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