Brooklyn Today: July 2, 2012

July 2, 2012 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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Good morning. Today is the 184th day of the year. Most of the front page of the July 2, 1902, Brooklyn Daily Eagle was dedicated to the shooting of a Brooklyn businessman, Albert C. Latimer, by a burglar who invaded his home on Hancock Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant. The article notes that the details of the crime were almost identical to the robbery and murder of another man, Lyman Weeks, in his DeKalb Avenue home.

Well-known people who were born today include former baseball player Jose Canseco Jr., actress Lindsay Lohan, race car driver Richard Petty and Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir.