MILESTONES: October 11, birthdays for Cardi B, Daryl Hall, Joan Cusack
NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include rapper, singer-songwriter and television personality Cardi B, who was born in 1992; physician Robert Gale, who was born in Brooklyn Heights in 1945; actress and comedian Joan Cusack, who was born in 1962; former baseball player Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez, who was born in 1965; actress, director and producer Emily Deschanel, who was born in 1976; actress and singer Jane Krakowski, who was born in 1968; actor Sean Patrick Flanery, who was born in 1965; basketball player Mike Conley, Jr., who was born in 1987; singer and musician Daryl Hall, who was born in 1946; and Hall of Fame football player Steve Young, who was born in 1961.
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CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE, U.N. DELEGATE, FIRST LADY: Eleanor Roosevelt was born on this day in 1884. She was the longest-serving first lady of the U.S. and the first wife of a president to hold her own press conferences at the White House. While serving as first lady, Roosevelt also worked as a column writer, radio host and national party convention speaker. She was an outspoken civil rights movement supporter despite her husband’s more conservative views, lobbying for the 1934 Costigan-Wagner Bill to make lynching a federal crime and speaking about New Deal programs’ racial discrimination. Roosevelt also worked as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations for seven years. She died on Nov. 7, 1962 in New York City.
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’.