March 10th in NYC History
Posted: Mar 10, 2013 | 1:19 AM
1648: Mayor/Governor/Director-General/CEO of Nieuw Amsterdam (New Amsterdam) Peter Stuyvesant issued a law prohibiting goats and hogs from roaming the streets.
1867: The mother of Social Work, the Visiting Nurse Service, Nurses in schools, and so much more, Lillian Wald, born.
We see her Henry Street Settlement house
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on one of my Lower East Side tours or my Jewish Lower East Side.
1903: Clare Boothe Luce,
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playwright, anti-communist and anti-FDR politician, and America's first woman Ambassador (Italy and Brazil) born in NYC. She was also married to the founder of Time, Life, and Sports Illustrated magazines, Henry Luce. I bet she worked for the CIA just for that reason, and she founded the Atomic Energy Commission and that she was on Reagan's Intelligence Advisory Board. She died 1987
1940: Tony Award winning playwright David Rabe born elsewhere.
1959: The Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth," starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page, debuted on Broadway.
1965: Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" debuted on Broadway.
1971: Actor Jon Hamm (Mad Men) born.