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.
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