December 1: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

December 1, 2023 Brooklyn Eagle History

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ON THIS DAY IN 1869, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The Council of Wyoming has passed a female suffrage bill. The experiment of petticoat government is to be made on the outskirts of civilization.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1919, the Eagle reported, “Nineteen states have ratified the woman suffrage amendment. They are Wisconsin, Michigan, Kansas, Ohio, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Montana, Nebraska, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Utah, California and Maine.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1946, the Eagle reported, “LONDON, NOV. 30 (U.P.) — Prince Philippe of Greece, 25, often mentioned as a possible consort for Princess Elizabeth of England, has applied for British naturalization and probably will renounce his Greek titles and rights of succession to the Greek throne within four months, it became known today. The tall, handsome Prince, whose ties with England always have been close, served with distinction in the Royal navy during the war.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1946, the Eagle reported, “TUCUMAN, ARGENTINA, NOV. 30 (U.P.) — Fourteen persons, several of them women, were trampled to death today during a celebration in honor of Senora Evita de Peron, the wife of Argentina’s President. More than 100 were injured and the Federal Government Building was turned into an emergency hospital. All scheduled public acts were canceled, including the ‘coronation’ of Senora de Peron as ‘queen of the sugar grinding season.’ When Senora de Peron’s plane flew over Independence Square thousands gathered there broke through police lines and several persons were trampled to death. Additional casualties were reported at the airport when crowds again broke police cordons as the plane landed.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1947, the Eagle reported, “JERUSALEM (A.P.) — Violence which had taken 14 lives in the Middle East since the United Nations decided to partition Palestine broke out afresh in Jerusalem today as Arab leaders called a council of war to block the decision. A Polish Jew was shot and wounded gravely outside the Damascus gate here at midday. Officials said he was hospitalized with neck wounds. First reports of the outbreak had said the Jew was killed. The Arab League summoned its leaders to meet Saturday in Cairo to map strategy for ‘safeguarding Palestine for the Arabs.’ In announcing the meeting, Premier Riyad Al-Sulh of Lebanon, who will preside, voiced conviction that the partition agreement never would be carried out. A clamor of Arab protest rose all over the Middle East. The Iraq Parliament opened a session with a speech by the Regent, Crown Prince Abdullah, expressing that country’s determination to help ‘save Palestine by all means, regardless of sacrifices.’ More than 3,000 Arab students crashed through guard lines around Abadine Palace in Cairo crying for King Farouk to ‘fire the first shot.’ The Arabic press splashed lurid headlines proclaiming that bloodshed was in the offing.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1953, the Eagle reported, “SAIGON, INDO CHINA (U.P.) — Emperor Bao Dai, chief of state of Vietnam, today rejected a Communist call for negotiations to end the Indo Chinese war. After a lengthy conference with U.S. Ambassador Donald Heath, the emperor issued a counter-call urging the Reds to abandon Communism and rally to the government banner. Communist leader Ho Chi-minh, in an interview published by the Swedish newspaper Expressen, urged Sunday that the Communists and the French get together to discuss a settlement of the eight-year war. Bao Dai rejected the proposal in a three-point conference communique indicating that he has accepted the view of his cabinet that the proposal is a sign of Red weakness.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1962, the Eagle reported, “Since Jacqueline Kennedy, there is today more interest in our American Presidents’ wives than ever before. Accordingly there has been volume selling of the recently published book ‘Ladies of the White House,’ written by Logna B. Logan, and published by Vantage Press. About the author, whose first and last name have an unusual spelling identity, she is a native North Carolinian who at age 18 became the one teacher of an 8-grade county school with an enrollment of seventy-five pupils. How she accomplished this incredible task is not related in ‘Ladies of the White House,’ though she must have drawn on her rich teaching experiences when later she wrote feature stories for N. Carolina newspapers. Her research on Presidential wives may have begun through the years when she was secretary to a member of Congress from her native state. Her approach to this closeup of thirty-five vitally important women thrust, by marriage, into a mammoth Washington goldfish bowl, is informative, educational, sincere and exciting.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include World Golf Hall of Famer Lee Trevino, who was born in 1939; Blue Oyster Cult singer Eric Bloom, who was born in Brooklyn in 1944; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Densmore (The Doors), who was born in 1944; “Wind Beneath My Wings” singer Bette Midler, who was born in 1945; actor and comedian Jonathan Katz, who was born in 1946; “Sex and the City” creator Candace Bushnell, who was born in 1958; model and actress Carol Alt, who was born in 1960; Baseball Hall of Famer Larry Walker, who was born in 1966; “Lost” star Nestor Carbonell, who was born in 1967; actress and comedian Sarah Silverman, who was born in 1970; “Hidden Figures” star Janelle Monae, who was born in 1985; and “Spider Man” star Zoe Kravitz, who was born in 1988.