Timeline New York City: 1900-1949
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1900
Mar 24, Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke ground for
the New York subway tunnel that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1900 May 22, The Associated Press
(founded in 1848) was incorporated in New York as a non-profit news
cooperative.
(AP, 5/22/00)
1900 Jun 11, Lawrence E Spivak,
news panelist (Meet the Press), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1900 Oct 26, After 4 years of work
the 1st section of NY subway opened. [see Feb 26, 1870]
(MC, 10/26/01)
1900 The London show Florodora was
brought to NYC and featured the Florodora Sextette. Evelyn
Nesbit, one of the sextette, later married Harry Kendall Thaw, playboy
heir to a Pittsburgh coal fortune. In 1906 Thaw killed architect
Stanford White, who had frolicked with Nesbit during the Florodora run
[see June 25, 1906].
(WSJ, 12/9/06, p.P10)
1900 The Congregation Shaare Zedek
built a temple at 25 W. 118th St. It later became the Bethel Way of the
Cross Church of Christ.
(SFC, 6/10/02, p.D5)
1900 The Victory Theater was built
on 42nd St between 7th and 8th, i.e. Broadway in NYC by Oscar
Hammerstein, the grandfather of the well-known lyricist. In the 1930s
it became Minskys, the famous burlesque house. It was restored in the
1990s and used for children’s theater productions.
(WSJ, 12/15/95, p.A-16)(SFC, 5/17/97, p.E1)
1900 Joshua Lionel Cowen
(1877-1965), inventor, along with some partners founded Lionel Corp in
NYC. Operation were later based outside Detroit and Lionel grew to
become the world’s largest toy maker in the 1950s. [see 1901]
(WSJ, 11/17/04,
p.B1)(www.fact-index.com/j/jo/joshua_lionel_cowen.html)
1900-2000 In 2004 James Traub authored "The Devil's
Playground," which described this period in NYC's Times Square.
(WSJ, 3/19/04, p.W12)
1901 Feb 25, [Herbert] Zeppo Marx,
comedian, actor (Marx Brothers), was born in NYC.
(MC, 2/25/02)
1901 Oct 14, Justin Huntly
McCarthy's "If I Were King," premiered in NYC (Francois Villon).
(MC, 10/14/01)
1901 Seth Low became mayor of NYC.
(SSFC, 8/15/04, p.D11)
1902 Mar, Clarence Barron
(1855-1928) and his wife, Jessie Waldron, purchased Dow Jones & Co.
(WSJ, 8/1/07,
p.B6)(www.newsbios.com/newslum/barron.htm)
1902 Jul 30, Anti-Jewish rioters
attacked the funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph in NYC.
(MC, 7/30/02)
1902 Aug 3, Judson Laire, actor,
singer (Papa-Mama, Adm Broadway Revue), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1902 Sep 29, Broadway impresario
David Belasco reopened the Republic Theatre under his own name.
(AP, 9/29/08)
1902 Nov 18, Brooklyn toymaker
Morris Michton named the teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1902 Nov 22, A fire caused
considerable damage to the unfinished Williamsburg bridge in New York.
(HN, 11/22/98)
1902 Dec 4, Charles Dow (b.1851),
co-founder of the Wall Street Journal and inventor of the Dow
Industrial averages, died in Brooklyn, NY.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p.
R-30)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Dow)
1902 In NYC the 21-story Flatiron
Building (Fuller Bldg.) was built on a pie-slice of land at 23rd &
5th Ave. by architect Daniel Burnham with a French Beaux arts-style
facade.
(HT, 5/97, p.24)
1902 The French Renaissance style,
200-room, Algonquin Hotel was built.
(SFC, 3/4/00, p.A21)
1902 Construction began on the
Morgan Library at Madison Ave. and E. 36th to house the private
collections of J. Pierpont Morgan. [see 1906]
(SFEC, 9/3/00, p.T8)
1902 The Society of American
Magicians was formed at Martinka & Co. Magic supply House in NYC.
The shop later became Flosso-Hornmann Magic.
(SFC, 10/2/03, p.A19)
1902 The Baltimore Orioles
baseball team was sold at the end of the season to former police chief
Bill Devery and casino operator Frank Farrell of New York, and moved to
NYC to play as the New York Highlanders.
(ON, 6/09, p.12)
1902 William Randolph Hearst
served 2 terms as Congressman for the 11th District of NY in 1902 and
1904.
(SFEM, 10/24/99, p.20)
1902 The novelty Plato Clock was
patented by Eugene Fitch of NYC. It resembled a lantern based on the
story that Plato used a lantern-shaped clock while "looking for an
honest man."
(SFC, 9/21/98, Z1 p.8)
1902 Martin Bach opened the Quezal
Art Glass & Decorating Co. in Maspeth, Queens, NY.
(SFC, 1/11/06, p.G2)
1902 Train service between New
York and Chicago began. In 1995 Amtrak’s "Broadway Limited" service
made its final run.
(AP, 9/9/00)(MC, 9/9/01)
1902-1945 Nicholas Murray Butler served as president
of Columbia Univ.
(SSFC, 8/15/04, p.D11)
1903 Jan 4, Topsy the elephant was
poisoned electrocuted in Luna Park, Coney Island, NYC. The 10-foot
elephant had killed 3 keepers over the last 2 years. Edison used the
opportunity to demonstrate the lethal potential of alternating current,
promoted by rival George Westinghouse.
(Econ, 7/26/03, p.33)(Internet)
1903 Jan 21, International Theater
(Majestic, Park) opened at 5 Columbus Circle in NYC.
(MC, 1/21/02)
1903 Mar 2, The Martha Washington
Hotel opened for business in New York City. The hotel featured 416
rooms and was the first hotel exclusively for women.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1903 Mar 29, A regular news
service began between New York and London on Marconi's wireless.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1903 Apr 14, Dr. Harry Plotz in
NYC discovered a vaccine against typhoid.
(MC, 4/14/02)
1903 Jun 19, Henry Louis Gehrig
(d.6/22/1941) was born in New York City. He became first baseman for
the New York Yankees and started 2,130 games consecutively: HALL OF
FAMER; MVP '36; 7x World Series; .341 avg., 493 HRs; 2,721 hits, 1,990
RBIs. He died of a muscle wasting disease amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis, now known by his name.
(HN, 6/19/99)
1903 Jul 26, Dr. Horatio Nelson
Jackson of Vermont and his mechanic Sewell Croker arrived in NYC and
completed the first cross-country automobile trip in 63 days after
leaving SF. On July 26, 2003 Peter Kesling and Charlie Wake completed a
rerun of the original trip.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.B8)(WSJ, 7/19/02, p.W9)(WSJ,
5/7/03, p.B1)(SSFC, 7/27/03, p.A2)
1903 Oct 13, Victor Herbert's
"Babes in Toyland," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1903 Nov 16, V. Herbert's and H.
Smith's musical "Babette," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1903 Nov 23, Singer Enrico Caruso
made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York,
appearing as the Duke of Mantua in "Rigoletto."
(AP, 11/23/97)
1903 Dec 19, The Williamsburg
suspension bridge opened between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1903 The Manhattan Bridge opened.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.T4)
1903 The New Amsterdam Theater on
42nd St. in New York City, home of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies, was
constructed by Herts and Tallant. It was renovated in 1997 for $34
million by the Walt Disney Co.
(WSJ, 4/3/97, p.A16)(SFC, 5/17/97, p.E1)
1903 The New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE) opened its first building at 10 Broad St.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.D2)
1903 Frederick Law Olmsted, the
architect of Central Park in NYC, died at the McLean Asylum in Waverly,
Mass. In 1999 Witold Rybczynski authored the biography: "A Clearing in
the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America In the Nineteenth
Century."
(WSJ, 5/21/99, p.W5)
1904 Feb 1, S.J. (Sidney)
Perelman, author, humorist (Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, One Touch
of Venus, Strictly from Hunger, Westward Ha!) was born in Brooklyn.
(440 Int'l, 2/1/1999)(MC, 2/1/02)
1904 Jun 15, A fire erupted aboard
the steamboat General Slocum, owned by the Knickerbocker Steamboat Co.,
in New York City’s East River and some 1,021 people died. The ship
carried a congregation of a German church on its annual picnic. Capt.
William van Schaick (1837-1927) was convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced to 10 years in Sing Sing. He was pardoned by Pres. Taft in
1911.
(AP, 6/15/97)(www.newyorkhistory.info)(ON, 2/06, p.9)
1904 Aug 16, NYC began building
the Grand Central Station.
(MC, 8/16/02)
1904 Sep 9, Mounted police were
1st used in NYC.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1904 Sep 25, A New York City
police officer ordered a female passenger in an automobile on Fifth
Avenue to stop smoking a cigarette. A male companion was arrested and
later fined two dollars for "abusing" the officer.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1904 Sep 26, GB Shaw's "How He
Lied to Her Husband," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/26/01)
1904 Sep 28, A woman was placed
under arrest for smoking a cigarette on New York's Fifth Avenue.
(HN, 9/28/98)
1904 Oct 4, 1st day of NYC subway,
350,000 people rode the 9.1 mile tracks. [see Oct 24, 27]
(MC, 10/4/01)
1904 Oct 24, The 1st NY subway
opened. [see Oct 4, 27]
(MC, 10/24/01)
1904 Oct 27, The first rapid
transit subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), was inaugurated
in New York City. It ran from the Brooklyn Bridge uptown to Broadway at
145th Street with a fare of one nickel. [see Oct 4, 24]
(AP, 10/27/97)(HN, 10/27/98)
1904 Nov 17, George Cohan's
musical "Little Johnny Jones," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/17/01)
1904 The Jewish Museum of NYC was
founded and housed at the Jewish Theological Seminary on 122nd St. and
Broadway. In 1944 Frieda Schiff Warburg gave her chateau-style mansion
at 1109 Fifth to the museum, which re-opened there in 1947.
(WSJ, 7/6/04, p.D5)
1904 In NYC the New York Times
moved into a new building at Longacre Square. Publisher Adolph Ochs
persuaded the mayor to rename the intersection Times Square.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, Z1 p.8)(ON, 6/07, p.12)
1905 Apr 12, Hippodrome arena
opened in NYC.
(MC, 4/12/02)
1905 Jun 11, Pennsylvania Railroad
debuted the fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs).
(SC, 6/11/02)
1905 Oct 30, G.B. Shaw's "Mrs.
Warren's Profession," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/30/01)
1905 Nov 14, David Belasco's "Girl
of Golden West," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/14/01)
1905 The New York Giants with the
help of pitcher Christy Mathewson won the World Series under manager
John McGraw.
(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A27)
1905 New York City began using a
garbage incinerator to generate electricity to light the Williamsburg
Bridge.
(www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/timeline.htm)
1906 Feb 4, The New York Police
Department began finger print identification.
(HN, 2/4/99)
1906 Mar 11, The Simplified
Spelling Board was announced with Andrew Carnegie funding the
organization, to be headquartered in New York City. In August Pres.
Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order mandating simplified
spelling in all government administrative documents.
(Econ, 8/30/08,
p.19)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board)
1906 Apr 15, Nine European
steamships arrived in NYC with some 11,839 immigrants. Another 8 ships
were expected the next day with a similar number of immigrants. The
facilities at Ellis Island could only handle 5,000 newcomers per day.
(SSFC, 4/16/06, p.A13)
1906 Jun 25, A love triangle came
to a violent end atop New York's Madison Square Garden as architect
Stanford White, the building's designer, was shot to death by Harry
Thaw, for an alleged tryst White had with Thaw's wife, Florence Evelyn
Nesbit. Thaw, tried for murder, was acquitted by reason of insanity. At
the time this was called "The Crime of the Century."
(HN, 6/25/99)(AP, 6/25/06)
1906 Sep 24, Victor
Herbert's musical "Red Mill," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1906 Oct 23, Gertrude Ederle,
swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924), was born in NYC.
(MC, 10/23/01)
1906 Oct 31, George Bernard Shaw's
"Caesar & Cleopatra," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/31/01)
1906 The Congregation Ohab Zedek
built a temple at 18 W. 116th St. It later became The Baptist Temple
Church.
(SFC, 6/10/02, p.D5)
1906 The 16-story,
Beaux-Arts-style Knickerbocker Hotel opened in NYC at Broadway and
42nd. It was financed by Jacob Astor. The hotel closed in 1921 and was
converted to apartments and textile showrooms. In the 1950s it was
converted to an office tower. In 2006 it was purchased by Istithmar
Hotels, an investment arm of Dubai’s royal family, with plans to
restore it as a luxury hotel.
(SSFC, 6/25/06, p.G5)
1906 J. Pierpont Morgan
(1837-1913) financed the building of the Pierpont Morgan Library, a
research library and museum at 29 E. 36th St. It was designed by McKim,
Mead and White. An expanded version was planned to reopen in 2006.
(SFC, 2/15/97, p.D1)(WSJ, 3/25/98, p.B10)(WSJ,
10/15/03, p.D14)
1907 Apr 25, Paula Trueman,
actress (Gran-Billy), was born in NYC.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1907 May 31, Taxis began
running in NYC. [see Aug 13]
(MC, 5/31/02)
1907 Jul 8, Florenz Ziegfeld
staged his first "Follies" on the roof of the New York Theater in New
York City.
(AP, 7/8/97)
1907 Jul 18, Florenz Ziegfeld's
"Follies of 1907," premiered in NYC. [see Jul 8]
(MC, 7/18/02)
1907 Jul 25, Jack Gilford, actor
(Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1907 Aug 13, The 1st taxicab began
operating in NYC. [see May 31]
(MC, 8/13/02)
1907 Sep 13, The RMS Lusitania
arrived in New York, completing its maiden voyage from England.
(AP, 9/13/07)
1907 Oct 1, The Plaza Hotel opened
in NYC at 5th Av and 59th Str.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.T4)(AP, 10/1/07)
1907 Oct 21, The Panic of 1907
began with a run on the Knickerbocker Trust Co. of New York.
(AP, 10/21/07)
1907 Dec 3, George M. Cohan's
musical "Talk of the Town," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/3/01)
1907 Dec 31, For 1st time a ball
was dropped at Times Square to signal new year.
(MC, 12/31/01)
1907 Dec 31, Gustav Mahler
conducted the Metropolitan Opera.
(MC, 12/31/01)
1907 The Flemish Gothic skyscraper
at 90 West Street, NYC, designed by Cass Gilbert, was completed
(WSJ, 10/17/02, p.D6)
1907 The American Museum of
Natural History purchased a collection of 35 Maori preserved and
tattooed heads. A Maori representative in 1998 sought to bring them
back to New Zealand.
(SFC, 3/17/98, p.B3)
1907 The US Customs House was
constructed.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, p.T4)
1907 The New York Currier &
Ives partnership, formed in 1857, closed down with an inventory of
7,000 titles.
(WSJ, 12/19/00, p.A19)
1908 Jan 1, The 1st time-ball
signifying new year was dropped at Times Square, NYC.
(MC, 1/1/02)
1908 Jan 8, A subway under the
East River linked Brooklyn and Manhattan.
(HN, 1/8/99)
1908 Jan 21, New York City's Board
of Aldermen passed the Sullivan Ordinance that effectively prohibited
women from smoking in public. Two weeks later the measure was vetoed by
Mayor George B. McClellan Jr.
(AP, 1/21/08)(http://tinyurl.com/2zvwkc)
1908 Feb 25, The 1st tunnel under
Hudson River (railway tunnel) opened. The McAdoo Tunnel was completed
March 8, 1904, but only officially opened on this date.
(PCh, 1992, p.655)(MC, 2/25/02)
1908 Jun 12, Lusitania crossed the
Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC).
(MC, 6/12/02)
1908 Jul 6, Robert Peary's
expedition sailed from NYC for north pole.
(MC, 7/6/02)
1908 Jul 12, Milton Berle
(d.2002), comedian, was born as Mendel Berlinger in New York City.
(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A15)(AP, 7/12/08)
1908 Jul 14, The short film "The
Adventures of Dollie," the first movie directed by D.W. Griffith,
opened in New York.
(AP, 7/14/08)
1908 Nov 4, The Brooklyn Academy
of Music opened in NYC.
(MC, 11/4/01)
1908 Nov 16, Conductor Arturo
Toscanini made his debut with the New York Metropolitan Opera as he led
a performance of Verdi's "Aida."
(AP, 11/16/08)
1908 NYC Detective Joseph A.
Faurot, recently trained in London, used fingerprint evidence to solve
the murder of Nellie Quinn. Plumber George Cramer confessed under the
evidence.
