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December 15, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Real Madrid and Costa Rican goalie Keylor Navas celebrates his birthday today. AP photo

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 350th day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Dave Clark and Tim Conway, among others.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1954, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Two Hold Up Jeweler in Sheepshead Bay.”

The article focused on two thieves who robbed a jeweler and stole $500 in cash, along with other valuables.

“One of the thugs herded him into the backroom and, after threatening to kill him if he sounded an alarm, bound his hands and feet with rope and gagged him with his own necktie. After grabbing their loot, the gunmen escaped,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actor ADAM BRODY, who was born in 1979; musician DAVE CLARK, who was born in 1942; comedian and actor TIM CONWAY, who was born in 1933; actor CHARLIE COX, who was born in 1982; actress MICHELLE DOCKERY, who was born in 1981; actor DON JOHNSON, who was born in 1949; soccer star KEYLOR NAVAS, who was born in 1986; author EDNA O’BRIEN, who was born in 1931; basketball player JAHLIL OKAFOR, who was born in 1995; actress HELEN SLATER, who was born in 1963; tennis player ALEXANDRA STEVENSON, who was born in 1980; actor GARRETT WANG, who was born in 1968; U.S. Sen. and former governor of Virginia MARK WARNER, who was born in 1954.

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TODAY IS BILL OF RIGHTS DAY. It marks the 225th anniversary of the ratification of the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It became effective following ratification by Virginia.

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“GONE WITH THE WIND” PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1939. One of the 20th century’s biggest film blockbusters was based on Margaret Mitchell’s bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of Civil War passions. The film starred Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable and was produced by David O. Selznick. It won eight Academy Awards. Hattie McDaniel won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, marking the first time an African American actor had won or been nominated.

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ALEXANDRE GUSTAVE EIFFEL WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1832. The French engineer is known for his design of the 1,000-foot-high, million-dollar, wrought-iron Eiffel Tower in Paris. He also participated in designing the Statue of Liberty. Eiffel died in Paris in 1923.

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“DAVY CROCKETT” PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1954. The show, which was made up of a series of five segments, can be considered TV’s first miniseries. Show on Walt Disney’s “Disneyland” program. It starred Fess Parker as American hero Davy Crockett and was immediately popular. The show spawned Crockett paraphernalia, including the famous coonskin cap (although the real Crockett never wore one).

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THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY WILL HOST “Andrés Reséndez on ‘The Other Slavery’” tonight at 6:30 p.m. Historian Reséndez will share the myth-shattering story of the mass enslavement of American Indians by European colonists, which he argues was a major factor in the decimation of indigenous populations across North America. For more information, visit brooklynhistory.org.

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Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.