1683 – The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1783 – Continental Army dissolved; George Washington’s “Farewell Address”
1787 – First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1896 – First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine
1918 – 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
1920 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones,” premieres in NYC
1922 – Ottoman Empire abolished
1939 – First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1946 – NY Knicks first basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66
1965 – first concert at Fillmore Auditorium, SF
1969 – Beatles’ “Abbey Road,” album goes #1 in US and stays #1 for 11 weeks
1990 – Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
1990 – Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
2012 – Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe’s first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang
