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MILESTONES: September 10, birthdays for Karl Lagerfeld, Colin Firth, Misty Copeland

September 10, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Karl Lagerfeld. AP Photo/Christophe Ena
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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include singer JOSE FELICIANO, who was born in 1945;  actor COLIN FIRTH, who was born in 1960; dancer MISTY COPELAND, who was born in 1982; actress JUDY GEESON, who was born in 1948; “Carrie” actress AMY IRVING, who was born in 1953; actor CLARK JOHNSON, who was born in 1964; former baseball player RANDY JOHNSON, who was born in 1963; fashion designer KARL LAGERFELD, who was born in 1933; and hockey player JOE NIEUWENDYK, who was born in 1966.

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ARNOLD PALMER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1929. The American professional golfer is generally regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport’s history. He also created the now ubiquitous Arnold Palmer drink — equal parts iced tea and lemonade. Palmer died in 2016 in Pittsburgh.

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ROGER MARIS WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1934. The famed baseball player was born in Hibbing, Minn. In 1961, Maris surpassed Babe Ruth’s home run record, hitting 61 home runs, a record that wasn’t broken until 1998. He won the American League MVP Award in 1960 and 1961 and finished his career with the St. Louis Cardinals. He died in Houston in 1985.

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CHARLES KURALT WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1934.  The TV journalist was most famous for his “On the Road with Charles Kuralt” segments on CBS, then for his long stint as anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning. He was born in Wilmington, NC, and died in New York in 1997.

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ELSA SCHIAPARELLI WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1890. Born in Rome, Elsa Schiaparelli was one of the world’s leading fashion designers from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Based in Paris, she created striking, often surrealistic designs in collaboration with such artists as Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau. She introduced the shoulder pad to women’s fashion, named “shocking pink” (hot pink) and worked with man-made materials. A white evening dress bedecked with a lobster and a hat that appeared to be a giant shoe were some of her avant-garde looks. “If you define fashion as time moving,” she wrote, “then you are not fully alive unless you are moving with it.” Schiaparelli died in Paris in 1973.

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

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“I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone’s golf game: it’s called an eraser.” — Arnold Palmer, who was born on this day in 1929

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