Month: March 2018

March 13

607 – 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1519 – Cortez lands in Mexico 1639 – Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard 1677 – Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000 1759 – 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1781 – Sir William Herschel sees “comet”  which turned out to be...
The dreaded 'hit from behind, burst into flames', Ford Pinto.

Separation of Church and State

The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) has recruited Lili Chopra to join the organization as its new executive director for cultural programs, grants and services. She is slated to become part of an unusual dual-leadership team, in which she will share authority with Diego S. Segalini, currently LMCC’s interim executive director, who will fill the...
Among the LMCC projects Lili Chopra will oversee is the annual River To River Festival, which brings live performances to dozens of Lower Manhattan venues each summer.

March 12

538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius 1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph A. Biedenharn. 1918 – Moscow becomes the...
Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street's history.

Image and Likeness

Four sculptures commissioned in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as part of the former Catholic Memorial to September 11 in Battery Park City, are slated to move to a new home in Tribeca. Saint Michael The statues, by acclaimed sculptor John Collier, were once part of the Saint Joseph Chapel,...
St. Peter's Church, in Tribeca, where four sculptures from the recently shuttered Saint Joseph Chapel in Battery Park City, are slated to be relocated, at the top of the front steps.

March 9

141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China. 1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg. 1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh,...
George Burns and Gracie Allan

National Lighthouse Museum Presents

On Thursday March 15, the National Lighthouse Museum will present Bill Miller, an international authority on the subject of ocean liners and cruise ships.  Mr. Miller will give a 45 minute talk about the Port of New York and all the great ships that have visited. Includes will be those great ships of the past,...
Passenger Ship Terminal