American actor and comedian

John Michael Higgins

John Michael Higgins is an American actor, comedian and game show host whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, the role of David Letterman in HBO's The Late Shift, and a starring role in the American version of Kath & Kim. He portrayed Peter Lovett in the TV Land original sitcom Happily Divorced and provided the voice of Iknik Blackstone Varrick in The Legend of Korra and Mini-Max in Big Hero 6: The Series. He also starred in the NBC sitcom Great News as Chuck Pierce for two seasons. From 2018-2022, and 2026-present he hosted the game show America Says, which earned him a 2019 Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Game Show Host.

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1963

February 12

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1059 Upon reaching Rome, Bruno of Toul is elected as pope Leo IX and starts initiating reforms.
1096 Pope Urban II confirms the foundation of the abbey of La Roë under Robert of Arbrissel as a community of canons regular.
1404 The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performs the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
1429 English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans in the Battle of the Herrings.

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The world in 1963

When John arrived

april 10 One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
april 11 Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
april 12 The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.[citation needed]
april 16 U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his open letter from Birmingham Jail, sometimes known as "The Negro Is Your Brother", while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation.

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Carl Reichenbach 1788–1869 German chemist and philosopher (died 1869) Charles Darwin 1809–1882 English biologist and theorist (born 1809) David D. Friedman 1945– American economist, physicist, and scholar Dayananda Saraswati 1824–1883 Indian monk and philosopher, founded Arya Samaj (died 1883) John L. Lewis 1880– American miner and union leader (died 1969) Judd Winick 1970– American author and illustrator Mike Posner 1988– American singer-songwriter and producer Naseem Hamed 1974– English boxer Paxton Lynch 1994– American football player

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Alberto Nisman 1963–2015 Argentinian lawyer (died 2015) Alec Stewart 1963– English cricketer Andrea Leadsom 1963– English politician Anne-Sophie Mutter 1963– German violinist Arthur Adams 1963– American comic book artist and writer Brian Greene 1963– American physicist Brian Robbins 1963– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Chip Kelly 1963– American football player and coach Conan O'Brien 1963– American television host, comedian, and writer

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