MILESTONES: April 10, birthdays for David Harbour, Mandy Moore, Shay Mitchell

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April 10, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

David Harbour. Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 100th day of the year.

On this day in 1925, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth had spent a “very restful” night at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan after collapsing in Pennsylvania Station while arriving from North Carolina. “He is being treated for a cold, a touch of flu, a run-down condition, a touch of indigestion and a bump on the back of his head, caused by his fall in a Pullman washroom yesterday. He has neither concussion of the brain nor a fractured skull, according to Dr. Edward King, his physician … Early today, many newspapermen, baseball fans and others had gathered on the street outside the hospital … It was evident, even then, that the largest newspaper representation since the visit of the Prince of Wales was covering the noted batter’s illness.”

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On this day in 1865, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The general on whose military genius the Southern people based their hopes of ultimate success, has surrendered at the head of what is left of the army which for four years resisted successfully every effort made by the government to seize the capital of the Confederate States, and which three times was enabled to invade the loyal states, and threaten the capital of the Nation … In surrendering his army, [Robert E.] Lee has justified all that was expected of him by those who judged of him by the character he bore previous to the war.”

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On this day in 1887, the Eagle reported, “Today the Boston Blues, with their best nine out, will try to give the Brooklyns a close fight of it at Ridgewood Park. Play will be called at 3:30 p.m. The Gates and Myrtle avenue cars go direct to the grounds. Porter will pitch for Brooklyn and Murphy catch … On Friday the home team take a rest and on Saturday they open the championship season with their old local rivals, the Metropolitans … The batteries will be Terry and Peebles for Brooklyn and Lynch and Holbert for the Mets.”

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On this day in 1910, the Eagle reported, “Halley’s Comet rises 4:18 a.m. today; it will rise at 4:13 a.m. tomorrow. Sun rises 5:25 a.m. Comet’s astronomical location, Right Ascension, 0 hours; Declination, 8 degrees north, which makes its longitude identical with sun’s position March 21, its latitude 8 degrees north thereof; that is, about 16 moon’s diameters. Speed today about 107,000 miles per hour.”

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On this day in 1912, the Eagle reported, “Southampton, April 10 — The new White Star liner Titanic, the biggest vessel afloat, started from this port today on her maiden voyage to New York. She carries 350 first-class passengers. The Titanic is 882 feet 6 inches long, has a beam of 92 feet 6 inches, displaces 66,000 tons and is of 46,000 tons net register. She can carry 3,000 passengers and she has a crew of 860.”

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On this day in 1940, the Eagle reported, “The British and German navies, struggling for mastery of Scandinavia, fought the biggest battle of the war off Norway’s northwestern coast today. Five British destroyers engaged six German destroyers off the port of Narvik, occupied by the Germans yesterday, and before the guns were silenced Britain had lost two destroyers and suffered damage to two, and she claimed to have sunk one of the German craft and left three ‘heaving hit and burning.’ … Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, was to give the House of Commons a statement on the naval operations this evening.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include singer and songwriter KENNETH “BABYFACE” EDMONDS, who was born in 1957; actor DAVID HARBOUR, who was born in 1974; United Farm Workers of America labor union co-founder DOLORES HUERTA, who was born in 1930; actress CHYLER LEIGH, who was born in 1982; actor PETER MacNICOL, who was born in 1954; sportscaster and Hall of Fame football coach JOHN MADDEN, who was born in 1936; actress CHAY MITCHELL, who was born in 1987; singer and actress MANDY MOORE, who was born in 1984; actor HALEY JOEL OSMENT, who was born in 1988; actor MICHAEL PITT, who was born in 1981; actress DAISY RIDLEY, who was born in 1992; actor and producer STEVEN SEAGAL, who was born in 1951; author PAUL THEROUX, who was born in 1941; and actor MAX VON SYDOW, who was born in 1929.

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JOSEPH PULITZER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1847. The American journalist and newspaper publisher founded Pulitzer Prizes, which have been awarded annually since 1917. Pulitzer died in South Carolina in 1911.

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WILLIAM BOOTH WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1829. The founder of the Salvation Army experienced the misery of poverty firsthand when he apprenticed to a pawnbroker at the age of 13. Booth broke with conventional church religion and established a quasi-military religious organization with military uniforms and ranks. Recruiting from the poor, from converted criminals and from many other social outcasts, his organization grew rapidly and its influence spread from England to the U.S. and to other countries. Booth died in 1912 in England.

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THE BEATLES BROKE UP ON THIS DAY IN 1970. In a press release accompanying promotional copies of his new solo album, Paul McCartney announced that he had no plans for working with The Beatles because of “personal differences, business differences, musical differences.” He stated that he didn’t know if the break was temporary or permanent, but the yearslong tension in the group coupled with the musicians’ solo work brought about the end of the band that year. McCartney sued to dissolve The Beatles in 1970, and the group was formally dissolved four years later.

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HUGO GROTIUS WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1583. The Dutch theologian, attorney, scholar and statesman’s beliefs profoundly influenced American thinking, especially with regard to the conscience of humanity. He died in Germany in 1645.

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

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“The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.” — Salvation Army founder William Booth, who was born on this day in 1829