The New Year’s Eve Ball was lowered in New York Times Square for the very first time.
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New York became the first US court to allow blood test results to be used as evidence.
The musical 'Little Shop of Horrors' by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman premiered on Broadway at Orpheum Theater, New York, US.
Mark David Chapman pleaded guilty to the murder of John Lennon in New York.
The first edition of the Book of Mormon was published in Palmyra, New York.
The first historically Black intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, was founded.
