The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opened in New York City.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened for the first time in New York City.
The Wall Street Journal issued its first paper.
We Want Beer! parade was held.
The musical 'Singing in The Rain,' directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, had its first theatrical run.
The New York Eye Infirmary opened, and it was the first specialty hospital of its kind in the western hemisphere.
