This is no longer history for me!! It's contemporary. On Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:12:28 -0400 David Minor <[log in to unmask]> writes: ><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Jan 9 > >Folksinger-activist Joan Baez is born in New York City. > > >Jan 24 > >Raoul Walsh's <italic>High Sierra</italic> 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 <italic>Road to Zanzibar</italic> >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 > ><italic>Citizen Kane</italic> opens at New York City's Palace Theater. > > >May 5 > >The New York <italic>Times</italic> 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 > ><italic>Tobacco Road</italic> 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; <italic>Truth or Consequences</italic> 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 <italic>A Yank in the RAF</italic> opens in New York >City. > > >Sep 29 > >The Museum of Modern Art acquires Vincent van Gogh's <italic>The >Starry > Night</italic>. > > >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 <italic>Syracuse >Herald-Standard</italic>. > ></fontfamily> > > > ><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Copyright 1997 David Minor / >Eagles Byte</fontfamily> > >David Minor > >Eagles Byte Historical Research > >Rochester, New York > >716 264-0423 > > >http://home.eznet.net/~dminor >