Future 26th President of the U.S., Teddy Roosevelt is born - This Day in History – Oct 27th

Back in 1858, NYC welcomed the birth of Theodore Roosevelt, the future Presidents credited with creating a “modern presidency.”  Theodore Roosevelt, the future 26th president of the U.S. was born in NYC.  A dynamic and energetic politician, Theodore Roosevelt is credited with creating the modern presidency.

After the assignation of President McKinley, Roosevelt became the youngest person to become president at the age of 43. Roosevelt served two terms a president from 1901 to 1909. 

According to history.com, “He stamped the presidency with a vitality that delighted most Americans and was elected to a second term in 1904. Abroad, Roosevelt was an expansionist who asserted his executive powers to defend U.S. interests. At home, he sought to balance the interests of farmers, workers, and the business class. He insisted on a strong navy, encouraged the independence of Panama and the construction of the Panama Canal, promoted the regulation of trusts and monopolies, and set aside land for America's first national parks and monuments. In 1906, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation of the negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War.” 

President Roosevelt died at the age of 60 in 1919 due to tropical diseases he had contracted from his many travels.

Actress, Writer and Activist, Ruby Dee is born 

Back in 1924, Cleveland, OH welcomed future Hollywood actress and Broadway star, Ruby Dee. Ms. Dee would later be raised in NYC’s Harlem neighborhood where she would study piano, violin and theatre.  Two famous classmates in her theatre train n the American Negro Theatre were Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier.  Ms. Dee would

Get married twice: her first husband was Frankie Dee Brown, her second husband would be actor Ossie Davis. Ms. Dee and Mr. Davis would be married for 57 years until his death in 2005.

Ms. Dee would become famous with her movie appearances in, “The Jackie Robinson Story,” Broadway’s “Purlie Victorious.”  She would be nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Denzel Washington’s mother in the movie, “American Gangster.” She did win the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award for this role.

Broadway’s Webber and Rice have yet another successful musical “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

Back in 1970, the Broadway musical composer-lyricist musical team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice would create another masterpiece play with their venue, “Jesus Christ Superstar.”  After researching the reaction of a rock opera on the Jesus Christ and

Judas Iscariot, Webber and Rice decided to produce an album instead.  Once this collaboration became a musical success, and then the play was created with resounding success that would be made into a feature film as well.

According to history.com, “Nevertheless the Jesus Christ Superstar album spawned a Top 40 single in versions of "I Don't Know How To Love Him" by both Yvonne Elliman and Helen Reddy, and it shot all the way to the top of the Billboard album charts in early 1971, paving the way for a smash Broadway opening later that year.”

New York City premieres largest American subway system

Back in 1904, the rapid transit system of the “subway,” debuted in New York City, NY under Mayor George McClellantakes. However, New York became the largest American system with a travel system of 9.1 miles and28 stations operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. 

Special note: London had the world’s oldest underground network in 1863 and Boston had the first subway in the U.S. in 1897.

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