By Tennille Ayers
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Kathrin Romany Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress. The only child of actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, she debuted in the series premiere of the 1975 daytime drama Couples.
In 1993, she made her theatrical film debut with a role in Kenneth Branagh‘s adaptation Much Ado About Nothing whilst studying at the University of Oxford. She played leading roles in numerous British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Emma (1996), and The Golden Bowl (2000). She also starred in Pearl Harbor (2001), Serendipity (2001), The Aviator (2004), and Click (2006).
Since taking the role of Selene in the Underworld film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale became known for her work in action films, including Van Helsing (2004), Whiteout (2009), Contraband (2012), Total Recall (2012), and Jolt (2021) while also earning praise for her roles in the small-scale dramas Snow Angels (2007), Nothing but the Truth (2008), Everybody’s Fine (2009), Love & Friendship (2016), and The Only Living Boy in New York (2017). She returned to television in the limited series The Widow (2019).
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Celebrated on the fourth Saturday in July, this is a day to explore cowboy culture and heritage and to acknowledge the contributions of cowboys and cowgirls across the United States
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- George Bernard Shaw (playwright) –
- Blake Edwards (director) –
- Jason Robards (actor) –
- Stanley Kubrick (director) –
- Sir Michael Philip “Mick” Jagger (singer) –
- Dorothy Hamill (Olympic gold medal figure skater) –
- Sandra Bullock (actress) –
- Jeremy Piven (actor) –
- Kate Beckinsale (actress) –
Died
- Sam Houston (president of Texas, 1836-38; 1841-44) –
- Eva Peron (wife of Argentine President Juan Peron) –
Events
- Benjamin Franklin became the first Postmaster General –
- New York ratified the Constitution and became the 11th state –
- Black Bart made his first stagecoach robbery in California –
- The Potsdam Declaration was issued by President Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek, which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan –
- The SS Andrea Doria sunk near Nantucket Lightship, MA –
- First Moon rock samples analyzed, Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Houston, Texas –
- A federal grand jury indicted Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer worm, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act –
- Jim Rice and Ricky Henderson were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame –
- The Plastiki, a boat made mostly from recycled plastic bottles (12,500 of them), reached Sydney, Australia, to complete a 4-month journey across the Pacific Ocean –
Weather
- Catskill, New York, and Westfield, Massachusetts, each got 15 inches of rain, causing flash floods and enormous erosion damage –
- The temperature in Salt Lake City soared to an all-time high of 107 degrees F –
- Eastport, Maine, the northeastern most tip of the U.S., reached 96 degrees –
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