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MILESTONES: October 26, birthdays for Hillary Clinton, Keith Urban, Seth MacFarlane

October 26, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Hillary Clinton. AP Photo/Craig Ruttle
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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include professional wrestler CM PUNK, who was born in 1978; actor TOM CAVANAUGH, who was born in 1963; former U.S. Secretary of State, former U.S. Sen. for N.Y., former first lady and former presidential Democratic nominee HILLARY CLINTON, who was born in 1947; Olympic medal-winning figure skater SASHA COHEN, who was born in 1984; basketball player NICK COLLISON, who was born in 1980; actor CARY ELWES, who was born in 1962; hockey player MIIKA KIPRUSOFF, who was born in 1976; actor DYLAN McDERMOTT, who was born in 1961; singer NATALIE MERCHANT, who was born in 1963; actor JAMES PICKENS JR., who was born in 1954; TV personality JEFF PROBST, who was born in 1961; filmmaker IVAN REITMAN, who was born in 1946; game show host PAT SAJAK, who was born in 1946; artist and filmmaker JULIAN SCHNABEL, who was born in Brooklyn in 1951; actress JACLYN SMITH, who was born in 1945; and country singer and TV personality KEITH URBAN, who was born in 1967.

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TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL. In 1881, the Earp brothers and gambler/dentist Doc Holliday confronted the Clanton and McLaury brothers at a vacant lot behind the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. After 30 seconds of gunfire, three deaths and decades of romanticizing, the incident would become the most notorious of the Old West. Marshal Virgil Earp and Deputy Marshals Wyatt and Morgan Earp attempted to disarm the Clanton faction, when gunfire erupted, although some witnesses claimed that the Clantons and McLaurys threw up their hands when ordered to. Billy Clanton and Frank and Thomas McLaury died. Virgil and Morgan Earp were wounded. After a 30-day murder trial, the presiding judge dismissed the charges, stating that the Earps and Holliday had acted in self-defense.

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MAHALIA JACKSON WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1911. Jackson was the most famous gospel singer of her time. After moving to Chicago from New Orleans in 1928, she sang with the Johnson Gospel Singers. Thomas A. Dorsey, the father of gospel music, was her adviser and accompanist from 1937 to 1946. By the 1950s, Jackson could be heard in concert halls around the world. She sang at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy and at the 1963 March on Washington rally. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described her voice as “one heard once in a millennium.” She died in 1972, and her funeral procession was thronged with mourners.

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ABBY GREENE ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1874. A philanthropist and art patron, she was one of the three founders of the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1929. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, she died in 1948 in New York City.

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THE ERIE CANAL OPENED ON THIS DAY IN 1825. The first U.S. major manmade waterway provides a water route from Lake Erie to the Hudson River. Construction started on July 4, 1817, and the canal cost around $7.6 million to complete. Cannons fired and celebrations were held all along the route for the opening.

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

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“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” — Hillary Clinton, who was born on this day in 1947

 

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