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June 15, 1904 - The (Click link for more info and facts about General Slocum) General Slocum, carrying 1300 to a picnic site on (An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end) Long Island, catches fire while on the (A tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn) East River. Over 1000 passengers are killed, ending the existence of the German neighbourhood (Click link for more info and facts about Little Germany, New York) Little Germany, New York
June 25, 1906 - (United States architect (1853-1906)) Stanford White is shot and killed by (Click link for more info and facts about Harry K. Thaw) Harry K. Thaw at what was then (Click link for more info and facts about Madison Square Gardens) Madison Square Gardens. The murder would soon be dubbed "the Crime of the Century".
January 8, 1908 - A train collision in the original (A fashionable residential street in New York City) Park Avenue tunnel kills 17 and injures 38.
August 9, 1910 - Reformist Mayor William Jay Gaynor is shot in the throat in (Click link for more info and facts about Hoboken, New Jersey) Hoboken, New Jersey by former city employee James Gallagher. He eventually dies in September 1913 from effects of the wound.
March 25, 1911 - 145 employees, mostly women, are killed in the (Click link for more info and facts about Triangle Factory fire) Triangle Factory fire near (Click link for more info and facts about Washington Square Park) Washington Square Park, some by being forced to jump from the building by the fire. (*)
July 30, 1916 - (Click link for more info and facts about Black Tom Explosion) Black Tom Explosion set off by German saboteurs at a munitions arsenal on a small island in (Click link for more info and facts about New York Harbor) New York Harbor kills seven in Jersey City and causes damage as far as the Brooklyn waterfront and even Times Square.
1918 - The (Click link for more info and facts about Great Influenza Pandemic) Great Influenza Pandemic rages across the country and worldwide. In one particularly virulent October day, 851 people died in New York City alone.
November 1, 1918 - The actions of a substitute motorman filling in during a strike lead to a subway crash in (Click link for more info and facts about Flatbush) Flatbush, (A borough of New York City) Brooklyn. The (Click link for more info and facts about Malbone Street Wreck) Malbone Street Wreck kills 97 people heading home from work and injures a hundred more. (*)
September 16, 1920 - The (Click link for more info and facts about Wall Street bombing) Wall Street bombing kills 40 at "the precise center, geographical as well as metaphorical, of financial America and even of the financial world." Anarchists were suspected ( (Click link for more info and facts about Sacco and Vanzetti) Sacco and Vanzetti had been indicted just days before) but no one was ever charged with the crime.
August 24, 1928 - A subway crash caused by a defective switch below (The area of Manhattan around the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue; heart of the New York theater district; site of annual celebration of New Year's) Times Square kills 16 and injures 150.
March 19, 1935 - The arrest of a shoplifter inflames racial tensions in (A district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto) Harlem and escalates to rioting and looting, with three killed, 125 injured and 100 arrested. (*)
August 11, 1937 - Heavy rains cause a tenement in New Brighton, (A borough of New York City) Staten Island, to collapse, killing 19.
September 21, 1938 - The (Click link for more info and facts about Great New England Hurricane of 1938) Great New England Hurricane of 1938 strikes (An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end) Long Island (*) and continues into New England, killing 564. In New York City, ten people are killed and power is lost across upper Manhattan and the Bronx.
November 16, 1940 - (Click link for more info and facts about George Metesky) George Metesky plants the first bomb of his sixteen years as "The Mad Bomber".
August 1, 1943 - A race riot erupts in (A district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto) Harlem after an African-American soldier is shot by the police and rumored to be killed. The incident touches off a simmering brew of racial tension, unemployment, and high prices to a day of rioting and looting. Several looters are shot dead, and about 500 persons are injured and another 500 arrested.
July 28, 1945 - A (Click link for more info and facts about B-25 Mitchell) B-25 Mitchell bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the (Click link for more info and facts about Empire State Building) Empire State Building, killing 13 people.
June 25, 1946 - Fire destroys the St. George terminal of the (Click link for more info and facts about Staten Island Ferry) Staten Island Ferry, killing 3 and injuring 280.
