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	1640s: Long Island's First Settlements Established
	1659: Chief Wyandanch Deeds Ten Square Miles to Lion Gardiner
	1699: Captain Kidd Buries Treasure on Gardiners Island
	1700: William "Tangier" Smith Creates Poospatuck Reservation
	1700s: Long Islanders Craft Distinctive Blanket Chests
	1746: Second House is Built in Montauk
	1760-1840: Dominy Family Excels as Master Craftsmen
	1770s: LI Quaker Elias Hicks is Early Opponent of Slavery
	1775: Ben Franklin Installs Mile Markers on the North Fork
	1790: Decoy Dynasty Takes Root in Seaford
	1827: Plum Island Lighthouse Established
	1836: Walt Whitman Teaches in East Norwich
	1839: Jones Brothers Found the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Co.
	1843: Whaling Ship Embarks from Sag Harbor on Journey to Japan
	1850: Feminist Margaret Fuller Dies in Shipwreck off Fire Island
	1866: St. Johnland Nursing Home Founded by Dr. William Augustus Muhlenberg
	1868: August Belmont Establishes Horse Breeding Facility
	1870s: President Ulysses S. Grant Vacations in West Deer Park
	1876: Friends Academy Founded in Locust Valley
	1876: The 'Circassian' Wrecked off Bridgehampton
	1876: The 'Circassian' Wrecked off Bridgehampton
	1879: Fishers Island Becomes Part of Suffolk County
	1879: Greenport Boat Builder Produces Innovative Lifeboats
	1879: New York Doctor Builds Southampton’s First Summer House
	1881: “Whileaway” Built in Islip
	1887: Frank M. Flower & Sons Founded
	1890: Biological Lab Founded in Cold Spring Harbor
	1890: Construction of 'Gold Coast' Mansions Begins
	1891: Nation's First Golf Club Opens at Shinnecock Hills
	1892: Boxer Jim Sullivan Trains for Fight with “Gentleman Jim” Corbett on LI
	1904: Numbered Cars Omit '13' at First Vanderbilt Cup
	1905: Belmont Park Opens as Nation's Largest Race Track
	1905: First Glenwood Landing Power Plant Built
	1908: Teddy Roosevelt Hosts Automobile Race Winners at Sagamore Hill
	1910: Bank of Westbury Receives $24,857 in Opening Day Deposits
	1910: Nation's First Co-Ed Polo School Founded in Westbury
	1912: Lynbrook Trustee Purchases Shells to Pave Roads
	1916: Gangster Arnold Rothstein Opens Casino in Hewlett
	1917: 'The Great Gatsby' Mansion built in Sands Point
	1917: Teddy Roosevelt Honors Boy Scouts at Sagamore Hill
	1917: World's First Experimental Aircraft Factory Opens in Garden City
	1918: 'USS Tarantula' Sinks Off Fire Island
	1918: Escaped "Wild Ape" Frightens Smithtown Residents
	1919: First Nassau County Girl Scout Troop Forms
	1920: August Heckscher Founds Heckscher Museum of Art
	1922: First African-American Pilot Debuts at Curtiss Field
	1922: Long Beach Receives City Charter
	1922: Walker Cup Played for the First Time in Southampton
	1928: US Team Wins First Polo Cup of the Americas
	1929: Estate Owners Pay $175,000 to Divert Path of Northern State Parkway
	1929: Jones Beach Bathhouses Pioneer Diaper-Changing Rooms
	1930: Chaminade High School is Founded in Mineola
	1930: Newsday Founder Becomes First Pilot to Receive In-Air Radio Instructions
	1930: Roscoe Turner and Gilmore Make Record-Breaking Flight from Roosevelt Field
	1931: Designer Lilly Pulitzer Born in Roslyn
	1931: Playwright Eugene O’Neill Rents House in Asharoken
	1934: Meadowbrook State Parkway Opens
	1940: Fall Flower Show is Biggest Ever
	1940: Nassau County Declared the Nation’s Fastest-Growing County
	1940: Rachmaninoff Composes "Symphonic Dances" in Centerport
	1940: Roosevelt Raceway Opens
	1940s: Journalist Alistair Cooke Builds House in Cutchogue
