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List of ticker-tape parades in New York City

The following is a list of ticker-tape parades in New York City. Such parades are traditionally held in the "Canyon of Heroes".

• 1886 October 29 - Statue of Liberty dedication (impromptu).
• 1889 April 29 - George Washington inaugural centenary.
• 1899 September 30 - Admiral Dewey, following return from Manila.
• 1909 - Jack Binns, radio operator aboard the SS Republic.
• 1910 June 18 - Theodore Roosevelt, following return from his African safari.
• 1919 September 8 - General Pershing, commander of American Expeditionary Force
• 1919 October 3 - King Albert and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium
• 1919 November 18 - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales.
• 1921 October 19 - General Armando V. Diaz, Italian commander.
• 1921 October 28 - Ferdinand Foch, marshal of France.
• 1922 April 24 - Joseph J.C. Joffre, marshal of France.
• 1922 November 18 - Georges Clemenceau, former premier of France.
• 1923 October 5 - David Lloyd George, former prime minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1924 August 6 - US Olympic athletes (Paris, Chamonix)
• 1926 February 16 - Captain George Fried and the crew of the President Roosevelt for heroic sea rescue.
• 1926 May 27 - Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden
• 1926 June 23 - Commander Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett flight over the North Pole
• 1926 July 2 - Bobby Jones, winner of the British Open golf tournament
• 1926 August 27 - Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English Channel
• 1926 September 10 - Amelia Gade Corson, first mother and second woman to swim the English Channel
• 1926 October 18 - Queen Marie of Romania.
• 1927 June 13 - Charles Lindbergh, following solo transatlantic flight.
• 1927 July 18 - Commander Richard Byrd and the crew of the America (airplane) following transatlantic flight.
• 1927 November 11 - Ruth Elder and George W. Haldeman following flight from New York City to the Azores.
• 1928 January 20 - W.T. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
• 1928 April 25 - Herman Koehl, Major Fitzmaurice, and Baron von Henefeld following transatlantic flight
• 1928 August 22 - US Olympic athletes.
• 1928 May 4 - Prince Ludovico Spado Potenziani, governor of Rome
• 1928 July 6 - Amelia Earhart, Wilmer Stulz, and Louis E. Gordon
• 1928 October 16 - Hugo Eckener and the crew of the Graf Zeppelin
• 1929 January 28 - Captain George Fried and the crew of the America (ship) for rescue of the Italian freighter Florida
• 1929 October 4 - James Ramsay MacDonald, prime minister of the United Kingdom
• 1930 May 26 - Maquis Jacques de Dampierre, passenger abord the Lafayette
• 1930 June 11 - Julio Prestes de Albuquerque, president-elect of Brazil.
• 1930 June 18 - Rear Admiral Richard Byrd following expedition to Antarctica.
• 1930 July 2 - Bobby Jones, winner of the British Open golf tournament.
• 1930 September 4 - Captain Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte following flight from Paris to New York City.
• 1931 July 2 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty following round-the-world flight.
• 1931 October 22 - Pierre Laval, premier of France.
• 1932 June 20 - Amelia Earhart Putnam following translatlantic flight.
• 1933 July 21 - Air Marshal Italo Balbo and crew for flight from Rome to Chicago in 25 Italian seaplanes.
• 1933 July 26 - Wiley Post following eight-day round-the-world flight.
• 1933 August 1 - Captain James A. Mollison and his wife following first westward transatlantic flight, from Wales to Connecticut.
• 1938 July 15 - Howard Hughes, following three-day flight around the world.
• 1938 August 5 - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan following flight from New York City to Ireland.
• 1939 April 27 - Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Märtha of Norway.
• 1939 May 1 - Rear Admiral Alfred W. Johnson, commander of the Atlantic Squadron.
• 1945 June 10 - General Dwight Eisenhower, commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces.
• 1945 August 27 - General Charles de Gaulle, interim president of France.
• 1945 September 14 - General Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Corregidor.
• 1945 October 9 - Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz.
• 1945 October 27 - President Harry S. Truman.
• 1945 December 14 - Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey.
• 1946 March 14 - Winston Churchill, former prime minister of the United Kingdom
• 1947 January 13 - Alcide De Gasperi, premier of Italy.
• 1947 February 7 - Viscount Harold Alexander of Tunis, governor general of Canada
• 1947 May 2 - Miguel Aleman, president of Mexico
• 1947 November 18 - US-to-Europe "Friendship train" bearing gifts and supplies.
• 1948 March 9 - Eamon de Valera, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
• 1948 July 7 - Romulo Gallegos, president of Venezuela
• 1949 February 3 - France-to-US "French gratitude train" bearing gifts in appreciation of the "Friendship train"
• 1949 May 19 - General Lucius D. Clay.
• 1949 May 23 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil.
• 1949 August 11 - Elpidio Quirino, president of the Philippines
• 1949 August 19 - Connie Mack, on his fiftieth anniversary as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics.
• 1949 September 17 - Forty-eight European journalists on "American discovery" flight around United States.
• 1949 October 4 - American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps national championship.
• 1949 October 17 - Jawaharlal Nehru, prime minister of India.
• 1950 April 17 - Gabriel Gonzales Videla, president of Chile.
• 1950 April 28 - Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid.
• 1950 May 8 - Liaquat Ali Khan, president of Pakistan.
• 1950 August 4 - Robert Gordon Menzies, prime minister of Australia.
• 1950 August 22 - Lt. General Clarence R. Huebner
• 1951 April 3 - Vincent Auriol, president of France
• 1951 April 20 - General Douglas MacArthur

