Today in New York History (Part 2)
Cities in New York: Buffalo - New York City - Rochester - Yonkers
Historical Events
Results 101 - 178 of 178
1957-11-14 - The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
1957-12-30 - New York Giants win NFL championship
1960-07-13 - 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
1961-03-30 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
1962-01-04 - New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.
1962-02-28 - WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN
1962-04-11 - New York Mets make a losing debut
1962-11-01 - WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964-04-23 - New York State Theater opens
1964-07-07 - 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York
1964-07-24 - -27) race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed
1964-12-11 - Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
1965-04-21 - New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season
1966-11-24 - New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history.
1967-11-22 - Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
1968-06-07 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
1968-08-04 - WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting
1969-06-28 - Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
1969-09-02 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1970-09-21 - New York Times starts first modern op-ed page.
1971-04-08 - 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York)
1973-04-03 - The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States.
1973-05-11 - Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
1973-09-28 - ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
1974-01-08 - Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
1974-09-01 - The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1976-07-29 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
1977-05-27 - New York City fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed
1977-11-21 - 1st flight of Concorde (London to New York)
1979-02-18 - -52°F (-47°C), Old Forge, New York (state record)
1979-04-30 - Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA
1979-08-02 - Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
1979-12-03 - Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
1980-04-01 - New York City's Transit Worker Union 100 begins a strike lasting 11 days.
1982-12-30 - US Assay Office in New York City, NY closes
1985-02-07 - "New York, New York" became the official anthem of NYC
1985-05-31 - 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1985-09-22 - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
1986-10-28 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is re-celebrated in New York Harbor.
1988-08-06 - The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7.
1988-08-07 - Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
1990-08-03 - "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 11 perfs
1990-11-07 - "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 11 perfs
1991-07-09 - "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 7 perfs
1991-08-10 - "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 7 perfs
1991-11-07 - "Brigadoon" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 12 performances
1991-11-17 - "Brigadoon" closes at New York State Theater NYC after 12 performances
1992-08-03 - Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
1992-10-09 - A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
1993-11-09 - "Cinderella" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 14 performances
1993-11-21 - "Cinderella" closes at New York State Theater NYC after 14 perfs
1993-12-07 - The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
1995-05-11 - In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
1995-09-19 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1995-09-24 - 31st Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 14½-13½ at Oak Hill County Club (Rochester, New York, US)
1996-05-10 - Excel Communications, Inc. becomes the youngest company ever to join the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), trading under the symbol (ECI).
1996-07-17 - TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1998-02-18 - Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.
1998-05-26 - The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
1998-06-25 - In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
1999-02-04 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
1999-10-31 - EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.
2000-02-15 - Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
2001-09-11 - Terrorists hijack two passenger planes crashing them into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people
2001-11-12 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2004-05-26 - The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
2004-06-24 - In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2004-07-04 - The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several weeks)
2005-08-12 - An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island
2005-10-02 - Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2005-12-20 - 2005 New York City transit strike: New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes on strike, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services.
2006-02-12 - A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
2006-04-27 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
2006-07-05 - Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting held at the U.N in New York City because of the North Korean missile tests a day before.
2007-08-08 - An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2007-09-17 - AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.
2008-03-13 - Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time.
2008-03-17 - New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.
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