Nancy Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American actress and
comedian. On the animated television series The Simpsons, she is the
voice of Bart Simpson, as well as Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, and Todd
Flanders. Her first professional role was voicing Gloria in the animated
series Richie Rich, followed by a starring role in the television movie
Marian Rose White (1982). In 1987, intending to audition for the role of
Lisa Simpson in a series of animated shorts, she found Bart more
interesting, and was offered the role on the spot by Matt Groening, the
series' creator. She held the role for three seasons on The Tracey
Ullman Show, and has voiced Bart for 29 seasons on The Simpsons, winning
an Emmy and an Annie Award for her work. Cartwright has also voiced
Daffney Gillfin in The Snorks, Rufus in Kim Possible, Mindy in
Animaniacs, Margo Sherman in The Critic, and Chuckie in Rugrats and All
Grown Up! She has adapted her autobiography, My Life as a 10-Year-Old
Boy (2000), into a one-woman play.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Cartwright>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1147:
Reconquista: Forces under Afonso I of Portugal captured Lisbon
from the Moors after a four-month siege in one of the few Christian
victories during the Second Crusade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Lisbon>
1760:
George III became King of Great Britain and Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom>
1927:
A propeller shaft on the Italian cruise liner SS Principessa
Mafalda broke and fractured the hull, sinking it and resulting in 314
deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Principessa_Mafalda>
1950:
Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army ambushed the
South Korean II Corps, marking China's entry into the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Onjong>
2010:
Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began an increasingly
violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Mount_Merapi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
genizah:
(Jewish law) A depository where sacred Hebrew books or other sacred
items that by Jewish law cannot be disposed of are kept before they can
be properly buried in a cemetery.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genizah>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from
trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional
means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.
--Henry Steele Commager
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Steele_Commager>