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June 14, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
President Donald Trump celebrates his birthday today. AP Photo/Morry Gash
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Greetings, Brooklyn.  Today is the 164th day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Boy George and President Donald Trump, among others.

For more of Brooklyn Today, please turn to page 3.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1954, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article on the front page titled “A-Raid Test Stills Boro.”

The article focused on a boroughwide emergency bomb drill. 

“It was a rehearsal for the day of horror which would come if an atomic bomb were actually to be exploded 4,000 feet over a target zero arbitrarily set at the intersection of Smith and Schermerhorn Streets,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actress YASMINE BLEETH, who was born in 1968; singer BOY GEORGE, who was born in 1961; screenwriter DIABLO CODY, who was born in 1978; actress MARLA GIBBS, who was born in 1931; Hall of Fame tennis player STEFFI GRAF, who was born in 1969; actress LUCY HALE, who was born in 1989; Olympic speed skater ERIC ARTHUR HEIDEN, who was born in 1958; actress TRAYLOR HOWARD, who was born in 1966; actor KEVIN McHALE, who was born in 1988; actor EDDIE MEKKA, who was born in 1952; actor WILL PATTON, who was born in 1954; and U.S. President DONALD TRUMP, who was born in 1946.

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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1811. The American author is best known for “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” an antislavery novel that provoked a storm of protest and notoriety. It sold 300,000 copies in its first year alone. The reaction to “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and its profound political impact are without parallel in American literature. It is said that during the Civil War, when Stowe was introduced to President Abraham Lincoln, his words to her were, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” She died in Connecticut in 1896.

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WARREN G. HARDING BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO BROADCAST ON RADIO ON THIS DAY IN 1922. The event was the dedication of the Francis Scott Key Memorial in Baltimore. The first official government message was broadcast in 1923.

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TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST NONSTOP TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT. In 1919, Capt. John Alcock and Lt. Arthur W. Brown flew a Vickers Vimy bomber 1,900 miles nonstop from St. Johns, Newfoundland, to Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. In spite of their crash landing in an Irish peat bog, their flight inspired public interest in aviation.

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ALOIS ALZHEIMER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1864. In a 1907 article by the German psychiatrist and pathologist, Alzheimer first described the disease that was named for him. It was thought of as a kind of presenile dementia, usually beginning at age 40-60. Alzheimer died in 1915 in Germany.

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THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY WILL HOST “BOOK TALK: ‘Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created’” tonight at 7 p.m. Patrick E. McGovern will journey into ancient history to uncover and understand alcoholic recipes, which he uses to help develop the Ancient Ales and Spirits for brewer/distiller Dogfish Head. McGovern will sit down with historic gastronomist Sarah Lohman, mixologist Eamon Rockey and Chris Cuzme of Fuhmentaboudit! to discuss his brand new book and the exploding interest in resurrecting methods and tastes from a bygone era. For more information, visit brooklynhistory.org. 

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Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library. 

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“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.” — author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was born on this day in 1811

 

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