By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Susan Flannery (born July 31, 1939) is an American actress and director. She made her screen debut appearing in the 1965 Western film Guns of Diablo and later appeared in some television series. From 1966 to 1975, Flannery starred as Laura Horton on the NBC daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives for which she received her first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Flannery received Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for her performance in the 1974 disaster film, The Towering Inferno. For her starring role in the 1976 miniseries The Moneychangers, she received Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series. Flannery later acted on prime-time shows and made-for-television movies, before returning to daytime with the role of Stephanie Forrester on the CBS soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful (1987–2012, 2018), receiving three Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2000, 2002 and 2003.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- John Ericsson (engineer) –
- Theobald Smith (bacteriologist) –
- Jean Dubuffet (artist) –
- Primo Levi (author) –
- Whitney Moore Young Jr. (civil rights activist) –
- Susan Flannery (actress) –
- Geraldine Chaplin (actress) –
- Wesley Snipes (actor) –
- J. K. Rowling (author) –
- Dean Cain (actor) –
- Tim Couch (football player) –
Died
- Andrew Johnson (17th U.S. president) –
- Robert A. Taft (politician) –
Events
- George Washington signed the first United States Patent Grant to Samuel Hopkins of Pittsford, Vermont, for a new method of making Potash–
- David Rittenhouse, Director of the Mint, laid the cornerstone of the building being built in Philadelphia for the U.S. Mint–
- Alys McKey Bryant first woman to fly a plane in Canada–
- The first automobile, a Ford Model T, was permitted into Yellowstone National Park–
- The Shadow radio program first aired–
- 5-pound 3-ounce white crappie caught, Enid Dam, Mississippi–
- IBM released the Selectric typewriter–
- U.S. probe Ranger 7 relayed first moon close-ups–
- Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin became the first people to drive a vehicle on the Moon–
- French became the official language of Quebec–
- Former Teamsters Union president, James R. Hoffa, was reported missing–
- NASA released the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1–
- The ashes of astrogeologist Eugene Shoemaker were deposited on the Moon–
Weather
- Hail fell 12 inches deep in Scituate, Massachusetts, remaining on the ground for 30 hours–
- The Edmonton Tornado struck Alberta’s capital city, killing 27 people and causing more than $250 million in damage.–
- Roswell, New Mexico, set a record for monthly rainfall with 6.68 inches–
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