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.
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