	1941: FBI Bases Counterespionage Operation in Wading River
	1942: “Picket Patrols” Guard Long Island’s Shoreline
	1944: Reggie Jones Becomes a Jones Beach Lifeguard
	1945: Grumman Produces the First Aluminum Canoe
	1946: Assault Becomes the Seventh Triple Crown Winner
	1946: Robert Moses Creates Long Island State Park Police
	1947: Brookhaven National Lab Established
	1949: 'The Girl From Jones Beach' Filmed at Jones Beach
	1949: John Savage is Born in Old Bethpage
	1949: Pall Corporation Moves to Glen Cove
	1950: Lollipop Farm Opens in Syosset
	1950: World’s First Peacetime Research Reactor Begins Operations
	1951: Frank Mundus Creates “Monster Fishing” in Montauk
	1951: Newsday Reporters Pose as Communist “Saboteurs”
	1952: Brookhaven National Lab Dedicates the Cosmotron
	1952: Deer Park Produces 200,000 Dahlias
	1953: IBM Buys Guggenheim Estate to Create Employee Country Club
	1953: Peggy Lipton Attends Day Camp in Atlantic Beach
	1953: Publishers Clearing House Founded in Port Washington
	1953: Transsexual Christine Jorgensen Moves to Massapequa
	1955: LIRR Holds “End of Steam” Ceremony in Hicksville
	1957: Three LI Villages Legalize Bingo
	1957: Truman Capote Writes 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' in Bridgehampton
	1958: Andre Eglevsky Opens Ballet School in Massapequa
	1958: Scenes from "North by Northwest" Shot in Glen Cove
	1959: Nathan’s Holds Its Oceanside Grand Opening
	1959: Westhampton Missile Base Begins Operation
	1960: Commercial Flights Begin at MacArthur Airport
	1960: First Female “Indy 500” Racer Works at Republic Aviation Co.
	1960s: Arena Players Bring Dinner Theater to LI
	1961: Designer Albert Capraro Graduates from Lindenhurst High School
	1962: Songwriter Ellie Greenwich Teaches English in Levittown
	1964: Fire Island National Seashore Established
	1964: Talia Shire Graduates from Great Neck South High School
	1966: Energy Secretary Steven Chu Graduates from Garden City High School
	1966: Nassau County's First Woman Police Officer
	1966: Robert Moses Proposes Oyster Bay-Rye Bridge
	1968: Bill Hoest Creates 'the Lockhorns'
	1968: Ronzoni Spaghetti Sauce Factory Opens in Hicksville
	1968: Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts Opens
	1969: Long Island's First Pet Hotel Opens
	1969: Smith Haven Mall Opens
	1970: Grateful Dead Perform at Stony Brook University
	1970: John McEnroe Enrolls in the Port Washington Tennis Academy
	1970: LI Colleges and Universities Reopen After Anti-War Protests
	1970s: LI is Nation’s Leading Producer of Hard Clams
	1971: Gerard and Lilo Leeds Found CMP Media
	1971: Strat-O-Matic Headquarters Open in Glen Head
	1972: Nixon Campaigns on Long Island
	1973: Sunrise Mall Opens in Massapequa
	1974: Long Island High School for the Arts Opens
	1975: Bob Dylan Writes Songs for “Desire” in East Hampton
	1976: Ron Kovic Publishes "Born on the Fourth of July"
	1978: Long Island Experiences its Worst Oil Spill in Memory
	1978: Model Carol Alt Graduates from The Wheatley School
	1979: Malibu Nightclub Opens in Lido Beach
	1980: First Annual Beethoven Festival Held at Planting Fields
	1980: Scenes From “The World According to Garp” Filmed on LI
	1981: Anti-British Protesters Gather Outside Nassau Coliseum
	1982: Drinking Age Raised From 18 to 19
	1983: “Trading Places” Filmed in Mill Neck
	1983: Wrestler Mick Foley is Ward Melville High Grad
	1984: "Compromising Positions" Filmed on Long Island
	1984: 'Desperately Seeking Susan' Filmed in Manhasset
	1984: “Superbad” Director Works at Adventureland
