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• 6/3/1621 The Dutch West India Company is awarded a 24 year charter to colonize New Amsterdam.
• 6/3/1968  Valerie Solanas, an unstable member of Andy Warhol's Factory group, shoots Warhol with a .32 pistol at The Factory at 33 Union Square West.  She offers the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto as her defense.
• 6/5/1829 Brooklyn-Queens Day, traditionally the first Thursday in June, started as “Anniversary Day” in Brooklyn in 1829. All public school children in New York City have a day off from school, thanks to the New York State Legislature.
• 6/6/1961 In a defeat of Tammany Hall, Robert Wagner defeats Arthur Levitt, in Democratic Mayoral primary.
• 6/7/1776 Richard Henry Lee, a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, presents a formal resolution calling for America to declare its independence from Britain.
• 6/7/1906 James Walter Braddock is born in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. He will become the Heavyweight Champion of the World at in 1935.
  
• 6/9-6/15
• 6/10/1928 Maurice Sendak is born in Brooklyn.
• 6/11/1913 Vince Lombardi is born at 2542 East 14th street, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
• 6/12/1909 Queensborough Bridge opens. 
• 6/14/1946 Donald Trump is born in Queens.  His family lives on Wareham Street in Jamaica Estates.
• 6/16-6/22
• 6/16/1890 Madison Square Garden opens at Madison Square, 23rd street where 5th avenue and Broadway cross.   
• 6/16/1971 Tupac Shakur is born in Manhattan.
• 6/19/1881 James Walker is born in Manhattan. He was elected mayor of New York City with the backing of Tammany Hall, but resigned from office in 1932 when facing charges of corruption.
• 6/19/1903 Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig is born at 1994 2nd avenue, in the Yorkville section of Manhattan.
• 6/19/1915 Julius Schwartz, editor of Batman and Superman comic books, is born at 817 Caldwell Avenue in the Bronx.
• 6/22-6/28
• 6/24/1891 New Croton Aqueduct, with a capacity of 300 million gallons daily, is completed.
• 6/25/1906 Stanford White, a great American architect who designed the Washington Square Arch and the original Madison Square Garden, is killed by Harry Thaw, on the roof of Madison Square Garden.
• 6/28/1971 Joseph Colombo, Sr, while leading a Unity Day rally for the Italian-American Civil Rights League, is shot by Jerome Johnson. Colombo died after a 7-year coma; Johnson was killed at the scene by an unknown gunman.
• 6/29/1960 Bedloe's Island, the site of the Statue of Liberty, has its name changed to Liberty Island.
• 6/29-7/5
• 6/30/1917 Susan (Edythe) Hayward and Lena Horne were both born in Brooklyn.

• 7/1/1948 The first increase in transit fares raises the cost of a token to a dime.
• 7/3/1672 Governor Lovelace orders new defenses for New York City to defend the city against the war with Holland.
• 7/3/1868 Charles Harvey starts construction on Ninth Avenue elevated railroad.
• 7/4/1842 Croton Aqueduct System delivers water to the central reservoir on 5th avenue and 42nd street for the first time.
• 7/4/1927 Neil Simon, American playwright and screenwriter, is born at 185 and Fort Washington in the Bronx.
  
• 7/6-7/12
• 7/6/1971 World-renowned jazz musician, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong dies at his home in Corona. The Louis Armstrong House & Archives, administered by CUNY’s Queens College, was declared a National Historical Landmark in 1977.
• 7/9/1776 Declaration of Independence is read to New Yorkers. They respond by pulling down the statue of George III in Bowling Green Park.
• 7/11/1936 Construction of the Triborough Bridge is completed.
• 7/12/1804 Thirty one hours after dueling with Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton dies in Manhattan.
  
• 7/13-7/19
• 7/13-7/14/1977 A bolt of lightning causes a 25 hour electrical blackout across all five boroughs.
• 7/14-7/16 Draft riots occur after President Lincoln enforces the first federal draft in the United States. They start at the Ninth District office at 3rd avenue and 47th street.
• 7/17/1947 Jack Kerouac, a leader of the "Beat Generation," begins hitchhiking his way to Denver, Colorado, starting the experience which leads him to write "On the Road."
• 7/18/1940 Joe Torre is born at Madison Park Hospital in Brooklyn.
• 7/20-7/26
• 7/22/1849 Emma Lazarus, an American poet who wrote the poem inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, is born in Manhattan.
• 7/22/1916 First Transit Strike! Trolley car operators close down most urban surface transportation.
• 7/24/1653 Adriaen vander Donck becomes the first lawyer allowed to practice in the city of New Amsterdam.
• 7/24/1807 Ira Frederick Aldridge is born in New York City. Aldridge is the only actor of African American decent who is memorialized with a bronze plaque at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford Upon Avon.
• 7/25/1966 Frank O'Hara, a member of "The New York School," dies in an automobile accident. He had not only been a poet, but also a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.
• 7/26/1788 A spirited parade is held to celebrate the ratification of the United States Constitution, as New York becomes the 11th colony to join the United States of America.
• 7/26/1928 Stanley Kubrick is born at 307 2nd avenue, in Manhattan.
• 7/27-8/2
• 7/29/1905 Clara Bow, silent movie star, is born at 697 Bergen Street, in Brooklyn.
• 7/29/1907 The last opportunity to take a horse drawn publicly supported vehicle occurred today. On July 30th, 1907 motor buses replace all horse drawn public vehicles.
• 7/29/1976 David Berkowitz becomes "Son of Sam" when he fires five shots into a car parked on Buhre Avenue, killing one woman.
• 8/1/1819 Herman Melville is born in Manhattan.
• 8/1/1971 George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar, and others perform at two benefit concerts for refugees from flood-ravaged Bangladesh.
• 8/2/1924 James Baldwin is born at Harlem Hospital, at 135th street and Lenox Avenue.
  
