MILESTONES: July 31 birthdays for Wesley Snipes, J.K. Rowling, Dean Cain

July 31, 2020 Brooklyn Eagle History

Wesley Snipes. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include “Knots Landing” star Don Murray, who was born in 1929; “The Bold and the Beautiful” star Susan Flannery, who was born in 1939; “Doctor Zhivago” star Geraldine Chaplin, who was born in 1944; former Paramount Pictures CEO Sherry Lansing, who was born in 1944; “The Terminator” star Michael Biehn, who was born in 1952; lawyer and media personality Ron Kuby, who was born in 1956; Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who was born in 1958; jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan, who was born in 1959; “Blade” star Wesley Snipes, who was born in 1962; “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, who was born in 1965; “Lois & Clark” star Dean Cain, who was born in 1966; Pro Football Hall of Famer Jonathan Ogden, who was born in 1974; and “Pitch Perfect” star Alexis Knapp, who was born in 1989.

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A NEW CREATION: The U.S. Patent Office opened on this day in 1790. The first patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for a new method of making pearl ash and potash. The patent was signed by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

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ECONOMY CLASS: Milton Friedman was born in Brooklyn on this day in 1912. The Nobel Prize-winning economist and author became a professor at the University of Chicago, where he did some of his best-known work. He was a member of the Chicago school of economic thought, which advanced influential free-market theories, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988. He died in 2006.

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Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.

Quotable:

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”

— Milton Friedman, who was born on this day in 1912