The first in a series of eighty-five essays by "Publius," the pen name for Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, appeared in the Independent Journal, a New York newspaper, on October 27, 1787.  Continue reading.

At just after 2:30pm, on Thursday, October 27, 1904, the inaugural train of the New York City Subway emerged from City Hall Station with Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. at the controls.  Continue reading.

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