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New York Conspiracy Testimony
Burton’s testimony became central to accusations against enslaved people and poor white residents.
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Burton’s testimony became central to accusations against enslaved people and poor white residents.
Horsmanden helped conduct and document the prosecutions arising from the alleged New York conspiracy.
Hughson was executed after being convicted during the conspiracy panic and mass prosecutions.
1st Congress of the US is held in New York
Takes the oath of office on the balcony of Frederick Hall, New York
Appointed Governor of New York
The Americans build warships on the Great Lakes faster than the British and defeat the British fleet to avert a major invasion of New York
Samuel Rust of New York City patents the 1st practical printing press built in the USA
Opening of the New York Stock Exchange
Appointed Governor of New York
Birth of Bret Harte
Builds an experimental receiver capable of recording electrical signal changes.
Files a patent caveat while refining his electromagnetic telegraph.
Bank suspensions and collapsing credit begin a severe national economic depression.
Aspinwall incorporates the Panama Railroad Company to build a railway across the isthmus.
1st Editor of the New York Times
Appointed Editor of the New York Times
Admitted to the bar
Founds his wn law firm
Appointed State Engineer-in-Chief
Appointed Collector of the Port of New York by President Grant
Dismissed after an investigation into the corrupt practices of the customs house
The Treasury resumes redemption of United States notes in gold at par.
The Treasury resumes gold redemption of United States notes at the established parity.
Becomes the twenty-first President of the United States.
Takes the presidential oath after Garfield's death.
Rockefeller's companies adopt a trust structure coordinating control of the oil business.
Standard Oil interests adopt a formal trust agreement.
Rockefeller consolidates control through the new trust structure.
Thomas Adams installs the 1st Tutti Frutti machines on the platforms of the elevated trains of NYC
Founds the Wall St Journal which includes daily US stock prices in the Dow-Jones index
Patents an electrical computer for processing data
Railroad failures and declining gold reserves trigger a severe financial and industrial contraction.
Morgan's syndicate supplies gold to replenish the Treasury reserve in exchange for government bonds.
Morgan organises United States Steel as the world's first billion-dollar corporation.
Adds a control grid to a vacuum tube, enabling an electron current to amplify electrical signals.
Morgan coordinates private support for banks and trusts during the financial panic.
Birth of Artie Shaw
Completes a detailed account of the sinking based on his own survival and interviews with other survivors.
Arrives in New York aboard Carpathia after surviving Titanic in lifeboat 4.
Leads the United States Senate inquiry into the Titanic disaster as hearings begin.
Birth of Jerome David Salinger
Birth of Maria Callas
With Lester Germer, observes diffraction of electrons from a nickel crystal and directly confirms the wave character of matter.
Share prices collapse amid record selling during the Wall Street crash.
Burmese Days is first published in the United States.
Western Union transferred Shaw from New Orleans to New York City in 1935.
Appointed District Attorney of New York
Birth of Colin Powell
Shows uranium-235 is responsible for slow-neutron fission.
Develops gaseous-diffusion research for uranium enrichment.
Groves purchases about 1,250 tons of high-grade Belgian Congo uranium ore stored on Staten Island.
Kellex is organised to design the gaseous-diffusion plant, with Percival Keith directing work on plant engineering and diffusion barriers.
Presents the Baruch Plan to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission proposing international control of atomic energy.
Measures a deviation of the electron magnetic moment from the simplest Dirac prediction, providing another key test for quantum electrodynamics.
With Robert Retherford, measures a small shift between hydrogen electron energy levels that becomes a decisive test of quantum electrodynamics.
Inaugurated as president of Columbia University.
Establishes regular relationships among the four DNA bases.
Provides crucial evidence later used to determine DNA structure.
Marguerite and Lee moved to a one-room basement apartment on Sheridan Avenue in the Bronx after leaving John Pic's household.
Lee attended Trinity Evangelical Lutheran School briefly before irregular attendance led to his withdrawal in September 1952.
Lee enrolled in seventh grade at Public School 117 on September 30, 1952, after leaving the Lutheran school.
A school attendance officer located Lee at the Bronx Zoo during his period of persistent truancy from Public School 44.
By January 16, 1953, Oswald had attended only a small fraction of his scheduled days at Public School 117 and had failing grades in most subjects.
A school attendance officer filed a court petition on March 12, 1953, alleging that Oswald had been excessively absent from school.
Lee registered at Public School 44 on March 23, 1953, after court proceedings increased pressure for him to resume attendance.
Psychiatrist Renatus Hartogs recommended probation, child-guidance treatment for Lee, and family-agency assistance rather than immediate institutional placement.
While remanded to Youth House, Lee underwent psychological tests and interviews with a social worker, probation officer, and psychiatric staff.
