The partition plan, engineered by the United States and Russia, called for Great Britain to leave Palestine by Aug. After the action, the Assembly adjourned until next September. The decision defied Arab threats to bathe the Holy Land in blood to prevent creation of a Jewish state in the Middle East. 29 (U.P.) - The United Nations General Assembly, in the most important decision yet made, tonight voted to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, giving the Jews the homeland that they have sought for more than 2,000 years.
ON THIS DAY IN 1947, the Eagle reported, “UNITED NATIONS HALL, FLUSHING, NOV.
A closer tie-up between Germany and Japan, with the two Axis powers operating together in an effort to drive American and British interests out of the Orient, was foreseen in informed Washington quarters, the United Press reported, as a more likely alternate to acceptance by Japan of American terms.” The decision for or against such an invasion was expected by high American officials to be made by the Tokyo government over the weekend. A Japanese invasion of Thailand, launched from French Indo-China, official Washington believed tonight, would touch off a major conflict that will envelop the entire Far East in flames. 29 (INS) - The American Government tonight tensely awaited Japan’s decision for war or peace in the Pacific as the entire Far East, from Vladivostok to the Netherlands East Indies, stood to arms. ON THIS DAY IN 1941, the Eagle reported, “WASHINGTON, NOV. The loss will not be less than $150,000 and may possibly reach $200,000.”
Not since the Brooklyn Theater was destroyed in a holocaust nearly thirty years ago has Brooklyn seen a blaze so spectacular and dramatic as that of this morning. Business came to a standstill and a host of badly frightened folk watched the big pillar of flame and black smoke that rose above the house tops in the vicinity of Borough Hall. For the first hour of its progress the downtown portion of Brooklyn was in commotion. The flames spread rapidly and in an hour and a half the fire had attained its height and had practically burned itself out. ON THIS DAY IN 1903, the Eagle reported, “A fire that completely destroyed Brooklyn’s most historic theater, the Academy of Music, in Montague Street, broke out a few minutes before 9 o’clock this morning. This first meeting of the embryonic army and navy had been widely heralded by the alumni of Annapolis, who were mainly instrumental in bringing about the innovation, and in consequence an extended interest in the contest was aroused.” It was, therefore, a remarkable occasion, and one long to be remembered by the cadets themselves, and by the crowd of visitors who witnessed the contest. Never before had a visiting team played within the sacred precincts of West Point, and never before had the two schools tried conclusions against each other in the athletic arena. It was a game of football between the West Pointers and a team from the naval academy in Annapolis.
ON THIS DAY IN 1890, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Old Fort Putnam and the rounded top of Crow’s Nest looked down upon an unwonted spectacle at West Point yesterday afternoon, one which had never come to pass in the history of the military academy.