By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Olivia Hastings Holt (born August 5, 1997) is an American actress and singer. She starred in the Disney XD series Kickin’ It, Disney Channel Original Movie Girl vs. Monster, and the Disney Channel Original Series I Didn’t Do It. From 2018 to 2020, she portrayed Tandy Bowen / Dagger in the Freeform series Cloak & Dagger, the Disney XD series Spider-Man, and the Hulu series Runaways. In 2021, she portrayed Kate Wallis in Cruel Summer.
Holt had voice roles in the films Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014) and Gnome Alone (2017), and starred in the feature films Class Rank (2017), Same Kind of Different as Me (2017), and Status Update (2018). Her debut EP, Olivia, was released on Hollywood Records on July 15, 2016.
In 2023, Holt made her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- King Louis III of France –
- Carmen Miranda (actress & singer) –
- Edgar Guest (poet) –
- Marilyn Monroe (actress) –
- Richard Burton (actor) –
- Sir Alec Guinness (actor) –
- Chick Hearn (basketball announcer, coined the phrases slam dunk and airball) –
Born
- Joseph Justus Scaliger (historian) –
- Thomas Lynch (signer of the Declaration of Independence) –
- Tom Thomson (painter) –
- Conrad Aiken (poet) –
- Neil Armstrong (astronaut; first to set foot on the Moon) –
- Maureen McCormick (actress) –
- Patrick Ewing (basketball player) –
- Olivia Holt (actress) –
Events
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in North America, what is now St John’s, Newfoundland–
- The United States government issued its first income tax–
- Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias incorporated–
- Cornerstone for pedestal of Statue of Liberty laid–
- The first electric traffic light installed, Cleveland, Ohio–
- Royal Canadian Navy (through premier of British Columbia) acquired their first submarines–
- Little Orphan Annie made her comic strip debut–
- Gun turret and artifacts of Civil War U.S.S. Monitor recovered–
- Ralston reservoir dam broke near Auburn, California, sending a 3-foot-high wall of water down the American River–
- Brown booby spotted, Virginia Beach, VA–
Weather
- A spectacular cloudburst and tornado at Chester Creek, near Philadelphia, brought 16 inches of rain in three hours–
- 16 inches of rain fell in 3 hours in Delaware City, Pennsylvania–
- An Earthquake shakes Pelileo Ecuador, registering 6.8 on the Richter scale and causing 6000 deaths–
- Ice Harbor Dam, Washington, hit a temperature of 118 degrees F–
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