May 13, 1949 - (Click link for more info and facts about Holland Tunnel fire) Holland Tunnel fire caused by exploding truck carrying eighty 55-gallon drums of (Click link for more info and facts about carbon disulphide) carbon disulphide seriously damages the tunnel's infrastructure and injures 66, with 27 hospitalized, mostly from smoke inhalation.
February 1, 1957 - Northeast Airlines Flight 823 crashes on (Click link for more info and facts about Rikers Island) Rikers Island on takeoff from (Click link for more info and facts about LaGuardia Airport) LaGuardia Airport, killing 21 of the 101 on board.
February 3, 1959 - (Click link for more info and facts about American Airlines) American Airlines Flight 320 crashes in the (A tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn) East River on approach to (Click link for more info and facts about LaGuardia Airport) LaGuardia Airport, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.
December 16, 1960 - Mid-air collision between (Click link for more info and facts about TWA) TWA Flight 266 (inbound to Idlewild Airport, now (35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)) JFK) and (Click link for more info and facts about United Airlines) United Airlines Flight 826 (inbound to (Click link for more info and facts about LaGuardia Airport) LaGuardia Airport) over Miller Field, (A borough of New York City) Staten Island. (*) The TWA aircraft crashed at the site, killing all aboard, while the United aircraft continued flying for about eight miles until it crashed in the (Click link for more info and facts about Park Slope) Park Slope section of (A borough of New York City) Brooklyn, narrowly missing a school. All 134 aboard the aircraft died, along with six persons on the ground in Brooklyn.
March 1, 1962 - (Click link for more info and facts about American Airlines) American Airlines Flight 1 crashes immediately after takeoff from (Click link for more info and facts about Idlewild Airport) Idlewild Airport, killing all 95 on board.
November 30, 1962 - (Click link for more info and facts about Eastern Airlines) Eastern Airlines Flight 512 crashes when trying to make a go-round after failing to land at (Click link for more info and facts about Idlewild Airport) Idlewild Airport in the fog. 25 of the 51 on board are killed.
April 20, 1963 - Three brush fires on (A borough of New York City) Staten Island destroy 100 homes.
March 13, 1964 - (Click link for more info and facts about Kitty Genovese) Kitty Genovese is stabbed to death in (Click link for more info and facts about Kew Gardens) Kew Gardens, (A borough of New York City) Queens. The crime is witnessed by numerous people, none of whom aid Genovese or call for help. The crime is noted by psychology textbooks in later years for its demonstration of the (Click link for more info and facts about bystander effect) bystander effect, although an article published in the (Click link for more info and facts about New York Times) New York Times in February 2004 indicated that many of the popular conceptions of the crime were instead misconceptions. (*)
February 8, 1965 - (Click link for more info and facts about Eastern Airlines) Eastern Airlines Flight 663 crashes at (Click link for more info and facts about Jones Beach) Jones Beach when after takeoff from (35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)) JFK it is forced to evade inbound (Click link for more info and facts about PanAm) PanAm Flight 212. All 84 on board are killed.
February 21, 1965 - (Click link for more info and facts about Black nationalist) Black nationalist leader (Militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)) Malcolm X is assassinated at the (Click link for more info and facts about Audubon Ballroom) Audubon Ballroom by three members of the (A group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans) Nation of Islam.
November 9, 1965 - New York City is affected as part of the (Click link for more info and facts about Northeast Blackout of 1965) Northeast Blackout of 1965.
October 17, 1966 - A fire across 23rd St. from (Click link for more info and facts about Madison Square) Madison Square kills 12 members of the (Click link for more info and facts about New York City Fire Department) New York City Fire Department when a floor collapses beneath them. It was the worst day in the FDNY's history until September 11, 2001.
June 28, 1969 - A questionable police raid on the (Click link for more info and facts about Stonewall Inn) Stonewall Inn, a (A mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century) Greenwich Village (Someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex) gay bar, is resisted by the patrons and leads to a (A public act of violence by an unruly mob) riot. The event helps inspire the founding of the modern gay rights movement.
February 10, 1973 - 40 workers are killed in an explosion while cleaning an empty (Click link for more info and facts about LNG) LNG tank in Bloomfield, (A borough of New York City) Staten Island.
