SALUTES

To inspire and provoke you: connections between sculptures in Manhattan
and important dates in U.S. or world history.

NOTE: As of December 2006, most of Dianne Durante's recent short essays
on New York City sculpture will appear on the Forgotten Delights blog,
www.ForgottenDelights.blogspot.com

To be notified of updates, email comments@ForgottenDelights.com.

January -  February  -  March -  April  -  May  -  June  -  July -  August
September  -  October  -  November  -  December

January

• January 8, 1975: Death of Richard Tucker

• January 9, 1875: Birth of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

• January 1421: Birth of Joan of Arc

• January 15, 2005: On Studying History

• January 17, 1706: Birth of Benjamin Franklin

• January 25, 1759: Birth of Robert Burns

• January 27, 1901: Death of Giuseppe Verdi

February

• February 3, 1811: Birth of Horace Greeley

• February 9, 1886: Death of General Winfield Scott Hancock

• February 15, 1898: Explosion Aboard the Maine

• February 16, 2006: Speaking of blizzards ... (Roscoe Conkling and the Blizzard of 1888)

• February 17, 1778: The Marquis de Lafayette Does Not Invade Canada

• February 25, 1852: Birth of Thomas Moore

• February 25, 1778: Birth of Jose de San Martin

• February 26, 1916: Birth of Jackie Gleason

March

• March 2, 2004: Salute to the Current Bull Market

• March 7, 1850: Daniel Webster speaks in favor of the Great Compromise

• March 10, 1872: Death of Giuseppe Mazzini

• March 11, 2006: Balto and the Iditarod Race

• March 13, 2004: Justice

• March 22, 1832: death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• March 24, 1844: Death of Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen

• March 26, 1827: Death of Ludwig van Beethoven

• Late March 1863: Lincoln, Vallandigham and habeas corpus

April

• April 1, 2004: Celebrating Spring in the Conservatory Garden

• April 15, 1912: Three Manhattan Memorials to the Sinking of the Titanic

• April 17, 1524: Verrazzano sails into New York Harbor

• April 22-May 25, 1915: Second Battle of Ypres

• April: Integrity Protecting the Works of Man, Pediment of the New York Stock Exchange

• April 30, 1789: George Washington is sworn in as first president of the United States

• April 30, 1803: United States acquires the Louisiana Territory

May

• May 2005: Time to Panic

• May 2006: Puck and Puck

• May 19, 1895: Death of Jose Marti

• May 24, 1844: Morse Sends First Telegraph Message on Completed Line from Baltimore to Washington

• May 29, 1979: Death of Mary Pickford

June

• June 7, 1893: Death of Edwin Booth

• June 16, 2005: City Beautiful Movement (part 1: Pulitzer Memorial Fountain)

• June 18, 1959: Death of Ethel Barrymore

• June 24, 1821: Simon Bolivar Wins the Battle of Carabobo

July

• July 4, 1776: Independence Day

• July 4, 1807: Birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi

• July 8, 2005: City Beautiful Movement (part 2: Surrogate's Court)

• July 15, 1410: King Jagiello of Poland defeats the Teutonic Knights at Grunewald

August

• August 2, 2006: 15,000 Years vs. 15 Minutes of Publicity

• August 5, 1864: Farragut captures Mobile Bay

• August 12, 2005: The City Beautiful (part 3): Manhattan's First Bolivar

• August 15, 1771: Birth of Sir Walter Scott

• August 1664: Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to the British

September

• September 8, 1841: Birth of Dvorak

• September 14, 1321: Death of Dante

• Mid-September 2005: "Full of Sound and Fury ..." (Metronome)

• Mid-September 1864: Sherman Evacuates Atlanta

• September 20-24, 1846: the Battle of Monterrey

• September 22, 1776: execution of Nathan Hale

• Late September 2005: Mystery sculptures at Rockefeller Plaza

• September 26, 1918: beginning of the Meuse-Argonne offensive

October

• October 12, 1492: Columbus makes landfall in the Caribbean

• October 14, 1094: Battle of Cuarte or Poblet

• October 17, 1899: “My country, right or wrong.”

• October 19, 1864: Battle of Cedar Creek

• October 1871: Opening of Grand Central Depot

• October: Memorializing American Soldiers

• October 25, 1858: William Seward on the "irrepressible conflict" between the North and South

• Late October 2005: Theodore Roosevelt's Review of the 1913 Armory Show

November

• November 6, 1914: Father Duffy Joins the Army

• November 12, 1883: Dr. J. Marion Sims' Legacy to Cancer Patients

• November 16, 1864: Sherman's March through Georgia Introduces the Concept of "Total War"

• November 18, 1886: Death of Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States

• November 19, 1867: Death of Fitz-Greene Halleck

• November 25, 1783: Evacuation Day, A Forgotten New York City Holiday

December

• December 1, 1787: Alexander Hamilton publishes Federalist Paper #15

• December 5, 1963: Death of Herbert H. Lehman

• December 11, 1882: Birth of Fiorello LaGuardia

• December 25, 1936: Death of Arthur Brisbane, Patron Saint of Yellow Journalism

• December 30, 1873: Birth of Al Smith (Got Milk?)