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- The East River, running between Manhattan and Queens, froze over, an extremely rare occurrence. This inspired some brave souls to cross the river on foot, which proved a terrible mistake when the tides changed and broke up the ice, stranding the adventurers on ice floes. Overall, about 200 people were killed by the blizzard in New York City alone.
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Feb 13, 1988 · The improvement consolidated the much larger November gain. 1 Prices at the producer level rose a surprising four-tenths of 1 percent in January, as higher food costs offset declines in energy ...
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An observer located in New York City on February 13, 1988 at 10pm, would see the moon, being 12% full, rising at 03:51 am and setting at 01:38 pm. The previous full moon was on Feb 02, 1988 while the next full moon would come on Mar 03, 1988.
July 13–14: New York City again loses electrical power in the blackout of 1977. Unlike the previous blackout twelve years earlier, this blackout is followed by widespread rioting and looting. Many neighborhoods, most notably Bushwick, were almost completely devastated.
Jan 15, 2015 · A Subway Vigilante: December 22, 1984. The son of German immigrants, Queens-born Bernhard Goetz had had enough when four young, African-American men, allegedly attempted to rob him on a New York ...
In 1988, the Black-Latino-Labor alliance delivered a crushing blow to Koch with Jesse Jackson’s victory in New York City’s 1988 presidential primaries. “Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign [was a] testing ground for the 1989 Dinkins mayoral candidacy,” wrote Thompson. “Given that a black or Latino candidate had never won a citywide ...
Feb 13, 1988 · Travelers Camp at Airport. ''You've got a major snowstorm out there,'' said Gary Schmeling, a meteorologist in Boston. The city's Logan International Airport closed because of poor visibility...
