By Hannah Jane Farron
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
James Adam Belushi (/bəˈluːʃi/; born June 15, 1954) is an American actor and comedian. His television roles include Saturday Night Live (1983–1985), According to Jim (2001–2009), and Good Girls Revolt (2015–2016).
Belushi appeared in films such as Thief (1981), Trading Places (1983), The Man with One Red Shoe (1985), Salvador (1986), Red Heat (1988), K-9 (1989), Taking Care of Business (1990), Destiny Turns on the Radio (1995), Angel’s Dance (1999), Joe Somebody (2001), Underdog (2007), The Ghost Writer (2010), The Secret Lives of Dorks (2013) and Wonder Wheel (2017).
He is the younger brother of late comedy actor John Belushi and the father of actor Robert Belushi.
James Adam Belushi was born June 15, 1954, in Wheaton, Illinois, to Adam Anastos Belushi, an Albanian from Qytezë, Korçë, and Agnes Demetri Samaras, who was born in Ohio to ethnic Albanian immigrants from Korçë, south Albania. He was raised in Wheaton, a Chicago suburb, along with his three siblings: older brother John, older sister Marian, and younger brother Billy. After graduating from Wheaton Central High School in 1972, Jim Belushi attended the College of DuPage, and graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a bachelor’s degree in Speech and Theater Arts in 1978.
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Born
- Rachel Jackson (U.S. First Lady) –
- Bill Arp (writer) –
- Edvard Hagerup Grieg (composer) –
- Mario Cuomo (politician) –
- Jim Varney (actor) –
- Jim Belushi (actor) –
- Wade Boggs (baseball player) –
- Helen Hunt (actress) –
- Courteney Cox (actress) –
- Leah Remini (actress) –
- Neil Patrick Harris (actor) –
Died
- James Polk (11th U.S. president) –
- Meredith Willson (composer) –
- Ella Fitzgerald (jazz singer) –
- Hume Cronyn (actor) –
DAILY ALMANAC
Like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day has a modern origin. The idea came to Mrs. John Dodd as she sat listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Her father, William Smart, had raised his children alone on his Washington farm after his wife died giving birth to their sixth child. Mrs. Dodd proposed to the Spokane Ministerial Association and the YMCA that they celebrate a “father’s day” on June 5, her father’s birthday. The idea received strong support, but the good ministers of Spokane asked that the day be changed to give them extra time to prepare sermons on the unexplored subject of fathers. The first Father’s Day was observed on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington, and soon other towns had their own celebrations. In spite of widespread support, Father’s Day did not become a permanent national holiday until 1972, when President Richard Nixon signed a law declaring that it be celebrated annually on the third Sunday in June.
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Events
- King John of England put his seal on the Magna Carta –
- George Washington is appointed commander in chief of the Continental Army by the Continental Congress –
- Arkansas admitted to the Union as the 25th state –
- Charles Goodyear received a patent for his process to strengthen rubber –
- Oregon Treaty established the 49th parallel as the U.S./British border –
- Jacob Fussell opened the first commercial ice cream factory, Baltimore, Maryland. –
- Steamboat General Slocum burst into flames on the East River killing 1,021 people –
- Princess Margaret of Connaught married Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden –
- John Alcock and Arthur Brown completed first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland –
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Tennessee/North Carolina) established –
- Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds pitched his second consecutive no-hit, no-run professional baseball game –
- Singer Judy Garland married Vincente Minnelli –
- The Canadian government announced it would permit color television in Canada –
- Hee Haw premiered on television –
- Richard Weber and Mikhail Malakhov first to walk from Canada to North Pole and back unaided –
- Bob Barker’s final The Price is Right show after 35 years as its host –
- The Boston Bruins beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in Game 7 to win the Stanley Cup –
- A 30-minute power outage occurred in East Missoula, Montana, when a bald eagle dropped its prey, a fawn, on a nearby power line –
- Aerialist Nik Wallenda crossed Niagara Falls on a high wire, becoming the first tightrope walker to cross the falls in more than a century, and the first to cross at the base of the falls. –
Weather
- Killing frost in New Jersey –
- One inch of snow fell in Pennsylvania –
- 14 inches of rain fell in Lake Creek Basin, Texas –
- 5 inches of rain fell in Cadiz, Ohio –
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