November 1: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

November 1, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle History

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ON THIS DAY IN 1912, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The application for tickets to the Progressive meeting at Madison Square Garden tonight, at which Colonel Roosevelt will be the guest of honor, promises to be as large as the meeting of last Wednesday night. The box seats and arena seats are being sold for tonight’s meeting, but the balcony and gallery seats will be free — first come first served. The doors will be opened at 6 o’clock. As at the other meeting, a brass band will be on hand to keep the crowd in good humor, and moving pictures will again be shown. Colonel Roosevelt will personally ask the crowd to refrain from giving him an extended greeting.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1924, the Eagle reported, “WASHINGTON (AP) – The great American political classic of 1924 is approaching its day of decision in a shower of sharp words and a fog of predictions. In its final stages it has brought into play all the old familiar strategems, modernized to fit an age of radio, movies and senatorial investigations, and laid out on a new scale to appeal to every remote sub-division of the ever-growing American electorate. The last day of active campaigning finds most of the principals east of the Mississippi, seeking advantage in a sector long regarded as almost dominant. Meantime in every nook and corner of the Republic, lesser lights are shining their brightest to guide the feet of the wavering voter along the pathway of party rectitude. Keeping to a policy adopted at the inception of the campaign, President Coolidge alone among the candidates for highest office will remain outside the rushing maelstrom of oratory that heralds to the world another pre-election Saturday night. While the New York Democracy is rallying to hear John W. Davis conclude his platform campaign in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, tonight, and Senator La Follette is summing up his case against the old parties in Convention Hall at Cleveland, Mr. Coolidge expects to remain quietly at home in the White House — a spectator with a front seat beside the quite Potomac. But on Monday night the President will deliver a final election eve message to the American people by radio, speaking after Mr. Davis likewise has addressed the great invisible jury of sovereign voters through a Nation-wide system of broadcasting stations. Thus for the first time will the Nation listen to two presidential candidates as if from one platform.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1940, the Brooklyn Spectator reported, “Arrangements have been completed by the Brooklyn Paramount, Fox and Strand Theatres to announce election returns to patrons at regular intervals on Election Night, Tuesday, Nov. 5. By means of a special hook-up, the three theatres will have the facilities of three news services, Associated Press, United Press and International News Service, to bring complete and accurate returns to their audiences, not only in the Presidential contest, but also in the important local elections. In anticipation of gala Election Night crowds, the management has booked some of the year’s outstanding films. Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland in ‘Arise, My Love,’ and ‘Five Little Peppers in Trouble’ will be the screen attractions at the Paramount; the Fox will offer Pat O’Brien in ‘Knute Rockne, All American’ and ‘Melody and Moonlight’; and the Strand’s screen will be occupied by Ernest Truex in ‘Calling All Husbands’ and ‘Drums of the Desert.’”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1952, the Eagle reported, “Adlai E. Stevenson headed back home to Illinois today, confident that his appearance at the traditional Friday-before-election rally at the Academy of Music had assured him of another Brooklyn tradition — a landslide in New York’s biggest borough. An overflow crowd of 3,500 persons gave the Democratic Presidential nominee a tremendous welcome at the Academy last night. It was strictly a Democratic audience and it went all out for its candidate as he made his final bid for the State’s vital 45 electoral votes. Stevenson used his only Brooklyn appearance to make his final Eastern attack on Dwight D. Eisenhower, charging that the Republican candidate was an apostle of ‘resurgent isolationism’ in his stand on the Korean War. The Illinois Governor, who had interrupted his campaigning to make a flying visit to Menard State Prison in his home State to settle a prisoner riot, arrived in New York in time to make three of his six scheduled appearances.”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include World Golf Hall of Famer Gary Player, who was born in 1935; “Falcon Crest” star Robert Foxworth, who was born in 1941; entrepreneur Mitch Kapor, who was born in Brooklyn in 1950; “Nobody Knows Me” singer Lyle Lovett, who was born in 1957; Apple CEO Tim Cook, who was born in 1960; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers), who was born in 1962; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rick Allen (Def Leppard), who was born in 1963; “As I Lay Me Down” singer Sophie B. Hawkins, who was born in 1964; former N.Y. Rangers right winger Tie Domi, who was born in 1969; “The Sixth Sense” star Toni Collette, who was born in 1972; “Santa Baby” star Jenny McCarthy, who was born in 1972; “You” star Penn Badgley, who was born in 1986; and “Hamilton” star Anthony Ramos, who was born in Brooklyn in 1991.

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A SHORT STORY: Stephen Crane was born on this day in 1871. The New Jersey native is best known for his Civil War novel “The Red Badge of Courage,” which has been adapted several times for the screen. He was also a short story writer and poet. Crane was only 28 when he died of tuberculosis in 1900.

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THE PUCK STOPS HERE: The hockey mask was first used on this day in 1959. Tired of stopping pucks with his face, Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante, having received another wound, reemerged from the locker room with seven new stitches — and a face mask he had made from fiberglass and resin. Cliff Benedict had tried a leather mask in the 1920s, but the idea didn’t catch on until Plante wore his. Then goalies throughout the NHL began wearing protective face shields.

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

Quotable:

“Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.”

— author Stephen Crane, who was born on this day in 1871