Today in History

[JennyLou]

Yes! A new one. I missed these the past few months. Thank you LizzieMaine.

 

[LizzieMaine]

October 17, 1950

111 POLICE PENSIONED, MORE TO GO; 3 RESIGN

By John Martin

With one sweeping gesture, the Police Department pension board yesterday accepted the retirement of 111 cops, ranging from high brass to lowly foot patrolmen. It was the greatest number of police to be pensioned off at one time in the history of the department. Police Commissioner Thomas F. Murphy promised his fellow board members another huge batch of retirements for the next meeting, Nov. 20.

All of the 111 cops except one left with half pay for life. The exception was Chief of Detectives William T. Whalen, who put his retirement papers in the day Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien resigned. He asked for three-quarters pay, but Murphy pointed out that the in-the-line-of-duty injuries on which Whalen based his claim had been received 28 years ago, and had not interfered with his work until he put in his retirement papers. If approved, Whalen would get $7,012 a year, the largest pension ever awarded a member of the department.

IKE SAYS THANKS, BUT NEITHER YES NOR NO

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, president of Columbia University, who was boomed for the 1952 Republican presidential nomination by Gov. Dewey on Sunday, yesterday said "thanks," but indicated he hadn't changed his mind about liking his job as a college prexy.

In the statement issued for him by the university public relations office, however, the general did neglect to assert that he would decline the Republican presidential nomination that the New York Governor wants to get for him. The statement said:

"Any American would be complimented by the knowledge that any other American considered him qualified to fill the most important post in our country. In this case, the compliment comes from a man who is Governor of a great state and who has devoted many years to public service. So of course I am grateful for Gov. Dewey's good opinion of me."


DENISE DARCEL MARRIED TO REALTOR IN CATHEDRAL

By Josephine Di Lorenzo

Denise Darcel, popular French import, married Peter Crosby yesterday morning at St. Patrick's Cathedral, "wiz all ze trimmings," as she put it. The Rev. Rt. Msgr. William D. Green joined the actress and the wealthy realtor in marriage at 11:15. A Nuptial High Mass followed.

"I am so nervous I am dyeeeing!" Denise whispered as she walked into the cathedral. But the well-padded 22 year old didn't show it as she went down the aisle on the arm of Tom Rogers, a friend, who gave her away.

She wore an aqua satin gown which featured a tightly-fitted bodice with tiny buttons from the waist to a very high neckline, long sleeves, and a draped skirt with a bustle back. Matching plumes and a veil over her upswept hairdo, matching gloves, and ankle strap sandals completed the outfit.


BIND WOMAN IN HOME, 2 GET 18G GEMS, FURS

Two Brooklyn schoolchildren came home for lunch at 12:20 P. M. yesterday to find their mother lying bound and gagged with adhesive tape on the living room floor and the apartment at 3715 Kings Highway looted of an estimated $18,000 in jewelry, furs, and cash.

The mother, Mrs. Edna Gans, 33, near hysterics, told police the robbers were two men who knocked on the door at 11:15 A. M. and said it was the superintendant when she called out to ask who was there.


DOCS, DENTISTS SIGN FOR DRAFT

Registration of medical men for service in the armed forces began yesterday at various draft boards throughout the city. By nightfall more than 3,000 doctors and dentists had signed up in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.

The men in white appeared none too pleased by the prospect of a life in uniform, but most were philosophic. Dr. Robert A. Schiff, 26-year-old dentist of 455 E. 14th Street, who spent a year in the army in 1943-44, admitted he was "not too happy" about going into the army. "My practice," he said, "is just getting started."


GIVE BOY, 16, TODDY FOR COLD; HE HITS MOTHER, BITES COPS

Los Angeles, Oct. 16 (AP) -- Police reported today that a 16-year-old boy, after being given a hot whisky toddy as a cold treatment, went on a rampage, leaving eight persons injured and considerable property damage. The boy, Thomas Shepherd, was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, assault and battery, indecent exposure, and resisting arrest.

Shepherd, a 6-footer weighing 215 pounds, returned from a hunting trip and was put to bed by his mother because of a cold. She dosed him with the toddy and cold medicine. Shepherd then jumped up, hit his mother on the nose, and ran from the house clad only in his shirt. He smashed a neighbor's window, hit two men, threw a knife across a cafe room, broke the glass encasing a barber pole, struck two customers, and the proprietor of a liquor store. Finally arrested, he bit two officers.

In jail, Shepherd said he couldn't remember a thing.

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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

He's Fur It

Manhattan: The News is "agin" plans for government socialized medicine. Perhaps in one of its editorials it will some day explain why, if our present system is so wonderful, America has a higher childbirth mortality rate than England, where socialized medicine operates. Also, why do our Congressmen, when ill and in need of hospitalization, almost uniformly betake themselves of the U. S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md.? Can it be those Congressment deliberately choose inferior medical aid? -- G. E. GARRETT

MR. SLOB AND MR. SKUNK

Bronx: Speaking of grafting officials, I added an extra bathroom to my cellar and along came Mr. Stinking Slob with a demand for $30 to pass same. My neighbor built a steel, fireproof back porch and along came Mr. Slimy Skunk with a demand for $50 to okay same. I know a crummy, dirty luncheonette that pays a regular $10 a month to Mr. Smelly Sourpuss for tribute. The lousy, lying, greedy, grasping, bleery, bloated, no-good bunch of grafters aren't worth the rope to hang them. -- ANNOYED VICTIM

 

[Carlisle Blues]

^
Thanks Lizzie......I also now know what not to have for a cold.

