MILESTONES: September 19, birthdays for Jimmy Fallon, Soledad O’Brien, Alison Sweeney
NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include former baseball player JIM ABBOTT, who was born in 1967; talk show host, comedian and actor JIMMY FALLON, who was born in Brooklyn in 1974; actor and director KEVIN HOOKS, who was born in 1958; Oscar Award-winning actor JEREMY IRONS, who was born in 1948; broadcast journalist JOAN LUNDEN, who was born in 1950; actor RANDOLPH MANTOOTH, who was born in 1945; actor DAVID McCALLUM, who was born in 1933; sportscaster and Hall of Fame baseball player JOE MORGAN, who was born in 1943; TV journalist SOLEDAD O’BRIEN, who was born in 1966; actor and dancer COLUMBUS SHORT, who was born in 1982; actress ALISON SWEENEY, who was born in 1976; actress and model TWIGGY, who was born in 1949; singer, actor and Oscar Award-winning composer PAUL WILLIAMS, who was born in 1940; and singer TRISHA YEARWOOD, who was born in 1964.
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THE ICEMAN MUMMY WAS DISCOVERED ON THIS DAY IN 1991. At 10,531 feet in the Austrian-Italian Alps, two hikers discovered a 5,300-year-old frozen mummy from late Neolithic times. The man carried a rough bow and arrows as well as a copper ax and wore a grass cloak for warmth. His shoes were made from bearskin, deer hide and tree bark. He now rests as a frozen exhibit at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy. The “Iceman” was gently thawed in September 2000 in order for scientists to conduct valuable DNA analysis and determine his last meal.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.