Year: 2017

January 19

January 19 1419 – Hundred Years’ War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy. 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. 1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession...
Howard Hughes flying over New York City

The Anti-Trump Camp

A protest encampment similar in style to — but smaller in scale than — the Occupy Wall Street movement that transfixed Lower Manhattan in 2011 has claimed several hundred square feet of sidewalk space outside of the Goldman Sachs headquarters building, at northwest corner of Vesey and West Streets. The protestors arrived on Tuesday night,...
On Tuesday afternoon, protestors objecting to the appointments made by president-elect Donald Trump from the ranks of Goldman Sachs set up an encampment outside the firm's headquarters, where they plan to remain through Friday's inauguration.

January 18

350 – General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor. 1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session. 1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the “Sandwich Islands”. 1788 – The first elements of the...
Thomas A. Watson with telephone

Things You're Not Allowed to Do in Battery Park City

If Battery Park City sometimes seems a tad buttoned down, part of the reason may be all the forms of work and trade that are officially forbidden within the 92 acres of landfill between West Street and the Hudson River. The neighborhood, although governed and managed by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), is subject...

Things You’re Not Allowed to Do in Battery Park City

If Battery Park City sometimes seems a tad buttoned down, part of the reason may be all the forms of work and trade that are officially forbidden within the 92 acres of landfill between West Street and the Hudson River. The neighborhood, although governed and managed by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), is subject...

January 17

38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. 395 – Upon the death of Emperor Theodosius I, the Roman Empire is permanently divided into the Eastern Roman Empire under Arcadius, and the Western Roman Empire under Honorius. 1524 – Giovanni...
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg's passport picture