(ON, 4/04, p.11)
1908-1917 Alfred Stieglitz operated his art gallery
at 291 Fifth Avenue.
(WSJ, 2/6/00, p.A16)
1909 Feb 12, The National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded
by 60 people gathered in NYC to discuss recent race riots and how to
fight discrimination. They were initially known as the National Negro
committee and signed a proclamation known as “The Call.” It was based
on the Niagara movement of 1905. Mary White Ovington (1865-1951) was
one of the founders.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-6)(SFEC,12/797, BR p.6)(AP,
2/12/98)(SFC, 2/12/09, p.A1)
1909 Feb 16, 1st subway car with
side doors went into service in NYC.
(MC, 2/16/02)
1909 Mar 4, Harry Helmsley
(d.1997), billionaire New York landlord (Empire State Building), was
born in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Helmsley)(http://tinyurl.com/ropqy)
1909 Mar 30, The Queensboro
Bridge, the first double decker bridge, opened and linked the New
York boroughs of Manhattan and Queens.
(AP, 3/30/97)(HN, 3/30/98)
1909 Mar 31, Gustav Mahler
conducted the NY Philharmonic for 1st time.
(MC, 3/31/02)
1909 May 31, The National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its
first conference at the United Charities Building in NYC.
(HN, 5/31/98)(MC, 5/31/02)
1909 Jun 1, Pres. William Howard
Taft touched a key in Washington, DC, sending a signal to Seattle,
opening the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Expo at the Seattle World’s Fair, as
well as a signal to NYC initialing the New York to Seattle Automobile
Race.
(AH, 6/03, p.18)
1909 Jun 24, Milton Katims,
conductor, violist (NBC Orchestra), was born in NYC.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1909 Sep 25, The first National
Aeronautic Show opened at Madison Square Garden.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1909 Dec 9, Douglas Fairbanks Jr,
actor (Ghost Story), was born in NYC.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1909 The Metropolitan Life
Insurance Tower was completed. The 50-story building was the tallest in
the world for 4 years. It copied the Campanile in the Piazza San Marco
in Venice that collapsed in 1902.
(HT, 5/97, p.24)
1909 Mayor George McClellan left
office.
(SFEC, 4/4/99, BR p.3)
1909 Florence Nightingale Graham
(b.1878) reopened a NYC 5th Ave beauty salon and developed her own
Venetian line of beauty preparations, following a failed partnership.
She took the name of Elizabeth Arden.
(SFEM, 8/23/98, p.29)
1909-1912 The E.I. Horsman Co., a New York City doll
company, made Billiken dolls. The doll was like a teddy bear with the
head of a Chinese deity.
(SFC,11/5/97, Z.1 p.3)
1910 Apr 20, Robert F. Wagner,
(Mayor-D-NYC, 1954-65), was born.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1910 May 15, Robert F. Wagner,
(Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65), was born.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1910 May 23, Artie Shaw (d.2004),
jazz bandleader and clarinetist, was born as Arthur Jacoby Arshawsky on
the Lower East Side of NYC to poor Eastern European Jewish immigrants.
(HN, 5/23/01)(SFC, 12/31/04, p.A4)
1910 May 26, Laurance S.
Rockefeller, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank), was born in NYC.
(MC, 5/26/02)
1910 Aug 20, The 1st shot fired
from an airplane was during a test flight over Brooklyn's Sheepshead
Bay.
(WSJ, 5/20/03, p.D5)
1910 Sep 19, George Cohan's
"Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1910 Nov 27, In NYC the
Pennsylvania Railroad began service at Pennsylvania Station. It was
begun under the direction of PRR president Alexander J. Cassatt
(d.1906) and designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead and
White. In 2007 Jill Jonnes authored “Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age
Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and its Tunnels.” Penn Station
was demolished in 1963.
(AP, 11/27/06)(Econ, 4/14/07, p.95)(SSFC, 7/8/07,
p.M2)
1910 Dec 18, Abe Burrows, Broadway
composer (Guys & Dolls 1951 TONY), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1910 Jazz musicians from New
Orleans began calling gigs to NYC "The Big Apple" vs. road gigs
elsewhere, which paid "little apples." In the 1920s John J. Fitz
Gerald, a horse-racing writer, said he first heard the term (Big Apple)
used by 2 New Orleans stable hands.
(SFEC, 9/3/00, Z1 p.2)(WSJ, 1/02/00, p.A20)
c1910 George McAneny led a group
of Progressive reformers for a massive expansion of the NYC subway
system. The project began in 1913 and was completed by 1920.
(WSJ, 4/17/01, p.A18)
1910 The Brooklyn Botanic Garden
was established under Dr. Charles Stuart Gager.
(WSJ, 6/21/06, p.D10)
1910-1925 The Royal Art Glass Co. in New York City
made glass lamps.
(SFC, 8/5/98, Z1 p.3)
1910-1987 Gimbel’s department store stood on Herald
Square in NYC.
(SFC, 12/13/06, p.E3)
1911 Feb 8, Victor Herbert's opera
"Natoma," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1911 Mar 20, Winter Garden Theater
opened at 1634 Broadway, NYC.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1911 Mar 25, The Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire killed 146 immigrant workers. 13 girls survived
the fire that broke out on the top three floors of the 10-story New
York’s Asch Building as the workday was ending. No one knows what
caused the fire, but it spread quickly, fueled by the fabric scraps and
sewing machine oil used in the manufacture women’s blouses. The three
avenues of escape were almost immediately clogged with panicked
workers, mostly young immigrant women. Then, to the horror of
spectators seven stories below, the desperate women began to jump to
their deaths. Appalled by the tragedy, the New York State legislature
formed a commission whose findings led to the creation of new fire and
building codes that were soon adopted in cities throughout America.
(HNPD, 3/25/00)(SFC, 4/27/98, p.A8)(SFC, 2/24/99,
p.C4)(AP, 3/23/08)
1911 Apr 18, George Huntington
Hartford II, heir (A&P), was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/18/02)
1911 Apr 21, Leonard Warren,
baritone, Met 1939-60, was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1911 May 23, The NY Public Library
building at 5th Avenue was dedicated by Pres Taft.
(www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID067.htm)
1911 May 27, The Coney Island
attraction "Dreamland" was destroyed by fire. The biggest ballroom in
the world was located at the end of the Dreamland Pier from 1904-1911.
(http://history.amusement-parks.com/dreamlandfire.htm)(Econ, 12/22/07,
p.91)
1911 Jun 28, Samuel J. Battle
became the first African-American policeman in New York City.
(HN, 6/28/98)
1911 Oct 29, American newspaperman
Joseph Pulitzer, born in Hungary, died in Charleston, S.C. In 2002
Denis Brian authored "Pulitzer: A Life."
(AP, 10/29/97)(WSJ, 1/30/02, p.A16)
1911 Nov 5, Calbraith P. Rodgers
ended the first transcontinental flight; 49 days from New York to
Pasadena, Calif.
(HN, 11/5/98)
1911 The New York Public Library
at 5th Ave. and 42nd opened its doors. It was designed by Carere and
Hastings and featured a 78-by-297-foot reading room in the General
Research Division.
(WSJ, 11/17/98, p.21)
1911 The Jewish Maimonides
Hospital opened in Brooklyn.
(WSJ, 10/27/99, p.A1)
1911 The NY Highlanders (later
Yankees) signed Justin Fitzgerald from San Mateo, Ca., to a $385 per
year contract, the largest ever presented to an amateur player from the
West Coast.
(Ind, 4/17/00, 5A)
1911 The NY Giants played at the
Polo Grounds in East Harlem until 1957.
(WSJ, 10/12/99, p.A24)
1912 Jan 3, Plans were announced
for a new $150,000 Brooklyn stadium for the Trolley Dodgers baseball
team.
(HN, 1/3/99)
1912 Jan 9, The $18 million
Equitable Life Assurance building in New York was destroyed by fire.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1912 Jan 29, "Professor" Irwin
Corey, comedian (Car Wash, Doc), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 1/29/02)
1912 Feb 24, The Jewish
organization Hadassah was founded in New York City.
(HN, 2/24/01)
1912 Mar 1, Isabella Goodwin, 1st
US woman detective, was appointed in NYC.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1912 May 7, Columbia University
approved plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories.
The award was established by Joseph Pulitzer.
(MC, 5/7/02)
1912 May 15, Ty Cobb rushed a
heckler at a NY Highlander game and was suspended.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1912 May 20, Joseph Proce, 3rd
victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, was born.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1912 Aug 24, NYC held a ticker
tape parade for Jim Thorpe and victorious US Olympians.
(MC, 8/24/02)
1912 Sep 30, The Columbia School
of Journalism opened in NYC. Joseph Pulitzer bequeathed $2 million to
start the school.
(ON, 4/03, p.2)
1912 Dec 20, J. Hartley Manners'
"Peg O' My Heart" premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1912 Police Lt. Charles Becker was
convicted of shooting a small-time gambler. In 1970 Andy Logan (d.2000
at 80), reporter, authored "Against the Evidence," a chronicle of the
trial.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D9)
1912 The Durable Toy & Novelty
Co. began making toy registering banks about this time. Its office was
in NYC and its factory in Cleveland, Ohio.
(SFC, 4/2/08, p.G2)
1913 Jan 11, The first sedan-type
automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th Automobile Show in
New York.
(AP, 1/11/99)
1913 Jan 15, The first telephone
line between Berlin and New York was inaugurated.
(HN, 1/15/99)
1913 Jan 18, Danny Kaye, UNICEF,
comedian, actor, was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 1/18/02)
1913 Feb 12, A New York commission
reported that there was widespread violation of child labor laws.
(HN, 2/12/97)
1913 Feb 15, The 1st avant-garde
art show in America opened in NYC. [see Feb 17]
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1913 Feb 17, NY Armory Show
introduced Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public. [see Feb 15]
(MC, 2/17/02)
1913 Mar 25, The home of
vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City starring Ed
Wynn.
(AP, 3/24/98)(MC, 3/25/02)
1913 May 26, The Actors' Equity
Association was organized in NYC.
(AP, 5/26/97)
1913 Jun 2, Bert Farber, orchestra
leader (Arthur Godfrey, Vic Damone), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1913 Aug 28, Richard Tucker,
[Reuben Ticker], Tenor (NY Met Opera), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1913 Sep 22, "7 Keys to Baldpate,"
by Earl Derr Biggers (Charlie Chan) premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1913 Oct 28, The "Krazy Kat" comic
strip by George Herriman (1880-1944) debuted as a daily comic strip in
the New York Evening Journal.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat)
1913 Dec 21, The first crossword
puzzle, created by Arthur Wynne, the English-born New York journalist,
was published in the New York World.
(AP,
12/21/97)(www.fun-with-words.com/first_crossword.html)
1913 Arthur B. Davies helped
organize the Armory Show of modern art in New York. The exhibit
included works by Fauvists and Cubists which outraged traditional
artists. The show featured "Nude Descending a Staircase," (1912) by
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), French painter.
(V.D.-H.K.p.361)(WSJ, 12/18/96, p.A18)
1913 The Grand Central Terminal in
NYC was built by Cornelius Vanderbilt at 42nd and Park Ave. It was
extensively remodeled in 1998.
(WSJ, 12/9/04, p.D10)
1913 The New York Times building
was constructed.
(SFEM, 1/16/00, p.22)
1913 The $13 million, 60-story,
792-foot Woolworth Building, designed by architect Cass Gilbert, was
completed at 233 Broadway and became the tallest building in the world.
The Woolworth Building in New York reigned as the world's tallest
building from its opening until the Chrysler Building was completed in
1930. It was first conceived in 1910 with a simple drawing by architect
Cass Gilbert. Commissioned by retail giant Frank Winfield Woolworth as
the headquarters of his "five and ten cent" store chain, the Woolworth
Building was the first to utilize many key developments in skyscraper
technology. The building was supported by a foundation of concrete
piers sunk below street level to bedrock. Men worked in caissons, or
chambers kept dry with high-pressure air, to sink the foundation below
the water line. Above ground, the building's steel framework rose 792
feet--very tall for its day--and its wind bracing was highly developed.
High-speed express and local elevators were also used in this building,
which instantly became a symbol of the vitality of New York.
(HT, 5/97, p.24)(HNPD, 2/27/99)(WSJ, 5/6/99, p.A24)
1913 The New York Highlanders
American League baseball team officially adopted the “Yankees” name.
Newspapers have begun calling them the “Yanks” as early as 1904. Fans
had earlier called them “the Americans” due to their league affiliation.
(ON, 6/09, p.11)
1913 The eldiario/La Prensa
Spanish newspaper began publishing.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.A17)
1913 Ebbets Field at Sullivan
Place in Flatbush became the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers until 1957.
(WSJ, 10/12/99, p.A24)
1914 Feb 13, The American Society
of Composers, Authors and Publishers, known as ASCAP, was founded in
New York City.
(HN, 2/13/98)(AP, 2/13/98)
1914 Feb 26, New York Museum of
Science and Industry was incorporated.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1914 Jun 11, Gerald Mohr, actor
(Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), was born in NYC.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1914 Jul 28, Foxtrot was 1st
danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden in NYC by Harry Fox.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1914 Jul 29, Transcontinental
telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New
York and San Francisco.
(AP, 7/29/97)
1914 Aug 19, Elmer Rice' "On
Trial," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1914 Oct 28, Jonas Salk, US
physician and virologist, was born in NYC. He developed the first safe
and effective vaccine against polio.
(HN, 10/28/98)(AH, 10/04, p.15)
1914 Nov 2, Victor Herbert's
"Only Girl," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1914 Nov 11, Howard Fast,
screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus), was born in NYC.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1914 Dec 8, "Watch Your Step," the
first musical revue to feature a score composed entirely by Irving
Berlin, opened in New York.
(AP, 12/8/99)
1914 Dec 15, The New York Stock
Exchange reopened under restrictions that specified minimum prices. It
had closed for 4 1/2 months due to the war.
(WSJ, 7/8/96, p.C1)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)
1914 The Apollo Theater opened in
Harlem. It was turned into a movie theater in the 1970s and reopened
for live shows in 1983.
(SFC, 8/16/99, p.A3)
1914 Harry Fox introduced the
foxtrot dance in the Ziegfeld Follies.
(SFC, 10/30/99, p.B3)
c1914 When WW I began Helena
Rubinstein relocated her Paris beauty salon business to NYC off 5th Ave.
(SFEM, 8/23/98, p.29)
1915 Jan 25, Umberto Giordano,
Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gene" premiered in NYC.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1915 Jan 25, The inventor of the
telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated transcontinental
telephone service in the United States. Bell placed the first
ceremonial cross-continental call from New York to his old colleague
Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
(SFC, 2/3/97, p.D1) (AP, 1/25/98)(HN, 1/25/99)
1915 Feb 28, Zero "Samuel" Mostel,
actor (Fiddler on the Roof), was born in Brooklyn.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1915 Jun 3, Leo Gorcey, actor
(Mannequin, Road to Zanzibar), was born in NYC.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1915 Oct 23, Tens of thousands of
women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote.
(AP, 10/23/08)
1915 The dance craze of 1915
kicked off Broadway's (NYC) true Golden Age.
(WSJ, 3/19/04, p.W12)
1916 Feb 24, Jules Verne's "20,000
Leagues Under the Sea" opened in New York.
(HN, 2/24/98)
1916 Feb 26, Jackie Gleason,
comedian (Ralph Kramden in the Honeymooners), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1916 May 13, Sholem Aleichem
(b.1859), Yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), died in NY. He was born
as Solomon Rabinowitz (1859) in Russia. His work included “Tevye the
Dairyman,” a series of stories published from 1894-1914.
(www.britannica.com)(WSJ, 9/22/07, p.W6)
1916 Apr 22, Yehudi Menuhin
(d.1999), violinist, was born in New York.
(SFC, 3/13/99, p.A1)
1916 Apr 23, Lord Dunsany's "Night
at an Inn," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/23/02)
1916 Jul 4, Nathan’s Famous Hot
Dogs opened a stand at Brooklyn’s Coney Island and held an eating
contest as a publicity stunt that became an annual event.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.A3)
1916 Jul 28, David Brown, director
(Jaws, Planet of the Apes), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1916 Aug 31, Daniel Schorr,
broadcast journalist (CBS), was born in NYC.
(www.nndb.com)
1916 Oct 16, Margaret Higgins
Sanger opened the first birth control clinic at 46 Amboy St. in
Brooklyn. She spent 30 days in jail when she opened America's first
birth control clinic. Sanger coined the term "birth control" and made
the cause a worldwide movement. After opening her clinic in Brooklyn,
she was jailed for creating a public nuisance. Born in Corning, New
York, on September 14, 1883, Sanger died in 1966.
