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MILESTONES: June 22, birthdays for Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Warren, Carson Daly

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June 22, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Actress Meryl Streep celebrates her birthday today. Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
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Greetings, Brooklyn.  Today is the 172nd day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Elizabeth Warren and Meryl Streep, among others.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1936, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published a front-page article titled “City and Lines OK Plan for Unified Subway.”

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The article focused on a proposed plan to merge all of the city’s subway lines, which were owned and operated by different companies.

“The plan itself is a document of 193 pages. It calls for the purchase by the city of BMT Interborough and Manhattan Railways Company properties for a net price of $416,583,220. After their acquisition by the city, the properties would be leased to a board of transit control which would operate them,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include basketball coach and former player DARRELL ARMSTRONG, who was born in 1968; actor KLAUS MARIA BRANDAUER, who was born in 1944; actress AMY BRENNEMAN, who was born in 1964; author DAN BROWN, who was born in 1964; mixed martial artist RANDY COUTURE, who was born in 1963; TV host and radio personality CARSON DALY, who was born in 1973; basketball coach and Hall of Fame player CLYDE DREXLER, who was born in 1962; U.S. Sen. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, who was born in 1933; singer and actor KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, who was born in 1936; actor MICHAEL LERNER, who was born in Brooklyn in 1941; actress TRACY POLLAN, who was born in 1960; singer and producer TODD RUNDGREN, who was born in 1948; Oscar Award-winning actress MERYL STREEP, who was born in 1949; former football player KURT WARNER, who was born in 1971; actress LINDSAY WAGNER, who was born in 1949; and U.S. Sen. ELIZABETH WARREN, who was born in 1949.

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ED BRADLEY WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1941. The TV journalist’s career began with battlefield reporting as he covered the fall of Saigon, and he was the first African-American TV correspondent to cover the White House. He spent his entire career with CBS and worked on the venerable “60 Minutes” for 26 years. Highly respected for his journalistic integrity, he earned 19 Emmy Awards and four George Peabody Awards in the course of his career. Bradley died in 2006 in New York.

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JOSEPH PAPP WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1921. The Brooklyn-born American theater figure is best known for his work with New York Public Theater. At its helm, Papp produced a wide range of works from the classical to that of the newest American dramatists, including “Hair,” “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “The Pirates of Penzance,” “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” “That Championship Season” and “A Chorus Line.” He began in 1954 with the Shakespeare Theatre Workshop, taking touring productions around the city on a flatbed truck. When the truck broke down in Central Park, Papp turned his touring company into Shakespeare in the Park. Producing and directing more than 400 productions, Papp garnered three Pulitzer Prizes, six New York Critics Circle Awards and 28 Tonys. He died in New York in 1991.

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BILLY WILDER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1906. After a short career in Berlin, Wilder fled Germany in 1933 and eventually landed in Hollywood, where he directed and co-wrote some of the 20th century’s foremost films. His classics include the film noir works “Double Indemnity” and “Sunset Boulevard,” the searing dramas “Stalag 17” and “The Lost Weekend,” and the comic “Some Like it Hot.” He received six Oscars (out of 21 nominations), and Best Film Oscars went to “The Lost Weekend” and “The Apartment.” Wilder died in Los Angeles in 2002.

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

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“If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.” — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was born on this day in 1949.


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