MILESTONES: August 8, birthdays for Shawn Mendes, J.C. Chasez, Dustin Hoffman
NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include actor Michael Urie, who was born in 1980; actor Keith Carradine, who was born in 1949; actress Connie Stevens, who was born in Brooklyn in 1938; U2 guitarist David Howell Evans, aka the Edge, who was born in 1961; first woman president of the American Bar Association Roberta Cooper Ramo, who was born in 1942; NSYNC singer J.C. Chasez, who was born in 1976; Princess Beatrice of York, who was born in 1988; tennis player Roger Federer, who was born in 1981; singer Shawn Mendes, who was born in 1998; “Inside Edition” host Deborah Norville, who was born in 1958; actor Dustin Hoffman, who was born in 1937; and singer Drew Lachey, who was born in 1976.
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MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY and commander of the Liberation Army of the South, Emiliano Zapata was born on this day in 1879. Zapata championed the cause of Mexico’s peasants and inspired the agrarian movement called Zapatismo, which holds “the land belongs to the tiller.” When the Mexican revolution broke out in 1910, Zapata led the peasant revolt in his home state of Morelos. The Mexican Constitution was drafted in 1917 in response to Zapata’s demands. He was killed in an ambush in 1919.
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’.