GenevaJan 9 Folksinger-activist Joan Baez is born in New York City. Jan 24 Raoul Walsh's High Sierra opens in New York City. Mar 11 The Rochester Transit Corporation discontinues streetcar service on the Portland and Dewey Lines. The subway-surface link to Kodak Park is also discontinued. 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. Mar 21 New York's transportation workers return to the job, having won a wage increase. 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 Road to Zanzibar opens in New York City. 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. May 1 Citizen Kane opens at New York City's Palace Theater. May 5 The New York Times wins a Pulitzer Prize for its war reporting. May 7 Utica discontinues its trolley service. May 9 Theater television is demonstrated on a 15 by 20-foot screen in New York City. May 20 Roosevelt establishes the Office of Civilian Defense by executive order. New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia is named director. May 31 Tobacco Road ends a 3,180 performance run on Broadway. Jun 2 New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, 37, dies in New York City. Jun 11 Naturalist-illustrator and Boy Scouts of America co-founder Daniel Carter Beard, 70, dies in Suffern. Jun 17 Mackenzie King speaks in New York City, pledges Canada's total support to the British war effort. Jun 29 Polish pianist-statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski, 81, dies in New York City. Jun 30 Roosevelt establishes the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. 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; Truth or Consequences is simulcast over the radio. Jul 2 Joe Dimaggio plays his record-breaking forty-fifth straight game with out being struck out. Sep 23 A time capsule is buried at the New York World's Fair, to be opened in 5,000 years. Sep 26 Henry King's film A Yank in the RAF opens in New York City. Sep 29 The Museum of Modern Art acquires Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night. 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 New York City's Gowanus Parkway opens. Nov 26 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 Syracuse Herald-Standard. GenevaCopyright 1997 David Minor / Eagles Byte David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Rochester, New York 716 264-0423 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor