September 3, birthdays for Shaun White, Charlie Sheen, Jerome Boateng

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September 3, 2015 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Gold medalist Shaun White celebrates his birthday today. AP photo

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 246th day of the year.

ON THIS DAY in 1940, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Would-Be Tarzan Told to Stay Out of Trees.”

The article focused on 19-year-old John Ciampa, a Brooklynite who was told to quit practicing to become a Tarzan in the movies in trees in city parks.

“Patrolman James Quinn of the Glendale precinct said that yesterday about 4 p.m. he was attracted by a large crowd surrounding the base of one of the two tallest trees in Highland Park,” the Eagle reported. “In the top, 50 feet above the ground, Patrolman Quinn said he saw Ciampa.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include Tony Award-winning actress PAULINE COLLINS, who was born in 1940; “Boardwalk Empire” actress PAZ DE LA HUERTA, who was born in New York City in 1984; “The Inheritance of Loss” author KIRAN DESAI, who was born in 1971; hockey player CRISTOBAL HUET, who was born in 1975; actress ANNE JACKSON, who was born in 1926; author ALISON LURIE, who was born in 1926; actress VALERIE PERRINE, who was born in 1943; “Two and a Half Men” actor CHARLIE SHEEN, who was born in New York City in 1965; cartoonist MORT WALKER, who was born in 1923; and Olympic gold medalist in snowboarding SHAUN WHITE, who was born in 1986.

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS escaped to freedom on this day in 1838. Dressed as a sailor and carrying identification papers borrowed from a retired merchant seaman, Douglass boarded a train in Baltimore, Maryland, a slave state, and rode to Wilmington, Delaware, where he caught a steamboat to the free city of Philadelphia. He then transferred to a train headed for NYC, where he entered the protection of the Underground Railroad network. Douglass later became a great orator and a leader of the antislavery mission.

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