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GOOD MORNING BROOKLYN, Thursday, April 15, 2021.

CONGRATULATIONS JACKIE ROBINSON on this day in 1947 you became the first African American to play in the Major Leagues.

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 You played against the Boston Braves. Maybe it was nerves, but you had no hits at-bat that day. However, getting on base with a walk, your brilliant base stealing set you up to score the deciding run, as the Dodgers prevailed 5-3 over Boston. Indeed, you were later named 1947’s Rookie of the year. Ironically, the report in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle prior to the game underplayed your appearance as the first Major League African American, as if no one (except perhaps Branch Rickey, the Dodger General manager who had made history by hiring you) really know what you would bring to the game, and to the changing tide of history. See More on how the Eagle reported on that impending game
in 1947 here.

THIS IS TAX-RECKONING DAY — In the late 18th century, founding father Ben Franklin said, “Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Death seems to come all days of the year, but for taxes, it’s TODAY: April 15. This is the day all Americans cough up their share of the cost of government services.

AS IF HEEDING THE warning of Ben Franklin, it was on this day in 1912 that the “unsinkable” luxury liner Titanic finally sank. On its maiden voyage from Southhampton, England to New York, it struck an iceberg just before midnight April 14, and sank at 2:27 a.m. April 15. Of 2,224 people on board, more than 1,500 were lost. About 700 people were rescued from the icy waters off Newfoundland by the liner Carpathia, which reached the survivors about two hours after the Titanic went down.

EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, the great Bessie Smith was born on this day in 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She died in 1937 of injuries suffered in an automobile accident in Clarksdale, MS.

ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE from mandatory British rule in Palestinian territory was proclaimed on this day, April 15, 1948, after more than a year of brutal conflict. Just a month later the State of Israel and the Provisional Government were established on May 14.

SEEDS OF A DIFFERENT KIND OF WAR were sewn on this day in 1955: The first McDonald’s opened in Des Plaines, Illinois. The first Burger
King had just opened the year before in 1954 in Jacksonville, Florida.

(For news items featured on this day in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in former years — and even former centuries — click here.)

Brooklyn Bird Watch

As a former resident of Brooklyn now living in Florida, and a bird lover, I was pleased to see the excellent photo of the Snowy Owl by Heather Wolf featured in
the Brooklyn Eagle’s “BirdWatch” series.

As you noted in “Birdwatch,” the largest North American owl by weight, Snowy Owls appear in winter to hunt in windswept fields and shores. They usually spend summers far north of the Arctic Circle, hunting in 24-hour daylight. Spotting one in Floyd Bennett Field is a rare treat for birders.

I remember back in the early 2000s I was working for a newspaper in the Panhandle of Florida when some local birders called and said a Snowy Owl had
been spotted on St. George Island. They gave us the vicinity along the Dunes where the owl (normally a cold climate bird, as noted in “Birdwatch,” the Arctic
Circle) had been seen as recently that same morning.

So off I went, excited, with my digital camera to St George Island to look along the white sand dunes for a rare white bird. Miraculously I spotted the bird in the vicinity where they said it had been seen earlier. It would fly a short distance and return to where it was as if it was investigating the area. (Looking for snow?) Afraid to miss my opportunity, I went ahead and took a distant photo, which was
mediocre at best. When we published the photo we felt we needed to even circle the bird with a fine line to make sure the viewer’s eye could find the bird.
That has turned out to be my only experience with the Snowy Owl. The local birders who called in the sighting said they felt certain the owl had mistaken the incredibly white sands of the Northwest Florida beaches for snow. As I have since lost that photo, I thought maybe the Brooklyn Eagle readers might be interested in seeing a photo of the newspaper’s namesake. High above in a huge pine tree along the 16th fairway at East Bay Golf Club this majestic bald eagle was perched, guarding its’ nest and keeping a watchful eye on the golf course, and especially the lake full of fish across the fairway below.

Photo by Joseph Palmer.

Click here to read this week’s story from Brooklyn Dogs titled, “A Dog Named Schooner.”

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