After parading around New York City, the Apollo 11 crew was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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The Metropolitan Opera House opened to a full house in New York City.
Rapper Kidd Creole stabbed a homeless man to death in New York City and was arrested.
Anti-nuclear protests in New York City, 200,000 showed up, including Jane Fonda.
The New York Horticultural Society was founded.
The first theater with a movie being projected from the back of the room was opened in New York City.
