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.

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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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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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