Upstate New York - Historic Events

Historic Events

• Hurricane Agnes, 1972
• Attica Prison riot, 1971
• Hurricane Irene, 2011
• The first execution via the electric chair, in Auburn Prison in 1890
• The Jerry Rescue
• The 1901 assassination of President William McKinley in Buffalo, prompting his Vice-President Teddy Roosevelt to travel to Buffalo twice: first, after learning of McKinley's shooting, from Isle La Motte, Vermont in Lake Champlain; then, having left Buffalo as McKinley was appearing to recover, from an Adirondack hunting trip upon learning of McKinley's death, to be sworn in as McKinley's successor. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz, McKinley's assassin, was subsequently electrocuted in Auburn Prison.
• The Northeast Blackout of 1965
• The Northeast Blackout of 2003
• The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention held in the United States
• The Battle of Saratoga, turning point of the American Revolutionary War.
• The Battle of Oriskany, 1777
• The Binghamton shootings
• Continental Airlines Flight 3407
• the Angola Horror train wreck, 1867
• the Cherry Valley massacre, 1778
• The collapse of the New York State Thruway Bridge over Schoharie Creek, 1987
• the Split Rock Explosion, 1918
• the Sullivan Campaign, 1779
• The Morgan Affair