Wednesday, October 27, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

OCTOBER 27
1904:With Mayor George B. McClellan at the controls, the inaugural train of New York City’s subway system, built by the Interborough Rapid Transit Co., departs from City Hall Station. By the end of the day, nearly 150,000 people have ridden on the subway.

1787: The first of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay under the pen name “Publius” are published in the New-York Packet, Independent Journal and Daily Advertiser newspapers. Known collectively as the Federalist Papers, the essays urge New Yorkers to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1962: U.S. Air Force pilot Maj. Rudolf Anderson becomes the only combat fatality of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when his U-2 reconnaissance plane is shot down by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile near Banes, Cuba. President John F. Kennedy posthumously awards Anderson the first Air Force Cross.

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