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January
The Batavia Police Department moves into its new quarters in the rear
of City Hall.
Feb 9
The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Mar 13
Kitty Genovese is murdered in New York City while 38 witnesses do
nothing to save her.
April
Drifter George Whitmore, Jr. is arrested by New York City police and
charged with the 1963 murder of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie.
Apr 22
The New York World's Fair opens on the Flushing Meadows site of the
1939 fair. Among the attractions is a audio-animatronics robot of
Abraham Lincoln, created by the Walt Disney Studios.
Jul 11
The estate of Albany socialite Mers. Huibertje (Huybertie) Pruyn Hamlin
is sold at auction, brings $15,255.
Oct 21
Crime boss Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno is kidnapped on a New York City
Street the day he is to testify before a federal grand jury. Nineteen
months later he turns up unharmed.
Oct 29
Disk jockey Jack Rolland (Murph the Surf) and two accomplices break
into New York City's Museum of Natural History and steal the sapphire
Star of India.
Oct 31
Rolland and his helpers are arrested. The sapphire is later returned.
November
Murray Schisgal's Luv opens at Broadway's Booth
Theater.
Nov 9
In an attempt to steal viewers away from Johnny Carson, ABC premieres
its Nightlife talk show with Les Crane. Crane will
leave the show after the first four months.
City
Coney Island's Luna Park closes. ** The Verrazano Narrows
Suspension Bridge, linking Brooklyn with Staten Island, opens. **
Gordon Bunshaft's 140 Broadway is completed.** Surviving food market
chain co-founder Nicola D'Agostino retires, leaving the business to his
sons. ** AT&T introduces the picture telephone at the World's
Fair. ** Joseph Hazelwood enters the New York Maritime College at
Fort Schuyler. ** Richard Eells, adjunct professor at
Columbia University's business school, is named director of its program
for studies of the modern corporation. ** Mount Sinai Hospital
produces the first statistical evidence that asbestos causes tumors.
** Richard Burton's production of Hamlet opens.
State
Maurice B. Stein buys Camp Echo Lake, near Lake George, from his wife
Amy Medine Stein's parents. ** The William Henry Seward House in
Auburn is declared a national historic landmark. ** Concert
pianist Monica Dailey dies, in her Batavia home.
Rochester
Racial riots break out, last for two days.
1965
Feb 21
Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, 39, is assassinated in New York City's
Audubon Ballroom.
Mar 10
Neil Simon's The Odd Couple opens on Broadway.
Mar 30
Ben Bagley and Vernon Lusby's The Decline and Fall of the
Entire World as een Through the Eyes of Cole Porter, opens at
New York's Square East theater.
Apr 19
Radio station WINS becomes New York City's first all-news station.
Apr 27
Newsman Egbert (Edward) Roscoe Murrow dies of lung cancer in Pawling at
the age of 56.
Jun 11
Leonard Melfi's Birdbath has its debut at New York
Cit''s St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery.
Oct 3
President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill, at the base of the Statue of
Liberty, abolishing the immigration quota system.
Oct 4
Pope Paul VI conducts a mass in Yankee Stadium, and addresses the
United Nations.
Oct 17
New York World's Fair closes.
Nov 6
Composer Edgar Varèse dies in New York City at the age of 81.
City
An addition is built on the Irving Trust Company building on Wall
Street, by Smith, Smith, Haines, Waehler & Lundberg. ** The
Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, in lower Manhattan, is restored as a
shrine church dedicated to former resident of the site St. Elizabeth
Ann Seton. ** William Eaton becomes co-founder of the law firm
of Eaton, Van Winkle, Greenspoon & Grutman (later Eaton & Van Winkle).
** The city awards its first cable television franchises. **
Controller Abraham D. Beame defeats Paul R. Screvane, William F. Ryan
and Paul O'Dwyer to win the Democratic mayoral primary. Running on the
Democrat- Civil Service-Fusin ticket, he's defeated by
Republican-Liberal-Independent Citizen candidate John V. Lindsay.
Conservative author-publisher William F. Buckley places third. **
The Eighth Street Bookshop moves from Eighth and Macdougal streets to
17 Eighth Street. ** Baltimore poet Ogden Nash gives up his New
York residence at East 57th Street. ** The musical Man of
La Mancha opens. ** New York Times
military analyst Hanson Baldwin advocates sending hundreds of thousands
of U. S. forces to Vietnam. The paper runs an editorial denouncing his
stand. ** New York Telephone general medical director Norman
Plummer retires. ** The city passes the Landmarks Preservation
Law, restricting changes to historic buildings.
State
1900 people in Mount Kisco, Pleasantville and Peekskill turn out to
demonstrate in support of the Selma, Alabama, civil rights march.
** Niagara Falls' Adams Power Station is demolished despite efforts
to save it as a technology museum. ** Efforts begin to save
Olana, the Hudson River villa of artist Frederic E. Church. **
The Historical/Architectural/Landmark Committee is formed to advise the
Herkimer-Oneida Counties Comprehensive Planning Program on landmarks
for preservation. ** The Millard Fillmore Memorial Association
dedicates a replica of the former president's log cabin birthplace, in
Fillmore Glen State Park, near Moravia. ** Emily Woodward Rivas,
youngest daughter of Genesee Pure Foods Company founder Orator
Woodward, dies.
Rochester
The civil rights organization FIGHT holds its first convention.
1966
Jan 1
35,000 Transportation Workers Union (TWU) members walk off the job.
Jan 2
8,000 members of New York City's Social Servicves Employees Union
(SSUE) walk off the job.
Jan 13
The TWU members return to work, having won a wage increase. The city's
fares will go up.
Feb 1
New Yor''s social workers return to the job having gained wage
increases, and improvements in benefits and work caseload reductions.
Feb 8
Jazz bandleader, violinist and bassist Vernon Andrade dies in New York
City at the age of 63.
Apr 11
Six from La Mama opens at New York City's Martinique Theatre. Leonard
Melfi's Birdbath is the critical standout.
May 27
Eat the Document, a television documentary features
non-musical footage of John Lennon and Bob Dylan together. It airs on
New York City educational-TV station WNDT.
Aug 4
Broadway choreographer Helen Tamiris Becker dies at the age of 61.
Nov 8
Jazz trumpeter Harold "Shorty" Baker dies in New York City at the age
of 53.
City
The demolition of the 1910 Pennsylvania Station is completed. **
The Ambrose Light Tower is erected 25 miles off the mouth of the Hudson
River, replacing lightships previously anchored there. ** Adams
and Woodbridge's Bishop Manning Memorial Wing is added to Trinity
Church. ** The comedy Cactus Flower opens on
Broadway. ** The U. S. Navy sells the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the
city. ** Photographer Berenice Abbott moves to Maine. ** An
oil barge being maneuvered by a tug rams the Spuyten Duyvil Swing
Bridge, putting it ou of commission for two weeks.
State
Painter Frederick Church's home (Olana) is saved. ** Genesee
Brewery president John L. Wehle founds the Genesee Country Museum, a
recreated village, near Mumford. ** The Hudson River salt line
reaches as far north as Poughkeepsie.
Rochester
The first local kidney transplant is performed at Strong Memorial
Hospital. ** Claude Bragdon's New York Central Railroad Station
is partially demolished.
Past NYNY files through the year 1774 are now on my WWW page:
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David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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