TIMELINES: What internationally renowned, longtime New York resident turns 125 this Friday, Oct. 28?

Friday, Oct. 28, 2011

What internationally renowned, longtime New York resident turns 125 this Friday, Oct. 28?

THEN

Oct. 28, 1886, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty in New York. A gift from France, whose given name is "Liberty Enlightening the World," Lady Liberty is given to recognize the friendship forged between France and America during the American Revolution.

French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designs the statue, which the French people fund through donations. An interior iron structure is designed by Gustave Eiffel, who goes on to build the Eiffel Tower. The French deliver the statue to the American ambassador in Paris on July 4, 1884. To bring the statue to the United States the 151-foot-tall, 225-ton statue is dismantled into 300 pieces and sent in 214 crates. Unfortunately, in America, a lack of funds to construct a pedestal for the statue delays reassembly. Only after publisher Joseph Pulitzer decides to use his newspaper to encourage Americans to donate is the pedestal built, the statue reassembled, and dedicated on Oct. 28, 1886.


NOW

On Friday The National Park Service is holding a daylong event to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the dedication. The day will include the naturalization of 125 immigrants from 40 nations, to symbolize the many immigrants welcomed to the United States by the statue. At the events U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will present French government officials with a thank you gift. The events also include a procession of government and commercial ships, a re-enactment of the 1886 salute to the statue.




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