June 24, 1975 - (Click link for more info and facts about Eastern Airlines) Eastern Airlines Flight 66 from (A port and largest city in Louisiana; located in southeastern Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi river; a major center for offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico; jazz originated here among black musicians in the late 19th century; Mardi) New Orleans strikes the runway lights at (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport, probably due to (Click link for more info and facts about wind shear) wind shear. 113 of the 124 people on board are killed. (*)
December 29, 1975 - A bomb explodes in the baggage claim area of the (Click link for more info and facts about TWA) TWA terminal at (Click link for more info and facts about LaGuardia Airport) LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 and injuring 74. The perpetrators were never identified. (*)
July 29, 1976 - (Click link for more info and facts about David Berkowitz) David Berkowitz (aka the " (Click link for more info and facts about Son of Sam) Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.
May 16, 1977 - A New York Airways helicopter idling at the helipad on the MetLife - formerly PanAm - building toppled over and its rotor blade sheared off. The blade killed four people on the roof and then fell over the edge and down 59 stories and a block over to Madison Avenue where it killed a pedestrian.
July 13-14, 1977 - New York City again loses power in the (Click link for more info and facts about blackout of 1977) blackout of 1977. Unlike the previous blackout twelve years earlier, this blackout is followed by widespread rioting and looting.
December 8, 1980 - Ex-Beatle (English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)) John Lennon is murdered in front of his home in (Click link for more info and facts about The Dakota) The Dakota.
December 22, 1984 - (Click link for more info and facts about Bernhard Goetz) Bernhard Goetz shoots four men on a subway who tried to rob him, generating weeks of headlines and many discussions about crime and vigilantism in the media.
April 14, 1989 - (Click link for more info and facts about Trisha Meili) Trisha Meili (aka the Central Park Jogger) is violently raped and beaten while jogging in (A large park in Manhattan) Central Park. The crime is later attributed to a group of young men who were practicing an activity they called "wilding". However, DNA evidence later proved the originally charged teens innocent; a convicted serial rapist confessed to the crime.
January 25, 1990 - (Click link for more info and facts about Avianca) Avianca Flight 52 to (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport crashes at (Click link for more info and facts about Cove Neck) Cove Neck, (An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end) Long Island, after missing an approach and then running out of fuel. 73 of 158 passengers are killed.
March 25, 1990 - Arson at the (Click link for more info and facts about Happyland Social Club) Happyland Social Club in the East Tremont section of the Bronx kills 87 people unable to escape the packed dance club. (*)
November 5, 1990 - Rabbi (Click link for more info and facts about Meier Kahane) Meier Kahane, founder of the (Click link for more info and facts about Jewish Defense League) Jewish Defense League, is assassinated in a Manhattan hotel by (Click link for more info and facts about El Sayyid Nosair) El Sayyid Nosair.
August 19, 1991 - A (Click link for more info and facts about Jewish) Jewish automobile driver accidentally kills a seven-year-old (An American whose ancestors were born in Africa) African-American boy, thereby touching off the (Click link for more info and facts about Crown Heights riots) Crown Heights riots, during which two others are killed.
March 22, 1992 - Ice buildup without subsequent de-icing causes (Click link for more info and facts about USAir) USAir Flight 405 to crash on takeoff from (Click link for more info and facts about LaGuardia Airport) LaGuardia Airport. 27 of the 51 on board are killed.
February 26, 1993 - A bomb planted by terrorists explodes in the (Twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City; built in 1970 to 1973; destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001) World Trade Center's underground garage, killing six people and injuring over a thousand, as well as causing much damage to the basement. See: (Click link for more info and facts about World Trade Center bombing) World Trade Center bombing
December 7, 1993 - (Click link for more info and facts about Colin Ferguson) Colin Ferguson shoots 25 passengers, killing six, on a (Click link for more info and facts about Long Island Rail Road) Long Island Rail Road commuter train out of (Click link for more info and facts about Penn Station) Penn Station.
