MILESTONES: September 7, birthdays for Leslie Jones, Kevin Love, Shannon Elizabeth
ON THIS DAY IN 1864, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Louisville, Ky., Sept. 6. Official dispatches received at Nashville announce that in the late fight before Atlanta the rebels lost 3,000 killed and wounded, 2,000 prisoners, including a brigadier general, ten guns, and a large amount of camp equipage. Our loss was trifling. The rebels are retreating in great haste. Official information from the front, dated Sunday, 27 miles below Atlanta, represents that Gen. [William Tecumseh] Sherman is pushing rapidly southward of Atlanta.
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ON THIS DAY IN 1901, the Eagle published extensive coverage of the shooting of President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo the previous day. “The news of the attack upon the president has stirred Brooklyn more deeply than any event for a score of years,” said the Eagle. “The first report which reached the borough about 4:30 o’clock was greeted with general incredulity and amazement. It was fully 5 o’clock when the realization of the great national calamity had come to the borough with the confirmation of the meager earlier dispatch. Along Fulton Street and every important thoroughfare on the corners men stood in groups earnestly discussing the probability that the reports were authentic … It was 5:15 o’clock before the newsboys were crying the extras which were issued by almost every paper in the greater city.”