MILESTONES: February 21, birthdays for Jordan Peele, Ashley Greene, Sophie Turner
NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actor Christopher Atkins, who was born in 1961; actor William Baldwin, who was born in 1963; singer and actor Corbin Bleu, who was born in 1989; actor Tituss Burgess, who was born in 1979; singer and musician Mary Chapin Carpenter, who was born in 1958; singer Charlotte Church, who was born in 1986; actor Jack Coleman, who was born in 1958; Emmy Award-winning actor Tyne Daly, who was born in 1947; actress Christine Ebersole, who was born in 1953; record company executive David Geffen, who was born in 1944; actor Kelsey Grammer, who was born in 1955; actress Ashley Greene, who was born in 1987; actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, who was born in 1979; former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, who was born in 1956; actor Gary Lockwood, who was born in 1937; actress Ellen Page, who was born in 1987; actor and comedian Jordan Peele, who was born in 1979; actor William Petersen, who was born in 1953; and actress Sophie Turner, who was born in 1996.
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MALCOLM X WAS ASSASSINATED ON THIS DAY IN 1965. Just as he began a speech to his newly formed Organization of Afro-American Unity, the black activist and leader was gunned down by several men standing among the 400-plus crowd in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. The assassination occurred barely a week after his Queens home was firebombed. Three men were convicted of the murder in 1966 and sentenced to life in prison (two were released in the 1980s and the third won parole in 2010).
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.