November 14: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

November 14, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle History

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ON THIS DAY IN 1867, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle said, “Citizens of taste and genuine benevolence are already serving the public of New York by gradually stocking Central Park with meritorious works of art. The latest contribution of this kind is Cain’s ‘Tigress bringing Food to her Young,’ a large work in bronze, and conceded to be one of decided power. The people are indebted to a number of Americans who were in Paris last spring for a thing of beauty which will be a joy for years to thousands of visitors at a favorite resort. Let us hope that our own Prospect Park will hereafter be as worthily remembered by citizens of Brooklyn.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1914, the Eagle reported, “George Carter, who made the giant cheese that was exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, died yesterday at his home in Geneva, Ohio. The cheese weighed more than a ton, and attracted the attention of thousands of visitors to the exposition.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1915, the Eagle reported, “NEW HAVEN, CONN., NOV. 13 (AP) — Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of a disastrous preliminary football season, the Yale eleven erased all memory of past defeats by winning from Princeton here this afternoon by a score of 13 to 7. No gridiron classic of recent years has furnished greater thrills, individual playing prowess or form upset than this most surprising triumph of the Blue over the Orange and Black. It was a case of a powerful football combination just beginning to find itself, overwhelming by brute strength an eleven far more finished in playing tactics but lacking the ability to cope with a Yale team fighting desperately in the face of tremendous odds. As a team the Princeton machine was superior to the Blue, but the smooth tiger juggernaut was ripped apart by the savage battling of a bulldog squad gone berserk.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1924, the Eagle reported, “HUNTINGTON, L.I. — Supervisor Abraham L. Field, acting for the State Conservation Commission, is appealing to all sportsmen to refrain from gunning in the wooded sections of the township until rain has wet them down enough to prevent the dangers of forest fires. No serious wood fires have occurred in this section of the island, but, according to Supervisor Field, the experience of the State officials in the Storm King section of the State, where large areas have been burned over due to the fact that the forests are exceedingly dry from the long drought, should be a lesson that care should be taken to prevent any possible outburst of fire in the Island section.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1940, the Eagle reported, “Uncle Sam will share honors with Santa Claus next Thursday in the 16th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. The personification of the United States will, in fact, dominate the parade, standing seven stories tall. The balloon figure will be inflated with 9,000 cubic feet of helium. He will be accompanied by attendants, marchers, outriders and floats as the procession moves through Manhattan to the store, where Santa Claus will be enshrined for the Christmas season. The parade this year will tell a story of patriotism in the Tony Sarg figures and floats which are being constructed in the store’s Long Island City warehouse.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1946, the Eagle reported, “CHICAGO (U.P.) — The high culture and low food capacity of college football crowds is paining Chicago hot dog and popcorn vendors. Ray Kneip, commissary director at Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, and at Dyche Stadium, where Northwestern University football teams play, has a hard time getting his peddlers out to the grid games. ‘Some of them make $40 or $50 on a good day at the ball park,’ said Kneip. ‘That’s ten times as much as they make on a college football game.’ Kneip explained that football spectators are a ‘late crowd’ with seats reserved and no necessity to skip lunch to get to the stadium early, and that intermission spectacles keep them occupied at half-time as well as through the game.”

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Francisco Lindor
Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise, who was born in 1933; “House of Cards” author Michael Dobbs, who was born in 1948; King Charles III, who was born in 1948; Styx guitarist James Young, who was born in 1949; “The Simpsons” star Maggie Roswell, who was born in 1952; former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was born in 1954; composer and music producer Yanni, who was born in 1954; Basketball Hall of Famer Jack Sikma, who was born in 1955; “The Cutting Edge” star D. B. Sweeney, who was born in 1961; “Just Shoot Me!” star Laura San Giacomo, who was born in 1962; “The Tick” star Patrick Warburton, who was born in 1964; 2001 World Series MVP Curt Schilling, who was born in 1966; Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, who was born in 1975; former “Saturday Night Live” star Vanessa Bayer, who was born in 1981; and N.Y. Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor, who was born in 1993.

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GETTIN’ IN TOON: William Steig was born in Brooklyn on this day in 1907. The prolific cartoonist, satirist and illustrator wrote more than 25 books for children, including “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble,” “Abel’s Island” and “Shrek,” the basis for a series of animated films. He was also known for his work in the New Yorker. He died in 2003.

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BLONDE AMBITION: Veronica Lake was born in Brooklyn on this day in 1922. Lake was known for her femme fatale roles in 1940s film noirs and for her peek-a-boo hairstyle. She also inspired the animated character Jessica Rabbit in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” (1988) and Kim Basinger’s character Lynn Bracken in “L.A. Confidential” (1997). She died in 1973.

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

Quotable:

“The day has come when it’s not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.”

— former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was born on this day in 1954