July 17, 1996 - (Click link for more info and facts about TWA Flight 800) TWA Flight 800 departs (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport and crashes in (An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end) Long Island Sound, killing all 230 people on board. (*)
September 2, 1998 - (Click link for more info and facts about Swissair Flight 111) Swissair Flight 111 departs (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport and crashes off of the coast of (The Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns) Nova Scotia.
October 31, 1999 - (Click link for more info and facts about EgyptAir Flight 990) EgyptAir Flight 990 departs (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport and crashes off of the coast of (An island resort off Cape Cod; formerly a center of the whaling industry) Nantucket. (*)
21st century
September 11, 2001 - The two 110-story (Twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City; built in 1970 to 1973; destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001) World Trade Center towers and several surrounding buildings are destroyed by two jetliners in a coordinated terrorist attack ("9/11"). One hijacked jet was also crashed into (Click link for more info and facts about The Pentagon) The Pentagon outside (Click link for more info and facts about Washington, DC) Washington, DC and another hijacked jet went down in (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) Pennsylvania. In 2004, the count of the dead in New York City alone from the 9/11 attacks is set at over 2,600 people. It is the worst disaster in New York City's history.
November 12, 2001 - (Click link for more info and facts about American Airlines Flight 587) American Airlines Flight 587 crashes into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of (A borough of New York City) Queens shortly after takeoff from (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport, killing all 265 on board and five persons on the ground. (*)
23 July 2003 - (Click link for more info and facts about Othniel Askew) Othniel Askew shoots to death political rival City Councilmember (Click link for more info and facts about James E. Davis) James E. Davis in the (A building that houses administrative offices of a municipal government) City Hall chambers of the (Click link for more info and facts about New York City Council) New York City Council.
August 14, 2003 - New York loses power in a (Darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)) blackout that affects eight states as well as parts of Canada.
October 15, 2003 - The (Click link for more info and facts about Staten Island Ferry) Staten Island Ferry boat (Click link for more info and facts about Andrew J. Barberi) Andrew J. Barberi collides with a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in (A borough of New York City) Staten Island, killing ten people and injuring 43 others. (*)
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June 15, 1904 - The (Click link for more info and facts about General Slocum) General Slocum, carrying 1300 to a picnic site on (An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end) Long Island, catches fire while on the (A tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn) East River. Over 1000 passengers are killed, ending the existence of the German neighbourhood (Click link for more info and facts about Little Germany, New York) Little Germany, New York
June 25, 1906 - (United States architect (1853-1906)) Stanford White is shot and killed by (Click link for more info and facts about Harry K. Thaw) Harry K. Thaw at what was then (Click link for more info and facts about Madison Square Gardens) Madison Square Gardens. The murder would soon be dubbed "the Crime of the Century".
January 8, 1908 - A train collision in the original (A fashionable residential street in New York City) Park Avenue tunnel kills 17 and injures 38.
August 9, 1910 - Reformist Mayor William Jay Gaynor is shot in the throat in (Click link for more info and facts about Hoboken, New Jersey) Hoboken, New Jersey by former city employee James Gallagher. He eventually dies in September 1913 from effects of the wound.
March 25, 1911 - 145 employees, mostly women, are killed in the (Click link for more info and facts about Triangle Factory fire) Triangle Factory fire near (Click link for more info and facts about Washington Square Park) Washington Square Park, some by being forced to jump from the building by the fire. (*)
July 30, 1916 - (Click link for more info and facts about Black Tom Explosion) Black Tom Explosion set off by German saboteurs at a munitions arsenal on a small island in (Click link for more info and facts about New York Harbor) New York Harbor kills seven in Jersey City and causes damage as far as the Brooklyn waterfront and even Times Square.
1918 - The (Click link for more info and facts about Great Influenza Pandemic) Great Influenza Pandemic rages across the country and worldwide. In one particularly virulent October day, 851 people died in New York City alone.
