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1880...Actress Lillian Russell makes her New York debut at Tony Pastor's 14th Street Theater. She goes on to become a star and an activist for women's rights.

1950...79 people are killed, and hundreds more are injured when two Long Island Railroad trains collide in Richmond Hill, Queens.

1963...New Yorkers join the nation in mourning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, shot and killed this day in Dallas. Schools, courts, theaters and stores close as the city is silenced in sorrow.

In 1966...The city announces plans for a Civilian Review Board to monitor the Police Department.

1995...Police discover the badly beaten body of a six-year-old girl in her mother's apartment in Lower Manhattan. The shock of Elisa Izquierdo's death is made worse when her mother tells authorities that she killed the child to rid her of evil spirits. The case prompts reform of the child welfare bureaucracy.