ON THIS DAY IN 1944The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported: “A second key witness in the fatal stabbing of university lecturer David Kammerer was released on bail today as Lucien Carr, a 19-year-old Columbia University student, was charged with murder. The second witness, released on $2,500 bail, is William Seward Burroughs, 30, of 69 Bedford St., […]
Drummer Tony Williams, a precocious, talented child prodigy, was only 17 years old when he joined Miles Davis’ band in 1963. Although he was by far the youngest in the group, he quickly became the linchpin of the trumpeter’s new band, as Davis admitted in his 1988 memoir: Miles: The Autobiography. “He simply lit a […]
On this day: Several important historical events took place on August 16, making it a significant date in both Indian and world history for various political, economic and other reasons. On this day in 2018, India mourned the loss of its former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In addition, this day commemorates the death of […]
ON THIS DAY IN 1918The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported: “WASHINGTON — The sinking of the American Navy coal ship Cyclops remains the mystery of the war. Secretary Daniels told newspaper correspondents today when asked about reports that a message had been found in a bottle floating at sea stating that the Cyclops had been captured […]
ON THIS DAY IN 1898The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported: “As soon as Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrives at Montauk Point with his regiment of Rough Riders, he will be met by a committee of the Independent Republican Organization of Manhattan, headed by Colonel Lovell Jerome, and will be asked to consent to use his name as […]
ON THIS DAY IN 1918The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported: “WASHINGTON — Miss Alice Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Wilson of Baltimore, and niece of President Wilson, and Rev. IS McElroy, Jr. of Columbus, Georgia, were married last evening at the White House. It was the fifteenth wedding to take place at the […]