November 1, 1918 - The actions of a substitute motorman filling in during a strike lead to a subway crash in (Click link for more info and facts about Flatbush) Flatbush, (A borough of New York City) Brooklyn. The (Click link for more info and facts about Malbone Street Wreck) Malbone Street Wreck kills 97 people heading home from work and injures a hundred more. (*)
September 16, 1920 - The (Click link for more info and facts about Wall Street bombing) Wall Street bombing kills 40 at "the precise center, geographical as well as metaphorical, of financial America and even of the financial world." Anarchists were suspected ( (Click link for more info and facts about Sacco and Vanzetti) Sacco and Vanzetti had been indicted just days before) but no one was ever charged with the crime.
August 24, 1928 - A subway crash caused by a defective switch below (The area of Manhattan around the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue; heart of the New York theater district; site of annual celebration of New Year's) Times Square kills 16 and injures 150.
March 19, 1935 - The arrest of a shoplifter inflames racial tensions in (A district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto) Harlem and escalates to rioting and looting, with three killed, 125 injured and 100 arrested. (*)
August 11, 1937 - Heavy rains cause a tenement in New Brighton, (A borough of New York City) Staten Island, to collapse, killing 19.
September 21, 1938 - The (Click link for more info and facts about Great New England Hurricane of 1938) Great New England Hurricane of 1938 strikes (An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end) Long Island (*) and continues into New England, killing 564. In New York City, ten people are killed and power is lost across upper Manhattan and the Bronx.
November 16, 1940 - (Click link for more info and facts about George Metesky) George Metesky plants the first bomb of his sixteen years as "The Mad Bomber".
August 1, 1943 - A race riot erupts in (A district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto) Harlem after an African-American soldier is shot by the police and rumored to be killed. The incident touches off a simmering brew of racial tension, unemployment, and high prices to a day of rioting and looting. Several looters are shot dead, and about 500 persons are injured and another 500 arrested.
July 28, 1945 - A (Click link for more info and facts about B-25 Mitchell) B-25 Mitchell bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the (Click link for more info and facts about Empire State Building) Empire State Building, killing 13 people.
June 25, 1946 - Fire destroys the St. George terminal of the (Click link for more info and facts about Staten Island Ferry) Staten Island Ferry, killing 3 and injuring 280.
May 13, 1949 - (Click link for more info and facts about Holland Tunnel fire) Holland Tunnel fire caused by exploding truck carrying eighty 55-gallon drums of (Click link for more info and facts about carbon disulphide) carbon disulphide seriously damages the tunnel's infrastructure and injures 66, with 27 hospitalized, mostly from smoke inhalation.
February 1, 1957 - Northeast Airlines Flight 823 crashes on (Click link for more info and facts about Rikers Island) Rikers Island on takeoff from (Click link for more info and facts about LaGuardia Airport) LaGuardia Airport, killing 21 of the 101 on board.
February 3, 1959 - (Click link for more info and facts about American Airlines) American Airlines Flight 320 crashes in the (A tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn) East River on approach to (Click link for more info and facts about LaGuardia Airport) LaGuardia Airport, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.
December 16, 1960 - Mid-air collision between (Click link for more info and facts about TWA) TWA Flight 266 (inbound to Idlewild Airport, now (35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)) JFK) and (Click link for more info and facts about United Airlines) United Airlines Flight 826 (inbound to (Click link for more info and facts about LaGuardia Airport) LaGuardia Airport) over Miller Field, (A borough of New York City) Staten Island. (*) The TWA aircraft crashed at the site, killing all aboard, while the United aircraft continued flying for about eight miles until it crashed in the (Click link for more info and facts about Park Slope) Park Slope section of (A borough of New York City) Brooklyn, narrowly missing a school. All 134 aboard the aircraft died, along with six persons on the ground in Brooklyn.
March 1, 1962 - (Click link for more info and facts about American Airlines) American Airlines Flight 1 crashes immediately after takeoff from (Click link for more info and facts about Idlewild Airport) Idlewild Airport, killing all 95 on board.
November 30, 1962 - (Click link for more info and facts about Eastern Airlines) Eastern Airlines Flight 512 crashes when trying to make a go-round after failing to land at (Click link for more info and facts about Idlewild Airport) Idlewild Airport in the fog. 25 of the 51 on board are killed.
April 20, 1963 - Three brush fires on (A borough of New York City) Staten Island destroy 100 homes.
