MILESTONES: August 23, birthdays for Kobe Bryant, Jeremy Lin, Jay Mohr
NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actor and director 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; Tennessee Gov. BILL HASLAM, who was born in 1958; 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 New York City Ballet dancer PATRICIA McBRIDE, who was born in 1942; actress VERA MILES, who was born in 1929; actor JAY MOHR, who was born in 1970; first female and first Hispanic 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 “STOCKHOLM SYNDROME” BANK ROBBERY OCCURRED ON THIS DAY IN 1973. In a botched bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, Jan Erik Olsson took four hostages and barricaded himself with them and a friend, Clark Olofsson, in the vault. After a six-day siege, 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.