Geneva1934
Jan 1
Columbia defeats Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
Jan 7
Russia's first ambassador to the U. S. arrives in New York City.
Jan 19
Robert Moses becomes New York City's first city-wide parks
commissioner.
Feb 1
A New York City art gallery holds a retrospective of painter Georgia
O'Keefe.
Feb 6
New York City taxi drivers walk off the job.
Feb 11
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz makes his debut with the New York
Philharmonic.
Feb 16
Due to January's devaluation of the dollar $100,000 worth of gold
arrives in New York City. ** A rally in New York City's Madison
Square Garden turns into a free-for-all between Communists and
Socialists.
Feb 20
A snowstorm hits the northeastern U. S., causing more than thirty
deaths. ** Virgil Thomson's opera Four Saints in Three
Acts opens in New York City, with its librettist Gertrude
Stein in the audience.
Feb 22
Frank Capra's It Happened One Night opens at Radio
City Music Hall.
March
Batavia businesswoman Mary Sweetland moves her Main Street restaurant
further along the street, renames it the Berry Patch.
Mar 6
New York City's cab drivers return to work, having won a wage
increase.
Mar 17
5,000 blacks riot in New York City over the Scottsboro Boys trial.
Mar 27
Dance Theatre of Harlem founder Arthur Mitchell is born in New York
City.
Mar 29
U. S. philanthropist and arts patron Otto Hermann Kahn dies in New York
City.
Apr 7
A pro-Nazi rally in a Queens stadium erupts in a number of small
skirmishes when anti-Nazi protestors gather outside the arena.
May 17
20,000 people attend a pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
May 22
Pianist Peter Nero is born in New York City.
May 31
President Franklin D. Roosevelt reviews a U. S. fleet of 81 warships
and 185 planes, in New York City harbor.
Jun 13
Max Baer knocks out Carnera, in New York City, to become the new
heavyweight boxing champion.
Jun 24
Fats Waller records Somebody Stole My Gal,
Dinah, 12th Street Rag and
Blue Because of You.
Jul 9
American Airlines inaugurates sleeper service between New York and
Chicago.
Aug 13
15,000 tons of rock plunge into the gorge below Niagara Falls.
Sep 1
Colonel Roscoe Turner flies from New York to Los Angeles in ten hours,
two minutes and 51 seconds, beating his old record.
Sep 4
A New York City court sentences John Smiuske to six months in jail for
burning a satirical portrait of President Roosevelt.
Sep 8
Ku Klux Klan members in Westchester County pledge support for Naziism.
Sep 15
A New York City gas station attendant is paid with a five dollar gold
certificate that turns out to be from the Lindbergh ransom. He jots
down the license plate number.
Sep 20
Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for receiving the Lindbergh ransom.
October
Con artist Charles Ponzi is deported to Italy. ** Cleveland
Still, first tenor with The Dubs, is born in New York City.
Oct 1
The New York Stock Exchange registers with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC).
Oct 8
Baritone Doc Green of The Drifters is born in New York City.
Oct 13
New York City police sink 1,155 slot machines in Long Island Sound.
Oct 25
A Union Pacific train makes a record-setting transcontinental run, New
York to Los Angeles, in 57 hours.
Oct 28
The FERA arranges to buy Long Island potatoes to feed the needy.
Nov 1
Union Pacific's new diesel cuts 14-and-a-half hours off the Los Angeles
to New York run.
Nov 4
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art opens a new show on industrial
art.
Nov 9
Astronomer-author Carl Edward Sagan is born in New York City.
Nov 21
Cole Porter's Anything Goes opens on Broadway.
Dec 20
The New York Philharmonic premieres Philip James' Bret Harte
Overture.
City
Robert Moses begins construction of Orchard Beach in the Bronx. **
The women's Zionist organization Hadassah forms Youth Aliyah to
rescue German children. ** 70 trains a day are now crossing the
Spuyten Duyvil Bridge. ** Salvador Dali has a show at a local
gallery. ** Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell strikes out five batters
in succession during an All-Star Game.
