ON THIS DAY IN 1875 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The Centennial Exhibition will be opened on May 10, 1876 and remain open every day, except Sunday, until November 10.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1929 , the Eagle reported, “The annual football battle between Yale and Harvard will be broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company tomorrow. The game will be heard in New York through WEAF, beginning at 1:45 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time). The Cambridge classic will also be handled by the Columbia system, with Ted Husing at the microphone, and will go on the air through WABC.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1937 , the Eagle reported, “A service of tribute to Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, missing world flier, was held yesterday at Floyd Bennett Air Field by the New York branch of the International As

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