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Recent Event Highlights: Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium, Yankee Stadium Opens, The Bronx Zoo Opens, The Bronx Becomes Part of New York City, Eastern Bronx Also Part of Manhattan County, Western Bronx Becomes Part of Manhattan County, and 7 more...

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• Sonia Sotomayor Sworn In as a Supreme Court Justice
  Aug 8, 2009 12:00 PM

  The Bronx native became the high court's 111th justice and it's first Hispanic justice.

• 'A Bronx Tale'
  Sep 29, 1993 12:00 PM

  Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri starred in this father/son/gangster story set in the 1960s Bronx.

• Hip-Hop Is Born
  Jul 1, 1973 12:00 PM

  Kool DJ Herc and others create a musical movement that spreads from the South Bronx.

• Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium
  Jul 4, 1939 8:00 AM

  Gehrig has his uniform number retired, a first in baseball, and makes his famous speech, saying, "Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

• Yankee Stadium Opens
  Apr 18, 1923 12:00 PM

  The home team won 4-1 over the Boston Red Sox before a reported crowd of 74,200. Babe Ruth christens the Stadium by hitting a home run. The photo shows Gov. Alfred E. Smith throwing out the first pitch prior to the game on April 19. (Photo by Bruce Bennett Studios/Getty Images)

• IRT Service Extended to the Bronx
  Jul 10, 1905 12:00 PM

• The Bronx Zoo Opens
  Dec 13, 1901 3:45 PM

  The Bronx Zoo opened in 1899 and remains one of the largest wildlife conservation parks in the United States, housing 4,000 animals representing more than 650 species.

• The Bronx Zoo Opens
  Dec 13, 1901 3:45 PM

  The Bronx Zoo opened in 1899 and remains one of the largest wildlife conservation parks in the United States, housing 4,000 animals representing more than 650 species.

• The Bronx Becomes Part of New York City
  Dec 13, 1901 3:45 PM

  The borough's first president was Louis F. Haffen.

• Eastern Bronx Also Part of Manhattan County
  Dec 13, 1901 3:45 PM

• The New York Botanical Garden Is Incorporated
  Dec 13, 1901 3:45 PM

  Botanists Nathaniel Lord Britton and his wife, Elizabeth, along with other members of the Torrey Botanical Club, pushed for New York to get its own botanical garden. On April 18, 1891, the land was set aside by the New York State Legislature. Days later, the governor approved the bill.

• Western Bronx Becomes Part of Manhattan County
  Dec 13, 1901 3:45 PM

  The Bronx--but only the portion west of the Bronx River--becomes part of Manhattan County.

• Edgar Allan Poe Lives in the Bronx
  Dec 13, 1901 3:45 PM to 1969

  Edgar Allan Poe, his wife Virginia and his mother-in-law Maria Clemm moved to Fordham, to what is now known as Poe Cottage, now located at Kingsbridge Road and the Grand Concourse.

• The Bronx Becomes Part of Westchester County
  Dec 13, 1901 3:45 PM

• Jonas Bronck Becomes First European Settler in the Area
  Dec 13, 1901 3:45 PM

  A Swedish sea captain, Bronck settled along the Harlem River along with his wife and a number of indentured servants.