This is no longer history for me!!  It's contemporary.


On Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:12:28 -0400 David Minor <[log in to unmask]> writes:
><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Jan 9
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>Folksinger-activist Joan Baez is born in New York City.
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>Jan 24
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>Raoul Walsh's <italic>High Sierra</italic> opens in New York City.
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>Mar 11
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>The Rochester Transit Corporation discontinues streetcar service on
>the
>Portland and Dewey Lines. The subway-surface link to Kodak Park is
>also
>discontinued.
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>
>Mar 13
>
>The Boston Bruins defeat the New York Americans, 8-3, becoming the
>first hockey team to win the divisional championship four times in a
>row.
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>Mar 21
>
>New York's transportation workers return to the job, having won a wage
>increase.
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>Mar 31
>
>The Rochester Transit Corporation abandons the last two streetcar
>lines
>in the city - The Lake Avenue and Main East lines.
>
>
>Apr 1
>
>The first advertising contract with a commercial FM radio station
>begins with New York City station W71NY.
>
>
>Apr 9
>
>The Hope-Crosby-Lamour Road picture <italic>Road to Zanzibar</italic>
>opens in New York City.
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>
>Apr 20
>
>President Franklin Roosevelt and Canadian prime minister Mackenzie
>King
>sign the Hyde Park Agreement, to cooperate in the purchase and
>production of defense equipment.
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>
>May 1
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><italic>Citizen Kane</italic> opens at New York City's Palace Theater.
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>May 5
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>The New York <italic>Times</italic> wins a Pulitzer Prize for its war
>reporting.
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>May 7
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>Utica discontinues its trolley service.
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>May 9
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>Theater television is demonstrated on a 15 by 20-foot screen in New
>York City.
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>May 20
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>Roosevelt establishes the Office of Civilian Defense by executive
>order. New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia is named director.
>
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>May 31
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><italic>Tobacco Road</italic> ends a 3,180 performance run on
>Broadway.
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>Jun 2
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> New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, 37, dies in New York City.
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>Jun 11
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>Naturalist-illustrator and Boy Scouts of America co-founder Daniel
>Carter Beard, 70,  dies in Suffern.
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>Jun 17
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>Mackenzie King speaks in New York City, pledges Canada's total support
>to the British war effort.
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>Jun 29
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>Polish pianist-statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski, 81, dies in New York
>City.
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>Jun 30
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>Roosevelt establishes the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park.
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>
>Jul 1
>
>The first commercial television license is granted to station WNBT,
>which begins broadcasting. Programming includes a Dodgers-Pirates
>baseball game from Ebbets Field, the first television commercial
>(costing Bulova $9), a Lowell Thomas news program, a USO show and a
>quiz show; <italic>Truth or Consequences</italic> is simulcast over
>the
>radio.
>
>
>Jul 2
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>Joe Dimaggio plays his record-breaking forty-fifth straight game with
>out being struck out.
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>Sep 23
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>A time capsule is buried at the New York World's Fair, to be opened in
>5,000 years.
>
>
>Sep 26
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>Henry King's film <italic>A Yank in the RAF</italic> opens in New York
>City.
>
>
>Sep 29
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>The Museum of Modern Art acquires Vincent van Gogh's <italic>The
>Starry
> Night</italic>.
>
>
>Oct 6
>
>The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the World
>Series, four games to one.
>
>
>Nov 4
>
>Fiorello LaGuardia, running on the City Fusion-United City-American
>Labor-Republican ticket, is elected mayor of New York City for a third
>term, defeating Democrat William O'Dwyer.
>
>
>Nov 11
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>New York City's Gowanus Parkway opens.
>
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>Nov 26
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>Rochester's Committee to Aid Colored Draftees holds a benefit to raise
>money for black soldiers.
>
>
>Dec 7
>
>The Japanese attack U. S. forces at Pearl Harbor.
>
>
>City
>
>The New York Aquarium, in lower Manhattan, moves to Coney Island,
>Brooklyn.    **    Benjamin Franklin High School is completed.    **
>Construction begins on an airport in Idlewild, Queens.    **    John
>O'Donnell leases Gaelic Park from the Metropolitan Transit Authority,
>and runs the stadium, playing field, ballroom and bar, for the Gaelic
>Athletic Association.    **    Cranbrook Academy of Art design head
>Charles Eames wins a competition of the Museum of Modern Art, with his
>design of a molded plywood chair.    **    Pearl Bailey makes her New
>York City debut at the Village Vanguard.    **    Marie Saxon
>Silverman, former musical-comedy dancer and widow of Variety founder
>Sime Silverman, dies at the age of 37.
>
>
>State
>
>A new building at the Brockport Normal and Training School is
>completed. It will eventually become Hartwell Hall.    **    Batavia's
>Holland Land Office Museum is closed due to financial difficulties.
>The
>property is given to the Batavia Board of Educators which in turn
>leases it to the Genesee Chapter of the American Red Cross.    **
>Richard Whitney, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, is
>released from Sing Sing prison after serving time on a embezzlement
>charge.    **    Samuel I. Newhouse buys New York's <italic>Syracuse
>Herald-Standard</italic>.
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>David Minor
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