Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 83rd day of the year.
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ON THIS DAY in 1909, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Would Cost Too Much to Fumigate School 119.”
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The article focused on the Health Department denying an application to fumigate a school even after citing scarlet fever instances.
“Residents of the thirty-second Ward have become worried over what is declared to be an unusual prevalence of scarlet fever in that vicinity,” the Eagle reported. “Application was made to the DOH to have the school building fumigated, but the question of cost caused the DOH to hesitate…”
NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include basketball player CHRIS BOSH, who was born in 1984; “Twin Peaks” actress LARA FLYNN BOYLE, who was born in 1970; “Zero Dark Thirty” actress JESSICA CHASTAIN, who was born in 1977; “Full Metal Jacket” actor R. LEE ERMEY, who was born in 1944; Beat poet and “Coney Island of the Mind” author LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, who was born in 1919; pianist BYRON JANIS, who was born in 1928; television personality and former Brooklyn ADA STAR JONES, who was born in 1962; costume and fashion designer BOB MACKIE, who was born in 1940; football player PEYTON MANNING, who was born in 1976; Emmy Award-winning actor for “The Big Bang Theory” JIM PARSONS, who was born in 1973; “Saturday Night Fever” actress DONNA PESCOW, who was born in Brooklyn in 1954; and “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” actress ANNABELLA SCIORRA, who was born in 1964.
EDWARD WESTON was born on this day in 1886. Weston is one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. He described his pictorial style as realistic, yet abstract.
ELVIS PRESLEY was inducted into the Army on this day in 1958. Teenagers across the U.S. mourned as rock idol Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army. He eventually went overseas to Germany, shipping out from the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
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’.