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  • Płońsk, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (Poland now)
    Saturday Oct 16, 1886
    David Ben-Gurion

    Birth

    Płońsk, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (Poland now)
    Saturday Oct 16, 1886

    David Ben-Gurion was born in Płońsk in Congress Poland – then part of the Russian Empire.




  • New York, U.S.
    Thursday Oct 28, 1886
    Statue of Liberty

    Ticker-Tape parade Beginning

    New York, U.S.
    Thursday Oct 28, 1886

    A ceremony of dedication was held on the afternoon of October 28, 1886. President Grover Cleveland, the former New York governor, presided over the event. On the morning of the dedication, a parade was held in New York City; estimates of the number of people who watched it ranged from several hundred thousand to a million. President Cleveland headed the procession, then stood in the reviewing stand to see bands and marchers from across America. General Stone was the grand marshal of the parade. The route began at Madison Square, once the venue for the arm, and proceeded to the Battery at the southern tip of Manhattan by way of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, with a slight detour so the parade could pass in front of the Worldbuilding on Park Row. As the parade passed the New York Stock Exchange, traders threw ticker tape from the windows, beginning the New York tradition of the ticker-tape parade.




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