By Annie Walker
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, and musician.[1] He has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
He rose to prominence starring in leading man roles in a string of critically acclaimed films such as The Untouchables (1987), Bull Durham (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), JFK (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), A Perfect World (1993), and Wyatt Earp (1994). During this time Costner directed and starred in the western epic Dances with Wolves (1990), for which he won two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. He then starred in and co-produced Waterworld (1995) and directed The Postman (1997) and Open Range (2003).[2]
Costner’s other notable films include Silverado (1985) No Way Out (1987), Tin Cup (1996), Message in a Bottle (1999), For Love of the Game (1999), Thirteen Days (2000), Mr. Brooks (2007), Swing Vote (2008), The Company Men (2010), 3 Days to Kill (2014), Draft Day (2014), Black or White (2014), McFarland, USA (2015), and The Highwaymen (2019).[3] He has also played supporting parts in such films as The Upside of Anger (2005), Man of Steel (2013), Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), Hidden Figures (2016), Molly’s Game (2017), and Let Him Go (2020).
On television, Costner portrayed Devil Anse Hatfield in the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Since 2018, he has starred as John Dutton on the Paramount Network original drama series Yellowstone for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and a Golden Globe award.
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
- Daniel Webster (statesman) –
- Ruben Dario (poet) –
- A. A. Milne (author) –
- Oliver Hardy (comedian) –
- Cary Grant (actor) –
- Danny Kaye (actor) –
- Curt Flood (baseball player) –
- Bobby Goldsboro (singer) –
- Kevin Costner (actor) –
- Karan Brar (actor) –
Died
- John Tyler (10th U.S. president) –
- Rudyard Kipling (author) –
- Curly Howard (actor, best known as one of The Three Stooges) –
- Robert B. Parker (author of mysteries; Mr. Parker died at his writing desk, working on a book) –
- Glenn Frey (musician; founding member of The Eagles) –
- David Crosby (singer, songwriter ) –
Events
- The play entitled Gorboduc, written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, was presented before Queen Elizabeth I. It was the first real English tragedy.–
- John Winthrop documented the first known unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings in North America–
- Two lights formed a manlike shape and arose out of the water in Boston–
- Eugene Ely proved that planes could land safely on ships–
- Ice in the in the Weddell Sea trapped Antarctic explorer E. Shackleton’s ship Endurance until she sank on November 21–
- The first session of the Paris Peace Conference to end WWI was held–
- NY Daily Mirror columnist Walter Winchell debuted on radio–
- First around-the-world, nonstop flight by jet concluded–
- The Dow Jones industrial stock average first passed the 1,000 mark–
- Yellowknife became capital of the Northwest Territories–
- The cause of Legionnaires’ disease (Legionellosis) identified as bacteria–
- 211-pound striped marlin caught near Red Hill, Hawaii–
- 4-lb. 8-oz. Heller’s barracuda caught, Molokai, Hawaii–
- A half pound meteorite crashed through the office of Dr. Frank Ciampi, Lorton, Virginia–
- A 0.66-pound meteorite crashed through a doctors’ office in Lorton, Virginia –
Weather
- Ice in the in the Weddell Sea trapped Antarctic explorer E. Shackleton’s ship Endurance until she sank on November 21–
- Twenty-seven degrees below zero F, Watts, Oklahoma–
- 95 degrees F in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California–
- Twenty-nine degrees below zero F in Concord, New Hampshire–
- Fifty-four degrees below zero F in Embarrass, Minnesota–
- NASA and NOAA announced that 2016 was hottest year globally on record–
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