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Jan 2
Chess player Bobby Fischer, 17, plays Hungarian grandmaster Pal Benko
to a draw in New York City, winning his fourth U. S. championship in a
row.
May
The Rochester city council approves a revised contract with the
Rochester Park organization to prepare a plan for the Crossroads area.
May 16
Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun opens at New York
City's Imperial Theater.
Jul 6
Jazz double bass player Scott LeFaro, 25, is killed in an automobile
accident in Geneva.
Sep 19
Batavia's Holland Land Office becomes a registered national historic
landmark.
Dec 13
New York State folk painter Grandma Moses dies.
City
The Clearview Expressway and the Throgg's Neck Bridge open. **
Gordon Bunshaft's Union Carbide Building (270 Park Avenue) and his One
Chase Manhattan Plaza buildings are completed. ** Ellen Stewart
founds the Cafe La Mama theater club. ** Pace College assistant
dean Edward J. Mortola is named president, the insitution's third.
** The city's first primary election is held by the Democrats, with
mayor Robert F. Wagner defeating Arthur Levitt. Wagner goes on to run
on the Democrat-Liberal-Brotherhood ticket, defeating Republican-Covic
Action-Non-Partisan candidate Louis J. Lefkowitz and
Independent-Citizen's Party candidate Lawrernce E. Gerosa, winning a
third term, and serving through 1965.
State
Edwin S. Underhill becomes editor of his family's newspaper, the
Corning Leader. ** Canada's Alcan Aluminium
Limited begins manufacturing products in Oswego. ** Joseph
Addabbo is elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. ** The
Hancock Shaker Village is opened as a museum. ** The Johnson
Estate Winery is established, in Westfield.
Batavia
Louis Canale buys Palmer's Restaurant.
Rochester
Henry Gillette becomes the city's first Italian mayor.
1962
January
Democrats wrest control of the Rochester city council away from the
Republicans.
April
Batavia attorney Alice Day Gardner dies.
Apr 20
President John F.Kennedy makes Alexander Hamilton's home on Manhattan,
The Grange, a national memorial.
June
Ira M. Gates is appointed city manager of Batavia when C. Richard
Foote resigns to become city manager of Wheaton, Illinois.
Jun 25
The U. S. Supreme Court rules the use of a non-denominational,
unofficial prayer in New York State public schools is
unconstitutional.
Jul 4
Francis Chichester completes a solo voyage across the North Atlantic
from Plymouth, England to Long Island in the yacht Gypsy Moth
III .
Jul 16
Russell Baker's first column appears in the New York
Times.
Oct 3
About twenty New York Telephone workers are killed by a boiler
explosion beneath the cafeteria at 5030 Broadway, in New York City.
Oct 20
Irving Berlin's Mr. President opens on Broadway.
Dec 6
20,000 members of New York City's International Typographic Union (ITU)
walk off the job.
Dec 19
David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia opens in New York
City.
City
The Jewish Museum acquires the Albert A. List Building. **
Israeli-born violinist Pinchas Zuckerman enrolls in the Julliard School
of Music. ** The Eagle Insurance Comapny is acquired by
Continental Insurance Companies. ** A six-lane second, lower
level is opened on the George Washington Bridge. It is dubbed Martha.
** Harry Winston jewelry executive Paul de Rosière leaves the firm
and returns to Paris. ** Sculptor Paul Suttman begins exhibiting
regularly at the Terry Dintenfass Gallery. ** Frank Loesser and
Abe Burrows win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for How to Succeed
in Business Without Really Trying. ** George Abbott's
production ofA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum opens. ** Columbia business professor Richard
Eells is named executive vice-president of publisher Armand Erpf's
Arkville-Erpf Fund. ** Lawyer William A. Shea brings National
League baseball back to New York City, founding the Mets. Shea Stadium
will be named for him.
State
The old Syracuse weighlock building is reopened as a canal museum.
** Edgar B. Bean becomes the first person to climb all 46 mountains
of the Adirondacks in the wintertime. ** Pace College opens a
campus in Pleasantville. ** Dr. Oskar Diethelm, chairman of
Cornell's psychiatry department and chief of its medical center's Payne
Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, retires.
Buffalo
Gordon Bunshaft's addition to the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art is
completed.
Rochester
The Housing and Home Finance Agency declares the contract between the
City of Rochester and the Rochester Park development agency to be
illegal. Rochester Park brings legal action to enforce the contract.
** Midtown Plaza opens.
Syracuse
Alexander Jackson Davis' Charles B. Sedgwick house is demolished.
1963
Jan 17
The Port Authority Bus Terminal at New York City's George Washington
Bridge opens.
Mar 31
The membership of New York City's International Typographic Union (ITU)
returns to work after a strike lasting nearly four months, winning a
small wage increase. The New York Mirror closes,
putting 1400 out of work.
Aug 26
Frank Falco and Thomas Trantino murder two policemen in Lodi, New
Jersey.
Aug 28
Acting on a tip, police in New York City capture Frank Falco. He fights
back and is killed. Trantino surrenders later in the day.
Oct 28
Demolition of New York City's first Pennsylvania Station begins.
Nov 2
The Newburgh-Beacon Hudson River Bridge opens.
Nov 10
New York State Historian Dr. Albert B. Corey dies of injuries suffered
in an automobile accident.
City
Carson, Lundin and Shaw remodel the ground floor of Wall Street's
Manhattan Company Building. ** Construction begins on the Lincoln
Center complex. ** Alexander Muss and Sons buys the remainder of
Queens' Oakland Golf Club and builds Oakland Gardens, a development of
one- and two-family houses. ** The steam-operated motor on the
Spuyten Duyvil Swing Bridge is replaced by an electric motor. **
46,500,000 vehicles use the newly-expanded George Washington Bridge.
** Murray Schisgal's The Typists and The
Tiger are produced off Broadway. ** Talent agent David
"Sonny" Werblin buys a share of football's New York Titans (renamed the
Jets). ** Mount Sinai Hospital pioneers a sequential combination
chemotherapy treatment for breast and ovarian cancer.
State
A trust fund is set up to protect the area around the Mohonk Mountain
House, in the Catskills. ** Novelist William Kennedy begins
researching the history of Albany. ** The Institute on Man and
Science is founded on the Huyck estate at Rensselaerville. **
Contractor Carl Esperson builds an addition to the rear of Batavia's
City Hall, to serve as a police station.
Rochester
Violent winds cause a Mohawk Airline flight to crash at the Monroe
County Airport, killing 7 people.
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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