A New York judge declared Oswald a truant on April 16, 1953, and remanded him to Youth House for psychiatric study.
Justice McClancy released Lee on parole until September 24 and requested referral to the Community Service Society for treatment.
Lee entered eighth grade at Public School 44 on September 14, 1953, while still under juvenile-court supervision.
The court continued Lee's parole and directed his probation officer to contact the Big Brothers counseling service for possible assistance.
Proposes international peaceful use of uranium and atomic energy.
A Big Brothers caseworker visited Lee and Marguerite at home, but Marguerite said further counseling was unnecessary.
The New York juvenile court dismissed Lee's truancy case on March 11, 1954, after he had returned to New Orleans.
Begins professional recording work as a young musician before moving into production and arranging.
Plays harmonica on Carolyn Hester's third album.
Hears Dylan's harmonica work on Carolyn Hester's album.
Performs at Gerde's Folk City during his early New York breakthrough.
Plays at Gerdes Folk City
Arrives in New York and enters the Greenwich Village folk scene.
Stevenson discovers that intelligence officials supplied him with inaccurate information.
Stevenson later learns that the official account of the air strikes was false.
Stevenson responds after Cuba accuses the United States of directing air attacks.
Stevenson confronts Cuban evidence challenging the defector cover story.
Stevenson publicly denies that United States forces will intervene in Cuba.
Stevenson states that United States armed forces will not intervene in Cuba.
Stevenson presents the administration claim that Cuban defectors conducted the attacks.
Publishes a New York Times review that helps Dylan's reputation.
Signs Bob Dylan to Columbia Records.
Records Broadside material under the pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt.
Records several songs for Broadside under the name Blind Boy Grunt.
Publishes folk material linked to Dylan's Blind Boy Grunt pseudonym.
The first Columbia album makes limited commercial impact in its first year.
Becomes Dylan's companion and influences his political awareness.
Signs a management contract with Bob Dylan.
Replaces John Hammond as producer during Dylan's second album period.
Releases his debut Columbia album Bob Dylan.
The first Columbia album mixes folk, blues, gospel and two originals.
Includes Song to Woody on his debut album.
New York welfare officials helped the returning Oswald family obtain a room at the Times Square Hotel after their arrival from Europe.
After initially resisting family assistance, Lee accepted money sent by his brother Robert to help finance the trip from New York to Texas.
Records Blowin in the Wind during Freewheelin sessions.
Legally changes his name from Robert Allen Zimmerman to Robert Dylan.
Stevenson prepared the United States diplomatic case for presentation before the United Nations Security Council.
Stevenson defended the quarantine before the Security Council and challenged Soviet claims about the nature of the Cuban deployment.
Stevenson confronted Valerian Zorin at the Security Council and presented reconnaissance photographs demonstrating Soviet missile installations.
Stevenson worked with U Thant on proposals intended to reduce the risk of a naval or military clash.
Stevenson continued United Nations negotiations concerning verification, withdrawal, and arrangements for ending the quarantine.
Death of Eleanor Roosevelt
Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel join together
Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel join together
Accepts the Tom Paine Award after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Releases A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall on Freewheelin.
Releases Don't Think Twice It's All Right on Freewheelin.
Releases The Freewheelin Bob Dylan and becomes known as a songwriter.
Releases The Freewheelin Bob Dylan.
Ruby traveled to New York in August 1963 while dealing with American Guild of Variety Artists problems and seeking entertainment talent for his clubs.
Works on political material later central to The Times They Are a-Changin.
Works as a staff songwriter for Pickwick Records, writing commercial songs before forming the Velvet Underground.
Records The Ostrich with studio musicians, leading to his first musical connection with John Cale.
Releases The Times They Are a-Changin.
Releases With God on Our Side on the third album.
The Rolling Stones make their first major visit to the United States.
Releases Another Side of Bob Dylan.
Releases My Back Pages on Another Side of Bob Dylan.
Death of Herbert Hoover
Appears with the Rolling Stones on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Hendrix signs a three-year recording contract with entrepreneur Ed Chalpin, receiving $1 and 1% royalty on records with Curtis Knight. Hendrix joins a New York-based band, Curtis Knight and the Squires
Like a Rolling Stone reaches major chart positions in America and Britain.
Sees Mr Tambourine Man become central to the folk-rock breakthrough.
The Kinks face a ban from American Federation of Musicians touring.
Works with Lou Reed in the Velvet Underground, adding viola, bass and avant-garde influence.
Co-founds the Velvet Underground and becomes its principal singer, guitarist and songwriter.
Records Subterranean Homesick Blues with electric backing.
