American President George Washington delivered the very first State of the Union address to Congress.
22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard
22nd November 2017
At 10:50pm on the 8th December 1980, former Beatle and political activist John Lennon was murdered outside his apartment block in New York.
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
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.
21st January 1793: Louis XVI executed for high treason
21st January 2019
19th January 1915: Zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn
19th January 2019
18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins
18th January 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017