November 6: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

November 6, 2023 Brooklyn Eagle History

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ON THIS DAY IN 1918, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “BERLIN VIA LONDON — An official statement issued here today says: ‘A German delegation to conclude an armistice and take up peace negotiations has left for the Western Front’ … ‘AMSTERDAM — General E.G.W. von Gruenell, Germany’s military delegate to The Hague peace conferences; General H.K.A. von Winterfield, former German military attache in Paris; Vice Admiral Muerer and Admiral Paul von Hintze, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs, have been appointed members of a commission to deal with the Allied powers on armistice negotiations.’”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1921, the Eagle reported, “A proclamation setting aside Nov. 11 next as a legal holiday was issued tonight by President Harding. It follows in part: ‘Whereas, A joint resolution of Congress, approved Nov. 4, 1921, to declare Nov. 11, 1921, a legal public holiday. Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States of America, in pursuance of the said joint resolution of Congress, do hereby declare Nov. 11, 1921, a holiday, as a mark of respect to the memory of those who gave their lives in the late World War, as typified by the unknown and unidentified American soldier who is to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on that day; and do hereby recommend to the Governors of the several States that proclamation be issued by them calling upon the people of their respective States to pause in their usual pursuits as a mark of respect on this solemn occasion.’”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1933, the Eagle reported, “Because of the high ratio of burglaries reported in Brooklyn as compared to other boroughs of the city, the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters is considering a move to cease writing burglary insurance in Brooklyn. This action, if taken, will be adopted at a meeting of the bureau on Thursday, the Eagle was informed by a reliable authority yesterday. In any case, the bureau is expected to throw so many restrictions around burglary insurance writing in the borough as to make this method of loss recovery practically impossible in Brooklyn.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1941, the Eagle reported, “BERLIN (U.P.) — A fourth wave of anti-Semitism in eight years of Nazi rule, reportedly aimed at creating a ‘Jew-free Reich’ by April 1, today threatened Germany’s remaining 120,000 Jews with wholesale deportation to Poland. The 1933 census showed a Jewish population of 500,000 in Germany and 191,000 in Austria. Starting with the anti-Jewish acts immediately after the Nazis came to power in 1933 and followed by the Nuremberg laws of September, 1935, and the ’window smashings’ of Nov. 9, 1938, each wave has been marked by increasingly severe measures. An increased number of Jewish suicides has accompanied the present deportation drive, which was inaugurated simultaneously with an order by Secret Police Chief Reinhard Heydrich on Sept. 19 compelling all Jews in the Reich to wear a yellow ‘star of David.’”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1945, the Eagle reported, “LONDON (U.P.) — A Cairo dispatch to the Daily Mail said today that 14 persons have been killed in anti-Jewish riots in Tripoli, Lebanon. Troops quelled the riots and took control of the town. The chief rabbi of Egypt, meantime, issued a proclamation calling upon all Jews in Egypt to fast Nov. 12 because of the desecration of the ancient scrolls of law during anti-Jewish demonstrations in Cairo last Friday. The Arab League met in closed session in Cairo yesterday to hear a report of its general secretary, Abdul Rahman Azzam Bey, on his tour of the Middle East and visit to Britain. Delegates were present from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Azzam Bey told newsmen that he had not reached any agreement with Britain regarding Jewish emigration to Palestine, but merely had presented the Arab side of the case.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1951, the Eagle reported, “Brooklyn voters today trickled to the polls in a light Election Day turnout which was regarded as the first test of the twin issues of crime in politics and morality in government. After a slow early morning start when the polls opened at 6 a.m., the balloting picked up in a slow tempo in accordance with the particularly low registration totals throughout the city. Most of the borough’s 1,223 polling places reported a light, orderly, but steady flow of voters throughout the day, indicating that most of the 633,954 Brooklynites who registered will have voted by 7 p.m. when the polls close down. At least 50 percent of the city’s total registered persons of 1,909,016 had voted by noon, police estimated. The registration, however, is the smallest in the last eight years.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1960, the Eagle reported, “Sen. John F. Kennedy holds the key to the local election in Brooklyn. If, as Democrats forecast, Kennedy sweeps the borough, they’ll be in a position to pick up two congressional seats now held by Republicans and possibly a state Senate and several Assembly posts. But if Republican hopes materialize, they’ll not only hang onto their House and state legislature seats, but they’ll hold down Kennedy’s city margin so that the upstate GOP vote can carry the state for Nixon and Lodge. Political observers believe, and polls indicate, that a combination of the two may result. Kennedy, they say, will make a strong run in the borough and this will help him capture the state’s 45 electoral votes. The Republicans, on the other hand, will hold onto most, if not all, of their state and federal legislature seats.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include Oscar-winning actress Sally Field, who was born in 1946; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham, who was born in 1952; journalist and author Maria Shriver, who was born in 1955; “Gossip Girl” star Kelly Rutherford, who was born in 1968; “X-Men” star Rebecca Romijn, who was born in 1972; former NBA star Lamar Odom, who was born in 1979; singer-songwriter Ben Rector, who was born in 1986; Oscar-winning actress Emma Stone, who was born in 1988; soccer player Jozy Altidore, who was born in 1989; and Brooklyn Nets center Day’Ron Sharpe, who was born in 2001.