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June 8, birthdays for Kanye West, Julianna Margulies, Jerry Stiller

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June 8, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Rapper Kanye West celebrates his birthday today. Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File
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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 160th day of the year.

ON THIS DAY IN 1906, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Hint of Scandal in Bridge Bids.”

The article focused on delays in the construction of the Manhattan Bridge due to investigations into the construction company with the lowest bid.

“The latest hold-up is one of the most interesting of all that have been tried on this unfortunate bridge,” the Eagle reported. “Detectives figure in this case, and the contractors, through their lawyer, hint darkly at contracts being ‘cut out’ for certain people, not the lowest bidders.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include cartoonist SCOTT ADAMS, who was born in 1957; actress KATHY BAKER, who was born in 1950; inventor of the World Wide Web TIME BERNERS-LEE, who was born in 1955; former first lady BARBARA PIERCE BUSH, who was born in 1925; actor and former football player BERNIE CASEY, who was born in 1939; tennis player KIM CLIJSTERS, who was born in 1983; singer and actor JAMES DARREN, who was born in 1936; sportscaster and former tennis player LINDSAY DAVENPORT, who was born in 1976; actor, director and producer GRIFFIN DUNNE, who was born in New York City in 1955; Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actress JULIANNA MARGULIES, who was born in 1966; author SARA PARETSKY, who was born in 1947; singer, musician and songwriter BOZ SCAGGS, who was born in 1944; singer NANY SINATRA, who was born in 1940; comedian and actor JERRY STILLER, who was born in Brooklyn in 1929; actor KEENAN IVORY WAYANS, who was born in New York City in 1958; physician and writer on natural healing DR. ANDREW WEIL, who was born in 1942; and Grammy Award-winning singer and producer KANYE WEST, who was born in 1977.

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FRANK LLOYD Wright was born on this day in 1867. The American architect wrote in his biography: “No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together and each the happier for the other.” Wright died in 1959.

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TODAY IS WORLD Oceans Day. Officially designated by the United Nations in 2008, this day is recognized by an increasing number of countries as an annual opportunity to celebrate our world’s oceans and our personal connection to the sea.

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

 

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