Construction started on Chicago’s first-ever skyscraper for the Home Insurance Company of New York.
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The Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid, New York.
The 9th Street Art Exhibition opened.
A brand new design for Freedom Tower in Manhattan, New York, was publicly revealed.
Albert Cushing Read takes off on the first transatlantic flight in history.
Suffragette Susan B. Anthony was arrested in New York State for illegally voting in the presidential race.