March 13, 1964 - (Click link for more info and facts about Kitty Genovese) Kitty Genovese is stabbed to death in (Click link for more info and facts about Kew Gardens) Kew Gardens, (A borough of New York City) Queens. The crime is witnessed by numerous people, none of whom aid Genovese or call for help. The crime is noted by psychology textbooks in later years for its demonstration of the (Click link for more info and facts about bystander effect) bystander effect, although an article published in the (Click link for more info and facts about New York Times) New York Times in February 2004 indicated that many of the popular conceptions of the crime were instead misconceptions. (*)
February 8, 1965 - (Click link for more info and facts about Eastern Airlines) Eastern Airlines Flight 663 crashes at (Click link for more info and facts about Jones Beach) Jones Beach when after takeoff from (35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)) JFK it is forced to evade inbound (Click link for more info and facts about PanAm) PanAm Flight 212. All 84 on board are killed.
February 21, 1965 - (Click link for more info and facts about Black nationalist) Black nationalist leader (Militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)) Malcolm X is assassinated at the (Click link for more info and facts about Audubon Ballroom) Audubon Ballroom by three members of the (A group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans) Nation of Islam.
November 9, 1965 - New York City is affected as part of the (Click link for more info and facts about Northeast Blackout of 1965) Northeast Blackout of 1965.
October 17, 1966 - A fire across 23rd St. from (Click link for more info and facts about Madison Square) Madison Square kills 12 members of the (Click link for more info and facts about New York City Fire Department) New York City Fire Department when a floor collapses beneath them. It was the worst day in the FDNY's history until September 11, 2001.
June 28, 1969 - A questionable police raid on the (Click link for more info and facts about Stonewall Inn) Stonewall Inn, a (A mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century) Greenwich Village (Someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex) gay bar, is resisted by the patrons and leads to a (A public act of violence by an unruly mob) riot. The event helps inspire the founding of the modern gay rights movement.
February 10, 1973 - 40 workers are killed in an explosion while cleaning an empty (Click link for more info and facts about LNG) LNG tank in Bloomfield, (A borough of New York City) Staten Island.
June 24, 1975 - (Click link for more info and facts about Eastern Airlines) Eastern Airlines Flight 66 from (A port and largest city in Louisiana; located in southeastern Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi river; a major center for offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico; jazz originated here among black musicians in the late 19th century; Mardi) New Orleans strikes the runway lights at (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport, probably due to (Click link for more info and facts about wind shear) wind shear. 113 of the 124 people on board are killed. (*)
December 29, 1975 - A bomb explodes in the baggage claim area of the (Click link for more info and facts about TWA) TWA terminal at (Click link for more info and facts about LaGuardia Airport) LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 and injuring 74. The perpetrators were never identified. (*)
July 29, 1976 - (Click link for more info and facts about David Berkowitz) David Berkowitz (aka the " (Click link for more info and facts about Son of Sam) Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.
May 16, 1977 - A New York Airways helicopter idling at the helipad on the MetLife - formerly PanAm - building toppled over and its rotor blade sheared off. The blade killed four people on the roof and then fell over the edge and down 59 stories and a block over to Madison Avenue where it killed a pedestrian.
July 13-14, 1977 - New York City again loses power in the (Click link for more info and facts about blackout of 1977) blackout of 1977. Unlike the previous blackout twelve years earlier, this blackout is followed by widespread rioting and looting.
December 8, 1980 - Ex-Beatle (English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)) John Lennon is murdered in front of his home in (Click link for more info and facts about The Dakota) The Dakota.
December 22, 1984 - (Click link for more info and facts about Bernhard Goetz) Bernhard Goetz shoots four men on a subway who tried to rob him, generating weeks of headlines and many discussions about crime and vigilantism in the media.
April 14, 1989 - (Click link for more info and facts about Trisha Meili) Trisha Meili (aka the Central Park Jogger) is violently raped and beaten while jogging in (A large park in Manhattan) Central Park. The crime is later attributed to a group of young men who were practicing an activity they called "wilding". However, DNA evidence later proved the originally charged teens innocent; a convicted serial rapist confessed to the crime.
