New York City modernized its subway by starting its first unmanned trains.
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Revolutionary War soldiers formed the Society of St. Tammany.
A fragment of a meteorite landed in Peekskill, New York, US, and smashed a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
An attack on a train during the Angolan Civi War kills about 250 people.
The New York and Harlem Railroad became the first railroad to operate in the US.
The first power plant in the US, 'Pearl Street Station,' in Manhattan, New York, started generating electricity.