	1984: George Higgins Forms the Long Island Flag Football League
	1986: Cheez Doodles Creator Becomes Associate Dean at NYIT
	1986: Raymond Floyd Becomes Oldest Golfer in History to Win the U.S. Open
	1987: "Californication" Creator Tom Kapinos is Island Trees High Grad
	1987: Quintuplets Born at Long Island Jewish Hospital
	1988: Frances Conroy Returns to LI to Film “Rocket Gibraltar”
	1988: LIRR Runs the 'Buddy McGirt' and 'Howard Davis Express' Trains
	1988: Miss Shinnecock Teen Pageant Established
	1988: Suffolk County Passes Bill Banning Plastic Packaging
	1990: Busta Rhymes Forms Rap Group at Uniondale High
	1991: 106th Rescue Wing Performs Rescue During the 'Perfect Storm'
	1992: East Meadow Mom Markets Her “Miracle Mop” on QVC
	1992: Paul Simon and Edie Bricked Wed in Montauk
	1992: Piter Marek Graduates from East Meadow HS
	1993: Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger Wed in East Hampton
	1993: First Annual Long Island Fall Festival Held in Huntington
	1994: Massapequa Musicians Form Diffuser
	1996: Billy Joel’s Runabout Produced on Shelter Island
	1996: Grace Jones Celebrates Her Birthday at the Oak Beach Inn
	1997: “A Perfect Murder” Filmed in Glen Cove
	1997: Designer Isaac Mizrahi Buys Bridgehampton Home
	1997: Joy Zipper Forms
	1997: Victoria Gotti Publishes “The Senator’s Daughter”
	1998: “Billy Elliot” Star Begins Dance Lessons in Bellmore
	1998: Long Island's Last Drive-In Theater Closes
	1998: Tornado Strikes Lake Ronkonkoma and Selden
	1999: Blue Point Brewing Company Established
	1999: Construction Begins On Atlantis Marine World
	1999: LL Cool J Buys Home in Manhasset
	1999: Long Island Sound Lobsters Die Off
	1999: Southold Resident Files Patent For New Mailing System
	2000: Chrisette Michele is Patchogue-Medford High Grad
	2000: Long Island is Nation's Most Populated Island
	2002: Raquel Castro of Port Jefferson Station Stars in “Jersey Girl”
	2002: Sarah Hughes brings Olympic gold home to L.I.
	2002: Wölffer Estate Vineyard Releases Long Island’s First $100 Bottle of Wine
	2003: Calvin Klein Buys Dragon’s Head for $30 Million
	2003: Chef Tom Colicchio Buys Mattituck House
	2003: Suffolk County is Nation’s First to Ban Ephedra
	2005: Children’s Museum of the East End Opens
	2006: “One Ocean View” is Filmed on Fire Island
	2006: Stony Brook University School of Journalism Founded
	2007: CT Scan Reveals 2,000-Year-Old Mummy's Cause of Death
	2007: Walk Now for Autism Long Island Raises Record-Breaking $2.2 Million
	2008: Best In Show Pet Resort Opens in Mineola PHOTO: Newsday
	2008: Circles the Duck Receives an Order of Protection
	2008: Heckscher Museum Reopens After $1.5-Million Renovation
	c. 1920s: "Funny Girl" Fanny Brice and Nicky Arnstein Have Halesite Home
	c. 1930: 'Roxy' Travels Regularly on the LIRR
	c. 1940: Comedian Lenny Bruce Attends Mepham High
	c. 1957: Photographer Cindy Sherman Moves to Huntington
	c. 1959: Billy Idol Moves to Rockville Centre
	c. 1989: Billy Joel Broadcasts Radio Show from the Stephen Talkhouse
	c. 1999: Maroon 5's Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael Study at Five Towns College
	c. Albert Einstein Plays Violin with Benjamin Britten
	C. Late 1820s: The Rev. Henry Highland Garnet Works on Smithtown Farm
	Late 1980s: Melissa Joan Hart Attends Sayville Junior High School
	Mid-1800s: Rufus Tuthill Builds Scaled-Down House for the “Tiny Tuthills”
	Mid-1800s: Steven 'Talkhouse' Pharaoh Is Dubbed 'Last King of the Montauks'
	Mid-1970's: Steve Madden Works in Cedarhurst Shoe Store