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ON THIS DAY IN 1937, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, \u201cFrom a possibility to a menace \u2014 War Admiral. In two weeks\u2019 time the brown son of Man o\u2019 War moved out of the sidelines into the front closeup of the Kentucky Derby. In similar style, but not quite so impressive, Chicolorado won his two starts within a week, as did War Admiral. But truth to tell, it was the performances of War Admiral that were the most brilliant. Saturday furnished in turn a camera\u2019s eye and a blank wall to many of the students of form who were striving to peer into the future \u2014 to find the winner of the Kentucky classic. On that day several aspirants for the Derby ran races that gave color, more or less, to their chances.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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ON THIS DAY IN 1949, the Eagle reported, \u201cDAYTON (A.P.) \u2014 The only airman who ever got near a flying saucer crashed and died before he could describe it, the Dayton Journal-Herald said today. The newspaper printed a lengthy dispatch on the mysterious flying discs, based, it said, on hitherto unpublished reports assembled at the Wright-Patterson Air Force base. The Air Force investigation has proved that the flying saucers \u2018are not a joke.\u2019 Neither \u2018are they a cause for alarm,\u2019 the newspaper said. The closest any airman came to the mystery discs was on Jan. 7, 1948, when one was sighted over Fort Knox, Ky., the dispatch said. Four fighter planes were sent aloft to intercept it, but only Capt. Thomas F. Mantell was able to get close. \u2018I\u2019m closing in to take a good look,\u2019 the newspaper quoted him as reporting by radio. \u2018It looks metallic and of tremendous size. It\u2019s going up now as fast as I am. That\u2019s 360 miles an hour. I\u2019m going up after it. At 20,000 feet, if I\u2019m no closer, I\u2019ll abandon chase.\u2019 Mantell\u2019s plane crashed a few minutes later and he was killed. The possibility that the discs are aircraft of a foreign country has been considered, but discounted, the newspaper said.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ON THIS DAY IN 1950, the Eagle reported, \u201cMayor O\u2019Dwyer today took a slap at teachers who \u2018encourage\u2019 the students\u2019 strikes as the Board of Education voted to add $150 and $250 annual raises for teachers to the city\u2019s record-breaking 1950-1951 budget. To a spokesman on behalf of the teachers, the Mayor retorted that far from \u2018getting less than day laborers,\u2019 as she had charged, the city\u2019s teachers were getting from $13 to $29 a day. School principals are getting $55 a day, he said. He declared that elementary school teachers have had $1,528 in pay increases, including the $150 just voted them, since Jan. 1, 1946, while high school teachers in the same period have had their pay checks upped by $1,592. \u2018What are they screaming about?\u2019 he asked. Teachers, he added, have a responsible job in that they share with parents the \u2018responsibility for molding children\u2019s character,\u2019 but he pointed out that he saw no evidence of any great character on the part of school children during \u2018the last two days.\u2019 He cited destruction of railings around City Hall by student demonstrators, the throwing of firecrackers in front of policemen\u2019s horses and noises in front of hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ON THIS DAY IN 1956, the Brooklyn Spectator reported, \u201cThe Census Bureau reports that more Americans own their own homes than ever before. A survey made in February indicates that 60% of the nation\u2019s families own their own homes. This compares with 55% in April 1950, when the last census of houses was conducted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ON THIS DAY IN 1963, the Eagle reported, \u201cBarbra Streisand, now only 20, is a singer who\u2019s definitely on the rise. She has a big, clear voice with an ability to really put a song across, be it slow or swingy, torchy or funny. In this, her debut album, she\u2019s been given an extremely broad range of music to sing. It\u2019s a rather strange assortment, too, running the gamut from \u2018Cry Me a River,\u2019 \u2018A<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lizzo. Photo: Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

Sleepin\u2019 Bee\u2019 and \u2018A Taste of Honey\u2019 to \u2018Keepin\u2019 Out of Mischief Now\u2019 and \u2014 of all things! \u2014 \u2018Who\u2019s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include drumming legend Jim Keltner, who was born in 1942; B-52\u2019s founder Kate Pierson, who was born in 1948; radio host Larry Elder, who was born in 1952; Basketball Hall of Famer George Gervin, who was born in 1952; former N.Y. Jets coach Herman Edwards, who was born in 1954; \u201cMorning Train\u201d singer Sheena Easton, who was born in 1959; U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, who was born in 1969; \u201cDoctor Who\u201d star Jenna Coleman, who was<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jenna Coleman. Photo: Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

born in 1986; \u201cThe Chronicles of Narnia\u201d star William Moseley, who was born in 1987; \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d singer Lizzo, who was born in 1988; and 2020 World Series MVP Corey Seager, who was born in 1994.<\/p>\n

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INSTANT MESSAGE: Samuel Morse was born on this day in 1791. The American artist and inventor conceived the idea of the electromagnetic telegraph in 1832. With financial assistance approved by Congress, the first telegraph line in the U.S. was constructed between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md. The first message Morse tapped out from the Supreme Court chamber at the U.S. Capitol on May 24, 1844 was, \u2018What hath God wrought?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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PAWS FOR EFFECT: Today is National Little Pampered Dog Day, a day to remember that it\u2019s OK to<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sheena Easton. Photo: djnaquin\/Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n

pamper your loved ones \u2014 including your dog. The day was created to celebrate those owners who truly care for and love their dogs, but also to bring attention to the fact that not all dogs are so lucky. Visit nationallittlepampereddogday.com.<\/p>\n

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Special thanks to \u201cChase\u2019s Calendar of Events\u201d and Brooklyn Public Library.<\/p>\n

Quotable:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn every battle, there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then he who continues the attack wins.\u201d \u2014 Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who was born on this day in 1822.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ON THIS DAY IN 1937, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, \u201cFrom a possibility to a menace \u2014 War…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,881,9,24,63,5887],"class_list":{"0":"post-211070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-history","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-on-this-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}