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MILESTONES: July 6, birthdays for Kevin Hart, Sylvester Stallone, George W. Bush

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July 6, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Comedian Kevin Hart celebrates his birthday today. AP photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 187th day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Kevin Hart and Sylvester Stallone, among others.
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ON THIS DAY IN 1920, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Prohibition Agents Hold Roundup Here.”

The article focused on police crackdowns on Brooklyn bartenders who continued to operate as usual despite Prohibition laws.

“Federal Commissioners Hennessy, McGoldrick and McCabe had little sleep, so frequently were they routed out of bed to release prisoners taken to the station house,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actress ALLYCE BEASLEY, who was born in Brooklyn in 1954; actor NED BEATTY, who was born in 1937; former President GEORGE W. BUSH, who was born in 1946; Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader and Nobel Prize recipient the DALAI LAMA, who was born in 1935; basketball player PAU GASOL, who was born in 1980; actor GRANT GOODEVE, who was born in 1952; comedian and actor KEVIN HART, who was born in 1980; author HILARY MANTEL, who was born in 1952; singer and actress DELLA REESE, who was born in 1932; Oscar Award-winning actor GEOFFREY RUSH, who was born in 1951; actor SYLVESTER STALLONE, who was born in 1946; and actor BURT WARD, who was born in 1945.

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JOHN LENNON MET PAUL McCARTNEY ON THIS DAY IN 1957. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney watched a band called the Quarrymen led by an almost 17-year-old John Lennon in Liverpool, England. The two teens met later that day and before long created one of the most popular rock groups of the 20th century — The Beatles.

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JANET LEIGH WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1927. The actress was signed to a contract by MGM while still a teenager and starred in “Touch of Evil” with Orson Welles, “The Manchurian Candidate” with Frank Sinatra and “Bye Bye Birdie” with Dick Van Dyke. She is best remembered for the scene where she was attacked in the shower by Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic “Psycho.” Leigh died in 2004 in California.

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FRIDA KAHLO WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1907. In 1925, the great Mexican surrealist painter endured severe injuries in a bus accident that would plague her for the rest of her life (and become artistic subject matter). She then turned to art, encouraged by the master muralist Diego Rivera, whom she married in 1929 (and 1941). She is known almost as much for her tumultuous life (she had an affair with Soviet exile Leon Trotsky and was active in leftist politics) as for her vibrant artworks filled with symbols and the flora and fauna of Mexico. She was one of the first female painters to sell a work to the Louvre. She died at her Casa Azul family home in Mexico in 1954.

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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS FORMED ON THIS DAY IN 1854. The party originated at a convention in Ripon Wisconsin in February 1854. A state convention meeting in Michigan formally adopted the name “Republican” on July 6.
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Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.

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“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” — the Dalai Lama, who was born on this day in 1935