September 20th In NYC History
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1958...Dr. Martin Luther King is stabbed in the chest by an apparently deranged African-American woman during an appearance at a department store in Harlem. Doctors are able to remove the knife and King goes on to recover.
1993...Public school classes resume following an asbestos crisis that extends summer vacation for more than a week.