January 25, 1990 - (Click link for more info and facts about Avianca) Avianca Flight 52 to (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport crashes at (Click link for more info and facts about Cove Neck) Cove Neck, (An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end) Long Island, after missing an approach and then running out of fuel. 73 of 158 passengers are killed.
March 25, 1990 - Arson at the (Click link for more info and facts about Happyland Social Club) Happyland Social Club in the East Tremont section of the Bronx kills 87 people unable to escape the packed dance club. (*)
November 5, 1990 - Rabbi (Click link for more info and facts about Meier Kahane) Meier Kahane, founder of the (Click link for more info and facts about Jewish Defense League) Jewish Defense League, is assassinated in a Manhattan hotel by (Click link for more info and facts about El Sayyid Nosair) El Sayyid Nosair.
August 19, 1991 - A (Click link for more info and facts about Jewish) Jewish automobile driver accidentally kills a seven-year-old (An American whose ancestors were born in Africa) African-American boy, thereby touching off the (Click link for more info and facts about Crown Heights riots) Crown Heights riots, during which two others are killed.
March 22, 1992 - Ice buildup without subsequent de-icing causes (Click link for more info and facts about USAir) USAir Flight 405 to crash on takeoff from (Click link for more info and facts about LaGuardia Airport) LaGuardia Airport. 27 of the 51 on board are killed.
February 26, 1993 - A bomb planted by terrorists explodes in the (Twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City; built in 1970 to 1973; destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001) World Trade Center's underground garage, killing six people and injuring over a thousand, as well as causing much damage to the basement. See: (Click link for more info and facts about World Trade Center bombing) World Trade Center bombing
December 7, 1993 - (Click link for more info and facts about Colin Ferguson) Colin Ferguson shoots 25 passengers, killing six, on a (Click link for more info and facts about Long Island Rail Road) Long Island Rail Road commuter train out of (Click link for more info and facts about Penn Station) Penn Station.
July 17, 1996 - (Click link for more info and facts about TWA Flight 800) TWA Flight 800 departs (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport and crashes in (An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end) Long Island Sound, killing all 230 people on board. (*)
September 2, 1998 - (Click link for more info and facts about Swissair Flight 111) Swissair Flight 111 departs (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport and crashes off of the coast of (The Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns) Nova Scotia.
October 31, 1999 - (Click link for more info and facts about EgyptAir Flight 990) EgyptAir Flight 990 departs (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport and crashes off of the coast of (An island resort off Cape Cod; formerly a center of the whaling industry) Nantucket. (*)
21st century
September 11, 2001 - The two 110-story (Twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City; built in 1970 to 1973; destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001) World Trade Center towers and several surrounding buildings are destroyed by two jetliners in a coordinated terrorist attack ("9/11"). One hijacked jet was also crashed into (Click link for more info and facts about The Pentagon) The Pentagon outside (Click link for more info and facts about Washington, DC) Washington, DC and another hijacked jet went down in (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) Pennsylvania. In 2004, the count of the dead in New York City alone from the 9/11 attacks is set at over 2,600 people. It is the worst disaster in New York City's history.
November 12, 2001 - (Click link for more info and facts about American Airlines Flight 587) American Airlines Flight 587 crashes into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of (A borough of New York City) Queens shortly after takeoff from (Click link for more info and facts about Kennedy airport) Kennedy airport, killing all 265 on board and five persons on the ground. (*)
23 July 2003 - (Click link for more info and facts about Othniel Askew) Othniel Askew shoots to death political rival City Councilmember (Click link for more info and facts about James E. Davis) James E. Davis in the (A building that houses administrative offices of a municipal government) City Hall chambers of the (Click link for more info and facts about New York City Council) New York City Council.
August 14, 2003 - New York loses power in a (Darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)) blackout that affects eight states as well as parts of Canada.
October 15, 2003 - The (Click link for more info and facts about Staten Island Ferry) Staten Island Ferry boat (Click link for more info and facts about Andrew J. Barberi) Andrew J. Barberi collides with a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in (A borough of New York City) Staten Island, killing ten people and injuring 43 others. (*)
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