(AP, 10/16/97)(HNQ, 9/11/98)
1916 Fiorello LaGuardia was
elected to Congress as NYC representative from the Italian section of
Harlem.
(SSFC, 8/15/04, p.D11)
1917 Jan, The 5-member white Dixie
Jass Band from New Orleans led by Nick LaRocca cut its first jazz
records: "Darktown Strutters’ Ball" and "Indiana" for Columbia Records
in NYC.
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)(SFC, 1/19/02, p.D5)
1917 Feb 20, Kern, Bolton &
Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/20/02)
1917 May 28, Barry Commoner,
biologist (Science & Survival), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 5/28/02)
1917 Jun 30, Lena Horne, American
singer, was born in Brooklyn, NYC. She later appeared in the films
"Stormy Weather" and "Death of a Gunfighter."
(HN, 6/30/99)(MC, 6/30/02)
1917 Oct 27, 20,000 women marched
in a suffrage parade in New York.
(HN, 10/27/98)
1917 Oct 31, Eugene O'Neill's "In
the Zone," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/31/01)
1917 Nov 28, Fred and Adele
Astaire debut on Broadway in the Sigmund Romberg revue "Over the Top".
(DT net, 11/28/97)(MC, 11/28/01)
1917 Dec 28, The New York Evening
Mail published a facetious essay by H.L. Mencken on the history of
bathtubs in America.
(AP, 12/28/97)
1917 The Pulitzer Prize was
establishments for achievements in journalism and letters. It was named
after publisher Joseph Pulitzer (d.1911).
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)(HNQ, 1/29/02)
1918 Jan 27, "Tarzan of the Apes,"
1st Tarzan film, premiered at Broadway Theater.
(MC, 1/27/02)
1918 Feb 3, Joey Bishop,
[Gottlieb], talk show host (Joey Bishop Show), was born in the Bronx.
(MC, 2/3/02)
1918 Feb 14, Sigmund Romberg's
musical "Sinbad," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/14/02)
1918 Mar 9, Frank Morrison
Spillane (d.2006), mystery writer [Mickey Spillane], was born in
Brooklyn. His Mike Hammer crime novels later sold over 200 million
copies. His books included “Kiss Me Deadly” and “The Erection Set.”
(HN, 3/9/01)(SFC, 6/21/01, p.D5)(SFC, 7/18/06, p.B5)
1918 Mar 13, Women were scheduled
to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York due to a shortage
of men. When the United States entered World War I, propagandist George
Creel set out to stifle anti-war sentiment.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1918 May 15, The U.S. Post Office
and the U.S. Army began regularly scheduled airmail service between
Washington and New York through Philadelphia.
(AP, 5/15/97)(HNPD, 6/15/99)(HNQ, 4/24/01)
1918 Aug 17, Mort Marshall, actor
(Cully-Dumplings), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1918 Aug 19, "Yip! Yip! Yaphank,"
a musical revue by Irving Berlin featuring Army recruits from Camp
Upton in Yaphank, N.Y., opened on Broadway.
(AP, 8/19/08)
1918 Nov 1, During a
wildcat strike a replacement motorman, behind schedule, was speeding a
Brighton Beach bound train down what is today the Franklin Avenue
shuttle. The train derailed on a curve and hit a tunnel wall on the
approach to the Prospect Park Station. 102 died in a NYC BMT subway
derailment at Malbone Street, Brooklyn.
(www.bmt-lines.com/history.html)
1918 Dec 19, Robert Ripley began
his "Believe It or Not" column in the NY Globe.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1918 Dec 20, Eugene O'Neill's
"Moon of the Caribees" premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1918 Gilda Gray inspired a dance
craze after she performed "The Shimmy" to W.C. Handy's Saint Louis
Blues in a Broadway show.
(ON, 1/03, p.9)
1918 Charley Chapin (1858-1930),
city editor for the Pulitzer's NYC Evening World, faced financial ruin
after living beyond his means. He contemplated murder-suicide and
killed his wife, but lost his nerve and turned himself in. He was sent
to Sing Sing prison where he cultivated roses. In 1920 he wrote
an autobiography.
(WSJ, 3/904, p.D8)
1919 Feb 1, "There she is..." The
first Miss America was crowned on this day, not in Atlantic City, but
in New York City. Edith Hyde was not, the judges found, a Miss. She was
a Mrs. Mrs. Tod Robbins—the mother of two children.
(440 Int'l, 2/1/1999)
1919 Feb 5, Aaron Chwatt (d.2006)
was born in NYC. He later established himself as a Borscht Circuit
comic and became known as Red Buttons, comic film and TV star.
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.B9)
1919 Jun 11, Eamon de Valera, Sinn
Fein leader, arrived in NYC where he lived until 1921 raising funds for
the nationalist cause in Ireland.
(ON, 9/04, p.7)
1919 Jun 26, The New York Daily
News, America's first tabloid, was first published.
(AP, 6/26/99)(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)
1919 Oct 7, Fritz Kreisler's and
F. Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/7/01)
1919 Oct 23, Sigmund Romberg's
musical "Passing Show," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/23/01)
1919 Nov 18, H. Tierney's and J.
McCarthy's musical "Irene," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1919 Dec 2, Henry Clay Frick
(b.1849), coal and steel magnate, died in NYC. He partnered with Andrew
Carnegie and built of the largest coke & steel operation of the
time. In 1998 Martha Frick and Symington Sanger authored “Henry Clay
Frick.” In 2005 Les Standiford authored “Meet You In Hell,” an account
of the rivalry between Frick and Andrew Carnegie.
(www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/pa_hcf.htm)(WSJ, 7/29/05,
p.W8)(WSJ, 8/4/07, p.P9)
1919 Dec 8-31, The first round
trip transcontinental flight was made from NYC to SF and back.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.4)
1919 Dec 19, The Thimble Theatre
cartoon strip, by Elzie Segar (1894-1938) of Chesater, Ill., made its
debut in the New York Journal and featured the characters Olive Oyl,
Castor Oyl, and Ham Gravy, who were the comic's leads for about a
decade. He added Popeye in 1929.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.C._Segar)
1919 A.P. Giannini of SF formed
the East National Bank in NYC.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.B1)
1920 Jan 3, The Red Sox sold Babe
Ruth to the Yankees for $100,000, twice the amount of any previous
player transaction. The deal also included a $300,000 loan secured by a
mortgage on Fenway Park, a contractual clause that made the Yankees
owners the Red Sox's landlords.
(http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00242487.html)
1920 Jan 13, A NY Times editorial
excoriated Dr. Robert H. Goddard, and reported that rockets can never
fly. In 1969 the NY Times belatedly apologized.
(WSJ, 8/7/03, p.A1)
1920 Apr 3, F. Scott Fitzgerald
and Zelda Sayre were married at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York
City.
(HN, 4/3/02)
1920 Aug 23, M.R. Rinehart and A.
Hopwood's "Bat," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 8/23/02)
1920 Sep 8, New York-to-San
Francisco air mail service was inaugurated. US postal planes began
flying across the country, but these flights took place only in
daylight because pilots relied on visual landmarks to navigate.
(www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Government_Role/1918-1924/POL3.htm)(AP,
9/8/00)
1920 Sep 16, A bomb exploded in
front of the Morgan building at 23 Wall St. in NYC at noon on a busy
Thursday. 33 people were killed and over 200 wounded. A 16-foot stretch
of the Tennessee-marble façade with pockmarks of the blast was
retained as a memorial. Ron Chernow described the incident in his book
"The House of Morgan." No one was charged but Prof. Paul Avrich, in his
book "Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background," later held that
Mario Buda, an Italian immigrant, was the culprit.
(WSJ, 12/10/98, p.B1)(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A3)(SSFC,
4/16/06, p.E4)(WSJ, 8/18/07, p.P8)
1920 Oct 1, Walter Matthau
(d.2000), actor, was born as Walter Matuchanskayasky in NYC to
Russian-Jewish immigrants.
(SFC, 7/3/00, p.C2)
1920 Oct 12, Construction began on
Holland Tunnel connecting NJ and NYC.
(MC, 10/12/01)
1920 Nov 1, Eugene O'Neill's
"Emperor Jones," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1920 Nov 10, George Bernard Shaw's
"Heartbreak House," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1920 Dec 24, Enrico Caruso gave
his last public performance, singing in Jacques Halevy's "La Juive" at
the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
(AP, 12/24/97)
1920 NYC extended its subway from
Manhattan to Coney Island.
(SFEC, 7/26/98, Z1 p.8)
1920-1925 Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith served as
Prohibition agents in New York City for five years, often resorting to
zany measures to put the pinch on speak-easy owners. From 1920 to 1932,
the manufacture and sale of liquor was illegal in the United States,
but the clandestine traffic of liquor was plentiful. The job of
enforcing the law fell on 1,550 "Feds." Izzy and Moe, with their
imagination and good humor, managed to take the credit for 20 percent
of all Prohibition cases that came to trial in New York City. While
their ruses and disguises earned them much success and notoriety, they
also led to them being fired in 1925.
(HNPD, 6/27/99)
1920-1990s In NYC 5 mob organizations dominated the
Mafia. The Lucchese Cosa Nostra was founded by Gaetano Lucchese. In
1998 Ernest Volkman published "Gangbusters: The Destruction of
America’s Last Great Mafia Dynasty."
(SFEC, 8/9/98, BR 9 p.4)
1921 Feb 2, Airmail service opened
between New York and San Francisco.
(HN, 2/2/99)
1921 Feb 5, Yankees purchased 20
acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1921 Feb 14, The Literary Review
faced obscenity charges in NY for publishing "Ulysses" by James Joyce.
(MC, 2/14/02)
1921 Feb 22, An air mail plane
left San Francisco at 4:30 a.m., landing at New York (Hazelhurst Field,
L. I., N. Y.) at 4:50 p.m. on February 23.
(www.airmailpioneers.org/history/Sagahistory.htm)
1921 Mar 31, Albert Einstein
lectured in NY on his new theory of relativity. [see Apr 2]
(MC, 3/31/02)
1921 Apr 2, Prof. Albert Einstein
lectured in NYC on his new theory of relativity. [see Mar 31]
(MC, 4/2/02)
1921 Apr 10, Chuck Connors, actor
(Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa), was born in Brooklyn, NY. He
later auditioned for the Chicago Cubs with Fidel Castro and played for
them for a while.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1921 May 29, Clifton James, actor
(Buster & Billie, David & Lisa), was born in NYC.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1921 Oct 5, The World Series was
broadcast on radio for the first time. By series' end, the NY Giants
had beaten the NY Yankees five games to three in the best-of-nine
contest.
(AP, 10/5/06)
1921 Oct 25, Bat Masterson
(b.1853) died in NYC.
(MesWP)
1921 Nov 2, Eugene O'Neill's "Anna
Christie," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1921 Nov 3, Milk drivers on strike
dumped thousands of gallons of milk on New York City streets.
(HN, 11/3/98)
1921 Sardi's restaurant opened.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.T4)
1921 Frankart Inc. began business
in NYC and continued to the 1940s. The company made mass-produced
lamps, ashtrays, bookends and vases.
(SFC, 1/14/09, p.G2)
1922 Feb 7, John Willard's "Cat
& the Canary," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1922 Feb 27, G.B. Shaw's "Back to
Methuselah I/II" premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1922 Mar 9, Eugene O'Neill's
"Hairy Ape," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/9/02)
1922 Mar 13, George Bernard Shaw’s
"Back to Methusaleh V," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1922 Mar 20, Carl Reiner, comedian
(2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show), was born in the Bronx.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1922 Apr 4, Elmer Bernstein, movie
music composer (Robot Monster), was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/4/02)
1922 May 5, Construction began on
Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
(MC, 5/5/02)
1922 Jul 15, 1st duck-billed
platypus was publicly exhibited in US at a NY zoo.
(MC, 7/15/02)
1922 Jul 18, A fire began at the
Manufacturers Transit Company’s 7-storey warehouse on Jane St. in
Greenwich Village, NYC. Explosions erupted and newspapers called it
“the Greenwich Village Volcano.” 2 firemen were killed. A final
eruption destroyed 2 houses on Jul 23. Assistant fire chief
“Smokey Joe” Martin (d.1945) directed the fire fighting efforts.
(ON, 4/03, p.8)
1922 Aug 2, Carroll O'Connor,
actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night), was born in NYC.
(MC, 8/2/02)
1922 Aug 28, The first-ever radio
commercial aired on station WEAF in New York City (the 10-minute
advertisement was for the Queensboro Realty Company, which had paid a
fee of $100).
(HFA, '96, p.36)(AP, 8/28/97)
1922 Sep 1, A NYC law required all
"pool" rooms to change their name to "billiards."
(SC, 9/1/02)
1922 Oct 14, The 1st automated
telephones began service at the Pennsylvania exchange in NYC.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1922 Oct 22, Parsifal Place was
laid out in Bronx. It was named after a knight in Wagner's Opera.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1922 Oct 31, Karel & Josef
Capek's "World We Live In," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/31/01)
1922 Nov 13, Black Renaissance
began in Harlem, NY.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1922 Nov 13, George Cohan's
musical "Little Nellie Kelly," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1922 Nov 28, Capt. Cyril Turner of
the Royal Air Force gave the first public skywriting exhibition,
spelling out, "Hello U-S-A. Call Vanderbilt 7200" over New York's Times
Square. 47,000 called.
(DT internet 11/28/97)
1922 Dec 21, Paul Winchell,
ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith), was born in NYC.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1922 Walter Berndt premiered his
comic strip "Smitty" in the New York Daily News. It was about an office
boy and his annoying kid brother named Herby, who made his own debut in
1930.
(SFC, 7/8/98, Z1 p.3)
1922 The play "Abies' Irish Rose"
began in New York City and ran for 2,327 performances over the next 5
years.
(SFC, 12/28/99, p.C4)
1922 The New York Philharmonic
made its first radio broadcast from the old Lewisohn Stadium in upper
Manhattan.
(WSJ, 11/13/97, p.A20)
1922 The New York Giants defeated
the NY Yankees for the baseball World Series pennant.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.A14)
1922 The New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE) expanded its first building at 10 Broad St. to include 11 Wall
St.
(SFC, 4/23/98, p.D2)
1922 Samuel I. Newhouse (d.1979)
bought the financially troubled Staten Island Advance newspaper. The
Newhouse family expanded the operations into a major communications
conglomerate.
(SFEC, 11/29/98, p.B6)
1923 Mar 5, Laurence Tisch
(d.2003) was born in Brooklyn. In 1946 his parents entrusted him with
$125,000 to invest. He and his brother grew it to billions through
their Loews conglomerate.
(SSFC, 11/16/03, p.A29)
1923 Mar 13, Lee de Forest
demonstrated his sound-on-film moving pictures in NYC.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1923 Mar 14, Diane Arbus [Nemerov]
(d.1971), photographer, innovator (Vogue and Harper's Bazaar), was born
in NYC. In 1984 Patricia Bosworth authored: "Diane Arbus: A Biography."
(MC, 3/14/02)(Internet)
1923 Mar 31, The first U.S. dance
marathon, held in New York City, ended. Alma Cummings (32) set a world
record of 27 hours on her feet. 6 younger male partners helped her.
(AP, 3/31/98)(WSJ, 6/1/05, p.B1)
1923 Apr 7, The Workers Party of
America in NYC became an official communist party.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1923 Apr 7, The 1st brain tumor
operation under local anesthetic was performed at Beth Israel Hospital
in NYC by Dr K. Winfield Ney.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1923 Apr 15, The first sound films
shown to a paying audience are exhibited at the Rialto Theater in New
York City.
(HN, 4/15/01)
1923 Apr 18, The first game was
played in Yankee Stadium. The Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
Babe Ruth hit a three-run homer as the Yankees beat the Red Sox 4-1.
The stadium was called the House that Ruth built.
(AP, 4/18/98)(WSJ, 10/12/99, p.A24)(HN, 4/18/01)
1923 Jun 12, Harry Houdini freed
himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12
m) above ground in NYC.
(MC, 6/12/02)
1923 Jun 23, Air mail service
between SF and NYC was boosted with 50 new Douglas airplanes.
(SFC, 6/22/01, WBb p.8)
1923 Sep 11, ZR-1 (biggest active
dirigible) flew over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1923 Sep 28, William Windom, actor
(Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote), was born in NYC.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1923 Oct 29, "Runnin' Wild," which
introduced the Charleston dance, opened on Broadway.