State
Ted Zornow, Sr. purchases his in-law's Pittsford produce business and
converts it into a bean and grain processing mill. ** The U. S.
Veretans' Facilty opens in Batavia.
Rochester
The city celebrates its centennial. Among the guests is Joseph Leech,
mayor of Rochester, England. ** Architect Claude Bragdon edits
and writes the introduction to Louis Sullivan's Kindergarten
Chatss.
1935
Feb 12
Talullah Bankhead opens in New York, in a revival of Somerset Maugham's
Rain.
Feb 21
Playwright Leonard Melfi is born in Binghamton.
Mar 18
Riots break out in West Harlem after a young black boy is caught
shoplifting and is released. Untrue rumors spread out of control and
before order is restored one person is dead and over a hundred are
injured.
Apr 8
Newspaper publisher Adolph Simon Ochs dies.
Jun 17
Songwriter-folksinger Margaret (Peggy) Seeger is born in New York
City.
Jul 2
The Rip Van Winkle Bridge over the Hudson River opens.
Aug 26
Politician Geraldine Anne Ferraro is born in Newburgh.
Sep 13
New York State's Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Long Island's
Stony Brook State Park (SP-55) opens.
Oct 12
Batavia's Dellinger Theatre burns down.
Oct 23
New York City mobster Lucky Luciano has rival Dutch Schultz rubbed out,
in Newark, New Jersey. Another Luciano victim, Marty Krompier, survives
a Manhattan attack with four bullets in him.
Nov 12
Greta Peltz shoots and kills her lover Fritz Gebhardt in their New York
City apartment. She claims he tried to force her to perform an
unnatural act and is acquitted.
Dec 1
Producer-director-comedian Woody Allen is born in New York City.
Dec 30
Baseball player Sanford ("Sandy")Koufax is born in Brooklyn.
City
Naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews is named director of the American Museum
of Natural History, serving until 1942. ** The London Terrace
apartment complex is foreclosed. ** Pace Institute is
incorporated. ** Babe Ruth leaves the Yankees to play for the
Boston Braves. ** Max Baer loses the world's heavyweight
championship to James J. Braddock in Long Island City. ** Alfred
Lunt and Lynne Fontanne's The Taming of the Shrew,
Billy Rose's Jumbo, George Abbott's productions
of Boy Meets Girl andThree Men on a
Horse and Cole Porter's musical Jubilee. ,
all premiere. ** The Wall Street investment firm of Morgan
Stanley is founded. ** Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad makes
her U. S. debut at the Metropolitan Opera. ** Photographer
Berenice Abbott obtains a grant from the Federal Art Project of the
Works Progress Administration (WPA), to produce a photographic record
of the city.
State
John Bridger builds a diner at the intersection of routes 20 and 63,
next to a new ESSO gas station run by a Mr. Ayers. The facility will
become the Texaco Town truck stop. The local school burns down and an
asbestos building is moved to the site as a temporary substitute. **
Mormons in the Palmyra area stage the first Hill Cumorah Pageant.
** The movie The Farmer Takes a Wife is filmed on
the Erie Canal.
Rochester
The federal government assumes the cost of the lower basin at the Port
of Rochester.
1936
Jan 1
The Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Stony Brook State Park closes,
after three-and-a-half months of operation.
Jan 29
Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Christopher "Christy"
Mathewson, and Walter Perry Johnson are the first inductees elected
into the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown.
Apr 22
John Torrio, public enemy number two, is captured in New York City.
Apr 25
The Socialist Labor Party convention meets in New York City.
Apr 28
The Socialist Laborites adjourn, having nominated Massachusetts' J. W.
Aiken and New York's Emil F. Teichert.
Apr 29
Conductor Arturo Toscanini gives his farewell performance in Carnegie
Hall.
May 5
The Prohibition Party meets in Niagara Falls
May 7
The Prohibition Party adjourns, having nominated New York's Dr. D.
Leigh Colvin and Tennessee's Sergeant Alvin C. York.
May 15
Playwright Paul Zindel is born on Staten Island.