• 8/3-8/9
• 8/3/1944 By the authority of President Roosevelt, Ruth Gruber, a Jewish-American writer and journalist, arrives at New York Harbor with 1,000 Holocaust refugees.
• 8/4/1735 John Peter Zenger, editor of the New York Weekly Journal is tried for libel of Governor Cosby. His acquittal is a boon for freedom of the press.
• 8/8/1673 A Dutch Fleet anchors off Staten Island. Captain Richard Manning commands the defense of the city, but the next day New York is recaptured by the Dutch and renamed New Orange. 3 days later Anthony Colve is appointed Governor-General of what is quickly renamed New Netherlands
• 8/8/1830 Cornelius Rea Agnew, founder of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital in 1868 and the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital in 1869, is born in New York City.
• 8/8/2007 The first ever recorded tornado hits Brooklyn, NYC.
• 8/9/1910 A deranged ex-city worker attempts to assassinate Mayor Gaynor.
  
• 8/10-8/16
• 8/10/1950 Ethel Rosenberg is arrested for espionage and conspiracy while still living at 10 Monroe Street.
• 8/10/1977 “Son of Sam” killer, David Berkowitz, whose random shootings had terrorized New York City, was finally arrested by police after being traced through a parking ticket. “What took you so long?” He asked the arresting officers.
• 8/12/1790 The U.S. Congress meets for the last time in New York City, which ceases to be the national capital. President Washington leaves New York 18 days later.
• 8/13/1959 Construction begins on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The bridge, still the longest suspension bridge in the United States, links Brooklyn and Staten Island.
• 8/13/1969 At the time the largest ticker tape parade in history is thrown down Broadway and Park Avenue to celebrate the Apollo 13 mission and the astronauts back from their trip to the moon. Neil Amstrong later said his actual words were “One small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind.”
• 8/14/2003 A huge blackout affects the Northeast of the United States.
• 8/15/1965 The Beatles open their second US tour with a concert at Shea Stadium. The concert has a record attendance of 55,600.
• 8/16/1689 Jacob Leisler is appointed Commander-in-chief of the province by a Committee of Public Safety in New York.
• 8/17-8/23
• 8/19/1991 Gavin Cato, a guyanese boy, is struck and killed by a car driven by Yosef Lifsh in Crown Heights. Riots in Crown Heights followed, during which the Rabinnical scholar Yankel Rosenbaum is killed.
• 8/21/1904 Count Basie is born. In 1946 he moves to Adelaide Road and 175th street in St. Albans.
• 8/22/1944 Jack Kerouac marries Edie Parker. It is believed by many that this marriage took place to raise bail money after he is charged with assisting his friend, Lucien Carr, who had murdered David Dammerer.
• 8/24-8/30
• 8/25/1892 Stephen Crane is fired from the New York Tribune for his account on the parade of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The story, which was published the previous day, offended many of Asbury Park's genteel residents, and the Tribune had to run an apology.
• 8/26/1898 Peggy Guggenheim (Margurite Guggenheim) is born in New York City.
• 8/26-8/29/1776 George Washington is defeated in Battle of Long Island.  He fled to Philip Livingston's house (281 Hicks Street, approximately) afterwards and drew up plans to escape with his army to Manhattan.  Sadly, the 2 train was not available yet, and wouldn't be for over a century. 
• 8/28/1664 Colonel Richard Nicolls, commander of an English fleet anchored off New Amsterdam, demands that the residents surrender. Stuyvesant (seeing that the situation is hopeless) will formally surrender 13 days later. On October 4 Colonel Nicolls will rename New Amsterdam, New York. The name stuck.
• 8/28/1774 Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first native born United States citizen to be canonized, is born.
  
• 8/30-9/6
• 9/1776 First peace conference of the Revolutionary War is held on Staten Island.
• 8/31/1934 e.e. cummings divorces Anne Barton, his wife of 7 years.
• 8/31/1937 Alfose D'Amato is born in Brooklyn.
• 9/1/1932 Mayor Jimmy Walker, following charges of corruption, resigns from office.
• 9/1/1950 Mayor O'Dwyer, after a disclosure of scandals and fraud in his administration, also resigns from office.
• 9/4/1609 First crewmen from Henry Hudson’s ship, “The Half-Moon,” row ashore to Sandy Hook to fish.