(MC, 10/29/01)
1923 Dec 2, Maria M. Callas
(d.1977), opera singer (Norma, Traviata, Medea, Lucia, Tosca), was born
in NYC.
(MC, 12/2/01)(Internet)
1923 Dec 28, George Bernard Shaw's
"St. Joan," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/28/01)
1923 The Webster Apartments opened
in NYC as a residence for single, working women only.
(WSJ, 8/31/04, p.A1)
1923 The New York Yankees defeated
the NY Giants in the World Series 4 games to 2.
(SFC, 10/16/99, p.C1)
1924 Feb 12, George Gershwin’s
groundbreaking symphonic jazz composition "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered
at Carnegie Hall with Gershwin himself playing the piano with Paul
Whiteman’s orchestra.
(AP, 2/12/98)(HN, 2/12/01)(MC, 2/12/02)
1924 May 16, Frank F. Mankiewicz,
columnist (Perfectly Clear), was born in NYC.
(MC, 5/16/02)
1924 May 30, The Rivoli Theater in
Manhattan opened with a new air-conditioning system developed by Willis
Carrier. This followed 3 successful installation in Texas.
(ON, 8/07, p.11)
1924 Jun 24, The Democrats began
their convention in New York’s Madison Square Garden. They were lured
there by newspaper mogul Herbert Bayard Swope’s fundraising offer of
$205,000. US Democrats offered Mrs. Lena Jones Springs (d.1942) for
vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job,
for her party work in South Carolina.
(HN, 6/27/98)(SFC, 1/31/07, p.G6)
1924 Jul 1, A regular
transcontinental airmail service formed between NYC and SF.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1924 Jul 25, Estelle Getty,
actress (Sophia Petrillo-Golden Girls), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1924 Aug 5, The comic strip
"Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray (d.1968) made its debut in the NY
Daily News. Daddy Warbucks was her millionaire guardian. Leonard Starr
took over the strip in 1979. Her image was updated in 2000 by
cartoonist Andrew Pepoy. [see Oct 5]
(AP, 8/5/97)(SFEC, 10/17/99, p.C12)(SFC, 6/12/00,
p.A2)
1924 Sep 2, The Rudolf Friml
operetta "Rose Marie" opened on Broadway and ran for 558 performances.
Producer Arthur Hammerstein ordered that it be written for singer Mary
Ellis (1897-2003).
(AP, 9/2/99)(SFC, 2/3/03, p.B4)
1924 Sep 3, L. Stallings & M.
Anderson's "What Price Glory?," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1924 Oct 5, 1st Little Orphan
Annie strip appeared in NYC Daily News. [see Aug 5, 1924]
(MC, 10/5/01)
1924 Nov 30, Shirley Chisholm
(d.2004), first African-American congresswoman (1968), was born as
Shirley St. Hill in NYC.
(SFC, 1/3/05, p.A3)
1924 Nov, The 1st Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York's Herald Square.
(SFEC, 10/17/99, p.C12)
1924 Dec 1, George and Ira
Gershwin's musical "Lady Be Good," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/1/01)
1924 Dec 12, Edward I Koch,
Mayor-D-NYC, 1977-89, judge on TV’s People's Court, was born in NYC.
(MC, 12/12/01)
1924 Dec 29, Milton Berle
(d.2002), comedian, at 16 made his debut at Loew’s State Theater in
Times Square for $600 per week.
(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A15)
1924-1968 Robert Moses (1888-1981), master builder,
shaped New York City during this period.
(WSJ, 5/1/02, p.D7)(SSFC, 5/5/02,
p.M2)
1925 Feb 8, Kaufman's &
Berlin's "Cocoanuts," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1925 Feb 17, The first issue of
Harold Ross’ magazine, The New Yorker, hit the stands, selling for 15
cents a copy. Raoul Fleischmann provided the financial backing. [see
Feb 21]
(HN, 2/17/01)(SSFC, 6/20/04, p.M1)
1925 Feb 21, The first issue of
the New Yorker magazine, founded by Harold Ross, hit the newsstands.
The top hatted character Eustace Tilley appeared on the cover of the
first issue and every anniversary issue. In 1999 Mary F. Corey
published "The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury."
In 2000 Ben Yagoda authored "About Town: The New Yorker and the World
It Made." In 2000 Ranata Adler authored "Gone: The Last Days of the New
Yorker."
(TMC, 1994, p.1925)(SFEM, 4/12/98, p.10)(AP,
2/21/98)(HN, 2/21/98)(SFEC, 6/27/99, BR p.4)(SFEC, 2/20/00, BR p.5)
1925 Jun 2, NY Yankee Lou Gehrig
began his 2,130 consecutive game streak.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1925 Jul 13, Will Rogers, an
Oklahoma cowboy, who had been standing in for W.C. Fields in the
"Ziegfeld Follies," impressed the critics.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1925 Dec 3, "Concerto in F," by
George Gershwin, had its world premiere at New York's Carnegie Hall,
with Gershwin himself at the piano.
(AP, 12/3/98)
1925 Dec 8, Sammy Davis Jr,
singer, dancer and actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man), was born in NYC.
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A21)(MC, 12/8/01)
1925 Dec 28, George and Ira
Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/28/01)
1925 Georgia O’Keeffe created her
painting "New York Street With Moon."
(WSJ, 1/02/00, p.A20)
1925 A.P. Giannini of SF bought
the Bowery National Bank in NYC.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.B1)
1925 Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith
served as Prohibition agents in New York City for five years, often
resorting to zany measures to put the pinch on speak-easy owners. From
1920 to 1932, the manufacture and sale of liquor was illegal in the
United States, but the clandestine traffic of liquor was plentiful. The
job of enforcing the law fell on 1,550 "Feds." Izzy and Moe, with their
imagination and good humor, managed to take the credit for 20 percent
of all Prohibition cases that came to trial in New York City. While
their ruses and disguises earned them much success and notoriety, they
also led to them being fired in 1925.
(HNPD, 6/27/98)
1925-1929 Alfred Stieglitz operated the Intimate
Gallery.
(WSJ, 2/6/00, p.A16)
1926 Feb 1, Land at Broadway &
Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq. inch.
(MC, 2/1/02)
1926 Feb 26, Dark Street in the
Bronx was renamed Lustre Street.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1926 Mar 7, The first successful
trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New
York City and London.
(AP, 3/7/98)
1926 Apr 16, The new Book of the
Month Club sent out its 1st selection: "Lolly Willows or The
Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It went to nearly 5,000
members who had joined the Club, which had just been established in New
York City.
(http://tinyurl.com/gmvh6)
1926 Aug 3, Tony Bennett, singer,
was born in Queens, NY.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1926 Aug 6, Warner Bros. premiered
its "Vitaphone" sound-on-disc movie system in New York with a showing
of "Don Juan" featuring music and sound effects.
(AP, 8/6/08)
1926 Aug 23, Silent film star
Rudolph Valentino died in New York at age 31. World-wide hysteria and a
number of suicides followed his death.
(AP, 8/23/97)(HN, 8/23/98)
1926 Oct 3, The NY Yankees
defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1st game of this years’
baseball World Series.
(SFC, 9/28/01, WB p.6)
1926 Nov 8, George Gershwin's
musical "Oh, Kay," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/8/01)
1926 Nov 23, Noel Coward's "This
Was a Man," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/23/01)
1926 Nov 29, W. Somerset Maugham's
"Constant Wife" premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/29/01)
1926 Mae West opened her "Sex"
comedy-drama show on Broadway. Police closed it down after 41 weeks and
West was arrested along with the 17-member cast. West served 8 days in
jail.
(SFC, 6/24/02, p.D2)
1927 Mar 1, Harry Belafonte,
calypso singer (Buck and the Preacher), was born in Harlem, NYC.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1927 Mar 2, Babe Ruth signed a
3-year contract with the New York Yankees for a guarantee of $70,000 a
year, thus becoming baseball's highest paid player.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1927 Mar 31, William Daniels,
actor (Dr Mark Craig-St Elsewhere, 1776), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 3/31/02)
1927 Apr 7, Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover was on hand for the first inter-city (DC to Manhattan)
transmission by telephone of video imagery. Hoover’s image and voice
were transmitted across telephone lines.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927_in_television)(AH, 4/07, p.14)
1927 Apr 21, Robert Brustein,
dean, Yale School of Drama, was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1927 May 25, Robert Ludlum, spy
novelist (Bourne Identity), was born in NYC.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1927 Jun 8, Jerry Stiller,
comedian (Frank Constanza-Seinfeld), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 6/8/02)
1927 Jun 13, Aviation hero Charles
Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
(AP, 6/13/97)
1927 Jul 10, David Dinkins, first
African-American mayor of New York City, was born.
(HN, 7/10/98)
1927 Jul 29, Bellevue Hospital in
NY installed the 1st iron lung.
(MC, 7/29/02)
1927 Aug 21, The 4th Pan-African
Congress met in NYC.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1927 Sep 12, Sigmund Romberg's
musical "My Maryland," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/12/01)
1927 Sep 20, NY Yankee Babe Ruth
hit his record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry. [see Sep 30]
(MC, 9/20/01)
1927 Sep 30, Babe Ruth hit his
60th homerun of the season off Tom Zachary in Yankee Stadium, New York
City, to break his own major-league record. [see Sep 20]
(AP, 9/30/97)(HN, 9/30/98)
1927 Nov 3, Rodgers' & Hart's
musical "Connecticut Yankee," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/3/01)
1927 Nov 12, New York’s underwater
Holland Tunnel officially opened. It connected NY to New Jersey. [see
Nov 13]
(HN, 11/12/98)(MC, 11/12/01)
1927 Nov 13, The Holland Tunnel
opened to the public, linking New York City and New Jersey beneath the
Hudson River. [see Nov 12]
(TMC, 1994, p.1927)(AP, 11/13/97)
1927 Nov 22, George Gershwin's
"Funny Face," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/22/01)
1927 Dec 4, Duke Ellington opened
at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
(MC, 12/4/01)
1927 Dec 27, The musical play
"Show Boat," with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar
Hammerstein the Second, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.
(WSJ, 2/27/97, p.A15)(SFC, 5/15/97, p.E4)(AP,
12/27/97)
1927 Dec 28, George Kaufman and
Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/28/01)
1927 The Mae West play "Sex"
caused a scandal. Her "Sex" comedy-drama show on Broadway in 1926 and
Police closed it down after 41 weeks. West was arrested along with the
17-member cast and served 8 days in jail.
(SSFC, 4/15/01, DB p.35)(SFC, 6/24/02, p.D2)
1927 Herbert Asbury wrote "The
Gangs of New York." The book established the Five Points district as
the mythic slum.
(AM, Mar/Apr 97 p.46)(SFC, 7/29/98, p.A19)
1927 The Cranford Rose Garden was
established in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden with a $15,000 donation from
engineer Walter V. Cranford. His firm built many of Brooklyn’s subway
tunnels.
(WSJ, 6/21/06, p.D10)
1928 Jan 7, William Peter Blatty,
author and director (The Exorcist), was born in NYC.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1928 Jan 9, Judith Krantz, author
(Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle), was born in NYC.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1928 Jan 9, Eugene O'Neill's
"Marco Millions," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1928 Jan 20, Martin Landau, actor
(Mission Impossible, Tucker, Space 1999), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 1/20/02)
1928 Feb 24, In its first show to
feature a Black artist, the New Gallery of New York exhibited works of
Archibald Motley.
(HN, 2/24/98)
1928 Mar 13, Rudolph Friml's
musical "Three Musketeers," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1928 Apr 9, Mae West's NYC debut
in a daring new play "Diamond Lil."
(MC, 4/9/02)
1928 May 10, WGY-TV in
Schenectady, New York, began regular television programming.
(HN, 5/10/98)
1928 Aug 14, The "Front Page" of
Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur premiered in NYC.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1928 Aug 27, 16 people died in
NYC’s 2nd worst subway accident.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1928 Sep 20, Joyce Brothers, pop
psychiatrist ($64,000 question winner), was born in NYC.
(MC, 9/20/01)
1928 Nov 4, Arnold Rothstein (46),
US mobster, was shot to death at the Grand Hotel in NYC. In 2005 Nick
Tosches authored “King of the Jews,” a biography of Rothstein.
(SSFC, 6/12/05, p.B6)
1928 Nov 8, George and Ira
Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/8/01)
1928 Nov 18, Walt Disney’s
"Steamboat Willie," starring Mickey Mouse, premiered at the Colony
Theater in NYC. It was the first successful sound-synchronized animated
cartoon.
(TMC, 1994, p.1928)(AP, 11/18/97)
1928 Nov 26, Philip Barry's
"Holiday," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/26/01)
1928 Dec 13, George Gershwin's
musical work "An American in Paris" had its premiere, at Carnegie Hall
in New York. The debut was performed by the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra under the direction of Walter Damrosch.
(AP, 12/13/98)(MC, 12/13/01)
1928 Herbert Asbury authored "The
Gangs of New York." In 2002 it was made into a film.
(SFC, 12/30/02, p.D1)
1928 The NY Philharmonic merged
with the NY Symphony.
(WSJ, 7/19/00, p.A1)
1928 Gene Autry recorded "That
Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" written with Jimmy Long in NYC. The
success of the record won Autry a contract with Columbia Records and a
role in the weekly "National Barn Dance" radio show.
(SFC, 10/3/98, p.A14)
1928 John Ringling, circus
entrepreneur, purchased some 2,300 artifacts of the Cesnola collection
from the NYC Metropolitan Museum at an auction.
(AM, 7/97, p.70)
1928 A.P. Giannini of SF bought
the small Bank of America in NYC. He then wrapped his East Coast Banks
under the corporate parent Transamerica Corp. with New York banker
Elisha Walker as CEO.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.B1)
1929 Jan 17, The first Popeye
character appeared in the Thimble Theater cartoon strip by Elzie
Segar (1894-1938) of Chesater, Ill.
(WSJ, 10/15/96,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.C._Segar)
1929 Jan 26, Jules Feiffer,
cartoonist (Passionella), author (Little Murders), was born in NYC.
(MC, 1/26/02)
1929 Aug 3, Bethel Leslie,
entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1929 Aug 27, Ira Levin, author
(Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day), was born in NYC.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1929 Aug 29, John Jacob Raskob
(1879-1950), former General Motors executive, announced the
construction of the world’s tallest building, the Empire State Building.
(ON, 12/08, p.10)
1929 Sep 18, Preston Sturges'
"Strictly Dishonorable," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/18/01)
1929 Oct 1, In NYC demolition
began of the Waldorf-Astoria to make way for the new Empire State
Building.
(ON, 12/08, p.11)
1929 Oct 9, G. Kaufman's and R.
Lardner's musical "June Moon," premiered NYC.
(MC, 10/9/01)
1929 Oct 23, First
transcontinental air service began from New York to Los Angeles.
(HN, 10/23/98)
1929 Oct 24, Black Thursday, the
first day of the stock market crash, began the Great Depression. Dow
Jones was down 12.8%. Stock values collapsed and 13 million shares
changed hands as small investors frantically tried to sell off their
holdings. Thousands of confused investors and brokers were ruined and
banks, which had also invested heavily in the market, failed when they
could not produce enough cash on demand for angry depositors. The 3
cent Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported the crash along with a story on the
trial of a former banking superintendent for taking a $10,000 bribe for
not inspecting some insolvent banks.
(HN, 10/24/98)(HNPD, 10/29/98)(SFEC, 7/11/99,
p.D9)(AH, 10/04, p.15)
1929 Oct 29, The DJIA dropped
11.7%. "Black Tuesday" was the worst day of the market crash as
panicked survivors dumped 16 million shares on the market. Clerical
workers stayed up all night to find that $30 billion in paper value had
been wiped out in one day. Prices collapsed amid panic selling and
thousands of investors were wiped out as America's Great Depression
began. On Wall street prices plunged $14 million. By mid- November $30
billion of the $80 billion worth of stocks listed in September were
been wiped out. Stocks continued to slide until 1932, but the fear
caused by the crash made Americans unwilling to buy or invest and the
economy slowly worsened into the Great Depression. In 1994 daily trades
average 200-300 million shares. In 1954 John Kenneth Galbraith authored
“The Great Crash.” In 2001 Maury Klein authored "Rainbow’s End: The
Crash of 1929."
(SFC,10/17/97, p.B2)(HNPD, 10/29/98)(HN,
10/29/98)(WSJ, 10/26/01, p.A20)(WSJ, 7/19/08, p.W6)
1929 Nov 7, The Museum of Modern
Art in New York City opened to the public.
