November 6: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

November 6, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle History

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ON THIS DAY IN 1901, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “If anything was demonstrated in this election it was the practicality of the machine which Michael J. Dady introduced in his election district of the First Assembly District. The polls closed at 5 o’clock. Immediately the machine was opened and ten minutes later the Eagle had the result. Republicans and Democrats were enthusiastic over the machine. Michael J. Dady declared that not a vote would be lost and not an illegal vote would be polled if the machines were used throughout the city.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1924, the Eagle reported, “LONDON (AP) — Winston Churchill, whose election as a Constitutionalist to the House of Commons in last week’s general election marked his return to the Conservative ranks, will be listed as Chancellor of the Exchequer when Prime Minister Baldwin submits his Conservative Cabinet to the King tonight, the afternoon papers predict today. The predicted appointment of Mr. Churchill, who is an out-and-out free trader, is considered the greatest sensation of the new political alignment.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1942, the Eagle said, “The death of George M. Cohan while his country is at war inevitably stirs recollections of his service in that other, older war, in which Americans fought to victory to his tune, ‘Over There.’ There was a time when Mr. Cohan’s patriotism evoked the smiles of the sophisticated. That was before we had awakened to the fact that a nation without patriotism is doomed. Today we look back upon the Georgie Cohan of the early years not only as a fine actor and one of the proud ornaments of the American stage for 40 years, but as an outstanding, sincere patriot. His contribution to America transcended the footlights. Millions of Americans who never were fortunate enough to see him will mourn him as a great American.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1950, the Eagle reported, “TOKYO (U.P.) — Gen. Douglas MacArthur tossed the dynamite-laden problem of Communist China’s intervention in the Korean War into the lap of the United Nations today and asked what they wanted him to do about it. He asked, in effect, whether he should call China’s hand and bomb Manchurian bases from which Chinese troops and supplies are flowing into North Korea. The reply from Lake Success and Washington may prove a potent factor in determining whether World War III is at hand. China, the most populous nation in the world, has a 30-year military alliance with the Soviet Union. The Chinese Government radio at Peiping stepped up its anti-American propaganda campaign yesterday with a warning to the United States not to place too much faith in the atomic bomb because American cities could be hit with it, too. China has neither long-range bombers nor the atomic bomb, but Russia has both.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1952, the Eagle reported, “MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. (U.P.) — A chapter of the National Bald-Headed Club took note today of the election victory of ‘one of our boys.’ Russell S. Ackerman, secretary of Minneapolis Bald Pates No. 2, said Dwight D. Eisenhower was an honorary member of the club.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1952, the Eagle said, “The election results are received with joy around the nation. Even Dick Nixon’s dog, Checkers, gets a new leash on life.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1954, the Eagle reported, “Boys praying for Divine Intercession for a favorite baseball club are rapidly becoming a part of the national pastime since the Brooklyn Eagle first printed an Abraham & Straus advertisement depicting a prayerful boy two years ago. Brooklyn was caught by the World Series fever on Oct. 7, 1952, when the Eagle published the ad showing a pajama-clad boy with a baseball cap perched on his head praying as follows: ‘… and maybe I shouldn’t be asking, but …’ Pictures of various Dodgers adorned a nearby wall. That ad didn’t work nor did the prayers, because the Dodgers proceeded to lose the Series to the Yankees. However, Sports Illustrated, the new magazine, reprinted in a recent edition an almost identical picture from a Kansas City newspaper which contained the same prayer with the addition of the words, ‘Please bring the A’s to Kansas City.’ Those prayers have worked.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1962, the Eagle said, “The shadow cast by World War II is lengthening. A new generation has grown up. Today a man would have to be at least 35 to have fought in the closing months of that war. For many, the great human tragedy is something that is seen in films or read about in books. Almost a decade has passed since the Korean War ended. World War I, ‘the war to end wars,’ seems even more remote, a calamity long since devoured by the history books. But to the diminishing band of those who fought in it, that war — with its horrible carnage — remains an imperishable memory. Those whose sacrifice Veterans Day recalls went to war because in the context of their times the threat was real and terrible. Their example should encourage everyone to strive mightily to avoid an even more terrible tragedy and, at the same time, to guard with utmost courage our heritage of freedom and human dignity.”

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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; “Footloose” star Lori Singer, who was born in 1957; “21 Jump Street” star Peter DeLuise, who was born in 1966; “Gossip Girl” star Kelly Rutherford, who was born in 1968; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, who was born in 1969; “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.

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THE MARCH OF TIME: John Philip Sousa was born on this day in 1854. The American composer and band conductor is remembered for stirring marches such as “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” “Semper Fidelis” and “El Capitan.” He died in 1932.

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THE EARLY DAYS: “Good Morning America” premiered on this day in 1975. The ABC morning program, set in a living room, is a mixture of news reports, features and interviews with news makers and people of interest. It was the first program to compete with NBC’s “The Today Show” and initially aired as “A.M. America.” Hosts have included David Hartman, Nancy Dussault, Sandy Hill, Charles Gibson, Joan Lunden, Lisa McRee, Kevin Newman and Diane Sawyer.

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

Quotable:

“The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.”

— journalist and economist Charles Dow, who was born on this day in 1851