Josh Hutcherson (born 1992) is an American actor and filmmaker. He began his acting career at a young age with minor roles in TV commercials and pilot episodes. As he gained experience, he began taking on bigger roles, notably in Zathura (2005), RV (2006), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), and The Kids Are All Right (2010). Over the course of his young career, he picked up three individual Young Artist Awards. Hutcherson has played Peeta Mellark in the science fiction adventure film series, The Hunger Games (2012, 2013 and 2014), in his best-known role. He has also taken on filmmaking and voiceover work, earning credits as an executive producer for Detention (2011), The Forger (2012), and Escobar: Paradise Lost (2015), and for voice acting in 2013's Epic, the most commercially successful of his films except for The Hunger Games series. Hutcherson received the GLAAD Vanguard Award in 2012 for his efforts in promoting equal rights for LGBT people, and he supports the gay–straight alliance chapter called "Straight But Not Narrow".

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

193:

Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didius_Julianus

1862:

American Civil War: An invasion of the New Mexico Territory by the Confederate States Army was halted at the Battle of Glorieta Pass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Glorieta_Pass

1910:

Near Martigues, France, French aviator Henri Fabre's Fabre Hydravion became the first seaplane to take off from water under its own power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabre_Hydravion

1942:

Second World War: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully disabled the key port of Saint-Nazaire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid

1979:

British Prime Minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes by trade unions during the "Winter of Discontent". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_vote_of_no_confidence_in_the_government_of_James_Callaghan

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

lacrimae rerum: The “tears of things”; the inherent tragedy of existence. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lacrimae_rerum

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.   --Teresa of Ávila https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Teresa_of_%C3%81vila