By Sabrina Mason
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Moore was born Beatrice Melba Smith on October 29, 1945 in New York City to Gertrude Melba Smith (1920–1976), who was a singer professionally known as Bonnie Davis and Teddy Hill (1909–1978), a big band leader. Moore grew up in the Harlem section of New York until age nine, when her mother remarried, to jazz pianist Clement Leroy Moorman and the family relocated to Newark, New Jersey. For high school, Moore attended Newark Arts High School, graduating in 1958. In 1970, she graduated from Montclair State College with a BA in music.
Moore has been married once and has a daughter. Moore was engaged in a four-year relationship with television star Clifton Davis during the early 1970s. Davis later admitted that the relationship failed due to his drug abuse and mistreatment of Moore. In September 1974, Moore married record manager and business promoter Charles Huggins. Moore and Huggins divorced after 17 years of marriage in 1991. In 1999, Huggins filed suit against Moore, claiming that she had publicly defamed him by stating that he abused her economically.
Moore has described herself as a “born-again Catholic”.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Since rosemary is a tender shrub that overwinters well in Zones 8 through 10 and Nashville is in Zone 6, you’ll be taking a risk by leaving yours outside through the cold season. But it’s worth a shot. Mulching heavily is a good idea—try surrounding the plant with leaves packed into black plastic bags—and consider building a cold frame for the plant. Also, if you can, put the plant on the south side of your house, up against a wall for protection, but in full sun. This may provide enough warmth to help the plant survive the winter.
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Born
- James Boswell (biographer) –
- Daniel Decatur Emmett (songwriter, musician) –
- Fred Lazarus, Jr. (merchandiser) –
- Fanny Brice (singer & comedienne) –
- Melba Moore (singer) –
- Richard Dreyfuss (actor) –
- Kate Jackson (actress) –
- Mike Gartner (hockey player) –
- Joely Fisher (actress) –
- Winona Ryder (actress) –
- Gabrielle Union (actress) –
- Ben Foster (actor) –
- Amanda Beard (Olympic swimmer) –
Died
- Joseph Pulitzer (journalist) –
- Chang Lin-Tien (first Asian-American to head a major U.S. university when he was named chancellor at the University of California at Berkeley) –
Events
- First commencement of first U.S. coeducational college (Oberlin) took place–
- Black Tuesday at the NY Stock Exchange—Great Depression began–
- The first peacetime draft in U.S. history went into effect–
- The first ballpoint pens went on sale at Gimbel’s Department store in N.Y.C. at $12.50 a piece–
- Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel Prize for literature under pressure from Soviet authorities–
- A spectacular gem robbery took place in New York’s American Museum of Natural History. The greatest loss was the Star of India, the largest sapphire in the world–
- John Glenn returned to space at age 77–
- A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan–
- The Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series–
- A man paddled a 1,364-pound pumpkin down the River Ouse in Yorkshire, England–
- The Friends for Life animal shelter in Houston, Texas, posted a story on Facebook about their escape artist cat named Quilty, who repeatedly freed friends from the shelter’s cat room. The talented kitty gained Internet fame and his story was picked up by the news media. He later was adopted.–
Weather
- A deadly tornado struck Berryville, Arkansas–
- A snow hurricane occurred in Maine–
- Typhoon Cimaron battered the northern Philippines with winds up to 143 mph–
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