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August 23, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Basketball legend Kobe Bryant celebrates his birthday today. Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 236th day of the year.

ON THIS DAY IN 1930, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Druggist Gets Year for Fake Liquor Permits.”

The article focused on two Brooklyn drug clerks who were convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law by selling liquor at their drug store under prescriptions illegally issued by eight Brooklyn physicians.

“The physicians, who testified as government witnesses, to issuing fake prescription to the drug store pleaded guilty Monday to violating their permits, a misdemeanor,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actor TONY BILL, who was born in 1940; former basketball player KOBE BRYANT, who was born in 1978; actor SCOTT CAAN, who was born in 1976; actress BARBARA EDEN, who was born in 1934; Hall of Fame football player SONNY JURGENSEN, who was born in 1934; basketball player JEREMY LIN, who was born in 1988; actress SHELLEY LONG, who was born in 1949; former dancer for the New York City Ballet PATRICIA MCBRIDE, who was born in 1942; actress VERA MILES, who was born in 1930; actor JAY MOHR, who was born in 1970; first woman and first Hispanic U.S. Surgeon General ANTONIA NOVELLO, who was born in 1944; political comedian MARK RUSSELL, who was born in 1932; actor RICHARD SANDERS, who was born in 1940; and singer and actor RICK SPRINGFIELD, who was born in 1949.

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THE FIRST MAN-powered flight occurred on this day in 1977. In California, Bryan Allen pedaled the 70-pound Gossamer Condor for a mile at a “minimal altitude of two pylons” in a flight certified by the Royal Aeronautical Society of Britain, winning a £50,000 prize offered by British industrialist Henry Kremer.

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GENE KELLY WAS born on this day in 1912. The actor, dancer, director and choreographer’s movies and musicals included “Singin’ in the Rain” and “An American in Paris.” Kelly died in 1996.

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THE “STOCKHOLM Syndrome” bank robbery took place beginning on this day in 1973 and lasted for six days. In the botched bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, Erik Olsson took four hostages and barricaded himself with them and friend, Clark Olofsson, in the vault. After almost a week, the police piped in gas and the hostages were freed, Afterward, it emerged that the hostages were more afraid of the police than of their captors, and Swedish Professor Nils Bejerot coined the term “Stockholm syndrome” to explain the phenomenon of hostages identifying and sympathizing with their captors.

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

“If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.” —  Kobe Bryant, who was born on this day in 1978.


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