(AP, 11/7/97)(WSJ, 3/24/98, p.A20)
1929 Nov 12, In NYC the cap was
put on the framework of George Ohrstrom’s building at 40 Wall Street,
establishing its height at 925 feet.
(ON, 12/08, p.11)
1929 Nov 16, In NYC the Daily
Building Report announced that the final height of the new Chrysler
Building would be 1,046 feet.
(ON, 12/08, p.11)
1929 Dec 5, The 1st US nudist
organization, American League for Physical Culture, was began in NYC.
(MC, 12/5/01)
1929 Dec 11, John Jacob Raskob
(1879-1950), former General Motors executive, announced a 102-story
design for his Empire State Building.
(http://outside.in/Manhattan_NY/tags/empire%20state%20building)(ON,
12/08, p.10)
1929 Dec 24, Mary Higgins Clark,
author (Cry in the Night, Stillwatch), was born in Bronx, NY.
(MC, 12/24/01)
1929 Dec 30, Cole Porter's musical
"Wake Up & Dream," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/30/01)
1929 The 37-story Daily News
building, designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, opened on
42nd Street in Manhattan. It became a model for the fictional Daily
Planet in Superman movies. The NY Daily News vacated the building in
1995.
(WSJ, 8/29/07, p.B6)
1929 The Eisenberg Sandwich Shop
opened in NYC.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.T4)
1929-1946 Alfred Stieglitz operated his art gallery:
An American Place.
(WSJ, 2/6/00, p.A16)
1929-1939 Berenice Abbott spent ten years
photographing New York City as it changed. She received funding from
the WPA from 1935 to 1939 and selected 305 photos for the New Deal
project. The complete work was compiled by Bonnie Yochelson and
published in 1997: "Berenice Abbott" Changing New York."
(WSJ, 12/4/97, p.A20)
1930 Jan 20, Charles Lindbergh
arrived in New York, setting a cross country flying record of 14.75
hours.
(HN, 1/20/99)
1930 Jan 22, In NYC construction
began on the Empire State Building. The building opened on April 1,
1931, a month ahead of schedule.
(ON, 12/08, p.12)
1930 Jan 25, New York police
routed a Communist rally at the Town Hall.
(HN, 1/25/99)
1930 Feb 18, Richard Rodgers'
& Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/18/02)
1930 Feb 19, John Frankenheimer
(d.2002), Hollywood film director (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Train), was
born in NYC.
(SSFC, 7/7/02, p.A23)(MC, 2/19/02)
1930 Feb 21, Marc Connelly's
"Green Pastures," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1930 Feb 26, "The Green Pastures"
opened at Mansfield Theater.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1930 Feb 26, Manhattan, NYC,
installed the 1st red and green traffic lights.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1930 Mar 3, Bert Lahr ("The Wizard
of Oz") and Kate "God Bless America" Smith starred as "Flying High"
opened at the Apollo Theatre in New York City. The show had a run of 45
weeks at what is now the most famous black entertainment theatre in
America.
(HC, Internet, 3/3/98)
1930 Apr 8, John Reardon, baritone
(Falke-Die Fledermaus), was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/8/02)
1930 Apr 14, Philip Barry's "Hotel
Universe," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/14/02)
1930 May 4, Roberta Peters,
operatic soprano (NY Met), was born in NYC.
(MC, 5/4/02)
1930 May 11, Stanley Elkin, author
(George Mills), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(HN, 5/11/02)(MC, 5/11/02)
1930 Jun 7, NY Times agrees to
capitalize the n in "Negro."
(SC, 6/7/02)
1930 Jul 13, David Sarnoff
reported in NY Times that "TV would be a theater in every home."
(MC, 7/13/02)
1930 Aug 3, James Komack, writer,
director, actor (Courtship of Eddie's Father), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1930 Aug 4, Michael Cullen
introduced King Kullen in Queens, NYC, the 1st US supermarket.
(SFC, 8/4/05, p.C1)
1930 Aug 6, In NYC state Supreme
Court Judge Joseph Force Crater (b.1889) dined at a West 45th Street
steakhouse with a group of friends that included a showgirl. Crater had
earlier withdrawn $5,150 from a pair of bank accounts. He was last seen
at 9:15 p.m., climbing into the cab. Crater had been recently appointed
by Gov. Franklin Roosevelt to the NY Supreme Court. In 2004 Richard J.
Tofel authored “Vanishing Point,” an account of Tammany Hall and
Crater’s disappearance. The 1947 film “The Judge Steps Out,” starring
Alexander Knox, was inspired by the case. Evidence in 2005 suggested
that several men killed the judge and buried him under the Coney Island
Boardwalk in Brooklyn. [see Sep 1]
(WSJ, 9/9/04,
p.D8)(www.who2.com/judgecrater.html)(http://tinyurl.com/devrl)
1930 Sep 1, NY World reported the
disappearance of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater. He was last seen
leaving a restaurant on August 6, 1930 and entering a taxi. Crater was
officially declared dead “in abstentia” in 1939, and his case, Missing
Persons File No 13595, was officially closed in 1979.
(www.nymissing.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=44)
1930 Sep 8, NYC public schools
began teaching Hebrew.
(MC, 9/8/01)
1930 Sep 24, G. Kaufman & M.
Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premiered in NY.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1930 Oct 14, Singer Ethel Merman
stuns the audience when she held a high C for sixteen bars while
singing "I Got Rhythm" during her Broadway debut in Gershwin's Girl
Crazy.
(HN, 10/14/00)
1930 Oct 17, Jimmy Breslin,
columnist and novelist (NY Post, News, Newsday), was born in Queens,
NYC.
(HN, 10/17/00)(MC, 10/17/01)
1930 Nov 17, Musical "Sweet &
Low" with Fanny Brice premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/17/01)
1930 Nov 18, The musical "Smiles"
with Bob Hope and Fred Astaire premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1930 Dec 8, Cole Porter's musical
"NYCers," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/8/01)
1930 Dec 9, Buck Henry,
screenwriter and comedian (SNL, Get Smart), was born in NYC.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1930 The Chrysler Building,
designed by William van Alen, was completed.
(SFC, 7/7/98, p.B3)(WSJ, 5/6/99, p.A24)
1930 The McGraw-Hill Building on
42nd St., designed by Raymond Hood, was completed.
(WSJ, 5/6/99, p.A24)
1930 The last farm in NYC, at
Broadway and 213th Street, disappeared.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R43)
1930s Abraham Bluestein (d.1997),
editor, reporter and self-proclaimed anarchist, edited the Vanguard and
The Challenger.
(SFC,12/15/97, p.A20)
1931 Jan 6, Edgar Laurence
Doctorow (E.L. Doctorow), novelist (World's Fair, Ragtime), was born in
NYC.
(www.albany.edu/writers-inst/doctorow.html)
1931 Feb 7, US opera, "Peter
Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premiered at Met Opera NYC.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1931 Feb 14, Vic Morrow, actor
(Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie), was born in Bronx, NY.
(MC, 2/14/02)
1931 Apr 1, In NYC the Empire
State Building opened a month ahead of schedule. A dirigible mast
established the height at 1,250 feet above street level.
(ON, 12/08, p.12)
1931 Apr 26, New York Yankee Lou
Gehrig hit a home run but was called out for passing a runner, the
mistake ultimately cost him the home run crown.
(HN, 4/26/98)
1931 May 1, New York City's
102-story Empire State Building was dedicated. A 3,000 man construction
crew completed the building in one year and 45 days. It was designed by
the firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon and financed by John J. Raskob, a
former GM executive.
(SFC, 2/24/96, p.A13)(AP, 5/1/97)(HT, 5/97,
p.26)(AP, 5/1/08)
1931 Jun 23, Wiley Post and Harold
Gatty flew in a single-engine plane, the Winnie Mae, from New York on a
round-the-world flight and returned to New York on July 1 after 8 days,
15 hrs, and 51 min., a new world record.
(AP, 6/23/97)(ON, 12/03, p.10)(NPub, 2002, p.12)
1931 Jul 11, Tab Hunter, actor,
was born in NYC, the son of Charles Kelm and Gertrude Gelien. In 2005
he authored “Tab Hunter Confidential,” co-written with Eddie Muller.
(www.filmbug.com/db/279434)(SFC, 11/7/05, p.C3)
1931 Aug 21, Babe Ruth hit his
600th HR as the Yanks beat Browns 11-7.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1931 Sep 17, The 1st LP record was
demonstrated by RCA Victor in NYC. The venture failed.
(MC, 9/17/01)
1931 Oct 3, The comic strip Dick
Tracy first appeared in the New York News. [see Oct 4]
(HN, 10/3/00)
1931 Oct 4, The comic strip "Dick
Tracy," created by Chester Gould, made its debut. [see Oct 3]
(AP, 10/4/97)
1931 Oct 24, The George Washington
Bridge, connecting New York and New Jersey, was officially dedicated.
It opened to traffic the next day.
(AP, 10/24/08)
1931 Oct 25, The George Washington
Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opened to traffic. It was
completed at a cost of $59 million and 12 lives. The US Post Office
featured a commemorative stamp. It was described as the most beautiful
bridge in the world.
(http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/george-washington/)(SFC, 9/3/98,
p.A19)
1931 Oct 26, Eugene O'Neill's
"Mourning Becomes Electra," premiered in NYC. He adopted the Aeschylus
"Oresteia" trilogy to a New England family, the Mannons, in the days
just after the American Civil War. The three parts were called
"Homecoming," "The Hunted" and "The Haunted."
(WSJ, 5/16/97, p.A16)(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)(MC,
10/26/01)
1931 Dec 25, New York's
Metropolitan Opera broadcast an entire opera over radio for the first
time: "Hansel und Gretel" by Engelbert Humperdinck.
(AP, 12/25/97)
1931 Dec 26, The Pulitzer
Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opened on Broadway.
(AP, 12/26/01)
1931 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
(d.1942) founded the Whitney Museum in her New York Greenwich Village
townhouse. In 2000 Flora Miller Biddle authored "The Whitney Women and
the Museum They Made."
(WSJ, 4/10/00, p.A44)
1931 Nicholas Murray Butler
(1862-1947), presidential advisor and president of Columbia Univ.
(1902-1945), won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on behalf of the
Briand Kellogg Pact (1929), a treaty that denounced war as an
instrument of national policy. In 2006 Michael Rosenthal authored
“Nicholas Miraculous,” a biography Butler.
(SSFC, 8/15/04, p.D11)(WSJ, 1/25/06, p.D10)
1931 A NYC gangland war ended with
the assassinations of warring gang leaders Salvatore Maranzano and
Joseph Masseria. Lucky Luciano took over the Masseria organization and
Joseph Bonanno (d.2002), age 26, took over the Maranzano operations.
Luciano organized a "Commision" to resolve internal mob disputes.
(SSFC, 5/12/02, p.A23)
1931 Frederick August Otto
Schwartz (FAO Schwartz) moved to uptown NYC to its flagship Fifth
Avenue store. In 1986 it moved across the street.
(WSJ, 11/21/03, p.B1)
1932 Jan 12, Philip Barry's
"Animal Kingdom," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 1/12/02)
1932 Feb 17, Irving Berlin's
musical "Face the Music," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1932 Apr 2, Aviator Charles A.
Lindbergh and Dr. John F. Condon turned over $50,000 in ransom to an
unidentified man in a New York City cemetery in the Bronx, in exchange
for Lindbergh's kidnapped son. The infant, however, was not returned,
and was found dead the following month.
(AP, 4/2/97)(HN, 4/2/98)
1932 Apr 4, George Bernard Shaw's
"Too True to be Good," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/4/02)
1932 May 14, There was a "We Want
Beer!" parade in NY.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1932 Jun 15, Mario M. Cuomo,
(Gov-D-NY, 1982-94), was born in NYC.
(MC, 6/15/02)
1932 Jul 9, The Dow Jones
Industrial Average closed at 41.63, down 91% from its level exactly 3
years earlier. Trading volume for the day was 235,000 shares.
(WSJ, 10/11/08, p.W1)
1932 Sep 1, New York City Mayor
James "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigned following charges of graft and
corruption in his administration.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1932 Sep 9, The steamboat SS
Observation exploded in NYC East River and 71 were killed.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1932 Sep 10, The Independent City
Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opened in NYC.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1932 Oct 22, George Kaufman's and
Edna Ferber's "Dinner at 8," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1932 Oct 2, The NY Yankees won the
World Series against the Chicago Cubs in 4 games.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_World_Series)
1932 Nov 22, Robert Vaughn, actor
(Napolean Solo- Man from UNCLE, Hamlet, Superman), was born in NYC.
(MC, 11/22/01)
1932 Nov 29, Cole Porter's musical
"Gay Divorcee," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/29/01)
1932 Dec 27, Radio City Music Hall
was opened in New York City. The new acoustics proved unpopular. In
2002 Emily Thompson authored "The Soundscape of Modernity," a look at
the early era of modern acoustics.
(HFA, '96, p.44)(AP, 12/27/97)(WSJ, 4/24/02, p.D9)
1932 Walter Duranty of the NY
Times won a Pulitzer Prize for his series on the Soviet Union. In 2003
a historian argued that the prize should be revoked due to Duranty's
deliberate failure to cover the forced famine in the Ukraine that
killed millions of people.
(SFC, 10/23/03, p.A3)
1933 Jan 8, Charles Osgood, news
anchor (CBS Weekend News), was born in NYC.
(MC, 1/8/02)
1933 Feb 10, The first singing
telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegram Company in New York.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1933 Mar 3, NYC premiere of "King
Kong."
(SC, 3/3/02)
1933 Mar 27, Some 55,000 people
staged a protest against Hitler in New York.
(HN, 3/27/98)
1933 May 20, Danny Aiello, actor
(Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing), was born in NYC.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1933 Jun 29, Roscoe "Fatty"
Arbuckle (46), US actor (Keystone comedies), died at the Park Central
Hotel in NYC.
(www.2020site.org/fattyarbuckle/bio.html)(SSFC,
6/29/08, DB p.58)
1933 Oct 2, Eugene O'Neill's
comedy "Ah, Wilderness," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1933 Dec 4, Jack Kirkland's
"Tobacco Road," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/4/01)
1933 Dec 17, In the first world
championship football game, the Chicago Bears defeated the New York
Giants, 23-21, at Wrigley Field.
(AP, 12/17/08)
1934 Jan 17, Shari Lewis,
ventriloquist, puppeteer (Lamb Chop), was born in Bronx, NY.
(MC, 1/17/02)
1934 Feb 16, Thousands of
Socialists battled Communists at a rally in New York’s Madison Square
Garden.
(HN, 2/16/98)
1934 Feb 20, The opera "Four
Saints in Three Acts" by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson premiered
and became the longest running opera in Broadway history. It was
centered on St. Teresa of Avila and St. Ignatius and ran to 4 acts that
included 30 saints. It has been called "a surrealist American folk
opera." In 1997 Anthony Tommasini wrote Virgil’s biography: "Virgil
Thompson: Composer on the Aisle." In 1999 Steven Watson authored
"Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the
Mainstreaming of American Modernism.
(WSJ, 2/1/96, p.A-16)(WSJ, 7/16/96, p.A9)(BS,
5/3/98, p.13E)(WSJ, 3/10/99, p.A20)(SFEC, 3/28/99, BR p.2)(MC, 2/20/02)
1934 Mar 17, Thousands of blacks
battled the police in New York in protest of the Scottsboro trial.
(HN, 3/17/98)
1934 Mar 26, Alan Arkin, actor
(Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark), was born in NYC.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1934 Aug 27, Arlen, Ira Gershwin
& Harburg musical premiered in NYC.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1934 Sep 9, G. Kaufman and M.
Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1934 Sep 19, Bruno Hauptmann was
arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the
Lindbergh infant.
(AP, 9/19/97)
1934 Sep 24, 2500 fans saw Babe
Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees lost
to the Boston Red Sox, 5-0.
(MC, 9/24/01)
1934 Nov 20, Lillian Hellman's
"Children's Hour," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1934 Nov 21, The Cole Porter
musical “Anything Goes,” starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney,
premiered at New York's Alvin Theatre.
(HN, 11/21/00)(AP, 11/21/04)
1934 Larry King, talk show host,
was born in Brooklyn as Lawrence Harvey Zeigler to Russian-Jewish
immigrants.
(WT-NWA, 7/01, p.43)
1934 John's Pizzeria on Bleecker
opened.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.T4)
1934 The Tavern on the Green
opened.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.T4)
1934 John Astor lured Fernand
"Pete" Petiot to the St. Regis in NYC. Petiot had invented the Bloody
Mary (vodka and tomato juice) at Harry’s NY Bar in Paris in the 1920s.
