old pennies sitting on a shelf near the top of the pendulum. The tune played each hour is from the aria I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, part of Handel’s Messiah. –
- 7.8 earthquake left over 60,000 dead in Peru –
- 1,376-lb. Pacific blue marlin caught, Kaiwi Point, Kona, Hawaii –
- A summer replacement television show called Seinfeld first aired on NBC –
- The legendary source “Deep Throat” in the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon was identified as W. Mark Felt –
- Stratolaunch plane debuted –
Weather
- Following seven inches of rain, the South Fork Dam near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, burst, killing more than 2,200 people. –
- 98 degrees F in Chicago, Illinois –
- The National Weather Service office in Washington, D.C., reported the driest spring on record, with only 3.47 inches of precipitation from March 1 to May 31 –
- Waterspout formed in Dollar Lake, Riverton, Wyoming –
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