By Eunice Charles
FOR WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American actress. Known for portraying tough, resilient characters, she made her film debut in 1979 before achieving fame with her starring role as Sarah Connor in The Terminator (1984) and two of its sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Saturn Awards, two MTV Movie Awards, a Satellite Award and a Romy Award, as well as nominations for three Golden Globes and one Primetime Emmy.
Hamilton’s other film credits include Children of the Corn (1984), Black Moon Rising, King Kong Lives (both 1986), Mr. Destiny (1990), Dante’s Peak (1997), and The Kid & I (2005). On television, she starred as Catherine Chandler in Beauty and the Beast (1987–1989) and played the recurring role of Mary Elizabeth Bartowski on NBC‘s Chuck (2010–2012). Her stage work includes Laura (Tiffany Theater, 2000) and The Night of the Iguana (Berkshire Theatre, 2006). Divorced from actor Bruce Abbott and director James Cameron, she has a child from each marriage.
Hamilton was born in Salisbury, Maryland, on September 26, 1956. Hamilton’s father (1928-1962) died when she was five; her mother (1931-2019) later married a police chief. Hamilton had an identical twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Freas (1956–2020), as well as one older sister, a younger brother, and a stepbrother. She has said that she was raised in a “very boring, white Anglo-Saxon” household, and that she “voraciously read books” in her spare time. Hamilton went to Wicomico Junior High and Wicomico High School in Salisbury.
She studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York City. Hamilton has said that her acting professor at Washington College told her she had no hope of earning a living as an actress. In New York, she attended acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
John Chapman ( Johnny Appleseed) was born in Massachusetts on September 26, 1774. He was a legendary American pioneer and folk hero who planted apple trees across the American Frontier.
Chapman earned his nickname because he planted small orchards and individual apple trees during his travels as he walked across 100,000 square miles of Midwestern wilderness and prairie. He was a genuine and dedicated professional nurseryman known for his generous nature, his love of the wilderness, his devotion to the Bible, his knowledge of medicinal herbs, his harmony with the Indians, and his eccentric nature, too. His efforts resulted in settlers’ planting their own orchards.
John Chapman died in 1845 near his nursery in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Every September, when apples are ripe, Fort Wayne hosts an annual festival to commemorate the life of Johnny Appleseed.
Next time you bite into an apple, think of Johnny Appleseed. Learn more about Johnny Appleseed and Johnny Appleseed Day!
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On three legs I stand, And when taken in hand, My nose often points to the light. Inside I’m as black as any coal sack, But my outside is polished and bright. (1897) (What is being described?)
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Born
- Johnny Appleseed Chapman (farmer, folk legend) –
- Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon (8th premier of Quebec) –
- Ivan Pavlov (physiologist) –
- Arthur B. Davies (artist) –
- T.S. Eliot (poet) –
- George Gershwin (composer) –
- Jack LaLanne (fitness guru) –
- Olivia Newton-John (singer) –
- Melissa Sue Anderson (actress) –
- Serena Williams (tennis player) –
Died
- Daniel Boone (frontiersman) –
- Bessie Smith (singer) –
- Robert Palmer (singer) –
- Paul Newman (American actor, director, and philanthropist; died in Westport, Connecticut) –
Events
- Parthenon partially destroyed by Venetians, Athens, Greece –
- On the steps of the Salem, New Jersey courthouse, Colonel Robert Johnson bit into a tomato in order to prove wrong the long-lasting theory that tomatoes were poisonous –
- The Shriners, a fraternal and charitable organization, opened its first temple –
- Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy confronted each other in the first televised presidential debate –
- John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon squared off in the first U.S. presidential debate to be televised. –
- The Beverly Hillbillies debuted on television –
- Australia won the America’s Cup. It was the first time in 132 years that the U.S. did not win –
- N.Y. Giant Ali Haji-Sheikh kicked a 56-yard field goal –
- Prairie View A&M University football team snapped 80-game losing streak –
- 42.1-inch-long cucumber set world record –
Weather
- The temperature in San Diego, California, reached 111 degrees F –
- The temperature in Los Angeles, California, reached 109 degrees F –
- Death Valley, California, had an afternoon temperature of 104 degrees F –
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