Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 76th day of the year.
ON THIS DAY IN 1908, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Met a Big Serpent.”
The article focused on steamship passengers who claimed to have seen a sea monster off the coast of Watling’s Island.
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“All the passengers on the Admiral Farragut — 31 of them — agreed with Skipper Mader that they had surely encountered a real sea serpent,” the Eagle reported. “The passengers agreed that the horns, which set back about five feet from the head of the monster, were ten feet in length and flabby. But all agreed with Captain Mader that they were not fins.”
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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include Oscar Award-winning filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, who was born in 1941; actor Erik Estrada, who was born in New York City in 1949; actor and comedian Judah Friedlander, who was born in 1969; actor Victor Garber, who was born in 1949; actress Lauren Graham, who was born in 1967; basketball player Blake Griffin, who was born in 1989; football player Todd Heap, who was born in 1980; writer Alice Hoffman, who was born in New York City in 1952; actress Isabelle Huppert, who was born in 1955; comedian, actor, director and philanthropist Jerry Lewis, who was born in 1926; actress Kate Nelligan, who was born in 1951; actor Alan Tudyk, who was born in 1971; and game show host Chuck Woolery, who was born in 1942.
ST. FRANICIS COLLEGE alumna and author Lisa Racioppo, Class of 1992, will speak about her advertising career and her memoir “From Brooklyn and Back Again” today from 3:30 to 4 p.m. at 180 Remsen St. For more information, visit sfc.edu.
Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.
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New York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.