 

[H.Johnson]

27th October

On this day at 11.00 in 1871 at Brompton Cemetary in London the funeral of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, ex-president of the Royal Geographical Society took place, attended by many of the 'great and good' in the world of exploration. Murchison, awarded the highest honours by Britain, France and Russia for his services to exploration and geography was mourned by the 'lions' he had sent out to colour the world map red, including Burton and Speke.

His favourite 'lion' did not attend. At that very moment, according to some reconstructions of their respective journals*, Dr. David Livingstone, enigmatic explorer, missionary and doctor, was sitting on the porch of his hut in Ujiji, wondering what was the commotion in the village before him.

It was, of course, the arrival of a 'rescue' party led Henry Morton Stanley, sent by J. Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald to locate the eminent Scotsman. The rest, as they say, is history, but the issue of whether Stanley actually uttered the often-quoted phrase, 'Doctor Livingstone, I presume?' is still the subject of some academic debate.

* See for instance 'Into Africa' by Martin Dugard.

 

[Widebrim]

Today in 1838, Samuel Morse's telegraph system was demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-...story&utm_term=what happened today in history

 

[B.J. Hedberg]

Might not be Golden Era related, but these two events that occurred on this date certainly were quite important in shaping the course of history:

1. On this date in 1776 the Lee Resolution was adopted. New York abstained from the vote. “Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”
   
   
2. On this day in 1863 the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry charged to glory at Gettysburg, saving the field and possibly the Union itself. Their casualty rate that day was 83%. Here’s the inscription inscribed upon their monument:

On the afternoon of July 2, 1863 Sickles' Third Corps, having advanced from this line to the Emmitsburg Road, eight companies of the First Minnesota Regiment, numbering 262 men were sent to this place to support a battery upon Sickles repulse. As his men were passing here in confused retreat, two Confederate brigades in pursuit were crossing the swale. To gain time to bring up the reserves & save this position, Gen Hancock in person ordered the eight companies to charge the rapidly advancing enemy.

The order was instantly repeated by Col Wm Colvill. And the charge as instantly made down the slope at full speed through the concentrated fire of the two brigades breaking with the bayonet the enemy's front line as it was crossing the small brook in the low ground there the remnant of the eight companies, nearly surrounded by the enemy held its entire force at bay for a considerable time & till it retired on the approach of the reserve the charge successfully accomplished its object. It saved this position & probably the battlefield. The loss of the eight companies in the charge was 215 killed & wounded. More than 83% percent. 47 men were still in line & no man missing. In self sacrificing desperate valor this charge has no parallel in any war. Among the severely wounded were Col Wm Colvill, Lt Col Chas P Adams & Maj Mark W. Downie. Among the killed Capt Joseph Periam, Capt Louis Muller & Lt Waldo Farrar. The next day the regiment participated in repelling Pickett's charge losing 17 more men killed & wounded.

 

[Harp]

Might not be Golden Era related, but these two events that occurred on this date certainly were quite important in shaping the course of history:


[*]On this day in 1863 the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry charged to glory at Gettysburg, saving the field and possibly the Union itself. Their casualty rate that day was 83%.

fftopic:
Pickett struggled with his conscience thereafter; blaming Lee, who remains
"the marble man" in the annals of Mars, of course; though Lee probably paid out
the coffers of his own conscience down to the last penny at Gettysburg; leaving him a bayonet carved soul-or perhaps the inner firewalls had fallen earlier, thereby allowing his actions, and a measured guilt he could drink from the Cup when called.

 

[B.J. Hedberg]

fftopic:
Pickett struggled with his conscience thereafter; blaming Lee, who remains
"the marble man" in the annals of Mars, of course; though Lee probably paid out
the coffers of his own conscience down to the last penny at Gettysburg; leaving him a bayonet carved soul-or perhaps the inner firewalls had fallen earlier, thereby allowing his actions, and a measured guilt he could drink from the Cup when called.

I can imagine little worse than being in Pickett’s position. For those us at least who can look back after the passage of time, the gallantry and sacrifice of so many brave men for their ideals is inspirational and fills us with pride; but for him... certainly an unenviable position for any man to be in.

 

[DNO]

1789: The French stormed the Bastille and the world changed.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Dick Tracy & Esquire was first published in '31 & '33 respectively.

 

[splintercellsz]

October 4, 1957 - The Space Age began as the Russians launched the first satellite into orbit. Sputnik I weighed just 184 lbs. and transmitted a beeping radio signal for 21 days.

 

[JustFine]

December 17, 1903 - Wilbur and Orville Wright took the first flight in history with an airplane (for 12 seconds)

 

[GHT]

On April 23rd 1564, William Shakespeare was born. On April 23rd 1616, William Shakespeare died.
He was known to have written a book or two. The Bard

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Also on this day was born Shirley Temple (1928) and Roy Orbison (1936)

 

[JazzyDame]

...and it's the anniversary of the first public school in America--the Boston Latin School opened in 1635 (docendo discimus). The first movie theater also opened today in 1896, and the first movie was shown at Koster and Bials Music Hall in New York City. Up until this time, people watched films individually by looking into a Kinetoscope, a boxlike "peep show". Made for some difficult dates, indeed.

 

[JazzyDame]

Today is the 213th anniversary of the Library of Congress. Congress offically approved an act providing "for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress...and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them." Thus began one of the world's greatest (and largest, as measured by shelf space and number of volumes) libraries and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States.

 

[JazzyDame]

Today is the anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible (1611). King James I authorized the creation of a new English translation in 1604 and appointed a committee of 54 learned men (Hebrew and Greek scholars) who, after a seven-year collaboration, produced what we now know as the King James Bible.

 

[Widebrim]

^^A very influential Bible in the history of English-speaking peoples, although the Puritans who immigrated to British North America, being Calvinists, greatly favored the Geneva translation.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Kent State Massacre 1970

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Yesterday was the Haymarket Affair in Chicago.