MILESTONES: August 23, birthdays for Kobe Bryant, Rick Springfield, Jeremy Lin
NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include singer Rick Springfield, who was born in 1949; basketball player Kobe Bryant, who was born in 1978; actor Richard Sanders, who was born in 1940; actor Scott Caan, who was born in 1976; political comedian Mark Russell, who was born in 1932; author Nelson DeMille, who was born in Queens in 1943; first female and first Hispanic U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, who was born in 1944; actor Jay Mohr, who was born in 1970; actress Barbara Eden, who was born in 1931; Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, who was born in 1958; former dancer Patricia McBride, who was born in 1942; actress Vera Miles, who was born in 1930; basketball player Jeremy Lin, who was born in 1988; musician Julian Casablancas, who was born in 1978; and Hall of Fame football player Sonny Jurgensen, who was born in 1934.
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SACCO AND VANZETTI WERE EXECUTED by electric chair on this day in 1927. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian-born anarchists convicted in 1921 of an armed robbery at a shoe factory that left one guard dead. The verdict was surrounded by controversy as many believed that anti-immigrant bias had influenced the jury substantially. Protests on their behalf were held around the world in 1927 and celebrated intellectuals took up their cause. When the verdict was upheld and the two were executed, riots followed in Paris and London.
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’.