December 14, birthdays for Vanessa Hudgins, Dilma Rousseff, Jackson Rathbone
Brooklyn Today
ON THIS DAY IN 1950, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Druggist, 72, Braves Death to Beat Tar Out of Gunman, 16.”
The article focused on a man who defended himself as he was robbed at gunpoint.
“Late last night Nathan Holinsky looked death square in the face across the counter of his East New York drugstore — and met the challenge … So Holinsky charged around his counter, slugged the youth with his fist, hit him again in the face and took his gun and his knife. Finally the youngster wriggled free and escaped,” the Eagle reported.