By Cynthia Charlene Greason
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (/stəˈloʊn/; born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Critics’ Choice Award, as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two BAFTA Awards. Stallone is one of only two actors in history (alongside Harrison Ford) to have starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six consecutive decades.
Struggling as an actor for a number of years upon moving to New York City in 1969, Stallone found gradual work in films such as The Lords of Flatbush (1974). He achieved his greatest critical and commercial success starting in 1976 with his iconic role as boxer Rocky Balboa in the first film of the successful Rocky franchise, which he also wrote. In 1977, he became the third actor in history to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He portrayed the PTSD-plagued soldier John Rambo in First Blood (1982), a role he would play across five Rambo films (1982–2019). From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, Stallone would go on to become one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors acting in action films such as Cobra (1986), Tango and Cash (1989), Cliffhanger (1993), Demolition Man (1993), and The Specialist (1994). He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984.
Stallone continued his established roles in Rocky Balboa (2006) and Rambo (2008) before launching The Expendables film franchise (2010–present), in which he starred as the mercenary Barney Ross. In 2013, he starred in the successful film Escape Plan and appeared in its sequels. In 2015, he returned to Rocky again with Creed, in which a retired Rocky mentors former rival Apollo Creed‘s son Donnie Creed. The film brought Stallone widespread praise and his first Golden Globe Award, as well as a third Academy Award nomination, having been first nominated for the same role 40 years prior. Since 2022, he has starred in the Paramount+ crime series Tulsa King.
TODAY’S ALMANACS
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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Died
- Henry II of England –
- Alexander II of Scotland –
- Sir Thomas More (author, martyr) –
- Edward VI, King of England –
- Louis Armstrong (musician) –
- Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys –
- John Frankenheimer (director) –
- William Ruger (founder of Sturm, Ruger) –
- Buddy Ebsen (actor) –
- Kasey Rogers (actress) –
- James Caan (actor ) –
Born
- John Flaxman (sculptor) –
- Verner Von Heidenstam (poet) –
- LaVerne Andrews (singer) –
- Nancy Davis Reagan (U.S. First Lady) –
- Bill Haley (musician) –
- Merv Griffin (entertainer) –
- Della Reese (singer and actress) –
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (pianist) –
- George W. Bush (43rd U.S. president) –
- Geoffrey Rush (actor) –
- Sylvester Stallone (actor) –
- Ronald Duguay (hockey player) –
- Jennifer Saunders (actress) –
- 50 Cent (rapper) –
Events
- Notorious pirate Captain William Kidd (“Captain Kidd”) seized in Boston–
- Pennsylvania Evening Post first newspaper to publish Declaration of Independence–
- French scientist Louis Pasteur successfully tested a vaccine against rabies on a boy bitten by an infected dog–
- First east-to-west Atlantic crossing by a dirigible (R34) completed, Scotland to N.Y.–
- First major league All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park–
- The main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus went up in flames during a performance in Hartford, Connecticut; over 165 people died and many more were injured–
- Candid Microphone made its radio debut–
- Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon championship becoming the first African American athlete to do so–
- A nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site caused the largest manmade crater in the United States (Sedan Crater).–
- The first Beatles film, A Hard Day’s Night, premiered–
- Fires in Quebec brought smoke to northeastern U.S.–
- Queen Elizabeth II dedicated and formally opened a $6.5 million oval granite water fountain in honor of Princess Diana in Hyde Park–
Weather
- A hailstone measuring 5.5 inches in diameter and weighing 1.5 pounds fell from the sky in Potter, Nebraska–
- Steele, North Dakota, was 121 degrees F–
- Moorhead, Minnesota, was 114 degrees F–
- Skies over Greater Vancouver and southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, were lit up by over 7,000 lightning strikes.–
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