1997 Event Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY 1995 Event Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "NY News," on CBS 1995 Event 31st Ryder Cup: Europe beats U.S., 14 -13 at Oak Hill CC (NY) 1995 Event 95th U.S. Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY 1995 Event Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY 1994 Event Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY 1994 Event Wrestlemania X at MSG NY, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna 1993 Death Bruce Ferden, U.S. conductor (NY, Washington, Amsterdam), dies at 44 1993 Event Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY 1993 Event NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman 1992 Event NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75 1992 Event Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing 1 billion dollars worth of damage 1991 Event NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns 1991 Event NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud 1991 Event NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11 1991 Event Barcelona Dragons beat NY/New Jersey Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game 1991 Event New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY" 1991 Death Hamilton Fish, congressman (NY), dies at 102 1990 Event Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die 1987 Death Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies 1987 Event "Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site 1987 Event New Jersey Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY 1986 Event 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's) 1985 Event Wrestlemania I at MSG NY, Hogan and Mr. T beat Piper and Orndorf 1983 Event Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black 1983 Event NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver 1982 Event Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY 1982 Event Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY 1980 Event NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-New Jersey and Murphy, D-NY, guilty 1978 Event Police's 1st U.S. concert (NY's CBGBs) 1978 Event NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms 1978 Event Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ 1977 Event Dr. Clifford R Wharton, Jr. named chancellor of State University of NY 1977 Event Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY 1975 Death William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61 1975 Event Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976 1974 Event Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs) 1973 Birthday Tammy Melinda Pearman, Brooklyn Ny, soccer forward/defender 1996 Olympics 1971 Event American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY 1971 Event Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ 1970 Event NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m) 1970 Death Frances Farmer, actress (Toast of NY, Come and Get It), dies at 55 1970 Death Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70 1969 Event New York Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY 1969 Event Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America 1969 Death Tom Aherne, actor (Hustler, April Fools), dies of influenza in NY 1968 Event 68th U.S. Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY 1967 Death Francis J "Cardinal" Spellman, archbishop of NY, dies at 78 1967 Event New Jersey Americans (later NY/New Jersey Nets) play 1st ABA game 1967 Death Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies 1962 Death John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, New York City builder, dies at 79 1962 Event NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts 1961 Event Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs NY 1961 Event NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd 1960 Event 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in NY 1959 Event NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask 1959 Event Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in Kansas City and NY 1959 Event AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver and Houston 1958 Death W C Handy, composer/musician, dies at 84 in NY 1958 Event Dmitri Shostakovich' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY 1957 Event NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers and Giants 1957 Event Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY 1956 Event 56th U.S. Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY 1956 Event Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY 1955 Event NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929 1955 Death James Agee, U.S. critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY 1953 Event 1st U.S. telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo NY 1951 Event U.N. headquarters opens in Manhattan NY 1950 Event "Harvey," starring James Stewart, premieres in NY 1950 Event 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY 1950 Event NY jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury 1949 Death Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY 1948 Event J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY 1947 Event NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow 1947 Event Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY 1946 Event United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die 1946 Birthday Richard L Brodsky, U.S. lawyer/NY State Assemblyman, D, 1983- 1945 Event Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st U.S. Jewish College 1945 Event Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY 1943 Death Lorenz Hart, lyricist, dies in NY 1943 Event Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track and field championship in NY 1942 Event NY Americans NHL team folded 1941 Event Largest roller skating rink (outside of New York City) opens in Peekskill NY 1941 Event 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes it's last run 1941 Event WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting 1940 Event "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls NY 1939 Event NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight 1939 Event "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY 1939 Event 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY 1938 Event National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY) 1937 Event NBC and RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY 1936 Event H. R. Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days 1935 Event NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in U.S., opens 1934 Event 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY 1933 Death William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88 1932 Event 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY 1932 Event 36th U.S. Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY 1930 Event G Kaufman and M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY 1930 Event NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater 1930 Event 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY 1929 Event 33rd U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY 1929 Event "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio 1928 Birthday Ernest L Boyer, educator/chancellor, NY's State Universities-SUNY 1927 Event After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2 1925 Event American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY) 1924 Event WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY 1923 Event 6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC Pelham NY 1922 Event Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY 1921 Event 4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY 1921 Event Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY 1920 Birthday John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Philadelphia, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY 1919 Event NY, Boston, and Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties 1919 Event 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY 1916 Event 1st PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Siwanoy CC Bronxville NY 1915 Event British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool 1913 Death Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY 1912 Event 18th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY 1906 Event NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo 1905 Event Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in NY 1903 Event Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY 1903 Event 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to NY 1902 Event AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY 1902 Event 8th U.S. Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City NY 1901 Event President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later 1899 Event Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY) 1899 Birthday Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney, NY 1898 Event National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY 1896 Event 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY) 1896 Event 2nd U.S. Golf Open: James Foulis shoots a 152 at Shinnecock Hills NY 1896 Event 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY 1894 Event Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY 1894 Event 1st Greek-language publication in U.S. begins, "NY Atlantis" 1890 Death John Hart or William Kemmler, U.S., 1st executed in electric chair (NY) 1888 Event St. Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes 1882 Event 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station) 1880 Event NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way" 1876 Event NY Mutuals and Philadelphia A's expelled from NL for not completing sked 1876 Event Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY) 1875 Event Anti-slavery society forms (NY) 1871 Event 1st U.S. amateur outdoor athletic games (NY) 1868 Event 1st American bicycle college opens (NY) 1868 Event American Philological Association organized in NY 1864 Event Skirmish at Ny River Virginia 1864 Death Stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY 1863 Event 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY 1860 Event Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY 1857 Event 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY" 1857 Event Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in New York City 1854 Event Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die 1847 Event NY and Boston linked by telegraph wires 1843 Event B'nai B'rith founded (NY) 1842 Event NY Philharmonic's 1st concert 1841 Event Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 1839 Event 1st U.S. anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY 1839 Event Great fire in NY 1834 Event 1st U.S. dental society organized (NY) 1833 Event NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) 1827 Event Slavery abolished in NY 1823 Event "Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel 1813 Event Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in U.S. (NY) 1806 Birthday Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary, 1848-49 1797 Event Albany replaces New York City as capital of NY 1777 Event British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY 1777 Event Vermont declares independence from NY 1774 Event Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY 1763 Death James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies 1759 Event French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY 1745 Birthday John Jay, diplomat/governor, NY 1674 Event Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English 1665 Event NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights 1664 Event Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers 1645 Event Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY)) 1621 Event Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY)
