By Carmenlita Castillo
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Nicole Blonsky (born November 9, 1988) is an American actress. She is known for playing Tracy Turnblad in the film Hairspray (2007), for which she won two Critics’ Choice Awards and nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Blonsky has starred as Willamena Rader in the ABC Family series Huge (2010), for which she received a Teen Choice Award nomination, had a recurring role as Margot on the series Smash (2013), and had roles in the films Geography Club (2013) as Therese and The Last Movie Star (2017) as Faith.
Blonsky was born and raised in Great Neck, New York. She and her brother Joey are the children of Karen, a school aide, and Carl Blonsky, a municipal worker for the village water pollution control district. Her father is Jewish, and her mother is Roman Catholic.
Blonsky attended Great Neck North Middle School and attended John L. Miller Great Neck North High School, and switched to Village School after a year at the latter. She additionally attended the after-school theatre program at William A. Shine Great Neck South High School daily, where she participated in productions of Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, Kiss Me, Kate, and the title role of the opera Carmen.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Benjamin Banneker (mathematician & astronomer) –
- Robert Dale Owen (social reformer) –
- Elijah Parish Lovejoy (abolitionist) –
- Ivan Turgenev (author) –
- Sally Tompkins (philanthropist, Civil War hospital founder and operator) –
- Stanford White (architect) –
- Marie Dressler (actress) –
- Hedy Lamarr (actress) –
- Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (politician) –
- Florence Chadwick (swimmer) –
- Spiro Agnew (U.S. vice president) –
- Anne Sexton (poet) –
- Carl Sagan (astronomer) –
- Lou Ferrigno (actor) –
- Chris Jericho (professional wrestler) –
- Eric Dane (actor) –
- Nick Lachey (singer) –
- Nikki Blonsky (actress) –
Died
- Dylan Thomas (poet) –
- Charlie de Gaulle (politician) –
- John N. Mitchell (former U.S. attorney general) –
- Art Carney (actor) –
- Ed Bradley (broadcast journalist) –
Events
- First documented Canadian gridiron football game played, University of Toronto, Ontario –
- The Great Boston Fire raged for two days –
- Theodore Roosevelt became the first president to travel outside the U.S. while in office –
- Jim Thorpe’s Carlisle Indians beat Dwight Eisenhower’s Army Cadets in football, 27 to 6 –
- Twelve Soviet-made MIG-15s attacked four U.S. aircrafts over North Korea in the first dogfight involving jet fighter planes –
- Major Robert White flew X-15 rocket plane at Mach 6.04 –
- First issue of Rolling Stone magazine came out –
- Canada’s first domestic communications satellite, Anik A1, launched –
- The fall of the Berlin Wall –
- Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens was honored with his seventh Cy Young award and became the oldest pitcher, at age 42, to receive the award –
Weather
- Worst day of storm that caused 12 major shipwrecks on the Great Lakes (United States and Canada) –
- Record cold hit New York and Boston, with low temperatures of 24 degrees F –
- A record high temperature of 70 degrees F recorded in Manchester, New Hampshire –
- A 29th subtropical storm (Theta) formed in the Atlantic, setting a new record for the most named storms in a single season. The previous record of 28 named storms occurred in 2005. –
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