By Sabrina Mason
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Jennifer Yvette Holliday (born October 19, 1960) is an American singer and actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Dreamgirls (1981–83), Your Arms Too Short to Box with God (1980–1981) and later became a successful recording artist. She is best known for her debut single, the Dreamgirls number and rhythm-and-blues/pop hit, “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going“, for which she won a Grammy Award in 1983. She also won a 1982 Tony Award for Dreamgirls.
Holliday attended Texas Southern University. She later received a Doctor of Music honoris causa from Berklee College of Music, Boston in 2000. In 2001 she was presenter for the tap dance show 21 Below at the Town Hall in New York, and also appeared in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS‘ Nothing Like a Dame show at the St. James Theatre in 2002.
As of late February 2011, Holliday was residing in Atlanta.
Holliday has multiple sclerosis.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
I am a caller at every home where you may meet, For daily I perambulate along each street. Take one letter from me and still you will see. I’m the same as before, as I’ll always be, Take two letters from me, or three or four. I’ll still be the same as I was before. In fact, I can tell you that all my letters you may take, Yet of me nothing else can you make.
Answer: Postman
Died
- Jonathan Swift (author) –
- Leo Clarke (Victoria Cross recipient) –
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet) –
- Richard Blackwell (fashion designer & critic known simply as Mr. Blackwell”“) –
- Tom Bosley (actor) –
Born
- Martha Jefferson (wife of Thomas Jefferson; died before presidency) –
- Cassius Marcellus Clay (abolitionist) –
- Alice McLellan Birney (child welfare worker; the work by her and others led to the formation of the PTA) –
- Eddie Bauer (merchant) –
- Jack Anderson (journalist) –
- John Le Carre (author) –
- Robert Reed (actor) –
- Peter Max (artist) –
- John Lithgow (actor) –
- Giorgio Cavazzano (comic strip artist & illustrator) –
- Jennifer Holliday (singer) –
- Evander Holyfield (boxer) –
- Ty Pennington (carpenter; host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) –
- Brad Daugherty (basketball player) –
- Jon Favreau (actor, writer, & director) –
- Chris Kattan (actor) –
- Keith Foulke (baseball player) –
Events
- Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the American Revolutionary War–
- President Abraham Lincoln wrote to an 11-year-old girl who requested that he grow a beard–
- First wedding to take place in balloon occurred, over Cincinnati, Ohio–
- Government autos were first used to deliver U.S. mail–
- Watertown Senior High School, in South Dakota, was the first school to fingerprint students–
- Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University–
- Queen Elizabeth II went to a U.S. football game–
- The Miracle Worker, a dramatization of Helen Keller’s early life, opens on Broadway–
- U.S. auto executive, John DeLorean, was charged with the crime of selling cocaine to undercover police–
- The first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Texas–
- Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22% on what has become known as Black Monday”“–
- Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II–
- In Indiana, a family’s pet Amazon parrot saved their lives by mimicking the sound of a fire alarm to alert them their house was on fire–
- An earthquake measuring 2.5 hit Littleton, Massachusetts–
- The Tampa Bay Rays won the American League Championship Series for the first time in franchise history–
- First object (‘Oumuamua) from another solar system detected in ours–
Weather
- A hurricane that blew for five hours swept Great Lakes waters into Buffalo, drowning 200 people–
- Hurricane Wilma made history by dropping pressure to 882 millibars–
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