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Dateline

  • 1524 Giovanni da Verrazano sails into New York Harbor.
  • 1609 Henry Hudson sails up the Hudson River.
  • 1621 The Dutch West India Company begins trading from New York City.
  • 1626 The Dutch pay 60 guilders ($24) to the Lenape Tribe for the island of New Amsterdam.
  • 1664 The Dutch surrender New Amsterdam to the British and the island is renamed after the brother of King Charles II, the Duke of York.
  • 1765 The Sons of Liberty burn the British Governor in effigy.
  • 1776 Independence from England is declared.
  • 1789 The first Congress is held at Federal Hall on Wall Street, and George Washington is inaugurated.
  • 1792 The first stock exchange is established on Wall Street.
  • 1820 New York City is the nation's largest city, with a population of 124,000.

  • 1859 Central Park opens.
  • 1863 The draft riots rage throughout New York; 125 people die, including 11 African-Americans who are lynched by mobs of Irish immigrants.
  • 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge opens.
  • 1886 The Statue of Liberty is completed.
  • 1892 Ellis Island opens; begins processing over a million immigrants yearly.
  • 1904 The first subway departs from City Hall.
  • 1920 Babe Ruth joins the New York Yankees.
  • 1923 Yankee Stadium opens.
  • 1929 The stock market crashes.
  • 1931 The Empire State Building opens and is the tallest building in the world.
  • 1939 The New York World's Fair opens in Flushing Meadows, Queens.
  • 1947 The Brooklyn Dodgers sign Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in the Major Leagues.
  • 1957 Elvis Presley performs live in New York on the Ed Sullivan Show.
  • 1969 The Gay Rights movement begins with the Stonewall Rebellion in Greenwich Village.
  • 1990 David Dinkins becomes the first African-American mayor of New York City.
  • 2000 The New York Yankees beat the New York Mets in the first Subway Series in 44 years. New York's population exceeds eight million.
  • 2001 Terrorists use hijacked planes to crash into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, bringing the towers down and killing over 3,000 people.
  • 2003 Smoking is banned in all restaurants and bars.
  • 2006 Construction begins on the controversial Freedom Tower, to be built at the site of the World Trade Center.
  • 2008 The last season for old Yankee Stadium; version 2.0 opens in 2009.
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