• 1951 May 9 - David Ben-Gurion, prime minister of Israel
• 1951 May 24 - US 4th Infantry Division 8th Regiment Combatal Team, first troops sent over seas in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• 1951 June 25 - Galo Plaza Lasso, president of Ecuador
• 1951 September 17 - Sir Denys Lowson, Lord Mayor of London.
• 1951 September 28 - Alcide De Gasperi, president of Italy.
• 1951 October 29 - United Nations servicemen wounded in Korea.
• 1951 November 13 - women of the armed forces
• 1952 January 17 - Henrik Kurt Carlsen, following rescue of the crew of the Flying Enterprise
• 1952 April 7 - Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.
• 1952 July 7 - US Olympic team.
• 1952 July 18 - Commodore Harry Manning and the crew of the United States following new speed record crossing the Atlantic.
• 1952 December 18 - Lt. General Willis D. Crittenberger.
• 1953 April 3 - Metropolitan New York Combat Contingent, first troop transport to return from Korea.
• 1953 April 24 - Lt. General James A. Van Fleet.
• 1953 July 21 - Ben Hogan, winner of the British Open golf tournament.
• 1953 October 1 - José Antonio Ramón, president of Panama
• 1953 October 20 - General Mark W. Clark
• 1953 October 26 - Major General William F. Dean
• 1953 November 2 - King Paul and Queen Friederike of Greece.
• 1954 February 1 - Celal Bayar, president of Turkey.
• 1954 April 22 - US 4th Infantry Division, following return from Korea
• 1954 April 26 - Lieutenant Geneviève de Galard-Terraube, the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu".
• 1954 June 1 - Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1954 August 2 - Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea.
• 1954 September 27 - New York Giants, winners of the National League pennant.
• 1954 October 28 - William V.S. Tubman, president of Liberia.
• 1955 January 31 - Paul Eugène Magloire, president of Haiti.
• 1955 August 11 - Order of the Knights of Pythias.
• 1955 November 4 - Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala.
• 1955 December 9 - Luis Battle Berres, president of Uruguay.
• 1956 March 12 - Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy.
• 1956 May 15 - Armed Forces Day.
• 1956 May 23 - Sukarno, president of Indonesia.
• 1957 May 2 - Navy League tribute for 60 commanders of the Navy and Marines during World War II.
• 1957 May 13 - Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam.
• 1957 July 2 - Alan J. Villiers and the crew of the Mayflower II.
• 1957 July 11 - Althea Gibson, winner of the Wimbledon women's singles championship.
• 1957 October 21 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
• 1957 December 9 - King Mohammed V of Morocco.
• 1958 May 20 - Van Cliburn, winner of the Moscow Tchaikovsky International Competition.
• 1958 June 20 - Theodor Heuss, president of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1958 June 23 - Carlos P. Garcia, president of the Philippines.
• 1958 August 27 - Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Commander William Anderson, and the crew of the USS Nautilus.
• 1959 January 29 - Arturo Frondizi, president of Argentina.
• 1959 February 10 - Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin.
• 1959 March 13 - José María Lemus, president of El Salvador.
• 1959 March 20 - Sean T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland.
• 1959 May 29 - King Baudouin of Belgium.
• 1959 September 11 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands.
• 1959 October 14 - Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico.
• 1959 November 4 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, president of Guinea.
• 1960 March 9 - Carol Heiss, Olympic figure skating gold medalist.
• 1960 April 11 - Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia.
