451 – 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 843 – Vikings destroy Nantes 1441 – Eton College founded by Henry VI 1497 – John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England, believed he found Asia in Nova Scotia 1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded 1778 – David Rittenhouse observes (and many others,...
Territorial enlargement of the United States,
the Gadsden Purchase shown in red-orange
A trio of free events will keep Lower Manhattan residents slimmed, slaked, sated, and even seated this weekend. Tonight, the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy will host (in partnership with the Consulate General of Sweden), the annual Swedish Midsummer Festival in Wagner Park and on the Pier A Plaza, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. Guests...
930 – World’s oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established 1683 – William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians. Some historians place the date of the treaty today in 1683, when Penn purchased two tracts of land from Tamanend and his associates. It is believed that transaction and the “Great Treaty” took place at the same time. West’s painting has a...
William Penn's words, "We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good-will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. We are the same as if one man's body was to be divided into two parts; we are of one flesh and one blood." The reply of Tamanend, is equally noble: "We will live in love with William Penn and his children as long as the creeks and rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure."
Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen. Here’s his facebook link to track his voyage. Day 39, Wednesday 22nd June.Bright moon all night, clean sunrise again and 2 hrs later still cloudless. But it did not take long yesterday to change...
Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.
Community Board 1 (CB1) is urging Brookfield Properties to preserve a battered relic of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001: the stippling indentations visible on the uptown side of the Liberty Street pedestrian bridge, which were created by an avalanche of falling debris, when the towers of the World Trade Center fell. The bridge...
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy. 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in...
The Cuyahoga River, located in Ohio feeds into Lake Erie. The river is famous for having been so polluted that it "caught fire" in 1969.
