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May 23rd In NYC History

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On this date in...

1911...The New York Public Library opens at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

1939...Francis Spellman is installed as New York's sixth Archbishop.

1994...Family, friends and hundreds of New Yorkers gather for Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis' funeral mass in Manhattan. The New York icon is buried next to President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.