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August 24, birthdays for Mike Huckabee, Reggie Miller, Chad Michael Murray

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August 24, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Politician and TV personality Mike Huckabee celebrates his birthday today. AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato
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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 237th day of the year.

ON THIS DAY IN 1910, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Census Figures Show Ninety Million People.”

The article focused on the population of the U.S. growing from 76,303,387 in 1900 to around 90 million in 1910.

“Most of the large cities for which returns have been made public are disappointed over the results,” the Eagle reported. “St. Louis, for example, expected to exceed the 700,000 mark. Her population is 687,029 as compared with 575,238 in 1900. This is an increase of a little over 19 percent.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include former boxer GERRY COONEY, who was born in Manhattan in 1956; director and producer AVA DUVERNAY, who was born in 1972; actor STEPHEN FRY, who was born in 1957; baseball player RAFAEL FURCAL, who was born in 1978; author JOHN GREEN, who was born in 1977; actor RUPERT GRINT, who was born in 1988; actor STEVE GUTTENBERG, who was born in Brooklyn in 1958; TV host and former Gov. MIKE HUCKABEE, who was born in 1955; TV personality CRAIG KILBORN, who was born in 1962; Oscar Award-winning actress MARLEE MATLIN, who was born in 1965; author, professor and scholar ALEXIS MCCALL SMITH, who was born in 1948; Hall of Fame basketball player REGGIE MILLER, who was born in 1965; actor CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY, who was born in 1981; actor ALEX O’LOUGHLIN, who was born in 1976; actor MICHAEL RICHARDS, who was born in 1950; Hall of Fame baseball player CAL RIPKEN JR., who was born in 1960; and composer MASON WILLIAMS, who was born in 1938.

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YASSER ARAFAT was born on this day in 1929. The controversial Middle Easter leader who for almost 50 years was the face of the Palestinian cause was reviled by some as a terrorist and cheered by others as a freedom fighter. Arafat shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin. He died in 2004.

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TODAY IS THE 1,937th anniversary of the eruption of Vesuvius, an active volcano in southern Italy, which destroyed the cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum. Pliny the Younger, who escaped the disaster, wrote of it to the historian Tacitus: “[B]lack and horrible clouds, broken by sinuous shapes of flaming winds, were opening with long tongues of fire.”

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BROOKLYN BRIDGE Park will host “Battle of Brooklyn Tour” as part of its Wednesday Night Tour series tonight at 6:30 p.m. beginning at the Pier 1 entrance. Robert Furman will lead the tour and will discuss how the East River played a key role when the five boroughs became a battlefield during the American Revolution. For more information, visit brooklynbridgepark.org.

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

 

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