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Jan 9
Frank Stanton becomes president of the Columbia Broadcasting System
(CBS).
Jan 10
The musical Finian's Rainbow opens at the 46th Street
Theater.
Jan 28
Harry L. Hopkins, 55, aide to President Roosevelt, dies in a New York
City hospital.
Feb 17
New York City donates 2,500,000 pounds of clothing for European
refuges.
Feb 18
The Vatican names John Glennon of St. Louis, Francis Spellman of New
York City and Edward Mooney of Detroit as cardinals.
Feb 27
Hal Walker's Bob Hope - Bing Crosby-Dorothy Lamour Road to
Utopia opens in New York City.
Mar 25
The United Nations Security Council meets at New York's Hunter
College.
Mar 29
New York ex-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia is named director general of the
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
Apr 21
A U. S. Army P-80 sets a New York to Washington flight time record of
29 minutes and15 seconds.
May 16
Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun opens on Broadway.
Jun 4
ABC News correspondent Bettina Gregory is born in New York City.
Jul 2
The Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team is given a rousing
reception on their return to New York.
Aug 12
Castle Clinton (formerly known as Castle Garden, Emigrant Landing
Depot, and the New York Aquarium) is named as a National Historic
Monument, by Congress.
Sep 17
Architect-author-set designer Claude Fayette Bragdon dies in New York
City.
Sep 20
A rock slides into the gorge at Niagara Falls, turning the American
Falls into a horseshoe.
Sep 24
Some New York City residents are reported to be eating horse meat as
prices shoot up.
Oct 2
A symposium at the University of Buffalo links cigarette smoking with
lung cancer.
Oct 9
Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh opens in New York
City.
Oct 23
U. S. President Harry S. Truman opens the United Nations General
Assembly session, in Flushing Meadows.
November
Dunkirk, New York, sends nearly $100,000 worth of food, clothing,
medical supplies, livestock and seeds to its sister city, Dunkirk,
France. ** William Wyler's The Best Years of Our
Lives has its New York premiere.
Nov 4
The Council of Foreign Ministers meets in New York City. ** The
National Horse Show returns to Madison Square Garden after a five-year
wartime hiatus.
Nov 18
Former New York City Mayor James "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker dies.
December
Walt Disney's Song of the South has its New York City
premiere.
Dec 14
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. presents the United Nations with $8,500,000
towards the purchase of property on New York City's East River, for a
headquarters.
Dec 15
The Chicago Bears defeat the New York Giants 24-14, winning the
football championship.
City
Roosevelt S. Zanders borrows $3,000 to buy a Cadillac and founds
Zanders Rental Service, in Harlem. ** Estee Lauder begins
marketing skin products. ** Norman Z. McLeod's film The
Kid From Brooklyn. ** Mount Sinai Hospital becomes the
first to diagnose and treat disease of the pancreas. ** Heart
specialist Dr. William Foley joins the staff of New York
Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. ** Pulmonary disease researcher
Norman Plummer becomes New York Telephone's general medical director.
State
Syracuse's Le Moyne College opens. ** Wyoming architect, Inn
owner and antique collector Bryant Fleming dies.
Rochester
The local bartender's union protests making women barmaids rather than
giving the jobs to returning veterans. ** Over 100 war brides
arrive in the city. ** The city fires 489 garbage collectors and
street cleaners when they attempt to form into unions. ** The
Italian Culture Club stages an Italian Mardi Gras at the Powers Hotel.
1947
Jan 18
Leopold Stokowski conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in the
premiere of Elie Siegmeister's Prairie Legend.
Feb 2
Former President Herbert Hoover leaves from New York to survey European
food problems.
Feb 24
Teachers in Buffalo go out on strike.
Mar 3
Buffalo teachers return to work, winning salary increases.
Apr 9
Brooklyn Dodger manager Leo Durocher sits out the entire season when
he's accused of consorting with gamblers and suspended by baseball
commissioner A. B. "Happy" Chandler on this date.
Apr 11
Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in Major League
baseball, starting with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Apr 16
Basketball player Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr. (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
is born in New York City.
Apr 19
Pianist Murray Perahia is born in New York City.
Apr 24
Novelist Willa Cather dies in New York City.
Jun 24
General Dwight David Eisenhower accepts an appointment as president of
Columbia University.
Jul 10
Folk singer Arlo Guthrie is born to Marjorie Mazia and folk
singer-composer Woody Guthrie, in Brooklyn.
Jul 24
Pianist Peter Adolf Serkin is born in New York City to pianist Rudolph
Serkin and his wife.
Sep 20
Former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia dies there.
Nov 29
The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine into
Arab and Jewish states.
