March 1, birthdays for Justin Bieber, Roger Daltrey, Kesha

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March 1, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Justin Bieber celebrates his birthday today. Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 61st day of the year.

ON THIS DAY IN 1946, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “9,575 Auto Accidents in ’45 Set Boro Record.”

The article focused on the incidence of automobile accidents skyrocketing from previous years.

“Warning that a period of enormous expansion of motor vehicle and highway facilities lies ahead, the governor said it was not difficult to imagine what a ‘do-nothing’ policy on motor traffic facilities and controls would mean to New York’s industrial and social life,” the Eagle reported. “The statewide toll in 1945 … consisted of 1,763 persons killed, 80,776 injured and property damage costing more than [$21 million].”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actor Jensen Ackles, who was born in 1978; actress Catherine Bach, who was born in 1954; Oscar Award-winning actor Javier Bardem, who was born in 1969; singer Harry Belafonte, who was born in New York City in 1927; singer Justin Bieber, who was born in 1994; actor Robert Conrad, who was born in 1935; The Who singer Roger Daltrey, who was born in 1944; actor Timothy Daly, who was born in New York City in 1956; actor George Eads, who was born in 1967; former hockey player Ron Francis, who was born in 1963; actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar, who was born in 1974; former basketball player Yolanda Griffith, who was born in 1970; Oscar Award-winning director Ron Howard, who was born in 1954; singer Kesha, who was born in 1987; Oscar Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o, who was born in 1983; actor Alan Thicke, who was born in 1947; former basketball player Chris Webber, who was born in 1947; and former poet laureate of the U.S. Richard Purdy Wilbur, who was born in New York City in 1921.

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WOMEN’S HISTORY Month begins today. The month-long proclamation urges Americans to observe and learn more about the generations of women who have left enduring imprints on history.

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