Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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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.
Irish soldiers serving in the British Army led the first recorded Saint Patrick’s Day parade which, due to the high number of Irish immigrants in New York, quickly became an annual tradition.
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.
The band landed at New York’s Kennedy Airport on 7 February to be greeted by 3,000 screaming fans.
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 21st December 1913, the first modern crossword puzzle was printed in the New York World newspaper.
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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