Assassinated addressing a rally at the Audobon Ballroom, Harlem, on the first day of National Brotherhood Week
Assassinates Malcolm X
Death of Malcolm X, assassinated
Helps national support build after the televised violence.
Releases Bringing It All Back Home.
Releases an album mixing acoustic songs with electric instruments.
Releases Like a Rolling Stone, expanding expectations of a pop single.
Releases Ballad of a Thin Man on Highway 61 Revisited.
Releases Desolation Row on Highway 61 Revisited.
Releases Highway 61 Revisited.
The Act replaces national-origin quotas with family and employment-based immigration priorities.
Manages the Velvet Underground and presents them with the multimedia Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows.
Highway 61 Revisited connects Dylan's roots to blues, folk and rock.
Releases Long Hair as part of Tony and Siegrid, an early pop recording before his producer career.
Birth of David Lawrence Schwimmer
Birth of Riddick Bowe
Begins an extended Mothers of Invention residency at the Garrick Theatre, mixing tightly arranged music with improvisation and theatrical elements.
Photographs Morrison in the Young Lion session.
Releases The Velvet Underground and Nico, later regarded as one of rock music’s most influential albums.
Delivers a major speech opposing the Vietnam War at Riverside Church
Performs Light My Fire on national television.
Refuses to alter Light My Fire lyrics for television.
Popularises the term black hole for complete gravitational collapse.
Simon & Garfunkel release, "Bookends"
Becomes World heavy weight champion, defeats Busther Mathis. Ali had to leave his world heavyweight title vacant due to legal repercussions from his refusal to serve in the Vietnam War, and the New York commission decided to hold a title fight between Frazier and Buster Mathis
Releases White Light White Heat, pushing the Velvet Underground toward a harsher experimental rock sound.
Broadcasts a widely noted assessment after reporting from Vietnam following Tet
Broadcasts a commentary saying the war appears stalemated
Broadcasts that the Vietnam War appears stalemated after visiting Vietnam
The bombing of Kampuchea is only officially acknowledged in 1973. Exposes the secret bombings of Kampuchea
Anchors CBS coverage watched by millions during Apollo 11.
Makes his debut at Broadway appearing in his own play, "Play it Again, Sam"
Releases the self-titled Velvet Underground album, showing a quieter and more intimate songwriting style.
Appears with The Doors on the PBS programme Critique.
Performs with Band of Gypsys at Madison Square Garden
Loses the WBA heavyweight title fight to Joe Frazier
Defeats Jimmy Ellis at Madison Square Garden to become recognized world heavyweight champion
Sombrotto helps lead New York letter carriers as the illegal postal strike spreads nationally.
Network broadcasters prepare for the end of cigarette advertising on radio and television
Releases the controversial double album Self Portrait.
Helps organize the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march
Helps organize the first anniversary march after Stonewall
Participates in early post-Stonewall gay liberation activism
Electric Lady Studios opens in New York
Participates in the Women's Strike for Equality movement
Helps lead the Women's Strike for Equality
Supports the Women's Strike for Equality
Arrested in New York on charges connected with the Marin County courthouse case
Releases New Morning.
Leaves the Velvet Underground before Loaded is released, ending his first period with the band.
Stops Oscar Bonavena in the fifteenth round
The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers
The New York Times publishes security documents leaked to the press by Daniel Ellsberg
Performs at the Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden.
Releases the live album Fillmore East - June 1971 from performances by the Mothers at the New York venue.
Records and releases the protest single George Jackson.
Becomes Springsteen's early manager and producer before later legal disputes disrupt recording.
Signs with Columbia Records after auditioning for John Hammond.
Drums at the New York concerts later used in the concert film.
Performs during the concerts filmed for The Song Remains the Same.
Hunt passed through federal detention in New York while being transported under custody for continuing Watergate proceedings.
Supports Resolution 338 calling for a ceasefire and peace negotiations.
Frazier is defeated by Ali in their 2nd fight & Ali earns a title fight with George Foreman
Releases Planet Waves with the Band.
Releases the live album Before the Flood.
Releases Blood on the Tracks.
Releases Tangled Up in Blue on Blood on the Tracks.
In a June 20, 1975, newspaper interview, Sturgis described himself as a spy, a claim that attracted additional attention to his intelligence associations.
Releases Desire.
Releases Hurricane, a song about Rubin Carter.
Muhamid Ali defeats Ken Norton on points in a 15 round championship fight
Produces and sequences the audio selections prepared for the Voyager Golden Record.
Serves as creative director for the Voyager Golden Record, helping shape its sounds, greetings and presentation.
Advises on world-music selections chosen to represent human culture on the Voyager Golden Record.
Releases Zappa in New York, drawn largely from concerts at the Palladium and featuring elaborate ensemble arrangements.
