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585 – War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse 1635 – Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office 1686 – First volume of Isaac Newton’s “Principia” published 1914 – 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia 1924 – 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine...
During a goodwill trip through Latin America, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by an angry crowd while traveling through Caracas, Venezuela.
The highly regarded P3 Baseball Program at Pier 40 is now accepting applications for its Summer Camp programs. The Baseball Camp (for boys and girls, aged five through 14) is offering seven weekly sessions, starting July 5 – 7 (the first week is three days only, because of the Independence Day holiday), with final session...
The South Street Seaport Museum will begin a year-long observance of its 50th anniversary tomorrow, Saturday, April 29, with a day of festivities (from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm) that will include free admission to all of the Museum’s exhibits, Street of Ships: The Port and Its People, The Original Gus Wagner. The Maritime Roots...
The Museum will offer free admission to all exhibits on Saturday, marking the beginning of its 50th anniversary celebration
Governors Island, Lower Manhattan’s answer to Central Park, will open a month early this year, on Monday May 1. An all-too-brief ferry ride from the Battery Maritime Building (adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry terminal) brings you to the 172-acre island, with its shady lawns, historic forts, hammocks and picnic tables, gardens, goats and miniature...
1478 – The Pazzi family attack Lorenzo de’ Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral. 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown). 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. 1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian...
Downtown will get to keep a cultural mainstay that was slated to lose, thanks to the personal intervention of Julie Menin, the City’s commissioner of the Mayor’s Office and Media and Entertainment, who is also a former chair of Community Board 1. Soho Repertory Theatre (also knows as Soho Rep.) is a leading theater company...
A production of "Duat", by playwright Daniel Alexander Jones, produced last fall by the Soho Repertory Theater, which was facing the possibility of having to leave its longtime home in Tribeca.
