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1993 Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500

1991 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die

1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street and Lexington Ave, New York City

1966 Isabelle Pasco, born in France, actress, Ave Maria, model, Elle, Vogue

1965 Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St. and Amsterdam Ave New York City

1963 Steve Ave, St. Germain Enlay France, U.S. 1500m runner

1946 New York City transit begins using Pennsylvania system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line

1943 Veronica Hamel, Philadelphia, actress, Joyce-Hill St. Blues, 79 Park Ave

1927 Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave and 54th St. New York City

1924 Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58

1922 Library Ave in Bronx named

1921 Gene Saks, New York, actor and director, One and Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave

1921 Century Theater opens at 7th Ave and 59th St. New York City (demolished 1962)

1916 2nd Ave and Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave; Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe and Selwyn Avenue named

1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings

1914 1st traffic light installed, Euclid Ave and E 105th St, Cleveland

1910 Patsy Kelly, Brooklyn, actress, Rosemary's Baby, North Ave Irregulars

1901 Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)

1893 Bronx Gas and Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave

1890 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out and named

1623 William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80


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