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January 12, birthdays for Zayn Malik, Howard Stern, Kirstie Alley

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January 12, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Singer Zayn Malik celebrates his birthday today. Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP
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Greetings, Brooklyn.  Today is the 12th day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Howard Stern and Jeff Bezos, among others.

 

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ON THIS DAY IN 1940, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Bar Association Keeps Its Ban on Portias.”

The article focused on a vote held by the Brooklyn Bar Association that ruled that women could not join.

“A dozen members, speaking from the floor, pointed out that the Brooklyn Bar Association gatherings constitute ‘the last remaining refuge’ from feminine influence. The heaviest opposition to letting down the bars came from lawyers whose wives were also lawyers,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actress KIRSTIE ALLEY, who was born in 1955; Amazon.com founder JEFF BEZOS, who was born in 1964; hockey player MARIAN HOSSA, who was born in 1979; talk show host RUSH LIMBAUGH, who was born in 1951; singer ZAYN MALIK, who was born in 1993; author DAVID MITCHELL, who was born in 1969; author HARUKI MURAKAMI, who was born in 1949; actor OLIVER PLATT, who was born in 1960; radio and TV personality HOWARD STERN, who was born in 1954; and Hall of Fame basketball player DOMINIQUE WILKINS, who was born in 1960.

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THE FIRST WOMAN SENATOR WAS ELECTED ON THIS DAY IN 1932. Hattie W. Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas, was born in 1878 and was appointed to the Senate in 1931 to fill out the term of her husband Sen. Thaddeus Caraway, who had died a few days earlier. In 1932, she won a special election to fill the remaining months of his term. Subsequently elected to two more terms, she served in the Senate until January 1945. She was an adept and tireless legislator (once introducing 43 bills on the same day) who worked for women’s rights (once co-sponsoring an equal rights amendment) and supported New Deal policies. Caraway died in 1950 in Virginia.

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IRA HAMILTON HAYES WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1922. Hayes was one of six U.S. Marines who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi in 1945, following a U.S. assault on the Japanese stronghold. The event was immortalized by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal’s famous photo and later by a Marine War Memorial monument in Arlington, Virginia. Hayes was born on a Pima Indian Reservation in Arizona. He returned home after WWII a much-celebrated hero but was unable to cope with fame. He was found dead of “exposure to freezing weather and overconsumption of alcohol” on the Sacaton Indian Reservation in Arizona in1955.

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JACK LONDON WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1876. The American author penned more than 50 books. He also wrote short stories, novels and travel stories of the sea and of the far north, many marked by brutal realism. His most widely known work is “The Call of the Wild,” the great dog story published in 1903. He died in 1916 in California.

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“BATMAN” PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1966. Based on the DC Comics characters created by Bob Kane in 1939, ABC’s crime-fighting show gained a place in Nielsen’s top 10 ratings in its first season. Adam West starred as millionaire Bruce Wayne and his superhero alter ego, Batman. Burt Ward costarred as Dick Grayson/Robin, the Boy Wonder. An assortment of villains guest-starred each week, including Cesar Romero as the Joker, Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar as Catwoman, Burgess Meredith as the Penguin and Frank Gorshin as the Riddler. Other stars making memorable appearances included Liberace, Vincent Price, Milton Berle, Tallulah Bankhead and Ethel Merman. The series played up its comic-strip roots with innovative and sharply skewed camera angles, bright bold colors and wild graphics. Although the last telecast was in 1968, the show’s memorable theme song, composed by Neal Hefti, can be heard today with some 120 episodes in syndication.

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THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (BHS) WILL HOST “CAPOTE ON SCREEN: Breakfast at Tiffany’s” tonight at 7 p.m. In conjunction with the exhibition “Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie,” BHS will explore Capote’s many inroads to the silver screen, starting with this iconic Hollywood adaptation of his whimsical novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Slate’s Kristen Meinzer and Newsday’s Rafer Guzman will introduce the film. This is the first in a four-part series. For more information, visit brooklynhistory.org.

 

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

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“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” — author Jack London, who was born on this day in 1876

 


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