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Jan 11
New York City mobster Carmine Galante, under contract to Vito Genovese,
a friend of Benito Mussolini's, kills Carlo Tresca, editor of the
anti-Communist newspaper Il Martello.
Apr 8
Stage musicals director Michael Bennett is born in Buffalo.
May 8
Syrian-born Brooklyn physician-poet-lecturer Rizq (George) Haddad dies,
at the age of 69.
Aug 1
A riot in West Harlem, sparked by the arrest of a black woman in the
Hotel Braddock and fanned by rumors, leaves five blacks dead and 500
arrested.
Nov 14
New York Philharmonic conductor Bruno Walter is taken ill. His
assistant Leonard Bernstein fills in for him.
City
Mayor Guardia asks Roosevelt to commission him a brigadier general.
** The demolition of the Sixth Avenue elevated line is completed.
** Frank Lloyd Wright is commissioned to design the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum ** Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash's One
Touch of Venus opens on Broadway. Baltimore-based Nash visits
the city. ** New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams marries Barbara
Day. ** Author Pietro di Donato marries Helen Dean. The ceremony
is performed by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. ** New York
Times military analyst Hanson Baldwin wins the
Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from the war in the Pacific. **
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) sells its Blue Network to
Edward J. Noble, to avoid antitrust problems. Noble changes the name of
the flagship station WJZ to ABC, which will become the American
Broadcasting Company (ABC).
State
The Randall Mansion in Cortland is demolished. ** The Caledonia
State Fair skips the season because of gasoline rationing. **
Civil engineer Henry Druding is assigned to Sampson Naval Training
Center as a lieutenant commander, serving as public works officer.
1944
January
Batavia restaurant owners Mr. and Mrs. Harry Neumeister move The
Dagwoodfrom 48 Main Street to 112 Main.
Feb 1
Dutch painter Pieter Mondrian, 71, dies in New York City.
Feb 17
Get-A-Way Gertie, a B-24 on a training mission out of Westover Army
Base in Massachusetts, crashes into Lake Ontario at Mexico Bay. All
eight crew members aboard drown. The wreck is not recovered.
Feb 23
A wing of Get-A-Way Gerty washes ashore.
Apr 7
Jazz tenor saxophone player Pat Pascel LaBarbera is born in Warsaw, New
York.
Apr 29
The U. S. Socialist Labor Party meets for two days in New York City,
nominates Edward A. Teichert of Pennsylvania and Ohio's Alva A.
Albaugh.
May 8
The first eye bank is established, in New York City.
May 19
The U. S. Communist Party, meeting in New York City for two days,
endorses Franklin D. Roosevelt's candidacy.
May 28
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is born in Brooklyn.
Jun 27
The Republicans meet for three days in Chicago, Illinois, nominate New
York governor Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio governor John Bricker.
Jul 20
Katherine Hepburn opens on Broadway in Dragon Seed.
Aug 1
Exiled Filipino president Manuel Quezon, 65, die in Saranac Lake.
Sergio Osmena is sworn in, the new president-in-exile.
September
Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis enrolls in the Julliard School of Music.
Oct 4
Politician Alfred E. Smith, 70, dies in New York City.
Oct 19
Actor Marlon Brando makes his Broadway debut in John Van Druten's
I Remember Mama, with Peggy
Wood.
December
The city of Rochester uses imported German prisoners of war to shovel
snow.
Dec 16
Composer, guitarist and bass player John Abercrombie is born in Port
Chester.
Dec 17
The Green Bay Packers defeat the New York Giants for the football
championship.
Dec 27
Composer Amy Marcy Cheyney Beach (Mrs. H. H. A. Beach) dies in New
York City at the age of 77.