The name was changed to the Red Snapper for a decade and then back to
Bloody Mary.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.D4)
1935 Feb 26, New York Yankees
released Babe Ruth. He signed with Boston Braves.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1935 Mar 7, In an effort to
reduce street noise, the city of New York revoked the licenses of all
organ grinders .
(HNQ, 7/25/98)
1935 Mar 19, Renee Taylor, actress
(Jack Paar Show, Mary Hartman, Nanny), was born in NYC.
(MC, 3/19/02)
1935 Apr 8, Adolph Ochs (b.1858),
publisher of the New York Times, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Ochs)
1935 Jun 3, The French liner
Normandie set a record on its maiden voyage, arriving in New York after
crossing the Atlantic in just four days, 11 hours and 42 minutes.
(AP, 6/3/05)
1935 Jul 2, Gilbert Kalish,
pianist, professor (SUNY Stony Brook), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1935 Jul 17, Diahann Carroll,
actress, was born in NYC, as Carol Diann Johnson.
(http://www.africanpubs.com/Apps/bios/0144CarrollDiahann.asp?pic=none)
1935 Jul 26, Bill Bailey
(1910-1995) and several seamen boarded the German passenger ship Bremen
in New York harbor and ripped the Nazi flag from its mast before a
crowd of some 5,000 people. The group battled 100 detectives, 150
uniformed police and 25 mounted police and members of the ship’s crew
to get to the flag.
(SFC,11/15/97, p.A19)
1935 Sep 25, Maxwell Anderson's
"Winterset," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1935 Oct 10, "Porgy and Bess"
debuted at the Alvin Theater on Broadway in New York City. George
Gershwin composed the music based on a 1925 novel by Dubose Heyward.
(SFEM, 10/5/97, p.4)(AP, 10/10/97)
1935 Oct 20, Jerry Ohrbach, actor
(Law & Order, Dirty Dancing), was born in Bronx, NYC.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1935 Nov 16, Richard Rodgers' and
Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premiered NYC.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1935 A NYC work crew shoveling
snow into a manhole discovered a large alligator inside and beat the
reptile to death.
(SSFC, 3/6/05, p.M5)
1935-1945 Arthur Fellig, a photographer known as
Weegee, roamed New York City and shot the underbelly of the city. A
1997 book: "Weegee’s World" shows his work.
(WSJ, 12/4/97, p.A20)
1936 Jan 28, Alan Alda, [Alphonso
D'Abruzzo], actor (Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H), was born in NYC.
(MC, 1/28/02)
1936 Apr 11, Rodgers' &
Hammerstein's musical "On Your Toes," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/11/02)
1936 May 2, Michael Rabin,
violinist (In Memorium), was born in NYC.
(MC, 5/2/02)
1936 May 3, Joe DiMaggio made his
major-league debut as NY Yankee and got 3 hits.
(MC, 5/3/02)
1936 May 14, Bobby Darin (d.1973),
singer (Mack the Knife), was born in the Bronx as Walden Robert
Cassotto.
(www.history-of-rock.com/bobby_darin.htm)
1936 May 27, Louis Gossett Jr.,
actor (Officer & Gentleman, Deep), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 5/27/02)
1936 May 29, Arlene McQuade,
actress (Rosalie-Goldbergs), was born in NYC.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1936 Jul 9, David Joel Zinman,
composer, conductor (Balt Symphony-1983), was born in NYC.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1936 Jul 11, Triborough Bridge
linking Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens opened.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1936 Jul 25, The 115 acre Orchard
Beach opened in the Bronx.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1936 Nov 24, Noel Coward's
"Tonight at 8:30," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1936 Dec 22, Hector Elizondo,
actor (American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love), was born in NYC.
(MC, 12/22/01)
1936 Aaron Douglas, a Harlem
Renaissance painter, created his work "Into Bondage."
(SFC, 1/16/98, p.D1)
1936 Joe DiMaggio (21) began
playing center field for the New York Yankees. He played with the
Yankees until his retirement in 1951.
(WSJ, 3/9/99, p.A1)(HNQ, 9/25/00)
1936 The New York Yankees defeated
the NY Giants for the baseball World Series pennant.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.A14)
1937 Apr 5, Colin Powell, American
Army general and assistant to the president, was born in Bronx New York.
(HFA, '96, p.28)(HN, 5/5/97)
1937 Apr 8, Seymour Hersh, award
winning investigative reporter (NY Times), was born.
(MC, 4/8/02)
1937 Apr 28, The 1st animated
cartoon electric sign was displayed in NYC.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1937 May 12, George Carlin
(d.2002), comedian, was born in the Bronx.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin)
1937 May 13, Judith Somogi,
conductor, was born in NYC.
(MC, 5/13/02)
1937 Jul 28, Peter Duchin,
pianist, bandleader (Peter Duchin Orch), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1937 Nov 23, Clifford Odets'
"Golden Boy," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/23/01)
1937 Nov 23, John Steinbeck's "Of
Mice & Men," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/23/01)
1937 Dec 21, Jane Fonda, actress
(Barbarella, Klute), physical fitness fanatic, Vietnam Protestor, was
born in NYC.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1937 Dec 22, The NYC Lincoln
Tunnel opened to traffic.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.T4)(MC, 12/22/01)
1937 Dec 29, Mary Tyler Moore,
actress (Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People), was born in Brooklyn.
(MC, 12/29/01)
1937 The New York Yankees defeated
the NY Giants for the baseball World Series pennant.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.A14)
1937 NYC handed out 11,787 taxicab
licenses at $10 each. No more were handed out until 1996, when another
400 were sold.
(Econ, 4/24/04, p.30)
1938 Jan 6, Bronze memorial statue
of Henry Hudson was erected in Bronx.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1938 Jan 16, The Benny Goodman
Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert featured an outstanding solo by saxophonist
Lester Young. Goodman performed at Carnegie Hall along with Count
Basie, Harry James, Lester Young, Gene Krupa, Johnny Hodges, Lionel
Hampton and 17 others. The concert was recorded and in 2000 Columbia
issued a remastered edition of the performance.
(WSJ, 8/29/96, A11)(WSJ, 1/12/00, p.A20)
1938 Feb 4, The Thornton Wilder
play "Our Town" opened on Broadway.
(AP, 2/4/97)
1938 May 22, Richard Benjamin,
director, actor (Goodbye Columbus, He & She), was born in NYC.
(MC, 5/22/02)
1938 May 31, Peter Yarrow, (Peter,
Paul & Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon), was born in NYC.
(MC, 5/31/02)
1938 Jun 22, Heavyweight boxing
champion Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in the first round of
their heavyweight rematch at New York City's Yankee Stadium.
(AP, 6/22/97)(HN, 6/22/98)
1938 Jul 10, Howard Hughes and the
"Yankee Clipper" began the 1st passenger flight around the world flight
from NYC. [see Jul 14]
(MC, 7/10/02)
1938 Jul 14, Howard Hughes landed
at Floyd Bennet Field in NY with a crew of four after flying around the
world in 3 days, 19 hours, and 17 min., a new record.
(Hem., 2/96, p.44)
1938 Jul 19, Richard Jordan, actor
(Dune, Old Boyfriends, Gettysburg), was born in NYC.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1938 Aug 3, George Memmoli, actor
(Earl-Hello Larry), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1938 Sep 1, Alan Dershowitz,
attorney (Claus Von Bulow, OJ Simpson), was born in NYC.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1938 Sep 23, A time capsule, to be
opened in the year 6939, was buried on the grounds of the World's Fair
in New York City. The capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe
& 1,100' of microfilm. [see Apr 30, 1939] Westinghouse coined the
term "time capsule" when it buried a torpedo shaped vessel at the 1939
NY fair.
(AP, 9/23/98)(SFEC, 1/2/00, p.D4)(MC, 9/23/01)
1938 Oct 8, G. Kaufman & Moss
Hart's "Fabulous Invalid," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/8/01)
1938 Oct 15, Robert Sherwood's
"Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1938 Oct 22, Chester Carlson and
Otto Kornei performed the 1st successful test of their photocopier at
Astoria, Queens, NYC. They used powdered ink and an electrical charge
to create the first photocopy. The reproduced page said: "10-28-38
Astoria." Carlson tried to sell the machine to IBM, RCA, Kodak and
others, but they were not impressed.
(HN, 10/22/00)(ON, 11/04, p.7)
1938 Nov 11, Mary Mallon, also
known as “Typhoid Mary,” died of a stroke on North Brother Island. She
had been quarantined there since 1915 after spreading typhus for years
while working as a cook in the New York area.
(AH, 2/06, p.26)
1938 Nov 24,Clifford Odets'
"Rocket to the Moon," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/24/01)
1938 Dec 7, Philip Barry's "Here
Come the Clowns," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/7/01)
1938 Dec 30, Joseph Bologna, actor
(Citizen Cohn, My Favorite Year), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 12/30/01)
1938 Dec, In NYC Barney Josephson
(1902-1988), a former shoe salesman, opened Café Society at 2
Sheridan Square, as a European style cabaret. ''The wrong place for the
right people'' was its slogan. In 1940 he opened an uptown branch
on East 58th Street. By 1950 both versions were gone. In 2009 Terry
Trilling Josephson, his 4th wife, published his memoir “Café
Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People,” based on taped
interviews.
(WSJ, 4/6/09, p.A13)(http://tinyurl.com/dbhdjw)
1938 Lucienne Block (d.1999 at 90)
created her wall mural "The Evolution of Music" in NYC. She was the
daughter of composer Ernest Bloch and apprenticed under muralist Diego
Rivera.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.C3)
1938 Gabriel Almond (d.2002),
political scientist, titled his dissertation "Plutocracy and Politics
in New York City." It was published in 1998.
(SSFC, 1/5/03, p.A27)
1938 The musical "Great Lady" was
choreographed by George Balanchine and featured Jerome Robbins (d.1998
at 79) in his first Broadway performance.
(SFC, 7/30/98, p.A10)
1938 The Cloisters, a branch of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, opened in Upper Manhattan. It was made
possible by a grant from John D. Rockefeller Jr.
(Brochure, 2002)
1938 NY Times publisher A.H.
Sulzberger urged Pres. Roosevelt not to name a Jew to the Supreme Court
for fear of exacerbating anti-Semitism.
(WSJ, 5/26/04, p.A8)
1938 Topps was founded as a
tobacco and gum wholesaler by the 4 Shorin brothers in Brooklyn. Its
first bubble gum cards, Hocus Pocus magic Photos, came out in 1948.
Topps baseball cards were introduced in 1951.
(WSJ, 7/8/06, p.A5)
1939 Jan 6, Alfred Lion recorded
his first Blue Note session with boogie-woogie and blues pianists
Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. He had just founded the jazz label
in New York. He was later joined by his Berlin friend and photographer
Francis Wolff.
(WSJ, 10/3/97, p.A8)(WSJ, 1/15/98, p.W10)
1939 Jan 13, Jacob Ruppert, CEO of
the NY Yankees (1915-39), died.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1939 Jan 21, Wolfman Jack, DJ
(Midnight Special), was born in Brooklyn, NY as Bob Smith.
(MC, 1/21/02)
1939 Jan 25, The cyclotron of
Nebraska-born nuclear physicist John R. (Ray) Dunning (31) produced
nuclear fission for the first time in America in Room 128 of Columbia
University's Pupin Physics Laboratory. Eugene T. Booth was a member of
the experimental team which conducted the first nuclear fission
experiment in the US; the other members of the team were Herbert L.
Anderson, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis
G. Slack.
(www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1939/science)
1939 Feb 15, Lillian Hellman's
"Little Foxes," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/15/02)
1939 Mar 28, Philip Barry's
"Philadelphia Story," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1939 Apr 17, S.N. Behrman's "No
Time for Comedy," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/17/02)
1939 Apr 29, Whitestone Bridge,
connecting Bronx and Queens, opened.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1939 Apr 30, The New York World’s
Fair, billed as a look at "the world of tomorrow," officially opened.
NY Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia mandated that the city's nude dancers cover
up during the fair. The cover-up evolved into the G-string and later
the thong. The General Motors exhibit was titled Futurama. Philo T.
Farnsworth premiered his television at the fair. AT&T presented its
first Picture Phone at the World's Fair. Salvador Dali created a
pavilion that was called “Dream of Venus” and described as the “funny
house of tomorrow.” In 2000 Miles Beller authored "Dream of Venus (Or
Living Pictures): A Novel of the 1939 New York world’s Fair." National
Presto Industries introduced the home pressure cooker at the fair.
(AP, 4/30/97)(WSJ, 6/7/99, p.A8)(SFEC, 4/16/00, BR
p.7)(NYTBR, 2/2/03, p.20) (www.imdb.com/title/tt0149460/trivia)(WSJ,
12/27/08, p.A7)
1939 Jul 4, Baseball's "Iron
Horse," Lou Gehrig (1904-1941), said farewell to 61,808 fans honoring
him with a special day at New York City's Yankee Stadium. He was
suffering from A.L.S. (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a
neurodegenerative disorder that destroys the body's neuromuscular
system. Many now call it Lou Gehrig's disease. He did less than two
years later at the age of 37.
(SFEC, 3/30/97, Par. p.2)(AP, 7/4/97)(IB, Internet,
12/7/98)
1939 Jul 11, Yanks hosted the 7th
All Star Game. McCarthy started 6 Yanks, AL won 3-1.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1939 Aug 17, The film "Wizard of
Oz" opened at Loew's Capitol Theater in NYC.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1939 Aug 21, Clarence Williams
III, actor (Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rain), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1939 Oct 15, The New York
Municipal Airport was dedicated. It was the largest, most advanced
commercial airport in the world. Its new terminal featured innovative
design that kept arriving and departing passengers separated on two
levels for greater efficiency. It was also terminals adorned with Art
Deco details and fine restaurants and a rooftop viewing promenade as
well as many technological details that made flying safer and less
expensive. On Mar 31, 1940, the new airport was rechristened
LaGuardia Airport after the mayor, who had been a bomber pilot in World
War I and whose interest in aviation lasted throughout his lifetime,
barely a month after it opened.
(www.arcadiapublishing.com/news_article.html?id=1816)(AP, 10/15/97)
1939 Oct 18, R. Rodger's &
Lorenz Hart's "Too Many Girls," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/18/01)
1939 Oct 25, George Kaufman and
Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/25/01)
1939 Oct 25, The drama "The Time
of Your Life," by William Saroyan, opened in NYC.
(AP, 10/25/97)
1939 Nov 8, The H. Lindsay and R.
Crouse play "Life With Father," based on the book by Clarence Day,
opened on Broadway.
(AP, 11/8/99)(MC, 11/8/01)
1939 Nov 17, Jerome Kern's and
Oscar Hammerstein's "Very Warm for May," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/17/01)
1939 Nov 27, The play "Key Largo,"
by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.
James Gregory made his Broadway debut.
(AP, 11/27/97)(SFC, 9/19/02, p.A24)
1939 Dec 2, New York's La Guardia
Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago landed at one
minute after midnight. The North Beach Airport opened in Queens, NYC,
with 2 levels for passenger circulation. It was later renamed LaGuardia.
(Hem., 5/97, p.70)(AP, 12/2/98)
1939 Dec 6, The Cole Porter
musical comedy "Du Barry Was a Lady" opened on Broadway.
(AP, 12/6/99)
1939 The 92nd St. Y began having
poetry readings.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.T4)
1939 Philip Hamburger (25), began
writing his Talk of the Town section for the New Yorker Magazine. In
1999 he published "Friends Talking in the Night: Sixty Years of Writing
for the New Yorker."
(SFEC, 4/4/99, BR p.5)
1939 Arthur Fellig, a photographer
known as Weegee, took a group picture of thousands of sunbathers at
Coney Island.
(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A14)
1939 Billie Holiday 1st sang
"Strange Fruit," a ballad about lynching in the south, at Manhattan’s
Café Society. The song had been written by Abel Meeropol, a
Jewish schoolteacher. In 2001 David Margolick authored "Strange Fruit:
Biography of a Song."
(SFC, 3/8/02, p.D18)
1939 This year’s NY Yankee
baseball season was covered by Richard J. Tofel in his 2002 book "The
Legend in the Making." The season culminated with a 4th consecutive
World Series championship.
(WSJ, 3/14/02, p.A16)
1939 Erno Laszlo (1891-1973),
Hungary immigrant, opened the Laszlo Institute on Fifth Ave in NYC. In
1927 he had opened the Laszlo Institute for Scientific Cosmetology in
Budapest.