• 1960 April 26 - Charles de Gaulle, president of France.
• 1960 July 5 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Mom Rajawongse Sirikit Kitiyakara of Thailand.
• 1960 October 19 - John F. Kennedy, Democratic presidential nominee.
• 1960 November 2 - President Dwight Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon, Republican presidential nominee.
• 1961 April 10 - New York Yankees, winners of the American League pennant.
• 1961 May 11 - Habib Bourguiba, president of Tunisia.
• 1961 October 13 - Ibrahim Abboud, president of Sudan.
• 1961 October 27 - builders and crew of the USS Constellation
• 1962 March 1 - John Glenn, following the Mercury 6 mission.
• 1962 April 5 - Joao Goulart, president of Brazil.
• 1962 April 9 - New York Yankees, winners of the World Series.
• 1962 April 16 - Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah of Iran.
• 1962 April 12 - New York Mets, upon entering the National League.
• 1962 May 25 - President Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d'Ivoire.
• 1962 June 5 - Scott Carpenter, following the Mercury 7 mission.
• 1962 June 8 - Archbishop Makarios, head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church.
• 1962 June 14 - Roberto F. Chiari, president of Panama.
• 1963 January 17 - Antonio Segni, president of Italy.
• 1963 April 1 - King Hassan II of Morocco.
• 1963 May 22 - Gordon Cooper, following the Mercury 9 mission.
• 1963 June 10 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, president of India.
• 1963 September 10 - King Mohammed Zahir Shah and Queen Homaira of Afghanistan.
• 1963 October 4 - Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1964 July 16 - Operation Sail vessel crews.
• 1964 October 8 - Diosdado Macapagal, president of the Philippines.
• 1965 March 29 - Virgil Grissom and John Young, following the Gemini 3 mission.
• 1965 May 19 - Chung Hee Park, president of South Korea.
• 1969 January 10 - Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, and William A. Anders, following the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon.
• 1969 August 13 - Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins, following Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
• 1969 October 20 - New York Mets championship in the World Series
• 1978 October 19 - New York Yankees championship in the World Series.
• 1979 October 3 - Pope John Paul II.
• 1981 January 30 - American hostages released from Iran.
• 1984 August 15 - US Olympic medalists.
• 1985 May 7 - Vietnam War veterans.
• 1986 October 28 - New York Mets championship in the World Series.
• 1990 June 20 - Nelson Mandela of South Africa.
• 1991 June 10 - Persian Gulf War veterans.
• 1991 June 25 - Korean War veterans.
• 1994 June 17 - New York Rangers, winners of Stanley Cup hockey championship.
• 1996 October 29 - New York Yankees, winners of the World Series.
• 1998 October 17 - Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs baseball star
• 1998 October 23 - New York Yankees, winners of the World Series.
• 1998 November 16 - John Glenn and astronauts of Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95.
• 1999 October 29 - New York Yankees championship in the World Series.
• 2000 October 30 - New York Yankees championship in the World Series.

Table of contents

1 Individuals honored with multiple parades 2 Sports franchises honored 3 References

Individuals honored with multiple parades

Richard E. Byrd (3), George Fried (2), Bobby Jones (2), Amelia Earhart (2), Wiley Post (2), Dwight D. Eisenhower (2), Charles de Gaulle (2), Haile Selassie (2), John Glenn (2).

Sports franchises honored

New York Yankees (7), New York Mets (3), New York Giants (baseball) (1), New York Rangers (1).

References

• Kenneth T. Jackson, ed. The Encyclopedia of New York City; Yale University Press (1995).