GenevaJan 2 The first U. S. anti-aircraft defense area is set up at Mitchell Field, New York. Jan 9 James Thurber and Elliott Nugent's The Male Animal opens at Broadway's Cort Theater. Jan 11 Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday opens in New York City. Feb 2 Soprano Martina Arroyo is born in New York City. Feb 5 Youth Congress demonstrators in New York City stage an anti-war protest. Feb 8 Walt Disney's Pinocchio opens in New York City. Feb 23 John Cromwell's film Abe Lincoln in Illinois opens at Radio City Music Hall. Mar 3 The first major folk concert is held, in New York City, with Woody Guthrie, the Lomaxes, Leadbelly, and others. Mar 7 The Queen Elizabeth arrives in New York on its maiden voyage. Mar 8 King Vidor's Northwest Passage has its New York premiere. Mar 11 Pianist Artur Rubenstein gives the first recital of the Carnegie Hall season. Mar 28 Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca opens in New York. Mar 29 Joe Louis knocks out Johnny Paychek at Madison Square Garden. Mar 31 New York's LaGuardia airport opens to traffic. Apr 1 Maurice Evans returns to New York City to play in Shakespeare's King Richard II . Apr 12 Historical mystery novelist Miriam Grace (Monfredo) is born in Rochester. Apr 17 Eagles Byte founder David Carr Minor is born in Batavia. Apr 26 Henry O. Flipper, first black graduate of West Point, dies of a heart attack in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 84. May 9 Vivien Leigh makes her U. S. stage debut, starring with Laurence Olivier in Romeo and Juliet. on Broadway. May 10 Germany invades Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. May 11 The New York World's Fair opens for its second year. Aug 17 Roosevelt meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King at Ogdensburg to discuss the defense of North America, Aug 18 Roosevelt and King sign the Ogdensburg Agreement, creating the Permanent Joint Board of Defense. Sep 6 Russian-American chemist Phoebus Aaron Theodor Levene dies in New York City. Sep 11 Al Jolson returns to Broadway in Hold on to Your Hats. Sep 21 Journalist Paul Cowan is born in New York City. Sep 29 Busby Berkeley's musical Strike Up the Band opens in New York. October New York nightclub owner Barney Josephson opens Cafe Society Uptown. Oct 16 Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator has its New York premiere. Oct 19 Lloyd Bacon's Knute Rockne-All American has its New York premiere. Oct 24 William Wyler's The Westerner opens in New York. GenevaOct 27 The New York World's Fair ends its second season. Nov 3 Fred Niblo's The Mark of Zorro opens in New York. Nov 13 Walt Disney's Fantasia opens in New York . Nov 18 An unexploded bomb is found in a New York City Consolidated Edison building. It is the first to be planted by the "Mad Bomber". Nov 23 William Wyler's The Letter has its New York premiere. Dec 6 Rock and roll singer Steve Alaimo is born in Rochester. Dec 31 Russian-born photographer Roman Vishniac arrives in New York City, from France. City Construction begins on East Harlem's Benjamin Franklin High School. ** The city takes over the operation of the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (BMT) Company's subway lines. ** Hulan E Jack is elected New York State assemblyman for Harlem. ** Circulation of the Sunday edition of the Daily News approaches 4,000,000. ** George Abbott's production of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey premieres. ** Pagliacci is telecast from the Metropolitan Opera House. ** Critic-author Irving Howe graduates from New York's City College. ** Jazz violinist Leon Abbey leads his own big band for a brief time this year. ** The New York Rangers win hockey's Stanley Cup. ** Jerome Robbins dances in George Balanchine's Keep Off the Grass. ** English actress Jessica Tandy makes New York City her permanent home. ** Jose Ferrer makes his New York professional stage debut playing the lead in Charley's Aunt. State Batavian Donald Naegely buys a lunch stand at 106 Main Street, names it Don's Dinette. ** Archaeologist-historian Sheldon Fisher buys the market building at Valentown, near Victor. ** Baseball authority Harold Seymour receives his master's degree from Cornell University. Rochester The city annexes abandoned Erie Canal lands near Monroe Avenue and property near the airport, increasing its own size to 35.25 square miles. ** The Italian-language newspaper La Stampa Unita changes its name to The Rochester Press and introduces features in English. ** 130 buses are ordered over the next two years to replace remaining trolley cars. GenevaCopyright 1997 David Minor / Eagles Byte David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Rochester, New York 716 264-0423 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor