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MILESTONES: July 28, birthdays for Lori Loughlin, Manu Ginobili, Cher Lloyd

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July 28, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Actress Lori Loughlin celebrates her birthday today. Photo by Annie I. Bang /Invision/AP

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 209th day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Scott Pelley and Bill Bradley, among others.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1953, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Boro GI Turned Killer Goes to Mental Hospital.”

The article focused on a Brooklyn man who was committed to Kings County Hospital for murdering his Army platoon leader.

“Owens, when he enlisted, concealed from the Army the fact that he had previously undergone shock treatments at Pilgrim State Hospital for dementia praecox,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Ashbery, who was born in 1927; rapper Soulja Boy, who was born in 1990; Hall of Fame basketball player and former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, who was born in 1943; architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava, who was born in 1951; cartoonist Jim Davis, who was born in 1945; basketball player Manu Ginobili, who was born in 1977; actor Darryl Hickman, who was born in 1931; actress Linda Kelsey, who was born in 1946; singer Cher Lloyd, who was born in 1993; actress Lori Loughlin, who was born in 1964; journalist and broadcaster Scott Pelley, who was born in 1957; and actress Sally Struthers, who was born in 1948.

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HUGO CHAVEZ WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1954. He served as president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in Caracas in 2013. While still serving in the army, Chavez began collaborating with leftist insurgents. Though an abortive coup landed him in prison, it afforded him national attention which eventually brought him to electoral victory. As president, Chavez instituted a program of economic centralization and increased military strength. He also became the principal antagonist of the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, repeatedly taunting U.S. leaders in his public statements.

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WORLD WAR I BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1914. Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated in Bosnia by a Serbian nationalist, touching off the conflict that became World War I. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia July 28, marking the formal beginning of the war. Within weeks, Germany entered the war on the side of Austria-Hungary, and Russia, France and Great Britain entered on the side of Serbia.

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JACQUES PICCARD WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1922. The Belgiuan oceanographer and explorer was the son of famed hot-air balloon adventurer Auguste Piccard. Jacques worked with his father to develop technology that enabled him to explore the deepest parts of the ocean. Using buoyancy techniques, he created a submersible called a bathyscaphe that he used in 1960 (in conjunction with the U.S. Navy) to explore the Challenger Deep section of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. This record-setting dive of nearly seven miles remains the deepest dive ever successfully attempted. He also built the first tourist submarine. Piccard died in Switzerland in 2008.

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JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1929. The widow of former President John F. Kennedy was born in Southampton, N.Y. After Kennedy’s assassination, she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis. The widely admired and respected former first lady died in 1994 in New York City.