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December 29, birthdays for Alison Brie, Ross Lynch, Kei Nishikori

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December 29, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Actress Alison Brie celebrates her birthday today. Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 363rd day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Mary Tyler Moore and Ted Danson, among others.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1940, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “2 Boro Men Saved in Tanker Sinking.”

The article focused on two Brooklyn men who were rescued from a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Africa.

“The Two Brooklynites are Joseph E. Burse of 636 Eastern Parkway and Harry Rifkin of ‘161 Elliott St.’ There is no Elliott Street in the borough. Neighbors at the Eastern Parkway address said that Burse’s sister, Mrs. S. Kaplan, who also lived there, had neither seen nor heard from him for the past three years,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actress ALSION BRIE, who was born in 1983; actress PATRICIA CLARKSON, who was born in 1959; actor TED DANSON, who was born in 1947; actor IAIN DE CAESTECKER, who was born in 1987; singer and actress MARIANNE FAITHFULL, who was born in 1946; broadcast journalist THOMAS EDWIN JARRIEL, who was born in 1934; soccer coach and former player JASON KREIS, who was born in 1972; actor JUDE LAW, who was born in 1972; singer and actor ROSS LYNCH, who was born in 1995; Emmy Award-winning actress MARY TYLER MOORE, who was born in Brooklyn in 1936; tennis star KEI NISHIKORI, who was born in 1990; actor JON POLITO, who was born in 1950; comedian PAULA POUNDSTONE, who was born in 1959; actor JON VOIGHT, who was born in 1938; and filmmaker ANDY WACHOWSKI, who was born in 1967.

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THE AMERICAN YMCA WAS ORGANIZED ON THIS DAY IN 1851. The first U.S. branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association was organized in Boston. It was modeled on an organization begun in England in 1844 by George Williams.

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WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1809. The English statesman and author for whom the Gladstone (luggage) bag was named was known as an inspiring orator and eccentric individual. He is said to have left more writings (letters, diaries, journals, books) than any other major English politician. He served as Britain’s prime minister four times. Gladstone died in Wales in 1898.

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“A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN” WAS PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1916. The semiautobiographical novel by Irish modernist author James Joyce, his first, was published in the U.S. by B.W. Huebsch (it was published in the United Kingdom in 1917). The novel had been serialized in a British literary journal The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 on poet Ezra Pound’s recommendation.

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TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE. The massacre marked the deaths of more than 200 Native American men, women and children by the U.S. Seventh Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Government efforts to suppress a ceremonial religious practice, the Ghost Dance (which called for a messiah who would restore the bison to the plains, make the white men disappear and bring back the old Native American way of life), had resulted in the death of Sitting Bull in 1890, which further inflamed the disgruntled Native Americans and culminated in the slaughter at Wounded Knee.

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PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1808. Before he served as the 17th U.S. president, Johnson worked as a proprietor of a tailor shop in South Carolina. Upon Abraham Lincoln’s assassination Johnson became president. He was the first president to be impeached by the House and was acquitted in 1868 by the Senate. After his term of office as president (1865-1869) he made several unsuccessful attempts to win another public office. Finally, he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee and served in the Senate from 1875 until his death in Tennessee later the same year.ss

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PABLO CASALS WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1876. The famed cellist Pablo Carlos Salvador Defillio de Casals was born in Spain. He died in Puerto Rico in 1973.

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TODAY IS TICK TOCK DAY. It was established as a day to motivate people to accomplish all of the dreams and fantasies that they never had the chance to fulfill. For more information, visit wellcat.com.

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

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“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” — Mary Tyler Moore, who was born on this day in Brooklyn in 1936