By Nicole Bernard
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Melissa Sue Anderson (born September 26, 1962) is an American-Canadian actress. She began her career as a child actress after appearing in several commercials in Los Angeles. Anderson is known for her role as Mary Ingalls in the NBC drama series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983), for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
She is also known for film roles that include Vivian in Midnight Offerings (1981), Ginny in the slasher film Happy Birthday to Me (1981), and Alex in the ABC Afterschool Special, Which Mother Is Mine? (1979). Anderson became a naturalized citizen of Canada in 2007. In 2010, she published The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House, an autobiographical account of her years acting in Little House on the Prairie.
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Johnny Appleseed (born Johnathan Chapman; September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance that he attributed to apples. He was also a missionary for The New Church and the inspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum[3] in Urbana, Ohio.
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John Chapman ( Johnny Appleseed) was born in Massachusetts on September 26, 1774. He was a legendary American pioneer and folk hero who planted apple trees across the American Frontier.
Chapman earned his nickname because he planted small orchards and individual apple trees during his travels as he walked across 100,000 square miles of Midwestern wilderness and prairie. He was a genuine and dedicated professional nurseryman known for his generous nature, his love of the wilderness, his devotion to the Bible, his knowledge of medicinal herbs, his harmony with the Indians, and his eccentric nature, too. His efforts resulted in settlers’ planting their own orchards.
John Chapman died in 1845 near his nursery in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Every September, when apples are ripe, Fort Wayne hosts an annual festival to commemorate the life of Johnny Appleseed.
Next time you bite into an apple, think of Johnny Appleseed. Learn more about Johnny Appleseed and Johnny Appleseed Day!
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Formed long ago, yet made today; And most employed when others sleep; What few would like to give away; And fewer still to keep. (What is being described?)
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Born
- Johnny Appleseed Chapman (farmer, folk legend) –
- Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon (8th premier of Quebec) –
- Ivan Pavlov (physiologist) –
- Arthur B. Davies (artist) –
- T.S. Eliot (poet) –
- George Gershwin (composer) –
- Jack LaLanne (fitness guru) –
- Olivia Newton-John (singer) –
- Melissa Sue Anderson (actress) –
- Serena Williams (tennis player) –
Died
- Daniel Boone (frontiersman) –
- Bessie Smith (singer) –
- Robert Palmer (singer) –
- Paul Newman (actor & businessman) –
Events
- Parthenon partially destroyed by Venetians, Athens, Greece–
- On the steps of the Salem, New Jersey courthouse, Colonel Robert Johnson bit into a tomato in order to prove wrong the long-lasting theory that tomatoes were poisonous–
- The Shriners, a fraternal and charitable organization, opened its first temple–
- Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy confronted each other in the first televised presidential debate–
- The Beverly Hillbillies debuted on television–
- N.Y. Giant Ali Haji-Sheikh kicked a 56-yard field goal–
- Australia won the America’s Cup. It was the first time in 132 years that the U.S. did not win–
- Prairie View A&M University football team snapped 80-game losing streak –
- 42.1-inch-long cucumber set world record–
Weather
- The temperature in San Diego, California, reached 111 degrees F–
- The temperature in Los Angeles, California, reached 109 degrees F–
- Death Valley, California, had an afternoon temperature of 104 degrees F–
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