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January 6, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

"The Walking Dead" actor Norman Reedus celebrates his birthday today. Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the sixth day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Gilbert Arenas and Eddie Redmayne, among others.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1950, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Dense Fog Stalls All Traffic as Warm Wave Stays.”

The article focused on the fog over the city that delayed trains, ferries and flights.

“The Weather Bureau said the fog, the result of the collision of a cold front from the north with the warm front that has given the city its freakish warm spell, would stick around until late tonight,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actress JOEY LAUREN ADAMS, who was born in 1971; basketball player GILBERT ARENAS, who was born in 1982; actor ROWAN ATKINSON, who was born in 1955; sportscaster and former football coach LOU HOLTZ, who was born in 1937; sportscaster and Hall of Fame football player HOWIE LONG, who was born in 1960; Hall of Fame golfer NANCY LOPEZ, who was born in 1957; Oscar Award-winning actor EDDIE REDMAYNE, who was born in 1982; volleyball player GABRIELLE REECE, who was born in 1970; actor NORMAN REEDUS, who was born in 1969; director and screenwriter JOHN SINGLETON, who was born in 1968; football player NDAMUKONG SUH, who was born in 1987; and football player JAMEIS WINSTON, who was born in 1994.

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KAHLIL GIBRAN WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1883. The Lebanese-American poet and artist is best known for his book “The Prophet,” a collection of philosophical essays. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind William Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. He died in New York in 1931.

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PAN AM CIRCLED THE EARTH ON THIS DAY IN 1942. A Pan American Airways plane arrived in New York to complete the first around-the-world trip by a commercial aircraft.

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JOAN OF ARC WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1412. The teenage Jeanne d’Arc claimed she heard the voice of God commanding her to take up arms against the English during the Hundred Years War. She led a French army — dressed in men’s armor — to try to oust the English from France. After some initial victories, she was captured in 1431 and turned over to a French ecclesiastical court by the British. The court found her guilty of heresy. She was burned at the stake in 1431 at the age of 19 in France.

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EARL SCRUGGS WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1924. Scruggs was a legendary bluegrass banjo musician and is remembered for the trademark three-fingered style that he developed in his youth. During his time as a member of the Blue Grass Boys band, he honed a role for the banjo that eschewed its past as a novelty and revealed its true beauty. “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” his Grammy Award-winning 1949 recording with guitarist Lester Flatt, is now a bluegrass standard as well as the technical mark by which all banjo players are judged. Scruggs also brought bluegrass to a wider audience with “The Ballad of Jed Clampett,” the theme song for “The Beverly Hillbillies” (1962–1971), a TV show on which he regularly appeared. Scruggs died in Tennessee in 2012.

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CARL SANDBURG WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1878. The bard of the American heartland, Sandburg was a poet and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln and a historian and folklorist. He was the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes. In “Chicago” (1916), Sandburg gave that city the nickname it still bears: “City of Big Shoulders.” He wrote in 1936, “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.” Sandburg died in 1967 in North Carolina.

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

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“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?” — poet Khalil Gibran, who was born on this day in 1883