City
Frieda Schiff Warburg donates her family mansion on Fifth Avenue to the
Jewish Theological Seminary to house their art collection - the
beginning of the Jewish Museum. ** Writer producer Cy Howard
appears in Maxwell Anderson's Storm Operation. **
Aaron Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring,
choreographed by Martha Graham, debuts. ** 18-year-old trumpeter
Miles Davis sits in with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker when they
appear in St. Louis. When they've gone he comes here and seeks them
out. ** Pearl Bailey begins an eight-month booking at the Blue
Angel supper club. ** Composer-troubador Richard Dyer-Bennet
becomes the first folk performer to give a major solo concert, selling
out Town Hall. Impresario Sol Hurok hears him perform at Carnegie Hall
and signs him on as a client. ** Columbia University physics
professor Isidor Isaacs Rabi wins the Nobel Prize for his work on
atomic magnetic measurement. ** Black Broadway composer Will
Marion Cook dies. ** Jerome Robbins expands his ballet
Fancy Free into On the Town.
State
Herrick's Castle (Ericstan) in Tarrytown is demolished. ** The
Pickle Boat, having made twice-daily voyages between Old Forge and
Inlet for 44 years, is retired. ** Samuel Hopkins Adams'
Canal Town. is published. ** Rosie Carnemolla is
born in Poughkeepsie. She will attain a peak weight of 840 pounds.
Batavia
Joseph Fratterigo buys a lunceonette on Jackson Street from co-worker
William Rippey. He will move the restaurant across the street. **
A one-story cement block addition is built onto the back of the Holland
Land Office building. ** Robert McBride buys horse sheds on the
west side of State Street and replaces them with the McBride Boiler
Works.
Rochester
Jean Walrath becomes the city's first female political candidate.
** The Italian Culture Club helps establish the Il Scolo Italian
language summer school.
1945
January
Batavia's Holland Land Office Museum is turned over to the Red Cross.
The collections are stored in two upstairs rooms.
Mar 12
The state legislature enacts a anti-discrimination law.
Mar 17
Japanese-American physician Toyohiko Campbell Takami dies in Brooklyn.
Apr 12
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Apr 15
Roosevelt is buried at the family home in Hyde Park.
May 7
German Chief of Staff General Alfred Jodl, representing the Germans,
signs the surrender at Reims.
May 24
Actress Priscilla Ann Beaulieu (Presley) is born in Brooklyn.
Jul 1
The state forms the first state anti-discrimination agency.
Jul 9
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright displays his plans for the Guggenheim
Museum.
Jul 28
A B-25 crashes into the Empire State Building, at the 79th floor.
Sep 2
The Japanese surrender is signed on the decks of the USS
Missouri in Tokyo Bay - Truman proclaims the day VJ (Victory
over Japan) Day.
Sep 26
Hungarian-born composer Bela Bartok dies in New York City at the age of
64.
Oct 3
35,000 memebers of the International Longshoreman's Association (ILA)
walk off the job.
Oct 19
The longshoremen return to work, having gained wage increases and
improved working onditions.
Oct 27
Truman announces twelve fundamentals of U. S. foreign policy, during a
New York City address.
November
Miles Davis participates in his first be-bop session, recording
Now's the Time and Koko with the
Charlie Parker quintet. He has just dropped out of Julliard.
Nov 10
Jazz trumpet player and arranger John LaBarbera is born in Mount
Morris.
Nov 25
Elie Siegmeister's Western Suite is premiered by
Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Orchestra.
Dec 6
Art treasures rescued from the Germans arrive in New York City.
City
Mayor La Guardia declines to run for a forth term. Brooklyn Districy
Attorney and Democrat American Labor candidiate William O' Dwyer
defeats Republican-Liberal-Fusion candidate Jonah J. Goldstein and No
Deal candidate Newbold Morris, to become mayor, serving through 1950.
** Historian Dumas Malone becomes a professor of history at
Columbia University. ** Actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
marry, settle here. ** The Herald Tribune begins
publishing the Matter of Fact column by Joseph and
Stewart Alsop. ** The Army-Navy football game is transmitted from
Philadelphia to New York City - the first commercial intercity event to
be televised.
State
Chili's Chesbrough Seminary becomes a juinor college and changes its
name to Roberts Junior College, honoring founder Bishop Benjamin Titus
Roberts. ** C. Arthur Niver is named chairman of the Hammondsport
Village Youth Committee. ** P and C Markets opens a store in
Batavia. ** Governor George E. Pataki is born in Peekskill. **
Westchester County Airport opens.
Rochester
The federal government assumes control of the Port of Rochester's ferry
harbor dredging and the payment of west pier repairs.
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