GenevaFeb 10 A fire destroys the French liner Normandie, in New York Harbor. Apr 1 The four-masted schooner Reine Marie Stewart, sailing under Panamanian registry, leaves New York with a mixed American-Scandinavian crew, bound for Africa. Apr 21 Architect-designer Gustav Stickley, 85, dies in Syracuse. Apr 24 Singer-actress Barbra Joan Streisand is born in Brooklyn. May The U. S. Army Pictorial Service takes over the Astoria Studios, in Queens. June Jazz trumpeter and vocalist Rowland Bernart "Bunny" Berigan dies from the effects of a severe haemorrage at the age of 33, in New York City. Jun 27 Eight German saboteurs are arrested by the FBI, after being landed on Long Island by submarine. Jul 1 Brockport Normal and Training School officially becomes Brockport State Teachers College. Jul 5 Choreographer Eliot Feld is born in Brooklyn. Sep 28 New York City's Americans hockey teams is disbanded. Oct 13 Singer-actor Art Garfunkel is born in Forest Hills. Oct 22 Actress-singer-Mousketeer Annette Funicello is born in Utica. Nov 6 A fireworks factory explosion in East Rochester kills twelve people; mostly female workers. Nov 18 Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth opens, on Broadway. Dec 21 Anthropologist Franz Boas dies, in New York City. City Pace Institute receives its permanent charter from the city. It is taken over by Robert Scott Pace (president) and C. Richard Pace (secretary), sons of co-founder Homer St. Clair Pace. ** The Post adopts a tabloid format. ** The New York Times begins publishing a Sunday crossword puzzle. ** The New York Herald Tribune makes reporter Homer Bigart a war correspondent. ** The USO Lounge of New York City's Pennsylvania Station opens. State C. Arthur Niver joins the Hammondsport Salvation Army Committee, and is elected to the school board. ** Anna Dailey, owner of Dailey's Furniture Store in Batavia and sister of concert pianist Monica Dailey, dies. ** The Le Roy House and adjacent school buildings are given to the Le Roy Historical Society. Rochester The Rochester Press fails. ** The Committee for the Preservation of Christian Democracy is formed to attempt to get the Italian Community's relatives in Europe to vote for democracy and not for Communism. ** The East Main Street subway car house is converted to a bus barn. The old operation moves to a new location at the General Motors subway loop. Copyright 1997 David Minor / Eagles Byte NOTE NYNY files through the year 1709 are now posted on my home page. David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Rochester, New York 716 264-0423 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor