By Cordillia Marvine
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
James Roday Rodriguez (born James David Rodriguez; April 4, 1976) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying Shawn Spencer, a hyper-observant consultant detective and fake psychic, in USA Network series Psych and the subsequent Psych film series, also writing and producing for Psych. He also starred in A Million Little Things which debuted in 2018, playing Javier “Gary” Mendez.
Rodriguez is the co-artistic director of Red Dog Squadron, a non-profit Los Angeles theater company he co-founded with Brad Raider. In 2012, Rodriguez and, at the time, Black Dahlia artistic director Matt Shakman bought the El Centro Theatre and started a long process of renovations with the intent of reopening it under its original name Circle Theatre. In a newsletter from August 2018, Raider and Rodriguez announced that they had to resell the theatre in early 2018.
Rodriguez dated his Psych co-star Maggie Lawson from 2006 to 2014, coinciding with the series run.
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
- Jérôme Lalande (French astronomer) –
- William Henry Harriso (Ninth U.S. President; died of pneumonia a month after inauguration) –
- Martin Luther King Jr. (U.S. civil rights leader; was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee) –
- Roger Ebert (film critic) –
Born
- Linus Yale Jr. (inventor) –
- Jules Léger (Canadian statesman) –
- Muddy Waters (musician) –
- Maya Angelou (poet) –
- Craig T. Nelson (actor) –
- Evelyn Hart (ballerina) –
- Robert Downey Jr. (actor) –
- James Roday (actor) –
- Heath Ledger (actor) –
Events
- John Tyler first US vice president to take over after a president died –
- Susanna Madora Salter became the first woman to be elected mayor of an American community (Argonia, Kansas) –
- First one-way radio telephone communication, New York to Delaware –
- Ben Hur won 11 Academy Awards –
- The Beatles occupied all the top 5 positions on the Billboard singles chart in the U.S. –
- The world’s first totally artificial heart was implanted in a human by US surgeon Dr. Denton A. Cooley. The patient, Haskell Karp, lived only a few days, dying of pneumonia and kidney failure. –
- Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith’s son accepted the nation’s highest award for valor for his late father, who exposed himself to enemy fire in Iraq and saved at least 100 of his fellow U.S. soldiers. It was the first medal of honor awarded in the Iraq War –
- A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck just south of the U.S. border near Mexicali –
Weather
- Augusta, Georgia, and six Georgia counties, were hit by a tornado –
- Nineteen degrees F in Boston, Massachusetts –
- Fifteen degrees F in Concord, New Hampshire –
- Thirteen states (including Alabama, Kentucky, and Ohio), as well as Ontario, experienced 148 tornadoes, with numerous fatalities and injuries between April 3 and today –
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