By Sabrina Mason
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Nicholai Olivia “Nicky” Rothschild (née Hilton; born October 5, 1983) is an American socialite, fashion designer and model. She is a member of the Hilton family by birth, and a member of the Rothschild family through her marriage to James Rothschild, a grandson of Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, in 2015. She is the younger sister of Paris Hilton.
Hilton was born on October 5, 1983 in New York City and was raised in Los Angeles to Richard Hilton and Kathy Hilton (née Avanzino). Hilton was named for her granduncle, Conrad “Nicky” Hilton Jr. Her siblings are Paris Hilton (born 1981), Barron Hilton II (born 1989) and Conrad Hughes Hilton (born 1994).
Hilton was raised Catholic. She has Norwegian, German, Italian, English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Hilton graduated from Convent of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls Catholic school on the Upper East Side, in 2001. She took courses at Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons The New School for Design but does not have a degree.
At 2:30 a.m. on August 15, 2004, Hilton married childhood friend and businessman Todd Meister at the Vegas Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The marriage was annulled less than three months later, with Hilton and Meister explaining they traveled apart often and had married “on a whim”.
In 2011, Hilton began dating financier James Rothschild (born 1985), a member of the Rothschild family and only son of Amschel Rothschild. On August 12, 2014, Hilton became engaged to Rothschild. They were married on July 10, 2015, in London, England. They have three children.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
My first is company; my second shuns company; my third assembles company; my whole amuses company. (What’s the word? Each clue is a syllable!)
Co-nun-drum
Born
- Jonathan Edwards (philosopher) –
- Chester Arthur (21st U.S. president) –
- Louis Lumiere (inventor) –
- Robert Hutchings Goddard (physicist) –
- Larry Fine (actor) –
- Ray Arthur Kroc (American businessman) –
- Joshua Logan (producer) –
- Bil Keane (cartoonist, created Family Circus) –
- Glynis Johns (actress) –
- Richard F. Gordon (astronaut) –
- Steve Miller (musician) –
- Karen Allen (actress) –
- Bernie Mac (actor) –
- Mario Lemieux (hockey player) –
- Kate Winslet (actress) –
- Nicky Hilton (heiress) –
Died
- Tecumseh (Native American leader) –
- Nancy Hanks Lincoln (mother of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln) –
- Earl Tupper (inventor of Tupperware) –
- Rodney Dangerfield (comedian & actor) –
Events
- World Series first broadcast on radio–
- Laura Ingalls made the first transcontinental airplane flight by a woman. Traveling from New York to California in 4 days, she stopped 9 times and logged 30 hours and 27 minutes of flying time–
- First nonstop trans-Pacific flight, from Japan to Washington, which had begun on October 4, was completed on this day–
- During the first televised presidential address, President Truman asked Americans to not eating meat on Tuesdays or poultry on Thursdays in order to help stockpile grain for starving people outside of the U.S.–
- The Beatles released their hit Love Me Do in the U.K.–
- Tom Green’s jet car reached 413.199 mph–
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus first appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s BBC-1–
- Laurie Skreslet first Canadian to summit Mt. Everest–
- First space shuttle launch with oceanographer (Paul Scully-Power on Challenger)–
- Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space–
- 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, won Nobel Peace prize–
- 53 people committed murder-suicide simultaneously in several chalets in Switzerland and Canada. They were members of the Order of the Solar Temple–
Weather
- Mighty tempest in New England, said John Winthrop’s journal entry for this day–
- Pumpkin Flood on Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers in Pennsylvania–
- Arizona set a U.S. record high temperature for October with 116 degrees F (in Sentinel)–
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