March 9, birthdays for Juliette Binoche, Oscar Isaac, Clint Dempsey

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March 9, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

French actress Juliette Binoche celebrates her birthday today. AP Photo/Thibault Camus

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 69th day of the year.

ON THIS DAY IN 1934, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Autotruck Big Enough to Move Elephant Is Too Big for Park Gate.”

The article focused on a female elephant being transported out of the Central Park Zoo to Prospect Park.

“On Wednesday morning they had tried to transfer Chang from Manhattan to Brooklyn and a five-ton truck was actually backed up against the old elephant house, but in vain,” the Eagle reported. “Everybody concerned, with the possible exception of Chang [the elephant], who merely looked on, decided that the van would be too small.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include Oscar Award-winning actress Juliette Binoche, who was born in 1964; American soccer player Clint Dempsey, who was born in 1983; actress Linda Fiorentino, who was born in 1960; singer and musician Mickey Gilley, who was born in 1936; actor Marty Ingels, who was born in Brooklyn in 1936; actor Oscar Isaac, who was born in 1980; photographer and journalist David Hume Kennerly, who was born in 1947; actor Emmanuel Lewis, who was born in Brooklyn in 1971; former baseball player Terry Mulholland, who was born in 1963; musician and songwriter Jeffrey Osborne, who was born in 1948; former baseball player Benito Santiago, who was born in 1965; actress Trish Van Devere, who was born in 1943; and actress Joyce Van Patten, who was born in Queens in 1934.

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BARBIE DEBUTED in stores on this day in 1959. More than 800 million dolls have been sold since.

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AMERIGO VESPUCCI was born on this day in 1454. The Italian navigator, merchant and explorer for whom the Americas are named participated in at least two expeditions which took him to South America. He died in Spain in February of 1512.

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