175 Calendar

October 29: On this date in 2012, Hurricane Sandy destroyed 300 trees and many monuments at Green-Wood, causing $500,000 in damage.

October 28: On this date in 1886, Ferdinand Ward, a swindler who became known as “the Best-Hated Man in the United States,” went on trial; he would be convicted and imprisoned; upon his release he tried to steal his own son’s trust fund.

October 27: Future president Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway were married on this date in 1880.

October 26: As a result of the vision and efforts of De Witt Clinton, the Erie Canal, linking the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean and making New York City the center of world trade, opened on this date in 1825.

October 25: The “Lord High Executioner” of Organized Crime, Albert Anastasia, was gunned down in the barber shop of the Park Sheraton Hotel on this date in 1957.

October 24: James McDougal Hart, Scottish-born Hudson River School painter, who specialized in scenes of cattle, died on this date in 1901.

October 23: On this date in 1974, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp of Nathaniel Currier and his wife in a sleigh, based on a lithograph Currier had published a century earlier.

October 20: On this date in 1860, the coroner concluded that Fanny White, famed for her beauty and business sense, had not been poisoned, but rather had died of apoplexy.