Historical place archive

New York City in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at New York City in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records2 event labels2 people1860–1966

Historical events in New York City

1860

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Cooper Union Address
Abraham Lincoln · Republican Party

Lincoln delivers the Cooper Union Address and impresses eastern Republicans

1966

1966
The Witches
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood · Cinema

Meets Dino De Laurentiis and agrees to appear in the anthology film The Witches opposite Silvana Mangano.

Provenance

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