Geneva1946Geneva 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