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1957...Leonard Bernstein is named musical director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra – becoming the first American-born conductor to hold the post.

Today's New Yorker birthdays include talk show host Larry King, born in Brooklyn in 1933; and fashion designer Calvin Klein, born in the Bronx in 1942.