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Month: March 2018

March 28, 2018

March 28 Three Mile Island

AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. 193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus. 1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco. 1814...
Today marks 39 years since the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history at Three Mile Island. Equipment failure and human error caused a partial meltdown in the Unit 2 Reactor. Low levels of radiation were released into the atmosphere
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March 28, 2018

Come Together

A parent leader is calling upon the City’s Department of Education (DOE) and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio to increase diversity in Manhattan’s District 2, which includes Lower Manhattan, as well as the East Side south of 97th Street (with the exception of the Lower East Side) and the West Side south of...
Shino Tanikawa, vice president of the Community Education Council for District 2 (which includes Lower Manhattan) wants to break concentrations of high and low academic achievement in local middle schools.
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March 27, 2018

March 27

196 BC – Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt 1513 – Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida 1625 – Charles I, King Of England, Scotland and Ireland, ascends English throne 1668 – English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company 1790 – The modern shoestring (string and shoe holes) invented...
Charles Chaplin
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March 27, 2018

We Need Your Support to Help Puerto Rico

Dear Friends, The Manhattan Youth community shares the concern with New Yorkers everywhere about shortages and the slow pace of recovery in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. Our own community learned how helpful donors and volunteers can be after September 11, 2001 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Already, the young people on our Manhattan Youth...
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March 27, 2018

‘Senators, Congressmen — Please Heed the Call…’

In the month following the Valentine’s Day Massacre in Parkland, Florida the national stereotype about teens has been sorely challenged. We’re not just about decorating the gym for prom night. We can charge forward on serious issues and effect change with lightning speed, while seasoned politicos remain stuck in the muck that they throw at...
Tahseen Chowdhury, a senior at Stuyvesant High School Courtesy of Tahseen Chowdhury
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March 26, 2018

March 25

708 – Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert’s patent to explore North America 1609 – Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Company 1655 – Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan (Saturn’s largest moon) 1807 – First railway passenger service began in England 1811 –...
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