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Mary Pickford

This Weeks Famous Canadian

Mary Pickford

Actress Mary Pickford

Full Name: Gladys Marie Smith
Profession: Actress

Nationality:

Canada
Canadian

Biography: Coquette, The Poor Little Rich Girl

Born: April 8, 1892
Birthplace:Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Died: May 29, 1979 (aged 87)
Cause of Death: Cerebral hemorrhage

Married Life

  • 1911-01-07 Actress Mary Pickford (19) weds actor Owen Moore (25)
  • 1920-03-02 Actress Mary Pickford (27) divorces actor Owen Moore (33) after 9 years of marriage
  • 1920-03-28 Actor Douglas Fairbanks (36) marries actress Mary Pickford (28)
  • 1936-01-10 Actress Mary Pickford (44) divorces actor Douglas Fairbanks (52) after 15 years of marriage
  • 1937-06-26 Canadian-American silent film actress Mary Pickford (45) weds her third and final husband American actor and bandleader Charles “Buddy” Rogers (32), until her death in 1979

Historical Events

  • 1909-06-07 Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16
  • 1916-06-24 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract
  • 1919-02-05 Hollywood film studio United Artists founded by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D. W. Griffith
  • 1930-04-03 2nd Academy Awards: “The Broadway Melody”, Warner Baxter & Mary Pickford win. First time Academy Awards are broadcast on the radio.
Today

Daylight Saving Time

Nov 5, 2023 – Daylight Saving Time Ends

When local daylight time is about to reach
Sunday, November 5, 2023, 2:00:00 am clocks are turned backward 1 hour to
Sunday, November 5, 2023, 1:00:00 am local standard time instead.

Areas In Canada Using DST

It is up to the legislation in each municipality in Canada to decide on the use of DST. As a result, there are some locations don’t follow the DST schedule of their in provinces and territories. For example, while British Columbia uses DST, some locations in the province do not. These include Chetwynd, Creston, Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson, and Fort St. John. In Saskatchewan, it is the opposite. Most of the province does not observe DST, except for some locations, including Creighton and Denare Beach. From March 8, 2020, Yukon made DST permanent.

 

History

On This Day – November 4

On This Day – November 4

  • 2008 Barack Obama is elected

    The first African-American to be elected President of the United States, Obama is the 44th person to occupy the Oval Office. He succeeded President George W. Bush and he has been elected to the office twice.

  • 1995 Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

    He was the Prime Minister of Israel when he was killed in Tel Aviv by Yigal Amir, an Israel who opposed the role that Rabin played in the Oslo Peace Accords. The Accords were a collection of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization that set up the process of Palestinian self-determination and created the Palestinian Authority.

  • 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

    The 444-day crisis began when a group of students took over the American Embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostages. The crisis led to a breakdown in American and Iranian diplomatic relations.

  • 1952 US National Security Agency formed

    The NSA as it is popularly known is an intelligence organization that is responsible for monitoring and collecting signal intelligence around the world. The agency was preceded by the Armed Forces Security Agency.

  • 1925 First woman governor of a state in the US

    Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first and only female governor of the state of Wyoming in the United States. In addition to being the first woman to be ever elected as a state governor in the US, she was also the first female director of the United States Mint.