Feb. 19, birthdays for Roger Goodell, Smokey Robinson, Jeff Daniels

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February 19, 2015 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell celebrates his birthday today. AP photo

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ON THIS DAY in 1913, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Former Brooklyn Boy Joins Hikers to Win a Bride.”

“Far be it from us to spoil a perfectly good romance, but news is news, and so here goes, right from the seat of war,” the Eagle reported. “At all events, the story is that he has ’fessed up that he has forsaken studies, home and mother to hike to Washington at the side of Miss Helen Bergmark of Philadelphia, one of the prettiest girls among the pilgrims, who, he declares, has consented to marry him when the campaign is over.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, who was born in 1960; “Men Behaving Badly” actress Justine Bateman, who was born in 1966; singer Lou Christie, who was born in 1943; “The Newsroom” actor Jeff Daniels, who was born in 1955; Oscar Award-winning actor for “Traffic” Benicio Del Toro, who was born in 1967; “Napoleon Dynamite” actress Haylie Duff, who was born in 1985; Commissioner of the National Football League Roger Goodell, who was born in 1959; “Motherless Brooklyn” author Jonathan Lethem, who was born in Brooklyn in 1964; Hall of Fame tennis player Hana Mandlikova, who was born in 1963; soccer player Marta, who was born in 1986; “General Hospital” actor Stephen Nichols, who was born in 1951; singer and songwriter Smokey Robinson, who was born in 1940; singer and songwriter Seal, who was born in 1963; “Melrose Place” actor Andrew Shue, who was born in 1967; “The Joy Luck Club” author Amy Tan, who was born in 1952; and “The Departed” actor Ray Winstone, who was born in 1957.

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“THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE” was first published on this day in 1963. Betty Friedan’s book was a call for women to achieve their full potential.

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ACTOR AND TONY Award-winning producer Wendell Pierce will discuss his starring role in “Brothers from the Bottom” at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Brooklyn Historical Society. He will appear in conversation with Soledad O’Brien, an award-winning journalist and founder of Starfish Media Group.

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