(Econ, 11/29/03, p.18)
1939 Dorothy Schiff (1903-1989)
bought the New York Post at the urging of her husband, George Backer.
He resigned in 1942 and she took over the paper.
(WSJ, 4/7/07,
p.P10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Schiff)
1940 Jan 26, The Museum of Modern
Art in New York received works by Botticelli, Raphael and Michelangelo
on loan from Italy.
(HN, 1/26/99)
1940 Feb 7, Walt Disney's 2nd
feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1940 Feb 25, A hockey game was
televised for the first time, by New York City station W2XBS, as the
New York Rangers defeated the Montreal Canadiens, 6-2, at Madison
Square Garden.
(AP, 2/25/00)
1940 Feb 28, The first televised
college basketball games were broadcast, by New York City station
W2XBS, as Pittsburgh defeated Fordham, 57-37, and New York University
beat Georgetown, 50-27, at Madison Square Garden.
(AP, 2/28/98)
1940 Mar 2, The first televised
intercollegiate track meet was seen by TV viewers in New York City as
W2XBS presented the action live from Madison Square Garden. New York
University won the meet.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1940 Mar 10, 1st US opera was
telecast in NYC: "Pagliacci."
(MC, 3/10/02)
1940 Mar 31, The New York
Municipal Airport, opened in October, 1939, was renamed La Guardia
airport, after the mayor, who had been a bomber pilot in World War I
and whose interest in aviation lasted throughout his lifetime, barely a
month after it opened.
(www.arcadiapublishing.com/news_article.html?id=1816)
1940 Apr 4, Richard Rodgers' and
Lorenz Hart's "Higher & Higher," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/4/02)
1940 Apr 25, Al Pacino, actor (And
Justice For All, Godfather, Scorpio), was born in NYC.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1940 Apr 29, Robert Sherwood's
"There Shall be No Night," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1940 May 28, Irving Berlin's
musical "Louisiana Purchase," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 5/28/02)
1940 Oct 15, Charles Chaplin's
first all-talking comedy, "The Great Dictator," a lampoon of Adolf
Hitler, opened at two theaters in New York with Chaplin and his wife,
co-star Paulette Goddard, making appearances in both locations.
(AP, 10/15/02)
1940 Oct 18, Kaufman's & Harts
"George Washington Slept Here," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/18/01)
1940 Oct 25, The musical play
“Cabin in the Sky” opened with an all black cast at the Martin Beck
Theater on Broadway. It featured Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) and her
dance troupe.
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/dunham/dunham-notes-cabininthesky.html)
1940 Oct 26, Mario Orosco, the 1st
victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives), was born.
(MC, 10/26/01)
1940 Oct 30, Cole Porter musical
"Panama Hattie," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/30/01)
1940 Nov 15, NY Midtown tunnel
linking Manhattan and Queens opened to traffic.
(MC, 11/15/01)
1940 Dec 26, J.A. Fields' and J.
Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/26/01)
1940 The blues opera "De
Organizer," written by Langston Hughes and James P. Johnson, was
performed in NYC.
(SFC, 12/30/02, p.D3)
1940 The Afro-Cubans Latin jazz
band, formed by Mario Bauza and Frank Grillo, a vocalist known as
Machito, made its debut bear Spanish Harlem.
(SFEC, 9/19/99, DB p.39)
1940s The 3,000-acre Fresh Kills
Landfill opened on Staten Island. It closed in 2001 but was reopened in
Sept. to hold the remains of the World Trade Center.
(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A1)
1940-1948 The daily left-leaning PM newspaper was
published over this period. Theodor Seuss Geisel drew cartoons for the
paper from 1941-1943.
(WSJ, 8/16/99, p.B9F)
1940-1954 Virgil Thomson worked as the music critic
for the New York Herald-Tribune.
(WSJ, 6/16/97, p.10)
1941 Jan 21, Richie Havens, folk
singer (Here Comes the Sun), was born in Brooklyn.
(MC, 1/21/02)
1941 Jan 24, Neil Diamond, singer,
actor (Jazz Singer), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 1/24/02)
1941 Apr 1, Lillian Hellman's
"Watch on the Rhine," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/1/02)
1941
Apr 1, The first contract for advertising on a
commercial FM radio station began on W71NY in New York City.
(OTD)
1941 Apr 20, Joni Evans, publisher
of Simon & Schuster, Random House, was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1941 May 1, The
motion picture "Citizen Kane," directed and starring Orson Welles (24),
premiered in New York. Randolph Hearst attempted to bury the film by
banning all advertising in his newspapers. One in five Americans read a
Hearst paper at this time. Citizen Kane won an Academy Award. A PBS
special from the American Experience covered the story in 1996. His
biography, "Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles" by David Thompson, was
published in 1996.
(WSJ, 1/25/96, p.A-16)(TMC, 1994, p.1941)(SFC,
6/9/96, BR p.15)
1941 May 15, Lainie Kazan, singer,
actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches), was born in Brooklyn.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1941 Jul 17, The longest hitting
streak in baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians pitchers
held New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, the Yankee Clipper, hitless for the
first time in 57 games.
(HN, 7/17/98)(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A10)(CHA, 1/2001)
1941 Aug 11, Elizabeth Holtzman,
DA (D-Rep-NY, Watergate Committee), was born in Brooklyn.
(MC, 8/11/02)
1941 Aug 12, Jennifer Warren,
actress (Slap Shot, Fatal Beauty, Mutant), was born in NYC.
(SC, 8/12/02)
1941 Sep 10, Stephen Jay Gould
(d.2002), biologist, paleontologist and writer, was born in NYC. His
books included “Time’s Cycle” and “The Panda’s Thumb.”
(HN, 9/10/00)(SFC, 5/21/02, p.A6)
1941 Dec 6, NYC Council agreed to
build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens.
(MC, 12/6/01)
1941 The New York Yankees defeated
the Brooklyn Dodgers for the baseball World Series pennant.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.A14)
1942 Jan 21, Count Basie and His
Orchestra recorded "One O'Clock Jump" in New York City for Okeh
Records.
(AP, 1/21/98)
1942 Jan 21, A Bronx magistrate
ruled all pinball machines illegal.
(MC, 1/21/02)
1942 Feb 9, The former French
cruise ship Normandie, launched in 1935, burned in New York Harbor
during its conversion to an Allied trip transport ship. It was once
regarded as most elegant ocean liner ever built. In 1947 it was cut up
for scrap. In 2007 John Maxtone-Graham authored “Normandie.”
(AP, 2/10/97)(WSJ, 12/8/07, p.W13)
1942 Feb 10, The former French
liner Normandie capsized in New York Harbor a day after it caught fire
while being refitted for the U.S. Navy.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1942 Mar 26, Erica Jong [Mann],
poet, novelist (Fear of Flying, How to Save Your Own Life), was born in
NYC.
(HN, 3/26/01)(SS, 3/26/02)
1942 Apr 24, Barbra Streisand,
singer, actress, was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 4/24/02)
1942 May 18, New York ended night
baseball games for the rest of World War II.
(HN, 5/18/98)
1942 May 29, Kevin Conway, actor
(Flash Point, Cage of Angels), was born in NYC.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1942 Jul 4, Irving Berlin’s
musical review "This Is the Army" opened at the Broadway Theater in New
York.
(AP, 7/4/00)
1942 Oct 7, Maxwell Anderson's
"Eve of St Mark," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/7/01)
1942 Oct 16, The ballet "Rodeo,"
with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by Agnes de Mille,
premiered at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
(AP, 10/16/02)
1942 Nov 18, Thornton Wilder's
"Skin of our Teeth," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1942 Nov 19, Calvin Klein, fashion
designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK), was born in Bronx, NYC.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1942 Dec 7, Harry Chapin, rock
vocalist (Taxi, Cat's in the Cradle), was born in NYC.
(MC, 12/7/01)
1942 Dec 30, Five thousand
screaming girls shouted "Frankie! Frankie!" when Sinatra appeared with
Benny Goodman’s band at New York’s Paramount Theater.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.A13)
1942 Joseph A. Faurot (70), former
NYC detective, died. He introduced fingerprint technology from London
to NYC and the rest of the US.
(ON, 4/04, p.11)
1943 Feb 28, "Porgy & Bess"
opened on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1943 Mar 3, F. Ryerson and Cohn
Claues' "Harriet" premiered in New York NY.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1943 Mar 30, Rodgers and
Hammerstein's first collaboration, Oklahoma, opened on Broadway. [see
Mar 31]
(HN, 3/30/01)(MC, 3/30/02)
1943 May 25, Leslie Uggams,
singer, actress (Leslie Uggams Show, Roots), was born in NYC.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1943 Jun 13, German spies landed
on Long Island, New York, and were soon captured.
(HN, 6/13/98)
1943 Jul 4, Geraldo Rivera, TV
talkshow host, was born in New York City. He became known for his
non-conformity in the subjects he approached.
(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)
1943 Jul 25, Janet Margolin,
actress (Take the Money & Run, David & Lisa), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1943 Aug 1, Race-related rioting
erupted in New York City's Harlem section, resulting in several deaths.
(AP, 8/1/97)
1943 Oct 7, Weill's, Perelman's
and Nash's musical "One Touch of Venus," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/7/01)
1943 Nov 14, Leonard Bernstein,
the 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, made
his debut with the orchestra as he filled in for the ailing Bruno
Walter during a nationally broadcast concert.
(AP, 11/14/02)
1943 Dec 2, "Carmen Jones," a
contemporary reworking of the Bizet opera "Carmen" by Oscar Hammerstein
II with an all-black cast, opened on Broadway.
(AP, 12/2/98)
1943 Dec 8, John Van Druten's
"Voice of the Turtle," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/8/01)
1943 Dec 19, William De Vries,
surgeon-inventor (Symbion artificial heart), was born in Brooklyn.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1943 Dec 31, NYC's Times Square
greeted Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater.
(MC, 12/31/01)
1944 Apr 3, Tony Orlando, singer
(& Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon), was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/3/02)
1944 Apr 12, Lillian Hellman's
"Searching Wind," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/12/02)
1944 Apr 18, The ballet "Fancy
Free," with music by Leonard Bernstein premiered in NYC.
(AP, 4/18/04)
1944 Apr 30, Jill Clayburgh,
actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough), was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/30/02)
1944 May 3, "Meet Me in St Louis"
opened on Broadway.
(MC, 5/3/02)
1944 May 14, The Latin trio Los
Panchos made its debut in NYC with Alfredo Gil (d.1999 at 84), Jesus
Navarro (Chucho), and Hernando Aviles.
(SFC, 9/17/99, p.D8)
1944 Jun 11, The 1st Serbian
Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, was established in NYC.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1944 Jun 17, Bill Rafferty,
comedian (Laugh-In, Real People), was born in Queens, NY.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Rafferty)
1944 Aug 9, Smokey Bear debuted as
spokesman for fire prevention. The image of "Smokey the Bear" was
created by an artist as the official forest-fire spokesbear. He was
named in 1945 reportedly in honor of Smokey Joe Martin, asst. chief of
the New York City Fire Dept. A real bear from a 1950 New Mexico fire
was pressed into service and lived until 1976 at the Washington
National Zoo. [see 1945]
(SFEC, 6/22/97, p.T6)(ON, 4/03, p.9)
1944 Aug 13, In NYC Lucien Carr
stabbed to death David Kammerer following sexual advances by Kammerer,
who had been Carr's Boy Scout Scoutmaster during his youth. Carr turned
himself in and was later sentenced to 20 years, but served only 2 years
in prison at Elmira Correctional Facility in upstate, NY. Lucien Carr
later introduced Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William
Burroughs to each other.
(www.rooknet.com/beatpage/info/info_carr.html)
1944 Aug 20, "Anna Lucasta,"
opened on Broadway.
(MC, 8/20/02)
1944 Oct 19, The play "I Remember
Mama," by John van Druten, opened at the Music Box Theater on Broadway.
(AP, 10/19/04)
1944 Nov 1, "Harvey," a comedy by
Mary Chase about a man and his invisible friend, a 6-foot-tall rabbit,
opened on Broadway.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1944 Nov, "The Man Who Had All the
Luck," the 1st commercial production by Arthur Miller, closed after 4
performances.
(WSJ, 5/8/02, p.AD9)
1944 The Philip Yordan (d.2003)
play "Anna Lucasta," 1st produced by the American Negro Theater in
Harlem, moved to Broadway. A film version with an all-white cast was
made in 1949. Another with an all-black cast was made in 1958.
(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A23)
1944 Adam Clayton Powell
(1908-1972) was elected as a Democrat to the US House of
Representatives, representing the 22nd congressional district, which
included Harlem. He was the first black Congressman from New York, and
the first from any Northern state other than Illinois in the
Post-Reconstruction Era.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Clayton_Powell_Jr.)
1944 Some 1.4 million people
gathered in Central Park to celebrate "I am an American Day."
(NG, 5/93, p.23)
1945 Jan 21, Andrew Stein, pres of
NYC council (D), was born.
(MC, 1/21/02)
1945 Feb 14, Gregory Hines, actor,
dancer (White Nights, Taps), was born in NYC.
(MC, 2/14/02)
1945 Mar 6, Rob Reiner, actor,
director (All in the Family, Stand By Me), was born in Bronx, NY.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1945 Apr 19, The Rodgers and
Hammerstein adopted Ferenc Molnar’s "Lilliom" and produced the musical
"Carousel" on Broadway.
(SFEC, 8/25/96, DB p.40)(AP, 4/19/97)
1945 Jul 28, A twin-engine U.S.
Army B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building between the
78th and 79th floors and killed 14 people. The plane’s propellers
severed elevator cables and sent one on a 38-story fall in which the
operator survived.
(SFC, 2/24/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/11/97, p.A1)(HT, 5/97,
p.26)(AP, 7/28/97)
1945 Aug 14, Alfred Eisenstaedt
shot a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square. In 2007
Houston Police Department forensic artist Lois Gibson completed a
detailed investigation and concluded that Glenn McDuffie (80) is the
man in the image, which was published on the cover of Life Magazine on
Aug 27.
(AP, 8/4/07)
1945 Aug 21, Patty McCormack,
actress (Mama, Peck's Bad Girl, Ropers), was born in Brooklyn NY.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1945 Aug 27, Life Magazine’s issue
for VJ-Day featured a photo that Life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt
made on May 8, VE-Day when he got signalman Jim Reynolds to pose for a
kiss with a nurse on Times Square. That the photo was posed was denied
by Life and Reynold’s role was not verified. Edith Shain in a letter
claimed to be the nurse with documented letters from Eisenstaedt. In
2007 Houston Police Department forensic artist Lois Gibson completed a
detailed investigation and concluded that Glenn McDuffie (80) is the
man in Alfred Eisenstaedt's Aug. 14, 1945 image of a sailor kissing a
nurse in Times Square.
(WSJ, 8/14/96, p.A14)(WSJ, 8/20/96, p.A11)(AP,
8/4/07)
1945 Oct 25, Assistant NYC fire
chief Smokey Joe Martin died. Martin had retired in 1930 after a
46-year fire fighting career.
(ON, 4/03, p.)
1945 Nov 14, H. Lindsay & R.
Crouse "State of the Union," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/14/01)
1945 Nov 21, Bummy Davis (b.1920
as Albert Davidoff), former middleweight boxer turned thug, died after
taking on 2 hoodlums in Brooklyn, NY. In 1951 W.C. Heinz's wrote
"Brownsville Bum," an account of the Bummy Davis tragedy for True
Magazine. In 2003 Ron Ross authored Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc.”
(WSJ, 3/5/08, p.D9)(www.ronross.us/reviews.html)
1945 Dec 15, Robert Merrill
(1917-2004) made his debut with the NY Metropolitan Opera.
(SFC, 10/26/04, p.A2)
1945 Dec 27, Arthur Laurent's
"Home of the Brave," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/27/01)
1945 Dec, Mrs. Stephen C. Clark
began the tradition of lighting up Park Avenue with Christmas lights in
honor of her son and other New Yorkers who had died in the war.
(WSJ, 11/30/99, p.A24)
1945 Willem de Kooning painted
"Study for Pink Angels" and "Still Life."
(SFC, 6/28/02, p.D1)
1945 Todd Duncan (d.1998 at 95),
baritone, became the first black artist to perform with the NY City
Opera as Tonio in "Pagliacci."
