At the southernmost tip of Roosevelt Island, in the East River, the Franklyn D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park Dedication Ceremony held Wednesday morning was packed with big names in politics.
Any firefighter who dies performing services will have his name included on the Fallen Firefighter Memorial in Albany, after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed the initiative into law Thursday.
The service included flower-laying and musical performances to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking, just a few hundred miles from Halifax. The unknown child was positively identified in 2007 as 19-month-old English boy Sidney Goodwin, whose parents and five siblings died in the Titanic disaster.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial opened to the public on Aug. 22, standing as a national monument in Washington, D.C., to King’s humanitarian vision.
For the first time ever, the United States will have a representative at the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Nagasaki marking the 1945 atomic bombing of the city by the United States, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo said Sunday.
The Hong Kong police arrested 13 democracy activists for staging a demonstration to mark the 21st anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre.