Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’
3rd May 2017
Times Square in New York was given its name shortly after the offices of The New York Times moved to the area.
On the 19th March 1962, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan released his eponymous debut album.
On the 17th March 1766, the first recorded St Patrick’s Day parade took place…in New York.
Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of Missouri.
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was performed for the first time at a concert by Paul Whiteman and his Palais Royal Orchestra called An Experiment in Modern Music.
Although numerous suspension bridges had been built prior to the Brooklyn Bridge, nothing came close to the almost 1,600 foot span across the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas Eve.
On the 23rd December 1823, the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, more commonly known as “The Night Before Christmas” was published anonymously in the New York Sentinel.
On the 21st December 1913, the first modern crossword puzzle was printed in the New York World newspaper.
15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany
15th October 2018
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
14th October 2018
13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances
13th October 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2017
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017