On this date in...

1658...The village of Harlem is created by Peter Stuyvesant as a northern outpost to protect the larger colony of New Amsterdam.

1943...Native New Yorker James Cagney wins the Best Actor Oscar for "Yankee Doodle Dandy."

1993...The first arrests are made in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, just one week after the deadly blast.