By Tennille Ayers
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Jorja Fox (born July 7, 1968) is an American actress. She first came to prominence with a recurring role in the NBC medical drama ER as Dr. Maggie Doyle from 1996 to 1999. This was followed by another critical success in the recurring role of Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano in the NBC political drama The West Wing in 2000. She portrayed Sara Sidle in the CBS police procedural crime-drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, both as a regular (2000–2007, 2010–2015) and recurring (2008–2010) cast member. She reprised the role in the sequel CSI: Vegas, which premiered on October 6, 2021.
Fox was born in New York City to Montreal-born parents Edward and Marilyn Fox and is of French-Canadian, Belgian and Irish descent.[3] She was raised on a narrow barrier island in Melbourne Beach, Florida. She has an older brother, Jeff.
After attending Melbourne High School for two years, she began a modeling career after winning a local contest. She subsequently enrolled as a drama student at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City, under the tutelage of actor William Hickey.
Fox is a supporter of the Human Rights Campaign and has been a dedicated vegetarian since the age of 19, working with PETA to help promote vegetarianism and also working with ADI to bring light to the suffering of animals in circuses. She has a purse named after her by the Montréal company Matt & Nat, which designs vegan purses. Fox attended and read at the Los Angeles book launch of Karen Dawn‘s Thanking the Monkey, and was seen on Access Hollywood discussing how being vegetarian helps the environment. In 2008, Fox volunteered her time to film a Public Service Announcement for the New York–based non-profit Orangutan Outreach, which supports Borneo Orangutan Survival and other projects aimed at ensuring the orangutan‘s continued survival. The 30-second clip was shown on Animal Planet during the award-winning series Orangutan Island.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
At evening by my whole you’ll think of days gone by, and never reckon that of my second, my first is made, and by my first my second. (What’s the word? Each clue is a syllable!)
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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Died
- King Edward I of England –
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes author) –
- Vivien Leigh (actress) –
- Veronica Lake (actress) –
Born
- Gustav Mahler (composer) –
- Leroy “Satchel” Paige (baseball player) –
- Robert A. Heinlein (sci-fi writer) –
- Pierre Cardin (fashion designer) –
- Ringo Starr (Beatles’ drummer) –
- Jorja Fox (actress) –
- Joe Sakic (hockey player) –
- Michelle Kwan (figure skater) –
- Kaci Brown (singer) –
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DATE
Events
- Hammerfest, Norway (known as northernmost town in world), granted town status –
- Cornerstone laid for first Catholic cathedral in the United States (Baltimore Basilica), in Baltimore, Maryland –
- Acting on instructions from Washington, D.C., Commodore John Drake Sloat ordered his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena thus beginning the United States annexation of California –
- Jim Thorpe won his first Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon –
- Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini became the first American saint to be canonized –
- First 6 enlisted women transferred from Naval Reserve to regular U.S. Navy –
- Roosevelt Campobello International Park created, New Brunswick –
- President Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to become a Supreme Court justice; she became the first female member of the Supreme Court –
- Solar-powered aircraft Solar Challenger flew 163 miles in 5 hours, 23 minutes. –
- A series of bombs exploded in London’s underground railway, as well as on top of a double-decker bus in a terrorist attack against the country –
- Olympic gymnast Simone Biles became the youngest person to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. –
Weather
- The thermometer touched 127 degrees F at Parker, Arizona –
- In a rare July snowstorm, Glacier National Park received ten inches of snow and had 90 mph winds, while Denver had a record high temperature of 101 degrees F –
- A record high temperature for this date of 81 degrees F hit Anchorage, Alaska –
- Two inches of snow fell in Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska –
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