On This Day:  June 3

1621 -- The Dutch West In­dia Com­pa­ny is grant­ed a char­ter for the ter­ri­to­ry of New Nether­land, whose cap­i­tal, New Am­s­ter­dam, is lat­er re­brand­ed New York fol­low­ing a se­ries of cor­po­rate takeovers.

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