New York had never seen a parade to match the one that came through town on this day in 1927. The city was welcoming the international hero Charles Lindbergh. He was greeted at the Battery by 300,000 people. And when 10,000 soldiers and sailors accompanied him up Fifth Avenue, about four million spectators craned their neck to see the first man to fly across the Atlantic solo. The ticker tape parade was a New York invention, which originated in 1886. The occasion was the unveiling of the Statue

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TICKER-TAPE CELEBRATION: The soccer stars of the U.S. Women's National Team were honored Wednesday with a ticker-tape parade in New York City, where thousands of fans filled the streets, cheering on the players as they headed to City Hall, just days after the team won the 2019 Women's World Cup for the fourth time. https://abcn.ws/32fFd0F | ABC World News Tonight with David Muir