1702 – Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III 1722 – Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded. 1862 – Confederate ironclad “Merrimack” launched 1884 – Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting...
Edward John Dent won the commission to make the great clock-now popularly called Big Ben-for the Houses of Parliament at Westminster, but he died before completing the project
During the upcoming April school break, some 150 students from more than 20 New York middle schools will come together for a week of writing, directing, shooting, and editing under the guidance of 14 professional filmmaking instructors from a broad range of backgrounds. By the end of the five-day course, the teams will have produced...
Middle-school students shoot a scene at I.S. 289 during the Film Intensive program offered by Manhattan Youth in February. This free program will be reprised during the upcoming school break, in April.
161 – Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire 321 – Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. 1530 – King Henry VIII’s divorce request is denied by the...
Aristotle "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
The permit process to use Governors Island’s sports fields is now open! The ballfields are sized for Little League baseball or adult softball. The outfields of these fields can also be used for soccer or other field sports. The two natural turf ballfields can be configured for Little League baseball and adult softball or for...
A waiting list for affordable apartments in the Seaport neighborhood opened today, but may not remain available for long: the State’s Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) agency says that only the first 500 applications will be considered. The apartments are part of Historic Front Street, an 2005 restoration of 11 landmarked buildings — alongside the...
The Historic Front Street development contains both landmarked and contextual structures, as well as affordable apartments - for which the waiting list is now open.
521 – Magellan discovers Guam 1646 – Born in London, Joseph Jenckes arrived in Lynn Massachusetts around 1643. Three years later he was awarded the first patent in North America by the General Court of Massachusetts, for the scythe, an agricultural tool used for clearing grass and reaping crops. The basic scythe design remained in...
1817 illustration of a Polish peasant sharpening a scythe. Drawn by Jan Piotr Norblin, engraved by Philibert-Louis Debucour