May 24
Yankees batter Tony Lazzeri drives in eleven runs in one game
(including two grand slams) to set an American League record. The
Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 25-2.
May 28
Pare Lorenz' documentary The Plow That Broke the Plains
opens in New York.
Jun 1
The Queen Mary docks in New York. ** The Supreme
Court declares that New York's 1933 Minimum Wage Law for Women is
unconstitutional, in Morehead V. New York ex rel. Tipaldo.
The law had also covered children.
Jun 14
The 17-year locust reappears in the northeast U. S., hitting Long
Island especially hard.
Jun 18
Lucky Luciano is convicted on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.
Jun 19
Max Schmeling knocks out Joe Louis in the twelfth round, in New York
City.
Jun 24
The Communist Party meets in New York City.
Jun 28
The Communist Party adjourns, having nominated New York's Earl Browder
and James W. Ford.
Jun 28
Pan-American Airways' Dixie Clipper lands in Lisbon
with 22 people aboard from Port Washington, Long Island, inaugurating
transatlantic passenger air service with a flight lasting 23 hours and
52 minutes.
Jun 29
Ground is broken on Long Island for New York City's World's Fair.
Jul 11
New York City's Triborough Bridge opens, connecting Manhattan, the
Bronx and Queens. 20,000 people cross the bridge today.
Aug 4
Bass singer Elsberry Hobbs of The Drifters is born in New York City.
Aug 5
Dance instructors gather in New York City to reach a consensus on the
nature of "swing" music.
Aug 18
Joe Louis knocks out Jack Sharkey in New York City.
Aug 20
Ballerina Carla Fracci of the America Ballet Theater is born in Italy.
Aug 23
One route of Rochester's New York State Railways streetcar lines is
discontinued. ** Lead singer of The Drifters Rudy Lewis is born
in New York City.
Aug 30
Ten more routes of Rochester's New York State Railways streetcar lines
are discontinued.
September
Rochester gets new buses to replace the recently discontinued trolley
lines.
Sep 12
Fred Perry and Alice Marbel win the Forest Hills tennis championships.
Oct 1
Ballet dancer Edward Villella is born in Bayside.
Oct 6
The Yankees defeat the Giants, 4 games to 2, to win the World Series.
Oct 9
Joe Louis defeats Jorge Brescia in New York City.
Oct 25
A melee breaks out over a call during a football game between the
Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles. A referee has his shirt torn
apart.
Nov 4
New York State's Communist Party fails to get enough votes to be
legally viable.
Dec 9
A show of Dada and Surrealistic art opens in New York City.
Dec 12
The Henry Hudson Bridge, over New York City's Harlem River, opens.
Dec 13
Football's old Brooklyn Dodgers team beats the St. Louis Terriers 100-0
in an exhibition game, scoring an average two points a minute.
Dec 25
Yellow journalism editor Arthur Brisbane, 72, dies in New York City.
City
Bronx's Orchard Beach is completed. ** Construction of a Queens
Midtown Tunnel begins, as well as that for a
subway. ** Construction begins on a project to bring Delaware
River water to the city for its supply. ** A second tunnel is
completed connecting the city to water from the Catskills. **
Robert E. Sherwood wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for
Idiot's Delight. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne star in
the Broadway production. ** Rose Louise Hovick first appears
under the name of Gypsy Rose Lee in the Ziegfeld
Follies. ** George Balanchine choreographs the number
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue for George Abbott's
production of Richard Rodgers and Lornz Hart's musical On Your
Toes, danced by Ray Bolger.
State
A referendum is put before Cortland voters, to preserve the Randall
Mansion. It fails. ** An expedition from the Rochester Museum,
including historian J. Sheldon Fisher, excavates the Wadsworth Mound,
from the Hopewell culture, south of Geneseo. ** Batavia's Cary
family donates their East Main Street home to th city. After several
years the city will find the upkeep to be too expensive and will return
it. ** Benjamin O. Davis becomes the fourth black to graduate
from West Point.
Rochester
The Port of Rochester's imports climb back to $1,000,000. **
Downtown's Rundell Memorial Library opens.
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
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