Geneva1952Geneva Jan 20 Jacqueline Lee Bouvier becomes engaged to Wall Street broker John G. W. Husted, Jr. Jan 21 William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of The New Yorker. Feb 29 New York City erects its first "Don't Walk" signs, in Times Square. Mar 3 The U. S. Supreme Court, upholding a New York State law, bars political subversives from teaching in public schools. Apr 4 The United Nations Security Council meets in its new New York City headquarters for the first time. May 26 The Supreme Court lifts New York State's ban on the film The Miracle. June The Genesee storage dam at Mount Morris is dedicated. Jun 1 Philosopher-educator John Dewey, 92, dies in New York City. Aug 17 Soprano Gianna Rolandi is born in New York City. Aug 30 The Museum of Modern Art displays a model of R. Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome House. Sep 30 The new Cinerama film projection process debuts in New York City. Oct 7 The New York Yankees win their third World Series in a row, defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2. Oct 22 Andre de Toth's film Springfield Rifle debuts in New York City. City Gordon Bunshaft's Lever House is completed. ** The garden of the London Terrace apartments is paved over and interrupted by architect Philip Birnbaum's walkway. ** Art and architectural historian Richard Krautheimer becomes a fullprofessor of art history at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. ** Forest Hills developer Morton Pickman purchases Queens' Oakland Golf Club, intending to erect high-rise apartments on the site. The plan is blocked. ** The Knoedler Gallery sells its Charles M. Russell collection to Amon G. Carter. ** The diaries of 19th century New York City lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong are published. ** Various batteries of the 52nd Artillery Brigade are assigned to protect the city area. ** City native George Jorgensen, Jr. travels to Denmark to become the world's first sex change patient. State The Star Headlight & Lantern Company locates its electronics division in Honeoye Falls. ** Troy's Rensselare County Historical Scoiety moves into new quarters at the Hart-Cluett Mansion, given to the organization by Albert E. Cluett. Rochester Orator Francis Woodward, Jr., son of the founder of the Genesee Pure Food Company (Jello), dies in a fall from a window at the Hotel Sheraton. ** Henry Clune's By His Own Hand, a biography pf photography pioneer George Eastman. ** The city's subway system eliminates Sunday and Holiday service and cuts back on evening and Saturday service. 1953 Apr 10 House of Wax, the first feature-length 3-D movie in color, premieres in New York City. Apr 19 Mickey Mantle hits the longest recorded major league home run - 565 feet. Jun 19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed as spies at Ossining's Sing Sing Prison. October Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine strikes out 14 New York Yankees, breaking the World Series record set by Howard Ehmke in 1929. Dec 25 Broadway producer Lee Shubert dies at the age of 78. City New York State assemblyman for Harlem Hulan E Jack is elected borough president of Manhattan, the first black to hold the post. ** Pace College moves into its new headqaurters in the former New York Times building on Park Row. The school is authorized to grant BAs. ** Manhattan borough president Robert F. Waghe Democratic ticket, defeats Republican Harold Riegelman and Liberal-Independent Rudolph Halley to become mayor, serving through1965. ** The Museum of Modern Art holds a major exhibition of contemporary automobile design. ** Mad Bomber George Metesky plants a bomb in Loew's Lexington Theatre. The bomb fails to go off and is not discovered until 1957, nine months after Metesky's arrest. State Saratoga Springs' Grand Union Hotel is torn down. ** A new cutoff for Route 5 reroutes traffic past Silver Creek. Niagara Falls The Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corporation sells its land by the Love Canal to the Niagara School Board for $1.00. The deed includes a disclaimer for chemical damage. The board will build a school on the property. Rochester Port of Rochester exports 868,000 tons of coal. 1954 Jan 16 The final Broadway performance of South Pacific is given, ending a four-and-a-half year run. Feb 1 Edwin H. Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio, leaps to his death from his New York City apartment. Feb 6 The New York City Ballet performs George Ballanchine's production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. Feb 7 Poet Maxwell Bodenheim, 64, and his wife Ruth, 33, are found murdered in New York City's Greenwich Village, in the apartment of acquaintance Harold Weinberg. Weinberg is convicted of their deaths and committed to an asylum. Feb 11 A 750,000-watt electric bulb is lit at Rockefeller Center, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Edison's first bulb. Apr 3 Italian-born conductor Arturo Toscanini gives his farewell performance as leader of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Apr 12 Bill Haley and the Comets record Thirteen Women and (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock for Decca Records at New York City's Pythian Temple Studio. Apr 17 3,000 U. S. troops, out of Korea, land in New York City. Apr 29 Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is born in Brooklyn. May 10 Automatic coffee makers are introduced, in New York City. May 13 George Abbott's production of The Pajama Game opens on Broadway. May 19 Composer Charles Ives dies in New York City at the age of 79. May 28 Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder premieres, in New York City. June Mario M. Cuomo graduates from St. John's University. Jun 5 Cuomo marries Matilda Raffa. July The Royal Canadian Yacht Club's Venture II defeats the Rochester Yacht Club's Iskareen. Jul 16 New York City police begin the use of a "drunkometer" to detect intoxicated drivers. Aug 10 Ground is broken for the Saint Lawrence Seaway, at Cornwall, Ontario, and Massena, New York. Aug 27 The New York State Thruway is completed. Sep 6 Vic Seixas and Doris Hart win the U. S. singles tennis titles, at Forest Hills. Sep 8 Alan Freed begins a rock and roll program on New York City's radio station WINS. Sep 9 Marilyn Bell becomes the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. Sep 27 The New York Giants' Willie Mays leads his team to the National League pennant. Sep 30 English musical comedy actress Julie Andrews makes her New York City debut in The Boy Friend. Oct 2 Leo Durocher's New York Giants defeat the Cleveland Indians to take the World Series, a four game shutout. Oct 20 Mary Martin opens in Peter Pan at Broadway's Winter Garden Theater. Nov 4 Harold Rome, S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan's Fanny, based on stories by Marcel Pagnol, opens at Broadway's Majestic Theater. Nov 12 Ellis Island, the U. S. immigration station in New York City harbor, closes. Nov 22 Russia's United Nations spokesman Andrei Vishinsky dies in New York City of an acute stenocardiac attack while preparing an address to the General Assembly. Dec 16 Giants baseball star Willie Mays is named Most Valuable Player. Dec 18 An Italian Airways airliner crashes at New York City's Idlewild Airport, killing 26 people. City The city begins a slum clearance project around Manhattan's Columbus Circle. ** Construction is begun on the Coliseum. ** Gordon Bunshaft's Manufacturers Hanover Bank on Fifth Avenue at 43rd Street is completed. ** Former child film star Freddie Bartholomew goes to work for the Benton & Bowles advertising agency. ** New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams marries Barbara Barb. His cartoon collection Home Bodies is published. ** Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg's film On the Waterfront. ** The 52nd Artillery Brigade begins receiving Nike Ajax missiles. ** Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Saint of Bleeker Street. State W. Averell Harriman is elected governor. ** Minneapolis wins the National Basketball Association (NBA) title, defeating Syracuse 4 games to 3. Rochester A total eclipse of the sun is seen. ** A Committee on Italian Migration is formed in an attempt to draw craftsmen to the city from Italy. ** The city annexes Chili's Fire and Police Academy, Greece's School No. 38, and Brighton's School No. 48, incresing its own size to 36.29 square miles. Copyright 1997 David Minor / Eagles Byte NYNY files through the year 1759 are now on the Eagles Byte WWW site: http://home.eznet.net/~dminor David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Rochester, New York 716 264-0423 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor