Guardian: The USS New York, built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center towers, began its journey to New York after leaving a New Orleans-area shipyard in Avondale.
Times-Picayune: Thousands of New Orleanians began lining up along the banks of a fog-shrouded Mississippi River in Gretna, Algiers, Belle Chasse and the edge of the French Quarter before daybreak to bid the USS New York farewell
Today in History – 20 April
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1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later
New York City). 1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his
commission i...
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