Dec 3
Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire opens at
the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
Dec 5
Joe Louis defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for the heavyweight championship,
in Madison Square Garden.
Dec 21
Broadway producer Mark Hellinger dies at the age of 44.
Dec 26
25.8 inches of snow in a twenty-hour period cripples the New York City
area. 80 people die.
City
The Jewish Museum opens its doors to the public. ** Erwin
Piscator presents Armand Salacrou's Les Nuits de la colère
(Nights of Wrath). ** The Pace Institute is incorporated
as Pace College. ** Brothers Eli and Ted Wilentz, open the
Eighth Street Bookshop on the southeast corner of Eighth Avenue and
Macdougal Street. ** Yankees pitcher Floyd Bevens comes within
one hit of pitching the first no-hitter in World Series History in game
four against the Brooklyn Dodgers, when Cookie Lavagetto hits a two-run
double. The series is televised. ** Artist Henry Alonzo (Lon)
Keller's Yankees logo is introduced. ** Author Clifford Irving
graduates from the High School of Music and Art. ** Attorney
Harold Medina is named to sit on the U. S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York. ** Judith Anderson plays
Medea in John Gielgud's New York production.
State
A control tower is built at the Westchester County Airport. **
Batavia restaurant owners Mr. and Mr.s Harry Neumeister sell The
Dagwood to Ray Fiske. ** The New York State Historical
Association acquires the Cardiff Giant and brings him to the Farmer's
Museum in Cooperstown. ** Niagara Falls' Hooker Chemicals and
Plastics Corporation obtains land along the Love Canal to be used as a
dump.
Hammondsport
Civic leader C. Arthur Niver is named chairman of the local Salvation
Army. ** The Village Youth Committee begins sponsoring the
Champlain Beach Summer Youth Program, to provide swimming activities
for children.
Rochester
The city annexes land for an airport extension, increasing its own size
to 35.89 square miles.
1948
Feb 18
The Broadway premiere of Mr Roberts.
Feb 22
Jazz drummer Joseph James "Joe" LaBarbera is born in Mount Morris.
April
Osage Indian ballerina Maria Tallchief becomes the leading dancer of
the New York City Ballet.
May 2
The Socialist Labor Party nominates Edward A. Teichert for President,
in New York City.
June
Buffalo television station WBEN-TV (WVIB today) begins using footage of
Myles Hughes' Apostolic Clock to begin its Sunday broadcast day.
Jul 31
President Harry S. Truman dedicates New York's Idlewild, the largest
commercial airport in the world.
Aug 6
The American Communist Party gives its support to candidate Henry
Wallace, in New York City.
Aug 11
Congress passes the United Nations Loan Act, to lend $65,000,000 to the
organization to build a permanent headquarters in New York City.
Aug 16
Baseball star Babe Ruth dies, in New York City.
Sep 17
Anthropologist Ruth Benedict dies, in New York City.
Sep 28
The Batavia Board of Education deeds the Holland Land Office to Genesee
County. The County Board of Supervisors votes to assume ownership of
the building. The exhibit area is to be reopened.
Oct 30
The first European displaced persons arrive in New York aboard the army
transport General William Black.
Nov 10
New York longshoremen stage a wildcat strike to protest insufficient
wage settlements. The strike spreads to other ports.
Dec 15
Alger Hiss is indicted for perjury by a Federal Grand Jury, in New York
City.
City
Berenice Abbott's photography collection Greenwich Village
Today and Yesterday is published. ** Art and
architectural historian Richard Krautheimer becomes an adjunct
professor of art history at New York University's Institute of Fine
Arts. ** The Pace Institute becomes Pace College. ** Henry
Druding joins the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as a
resident engineer. ** George Abbott's production of
Where's Charley. ** Acting Luciano Family mob
boss Frank Costello orders his people to stop dealing in drugs. **
Leo Durocher becomes manager of baseball's New York Giants.
State
A Genesee River flood control dam is built at Mount Morris. **
Historian Carl Carmer is hired as a folklore consultant for the Walt
Disney animated compilation Melody Time. ** A
dredge owned by the Valley Sand and Gravel company sinks in a lake it
constructing, near Scottsville. It is refloated by a team lead by Ridge
Construction foreman Bill "Red" Daley. ** Construction is begun
to add two wings to Geneva's Nester House (Geneva-on-the-Lake). **
Genesee Pure Food Company presidernt Ernest Le Roy Woodward dies.
** Batavia clubwoman Kate Fisher McCool dies at the age of 87.
Rochester
The number of vessels visiting the Port of Rochester drops to 522.
** People's Rescue Mission head, the Reverend Hines, dies and is
replaced by the Reverend Thomas B. Richards. ** St. John Fisher
College opens.
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor