| It
was on this day... | 1904
New York City Subway Opens | It
was opened on this day by Mayor George McClellan. It ran north from City Hall,
under Lafayette Street and Park Avenue to Grand Central Station, west along 42nd
Street to Times Square, then north on Broadway to 145th Street. Mayor
McClellan drove the first train, which arrived at City Hall Station at 2:35 in
the afternoon. The
subway opened to the public at 7pm. The fare for a ride was one nickel. |
| It
was on this day... | 1994
US State and Federal Prison Population Exceeds 1,000,000
For The First Time | The
figure was actually 1,012,851 men and women and excluded the 500,000 in local
prisons. The
US had the number two incarceration rate in the world, second only to Russia. Most
prisoners were men on drug related sentences. Half were of African-American ethnicity,
as opposed to only 13% in the general population. |
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this page to a friend | | Other
News | 1946
'Geographic-ally Speaking' becomes the first ever commercially sponsored TV show. 1954
Walt Disney's Disneyland starts it's record breaking run (later to be named Walt
Disney Presents and The Wonderful World of Disney). 1954
Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio divorce. DiMaggio had allegedly struck Monroe
after she filmed the famous skirt blowing up scene in The Seven-Year Itch. |
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