The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, directed by Peter Jackson, premiered in New York.
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Construction started on Chicago's first-ever skyscraper for the Home Insurance Company of New York.
An Irish cook in New York, US, infected 53 people with typhoid.
The first yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean began.
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
A literal banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million in New York.
