July 21, birthdays for C.C. Sabathia, Josh Hartnett, Jon Lovitz

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July 21, 2015 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia celebrates his birthday today. AP photo

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 202nd day of the year.

ON THIS DAY IN 1924, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Nine Alleged Rum Smugglers Caught.”

The article focused on fishermen who were overhauled by the Coast Guard command and caught smuggling 100 cases of Scotch and rye whisky into Debs Inlet in Long Island.

“One fisherman jumped overboard, swam ashore and escaped,” the Eagle reported. “The remaining eight were kept at the coast guard station here overnight.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include “National Treasure” actor JUSTIN BARTHA, who was born in 1978; former soccer player BRANDI CHASTAIN, who was born in 1968; actor LANCE GUEST, who was born in 1960; “Pearl Harbor” actor JOSH HARTNETT, who was born in 1978; actor EDWARD HERRMANN, who was born in 1943; producer and director NORMAN JEWISON, who was born in 1926; “A League of Their Own” actor JON LOVITZ, who was born in 1957; actor MATT MULHERN, who was born in 1960; baseball player C.C. SABATHIA, who was born in 1980; singer CAT STEVENS, who was born in 1948; political cartoonist GARRY TRUDEAU, who was born in New York City in 1949; and author SARAH WATERS, who was born in 1966.

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY was born on this day in 1899. Hemingway made his name authoring books such as “A Farewell to Arms,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “The Old Man and the Sea.” He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. He shot himself in July 1961 after a long battle with an illness.

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THE LOWEST recorded temperature was measured on this day in 1983 at the USSR’s Vostok Station in Antarctica. A temperature of 128.6 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (89.2 degrees below zero Celsius) was documented.

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