MILESTONES: January 3, birthdays for Florence Pugh, Mel Gibson, Nicole Beharie
NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include actress Florence Pugh, who was born in 1996; actress and education advocate Danica McKellar, who was born in 1975; poet and children’s book author Joan Walsh Anglund, who was born in 1926; actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson, who was born in 1956; football player Eli Manning, who was born in 1981; actor Dabney Coleman, who was born in 1932; actress and singer Nicole Beharie, who was born in 1985; singer-songwriter Stephen Stills, who was born in 1945; actress and producer Victoria Principal, who was born in 1950; Hall of Fame hockey player Bobby Hull, who was born in 1939; and Governor of Connecticut Ned Lamont, who was born in 1954.
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SUFFRAGIST AND ABOLITIONIST LEADER Lucretia Mott was born on this day in 1793. Mott was one of six women delegates who attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840. At the start of the convention, the male delegates voted to exclude the women from participating, which further fueled the U.S. women’s suffrage movement. At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, Mott was a cowriter of the Declaration of Sentiments, which listed the rights that women should have access to as U.S. citizens. Mott died in 1880.
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’.