Thursday, March 22, 2007

This Day In History

On this date in...

1765...New Yorkers are furious over passage of the British Stamp Act - a tax on most ordinary items.

1992...27 people are killed when a US Air jet crashes on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport.

Today's New Yorker birthdays include Broadway lyricist Stephen Sondheim...born in 1930.

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