(SFC, 3/3/98, p.D8)
1945 William O’Dwyer was elected
mayor. He left the post after 5 years to become the ambassador to
Mexico.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.D4)
1945 The NYC house at 7 Middagh
St. in Brooklyn Heights was among those destroyed to make way for the
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. A group of American and English artists had
lived there from the early 1940s. They included Carson McCullers,
Wystan Auden, Benjamin Britten, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jane and Paul Bowles
and guests such as Salvador Dali. In 2005 Sherrill Tippins authored
“February House,” an account of their interactions.
(SSFC, 3/6/05, p.B1)
1945 The US Forest Service named
"Smokey the Bear" as its spokesman to fight forest fires: "Remember,
only you can prevent forest fires." Smokey the Bear was named after NYC
assistant chief Smokey Joe Martin (d.1945). Rudolph A. Wendelin (d.2000
at 90) served as the "caretaker" of the Smokey Bear icon. [see Aug 9,
1944]
(SFEC, 9/3/00, p.C8)(ON, 4/03, p.9)
1946 Feb 4, Garson Kanin's "Born
Yesterday," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/4/02)
1946 Mar 8, The 1st helicopter
licensed for commercial use was in NYC.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1946 Mar 16, Erik Estrada, actor
(CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast), was born in NYC.
(MC, 3/16/02)
1946 May 16, The Irving Berlin
musical "Annie Get Your Gun" opened on Broadway starring Ethel Merman
as Annie Oakley. The play closed in 1949 after 1,147 performances.
(AP, 5/16/97)(SFC, 4/24/99, p.A10)
1946 May 29, Robin Johnson,
actress (Times Square), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1946 Jun 14, Donald Trump, New
York real estate mogul, was born in NYC.
(SSFC, 11/14/04, Par p.30)
1946 Jun 19, The first title
match in boxing to be televised takes place in New York City, as Joe
Louis defeated Billy Conn for the heavyweight championship. Three NBC
TV stations carried the fight.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Conn)
1946 Jul 2, Ron Silver, actor
(Gary-Rhoda, Dear Detective, Baker's Dozen), was born in NYC.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1946 Oct 23, The United Nations
General Assembly convened in New York for the first time, at an
auditorium in Flushing Meadow.
(AP, 10/23/97)
1946 Nov 20, Lillian Hellman's
"Another Part of the Forest," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1946 Dec 12, A United Nations
committee voted to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate
offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to be the site of U.N.
headquarters.
(AP, 12/12/97)
1946 Dec 14, The United Nations
General Assembly voted to establish the U.N. headquarters in New York
City.
(AP, 12/14/97)
1946 Dec 23, Highest ridership in
NYC subway history took place with 8.8 million passengers.
(MC, 12/23/01)
1946 Lucius Beebe authored "The
Stork Club Bar Book." The NY Stork Club was owned by Sherman
Billingsley. In 2000 Ralph Blumenthal authored "Stork Club: America’s
Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Café Society."
(SFEM, 4/16/00, p.47)
1946 A $345 million suspension
bridge, designed by Othmar Ammann, was approved to cross the Verrazano
Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island, NYC. The Brooklyn side
would be anchored on Old Fort Hamilton and the Staten Island side on
Fort Wadsworth. Fort Lafayette was cleared to make room for the
Brooklyn tower. In 1960 the rest of Fort Lafayette was leveled. Rubble
was ferried to Staten Island side to facilitate the construction of the
west tower.
(AH, 2/06, p.72)
1946 Jean and Walter Kerr made
their Broadway debut with an adaptation of the "Song of Bernadette"
from Franz Werfel’s novel.
(MC, 3/8/02)(SFC, 1/7/03, p.A22)
1946 Jinx Falkenburg (d.2003) and
husband Tex McCrary pioneered talk radio programming with the "Hi Jinx"
morning show at WEAF in NYC.
(SFC, 8/29/03, p.A28)
1946 A Coast Guard airplane
crashed in the Bank of Manhattan Building.
(HT, 5/97, p.28)
1947 Jan 10, The musical fantasy
"Finian's Rainbow," with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y.
Harburg, opened on Broadway and ran for 725 performances. It is the
tale of an Irishman who stole a pot of gold and came to the US to plant
it and became rich. Burton Lane (1912-1996) also did "On a Clear Day
You Can See Forever."
(MT, 10/94, p.15)(AP, 1/10/98)(MC, 1/10/02)
1947 Feb 18, Gian Carlo Menotti's
opera "Telephone," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/18/02)
1947 Mar 13, The Lerner and Loewe
musical "Brigadoon" opened on Broadway for 581 performances.
(AP, 3/13/97)(MC, 3/13/02)
1947 Mar 24, John D. Rockefeller
Jr. donated a NYC East River site to the UN.
(MC, 3/24/02)
1947 Apr 10, Brooklyn Dodgers
president Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of
Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals. John Sengstacke, black
publisher of the Chicago Defender, was instrumental in persuading Mr.
Rickey in his decision. In spite of intense pressure and hostility,
Robinson's athletic abilities earned him the Rookie of the Year Award
in 1947.
(AP, 4/10/97)(SFC, 1/12/98, p.A1)(HN, 4/10/01)
1947 Apr 11, Jackie Robinson
played in an exhibition between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York
Yankees, the first Negro to play in Major league baseball. Jackie
Robinson became the first black to play major league baseball as he
took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson officially
broke baseball's color barrier when he put on Dodgers uniform No. 42 in
April 1947. When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, talented
black athletes toiled in relative obscurity in the Negro leagues
despite the exciting caliber of their play. Brooklyn Dodgers' general
manager Branch Rickey first approached Jackie Robinson in August 1945
to participate in the "great experiment" of integrating the major
leagues.
(TMC, 1994, p.1947)(AP, 4/11/97)(HN, 4/10/98)(HNPD,
4/10/99)
1947 Apr 16, A lens that provided
zoom effects was demonstrated in New York City.
(HN, 4/16/98)
1947 Apr 19, Murray Perahia,
pianist (Avery Fischer Prize-1975, Grammy 1988), was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/19/02)
1947 May 25, Mitch Margo, rocker
(Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1947 Jul 8, Demolition work began
in New York City to make way for the new permanent headquarters of the
United Nations.
(AP, 7/8/97)
1947 Aug 14, Daniele Steel, author
(Remembrance, Zoya, Star, Daddy), was born in NYC.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1947 Sep 20, Former Republican New
York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (1933-45) died.
(AP, 9/20/97)(MC 9/20/01)
1947 Sep, Ahmet Ertegun
(1923-2006) and Herb Abramson formed Atlantic Records in New York City.
The new independent record label concentrated on gospel, jazz and
R&B music. The first recording sessions took place in November. In
2001 Ertegun authored his memoir "What’d I Say."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Erteg%C3%BCn)(WSJ, 7/6/01, p.W10)
1947 Oct 10, The Rodgers' and
Hammerstein's musical "Allegro," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/10/01)
1947 Oct 29, Richard Dreyfuss,
actor (Jaws, Nuts, Mr. Holland's Opus), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(MC, 10/29/01)
1947 Dec 3, The Tennessee Williams
play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened on Broadway with Marlon Brando
as Stanley Kowalski and Jessica Tandy as Blanche DuBois and Kim Hunter
as Stella Kowalski. Brando’s first film was "The Men" directed by Fred
Zinnemann.
(TMC, 1994, p.1947)(SFC, 3/15/97,
p.A19)(SFEM,10/19/97, DB p.11) (AP, 12/3/97)
1947 Dec 26, Heavy snow blanketed
the Northeast, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16
hours. A record 26.4 inches fell and led to 77 deaths.
(AP, 12/26/97)(Econ, 2/18/06, p.28)
1947 Ed Flynn (1891-1953),
depression-era Bronx County machine boss, authored his autobiography
“You’re the Boss.”
(WSJ, 10/14/06, p.P10)
1947 "The Heiress," an adaptation
of the Henry James novel "Washington Square," opened on Broadway. It
was adopted by Augustus and Ruth Goetz who also wrote the 1949 film
version screenplay.
(SFC, 10/17/01, p.C3)
1947 Red Buttons (1919-2006)
appeared on Broadway in George Abbott’s musical “Barefoot Boy With
Cheek.”
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.B9)
1947 Stuyvesant Town and Peter
Cooper Village were built in NYC with the help of tax breaks to provide
homes for public sector workers and soldiers returning from WW II. Only
whites were allowed until some nasty scenes in the 1950s. In 2006 the
MetLife Insurance Co. sold the 80-acre complex to an investment group
for $5.4 billion.
(Econ, 10/21/06, p.43)
1947 The New York Yankees defeated
the Brooklyn Dodgers for the baseball World Series pennant.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.A14)
1947 Topps Co. of Brooklyn began
wrapping bubble gum in comics and calling it Bazooka. In 2006 the
company relaunched Bazooka.
(SFC, 1/13/98, p.A19)(WSJ, 7/8/06, p.A5)
1947 The Collyer Brothers were
exhumed from their Harlem Brownstone, which was crammed with 160 tons
of scavenged junk and laid with booby traps. In 2003 Franz Lidz
authored "Ghosty Men: The Strange But True Story of the Collyer
Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders."
(SSFC, 10/11/03, p.M4)
1948 Feb 28, Mercedes Ruehl,
actress (Lost in Yonkers, Crazy People), was born in Queens NY.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1948 Mar 31, Rhea Perlman, actress
(Zena-Taxi, Carla-Cheers), was born in Brooklyn.
(MC, 3/31/02)
1948 Apr 3, Garrick Ohlsson,
pianist (Intl Busoni winner 1969), was born in Bronxville, NY.
(MC, 4/3/02)
1948 Apr 18, Catherine Malfitano,
soprano (Metropolitan Opera), was born in NYC.
(MC, 4/18/02)
1948 May 18, "Ballet Ballads"
opened at Music Box Theater in NYC for 62 performances.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1948 Jun 14, Lee Wagner, a New
York publisher, launched his TeleVision Guide. It became known as TV
Guide. The Barowski brothers in Philadelphia soon followed with their
TV Digest.
(WSJ, 5/8/98, p.W10)
1948 Jul 1, New York International
Airport at Idlewild, later renamed John F. Kennedy International
Airport, was officially opened.
(AP, 7/1/98)
1948 Jul 1, The fare on New York
City subways doubled from a nickel to ten cents.
(AP, 7/1/98)
1948 Jul 31, "Brigadoon" closed at
Ziegfeld Theater in NYC after 581 performances.
(MC, 7/31/02)
1948 Jul 31, President Truman
helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy
International Airport) at Idlewild Field.
(HFA, ‘96, p.34)(AP, 7/31/97)
1948 Aug 16, Famed home-run
slugger George Herman "Babe" Ruth died at age 53 in New York City. He
is credited with turning baseball from a game of speed and skill to one
of power. During a flamboyant major league career that began as a
pitcher with the Boston Red Sox in 1914 and ended with his retirement
from the Boston Braves in 1935, the Babe hit an astonishing total of
714 homers, a feat that was not surpassed until Henry Aaron of the
Atlanta Braves broke Ruth’s record in 1974. The fans loved the
warm-hearted Babe Ruth, who had a reputation as a hard drinker,
carouser and womanizer. In 1931, at the height of his career with the
Yankees, Ruth earned $80,000, which made him the highest-paid
ballplayer in history. At a special "Babe Ruth Day" just two months
before his death, the cancer-stricken Babe donned his uniform for the
last time and appeared before a cheering crowd at Yankee Stadium. In
2006 Leigh Montville authored “The Big Bam,” a biography of Babe Ruth.
(SFC, 10/15/96, p.A19)(AP, 8/16/97)(HNPD,
8/16/98)(WSJ, 5/9/06, p.D6)
1948 Aug 20, The United States
ordered the expulsion of the Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob
Lomakin, accusing him of attempting to return two consular employees to
the Soviet Union against their will.
(AP, 8/20/08)
1948 Sep 14, A groundbreaking
ceremony took place in New York at the site of the United Nations'
world headquarters.
(AP, 9/14/99)
1948 Oct 2, Donna Karan, fashion
designer (Coty Award-1977), was born in Forest Hills, NY.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1948 Oct 2, "Finian's Rainbow"
closed at 46th St Theater NYC after 725 performances.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1948 Oct 6, "Polonaise" opened at
Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances.
(MC, 10/6/01)
1948 Oct 6, The Tennessee Williams
play "Summer and Smoke" opened on Broadway.
(AP, 10/6/98)
1948 Oct 11, The musical comedy
"Where's Charley?," starring Ray Bolger and featuring songs by Frank
Loesser, opened at St James Theater NYC for 792 performances.
(AP, 10/11/98)(MC, 10/11/01)
1948 Nov 23, Dr. Frank G. Back in
NYC patented a lens to provide zoom effects.
(MC, 11/23/01)
1948 Nov 29, The NYC Metropolitan
Opera was televised for the first time as the season opened with
"Othello." It featured Ramon Vinay, Licia Albenese, and Leonard Warren
and was conducted by Fritz Busch
(HN, 11/29/98)(MC, 11/29/01)
1948 Dec 30, The Cole Porter
musical "Kiss Me, Kate" opened on Broadway at the New Century Theater
and ran for 1,077 performances. It was based on Shakespeare’s "The
Taming of the Shrew" and was written by Bella Spewack (d.1990 at age
91), who helped originate the Girl Scout cookie. The songs "Too Darn
Hot" and "I Hate Men" were featured.
(WSJ, 5/8/97, p.A20)(WSJ, 6/3/98, p.CA1,4) (AP,
12/30/98)(MC, 12/30/01)
1948 Allan Nevins and John Kraut
put together a volume of essays titled "the Greater City: New York,
1898-1948," to commemorate the 50th anniversary of consolidation.
(WSJ, 12/31/97, p.A10)
1948 In NYC a group of young jazz
players gathered at the apartment of Gil Evans on West 55th and crafted
a music that was later tagged as “the birth of the cool.” Miles Davis
led the group that also included Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis and John
Carisi. This followed the recent disbanding of band led by Claude
Thornhill (d.1965), in which Gill Evans was an arranger.
(WSJ, 7/5/08, p.W12)
1948 Red Buttons appeared on
Broadway in the musical “Hold It.”
(SFC, 7/14/06, p.B9)
1948 The New York City Ballet was
founded.
(WSJ, 11/2/98, p.A32)
1948 Dwight D. Eisenhower, WW II
general, became president of Columbia Univ.
(SSFC, 8/15/04, p.D11)
1948 Oral history was founded as
an academic field at Columbia Univ.
(SFC, 10/28/08, p.B5)
1949 Jan 17, Andy Kaufman,
comedian, actor (Latka Gravas-Taxi), was born in NYC.
(MC, 1/17/02)
1949 Jan 28, NY Giants signed
their 1st black players, Monte Irvin & Ford Smith.
(MC, 1/28/02)
1949 Feb 7, Joe DiMaggio of the NY
Yankees became the 1st $100,000/year baseball player.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1949 Feb 10, Arthur Miller's play
"Death of a Salesman" opened at Broadway's Morosco Theater.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1949 Feb 12, "Annie Get Your Gun"
closed at the Imperial Theater in NYC after 1147 performances.
(MC, 2/12/02)
1949 Mar 23, Sidney Kingsley's
"Detective Story" premiered in NYC.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1949 Apr 7, The
Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific" opened on Broadway at
the Majestic Theater for 1928 performances.
(AP, 4/7/97)(MC, 4/7/02)
1949 May 11, The 1st Polaroid
camera sold $89.95 in NYC.
(MC, 5/11/02)
1949 Sep 13, The Ladies
Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City,
with Patty Berg as its first president.
(AP, 9/13/97)
1949 Oct 4, United Nations'
permanent NYC headquarters was dedicated.
(MC, 10/4/01)
1949 Oct 30, Kurt Weill and
Maxwell Anderson's "Lost in the Stars" premiered in NYC.
(MC, 10/30/01)
1949 Nov 13, Whoopi Goldberg,
[Caryn Johnson], actress (Color Purple, Burglar, Ghost), was born in
NYC.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1949 Dec 8, Jule Styne's
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opened at the NYC Ziegfeld Theater for 740
performances.
(MC, 12/8/01)
1949 E.B. White authored "Here is
New York."
(SSFC, 9/8/02, p.C4)
1949 Emily Genauer (d.2002 at 91)
became the chief art critic for the NY Herald Tribune and held the
position to 1966.
(SFC, 9/2/02, p.B6)
1949 The New York Yankees defeated
the Brooklyn Dodgers for the baseball World Series pennant.
(SFC, 10/19/00, p.A14)
1949-1951 The City College of New York (CCNY)
basketball team conspired to fix games over these seasons. A 1998
documentary on HBO covered the story.
(WSJ, 3/19/98, p.A16)
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