MILESTONES: November 5, birthdays for Tilda Swinton, Art Garfunkel, Bryan Adams
NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include actress Tilda Swinton, who was born in 1960; actor Sam Rockwell, who was born in 1968; actress and author Tatum O’Neal, who was born in 1963; singer Kevin Jonas, who was born in 1987; actress Elke Sommer, who was born in 1940; singer-songwriter and actor Art Garfunkel, who was born in 1941; actor, producer and screenwriter Corin Nemec, who was born in 1971; former baseball player Javy López, who was born in 1970; singer-songwriter and photographer Bryan Adams, who was born in 1959; basketball coach and former player Jerry Stackhouse, who was born in 1974; author Geoffrey Wolff, who was born in 1937; golfer Bubba Watson, who was born in 1978; and Governor of New Hampshire Chris Sununu, who was born in 1974.
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PROGRESSIVE LEADER IN AN ERA OF CHANGE: Ida Tarbell was born on this day in 1857. Tarbell was a major journalist of the Progressive Era in the U.S. and helped to spearhead the development of investigative journalism. Her writings were popular and helped spur social change, including the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly. She wrote 20 books over the course of her career, many of them biographies or analyses of the business world, and served on two presidential committees. Tarbell died on Jan. 6, 1944 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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’.