Releases Street-Legal.
Performs at the No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden with the E Street Band.
Dies in New York after the collapse of the Sex Pistols and the death of Nancy Spungen.
Opens on Broadway in The Elephant Man, earning praise for his stage performance as John Merrick.
Uses Kraftwerk material as a foundation for Planet Rock, spreading the group's influence in hip hop.
Releases Infidels.
AT&T separates its local telephone companies under the antitrust settlement.
Records and releases the album Empire Burlesque.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Drums with Led Zeppelin members at Atlantic Records' anniversary concert.
Records and releases the album Under the Red Sky.
Appointed Mayor of New York, 1st black NYC Mayor
Appointed Mayor of New York, 1st black NYC Mayor
The FBI raid the New Jersey home of Ali Mohammeds associate El Sayyid Nosair, discovering a great deal of evidence of terrorist plots, including plans to blow up New York City skyscrapers
The FBI raid the New Jersey home of Ali Mohammeds associate El Sayyid Nosair, discovering a great deal of evidence of terrorist plots, including plans to blow up New York City skyscrapers
The FBI raid the New Jersey home of Ali Mohammeds associate El Sayyid Nosair, discovering a great deal of evidence of terrorist plots, including plans to blow up New York City skyscrapers
The FBI raid the New Jersey home of Ali Mohammeds associate El Sayyid Nosair, discovering a great deal of evidence of terrorist plots, including plans to blow up New York City skyscrapers
The FBI raid the New Jersey home of Ali Mohammeds associate El Sayyid Nosair, discovering a great deal of evidence of terrorist plots, including plans to blow up New York City skyscrapers
Receives the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Who's Tommy opens on Broadway.
Produces Wonderful for Adam Ant, working with a major figure from British new wave pop.
The Council sharply reduces UNAMIR while genocide is underway.
Participates in Security Council decisions during the Rwanda crisis.
Death of Richard Nixon
Supports establishment of an international tribunal for Rwanda.
The Security Council creates the ICTR by Resolution 955.
Pink Floyd are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
NPT parties agree to extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty indefinitely.
The United Nations celebrates its 50th anniversary at New York with a gathering of more than 140 heads of state (the largest such gathering in world history)
The United Nations celebrates its 50th anniversary at New York with a gathering of more than 140 heads of state (the largest such gathering in world history)
The United Nations celebrates its 50th anniversary at New York with a gathering of more than 140 heads of state (the largest such gathering in world history)
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, recognising his influence on rock, pop and visual performance.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Velvet Underground.
Signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty on the day it opens for signature.
Publishes his memoir Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Eagles.
Wins Album of the Year for Time Out of Mind.
Receives a National Board of Review career achievement award.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist.
Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones marry at the New York Plaza Hotel
Al-Qaeda hijack aeroplanes & destroy the Twin Towers, nearly 3,000 are killed
Bush vows to "lead the world to victory" over terrorism
Bush leads 4 former presidents for national prayer at the National Cathedral
Bush declares a national emergency
The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates to help prevent a recession
The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates to help prevent a recession
Reunites with David Bowie for Heathen, their first full album together in many years.
Produces Reality with David Bowie, continuing their renewed early-2000s collaboration.
Rolling Stone ranks Like a Rolling Stone first in its songs list.
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the US is formed by the US Government, called the 9/11 Commission, concludes the attacks were planned & carried out by al-Qaeda
Is inducted with the Sex Pistols, though the band refuses to attend the ceremony.
Produces Djin Djin, later recognised with a Grammy Award for contemporary world music.
Dies in New York before the release of The Dark Knight
Bear Stearns receives emergency secured funding after counterparties withdraw financing.
JPMorgan Chase agrees to acquire Bear Stearns with Federal Reserve assistance.
Begins a widely watched impersonation of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live
Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy after failing to obtain a buyer or government rescue.
Merrill Lynch agrees to be acquired by Bank of America during the market panic.
AIG accepts emergency federal lending after severe collateral and liquidity demands.
JPMorgan Chase purchases most Washington Mutual assets and deposits from the FDIC.
Releases Single Ladies, one of her defining pop singles
Citigroup receives federal capital support and protection against losses on selected assets.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis.
Produces The Next Day, Bowie's surprise return after a long absence from new albums.
The E Street Band is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for musical excellence.
Co-produces Blackstar, Bowie's final studio album, released two days before Bowie's death.
Dies in New York, prompting major tributes to his role as Eagles co-founder and songwriter.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Deep Purple.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Deep Purple's recognised classic membership.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes.
Releases It's a Selfie, a solo album showing his own songwriting and performing work.
The Irishman premieres at the New York Film Festival.
The United States authorises the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.
The United States authorises the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.
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