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Brooklyn Today: Friday, November 20, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-20-2009

Good morning. Today is the 324th day of the year. On this day in 1921, The Sheik, the silent film that made Rudolph Valentino a star, was released after premieres in New York and Los Angeles. The drama concerned a {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Thursday, November 19, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-19-2009

Good morning. Today is the 323rd day of the year. On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address at the battlefield in Gettysburg, Pa., where thousands of people had recently died. Lincoln’s speech, which he {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-18-2009

Good morning. Today is the 322nd day of the year. On this day in 1985, radio shock jock Howard Stern began broadcasting on New York radio station WXRK-FM. Stern quickly became popular, but many people were outraged at elements of {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-17-2009

Good morning. Today is the 321st day of they year. It is the anniversary of the 1734 arrest of John Peter Zenger, colonial printer and journalist who established the New York Weekly Journal. Zenger was charged with libel against the {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Monday, November 16, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-16-2009

Good morning. Today is the 320th day of the year. On this day in 1805, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery finally reached the Pacific Ocean.

Well-known people who were born today include former pitcher Dwight Gooden, jazz singer Diana Krall, {read more...}





Brooklyn Today: Friday, November 13, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-13-2009

Good morning. Today is the 317th day of the year. On this day in 1927, the Holland Tunnel connecting New York to Jersey City, the first underwater auto tunnel built in the U.S., was opened. It was later joined by {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Thursday, November 12, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-12-2009

Good morning. Today is the 316th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary (1817) of Baha’u’llah, the founder of the Baha’i faith, in Persia. The group preaches unity of all faiths. The Baha’i temple is located in Haifa, {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-10-2009

Good morning. Today is the 314th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary (1925) of British actor Richard Burton, best known for his 1963 version of Cleopatra and his two marriages to co-star Elizabeth Taylor. His other films {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Monday, November 9, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-09-2009

Good morning. Today is the 313th day of the year. On this day in 1989, the Berlin Wall was opened. Citizens of both sides walked freely through a gate in the barrier as a historic era ended. At the same {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Friday, November 6 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (), published online 11-06-2009

Good morning. Today is the 310th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary (1861) of James Naismith, the inventor of the game of basketball. Naismith was the athletic director of the Springfield, Mass., YMCA, and sought to invent {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Thursday, November 5, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-05-2009

Good morning. Today is the 309th day of the year. In England, this day is celebrated as Guy Fawkes Day, the anniversary of the “Gunpowder Plot” of 1605. Conspirators planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament. However, 20 barrels {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-04-2009

Good morning. Today is the 308th day of the year. On this day in 1979, about 500 Iranians seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 90 hostages. They vowed to hold the hostages until the former shah was returned to {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-03-2009

Good morning. Today is the 307th day of the year. It is Election Day in the United States, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Many state and local government elections are on this day, as well as presidential {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Monday, November 2, 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-02-2009

Good morning. Today is the 306th day of the year. It is the anniversary of the 1918 Malbone Street subway wreck in Brooklyn, near the Prospect Park station of what is now the Q line. It was in the middle {read more...}




Brooklyn Today: Friday, October 30 2009
by Brooklyn Eagle (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 10-30-2009

Good morning. Today is the 303rd day of the year. On this day in 1735, John Adams, second U.S. president and the subject of a recent play at St. Francis College, was born in Braintree, Mass. Adams and Thomas Jefferson {read more...}






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