1993 Event 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 Event Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die 1991 Event Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street and Lexington Ave, New York City 1980 Birthday Conor Oberst, born in Omaha, Nebraska, singer, songwriter, played with Bright Eyes band, Commander Venus, Park Ave, Monsters of Folk 1966 Birthday Isabelle Pasco, born in France, actress, Ave Maria, model, Elle, Vogue 1965 Event Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St. and Amsterdam Ave New York City 1963 Birthday Steve Ave, St. Germain Enlay France, U.S. 1500m runner 1946 Event New York City transit begins using Pennsylvania system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line 1943 Birthday Veronica Hamel, Philadelphia, actress, Joyce-Hill St. Blues, 79 Park Ave 1927 Event Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave and 54th St. New York City 1924 Death Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58 1922 Event Library Ave in Bronx named 1921 Birthday Gene Saks, New York, actor and director, One and Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave 1921 Event Century Theater opens at 7th Ave and 59th St. New York City (demolished 1962) 1916 Event 2nd Ave and Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave; Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe and Selwyn Avenue named 1915 Event 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings 1914 Event 1st traffic light installed, Euclid Ave and E 105th St, Cleveland 1910 Birthday Patsy Kelly, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Rosemary's Baby, North Ave Irregulars 1901 Event Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds) 1893 Event Bronx Gas and Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave 1890 Event Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out and named 1623 Death William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80
