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August 27: Battle of Brooklyn 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Click image to expand August 27 The Revolutionary War Battle of Brooklyn was fought across what would become Green-Wood’s grounds, as well as other parts of Brooklyn, on this date in 1776.
August 26: Oscar and Maggie Dietzel 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Click image to expand August 26 On this date in 1893, Oscar and Maggie Dietzel, husband and wife, died after their train, coming back from Manhattan Beach, was run up on and destroyed by a Rockaway ...
August 25: Leonard Bernstein 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Click image to expand August 25 Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer, and teacher, was born on this date in 1918, and died in 1990.
August 24: William Niblo 24 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Click image to expand August 24 Entertainment impresario William Niblo was interred on this date in 1878.
August 23: Nathaniel Harrison Harris 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Click image to expand August 23 Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Confederate general from Mississippi, died on this date in 1900.
August 22: James Kirke Paulding 22 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Click image to expand August 22 On this date in 1778, James Kirke Paulding, who coined the tongue-twister “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” was born.
August 21: Mary Johnson 21 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Click image to expand August 21 Mary Johnson, who lived in slavery in Virginia, then upon her emancipation worked for years as a beloved servant for the Brown family, was interred in the Brown Lot o...
Gottschalk and Friends 20 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was one of America’s first matinee idols and international superstars. A child prodigy as a pianist, he left his home city of New Orleans for Paris at the age of 12 to learn hi...
August 20: Frances Flora Bond Palmer 20 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Click image to expand August 20 On this date in 1876, Frances Flora Bond Palmer, the only woman artist who worked for lithographers Nathaniel Currier and James Ives, and whose art hung in more Ameri...
August 19: Robert Troup 19 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Click image to expand August 19 Robert Troup, who roomed with Alexander Hamilton at Kings College, was captured at the Battle of Brooklyn, and served as an aide to General Horatio Gates, was born on...
