The General Electric Company was formed in New York.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, directed by Peter Jackson, premiered in New York.
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in LaFayette, New York, by Joseph Smith.
The first Woolworth store opens in Utica, New York.
Beatlemania arrived in the United States when the Beatles landed in New York.
