Telegraph wires linked new York and Boston.
With this, communication became relatively possible over long distances.
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British forces retaliated against the United States and burned Buffalo, New York, to the ground.
Etan Patz disappears.
A bill in New York to reinstate the death penalty became law.
The Society for American Baseball Research was founded in Cooperstown, New York.
The first-ever color 3D movie, 'House of Wax,' premiered in New York.
