Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Render Unto de Blasio? Municipal Think Tank Urges City to Weigh BPCA Takeover The City’s Independent Budget Office (IBO), a publicly funded agency that provides nonpartisan information on critical issues confronting the City, is proposing that the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio […]

Today in History  Wednesday February 12 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 881 – Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Holy Roman Emperor 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, on his second voyage to India. 1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is […]

Today in History  Tuesday February 11 Elizabeth of York Born February 11, 1466 Died February 11, 1503 660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. AD 55 – The death of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming of age, under mysterious […]

Today in History  Friday February 7 Yousef was apprehended in Pakistan in February 1995 after his conviction in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. 1497 – The Bonfire of the Vanities occurs, during which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy. 1795 – The 11th Amendment to the […]

Today in History  Wednesday February 5 Andre Citroen AD 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and […]

Today in History  Tuesday February 4 John Marshall 1169 – A strong earthquake strikes the Ionian coast of Sicily. 1555 – John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England. 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by […]

Today in History January 30 MS Hans Hedtoft 1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded. 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed. 1703 – The Forty-seven […]

Today in History January 21 Rasputin 1535 – Following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants are burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris 1774 – Abdul Hamid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam. 1789 – The first American novel, The Power of […]

Today in History January 8 Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un 307 – Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by Jin Huaidi. 1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco. […]

Today in History January 6 Click here to hear FDR’s Four Freedoms speech before Congress 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead […]

Today in History December 17 SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 900 m/s (3,000 ft/s), using a hybrid rocket motor. 283 – St Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope 546 – Gothic War (535-554): The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome by bribing the […]

Today in History December 4 Juliette Recamier was only child of the King’s counsellor and his wife Julie Mattan. Beautiful and educated, she became a bride at aged fifteen to a banker 30 years her senior and became a socialite, whose salon drew Parisians from the political and literary circles of the early 19th century. […]

Today in History December 2 Charles Dickens 1697 – St Paul’s Cathedral opens in London 1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor of France in Paris 1816 – First savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society) 1845 – Manifest Destiny: President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively […]

Today in History November 25 Castro 1343 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places. 1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England. The new consort of King Henry VII travelled by barge from Greenwich to the Tower of […]

Today in History November 20 Dali’s Mustache – Photo by Philippe Halsman 1194 – Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI. 1272 – Edward I proclaimed King of England 1637 – Peter Minuit and first Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden 1789 – New Jersey is first state to ratify Bill of Rights 1795 […]

Today in History November 19 President Abraham Lincoln “… and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” 1095 – At the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II calls for a Crusade to the Holy Land. 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called […]

Today in History November 14 1889 – New York World reporter Nellie Bly aka Elizabeth Cochran, began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, finishing the trip in 72 days and 6 hours 1380 – King Charles VI of France […]

Today in History November 13 1789 – Ben Franklin writes “Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes” 1002 – English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers 1775 – American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal 1789 – Ben Franklin writes “Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes” 1841 – James Braid […]

Today in History November 12 Henry Bowers, Titus Oates, Edgar Evans, Robert Falcon Scott, and Edward Wilson at the South Pole on Jan. 18, 1912. 954 – The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom. 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, […]

Today in History November 7 1910: Pilot Philip Parmalee, ready for take off in a Wright Model B. 1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France. 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest […]