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1997 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 Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "NY News," on CBS 1995 31st Ryder Cup: Europe beats U.S., 14 -13 at Oak Hill CC (NY) 1995 95th U.S. Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY 1995 Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY 1994 Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY 1994 Wrestlemania X at MSG NY, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna 1993 Bruce Ferden, U.S. conductor (NY, Washington, Amsterdam), dies at 44 1993 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY 1993 NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman 1992 NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75 1992 Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing 1 billion dollars worth of damage 1991 NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns 1991 NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud 1991 NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11 1991 Barcelona Dragons beat NY/New Jersey Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game 1991 New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY" 1991 Hamilton Fish, congressman (NY), dies at 102 1990 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die 1987 Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies 1987 "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 New Jersey Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY 1986 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's) 1985 Wrestlemania I at MSG NY, Hogan and Mr. T beat Piper and Orndorf 1985 US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY) 1983 Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black 1983 NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver 1982 Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY 1982 Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY 1980 NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-New Jersey and Murphy, D-NY, guilty 1978 Police's 1st U.S. concert (NY's CBGBs) 1978 NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms 1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ 1977 Dr. Clifford R Wharton, Jr. named chancellor of State University of NY 1977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY 1975 William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61 1975 Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976 1974 Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs) 1973 Tammy Melinda Pearman, Brooklyn Ny, soccer forward/defender 1996 Olympics 1973 Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ 1971 American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY 1971 Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ 1971 Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ 1970 NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m) 1970 Frances Farmer, actress (Toast of NY, Come and Get It), dies at 55 1970 Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70 1969 New York Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY 1969 Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America 1969 Tom Aherne, actor (Hustler, April Fools), dies of influenza in NY 1968 68th U.S. Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY 1967 Francis J "Cardinal" Spellman, archbishop of NY, dies at 78 1967 New Jersey Americans (later NY/New Jersey Nets) play 1st ABA game 1967 Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies 1962 John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, New York City builder, dies at 79 1962 NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts 1961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs NY 1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd 1960 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in NY 1960 Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Pottstown NY 1959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask 1959 Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in Kansas City and NY 1959 AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver and Houston 1958 W C Handy, composer/musician, dies at 84 in NY 1958 Dmitri Shostakovich' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY 1957 NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers and Giants 1957 Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY 1956 56th U.S. Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY 1956 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY 1955 NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing 1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929 1955 James Agee, U.S. critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY 1953 1st U.S. telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo NY 1951 U.N. headquarters opens in Manhattan NY 1950 "Harvey," starring James Stewart, premieres in NY 1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY 1950 NY jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury 1949 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY 1948 J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY 1947 NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow 1947 Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY 1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die 1946 Richard L Brodsky, U.S. lawyer/NY State Assemblyman, D, 1983- 1945 Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st U.S. Jewish College 1945 Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY 1943 Lorenz Hart, lyricist, dies in NY 1943 Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track and field championship in NY 1942 NY Americans NHL team folded 1941 Largest roller skating rink (outside of New York City) opens in Peekskill NY 1941 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes it's last run 1941 WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting 1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls NY 1939 NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight 1939 "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY 1939 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY 1938 National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY) 1937 NBC and RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY 1936 H. R. Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days 1935 NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in U.S., opens 1934 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY 1933 William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88 1932 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY 1932 36th U.S. Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY 1931 NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio 1930 G Kaufman and M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY 1930 NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater 1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY 1929 33rd U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY 1929 "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio 1928 Ernest L Boyer, educator/chancellor, NY's State Universities-SUNY 1927 After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2 1925 American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY) 1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY 1923 6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC Pelham NY 1922 Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY 1921 4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY 1921 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY 1920 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Philadelphia, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY 1919 NY, Boston, and Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties 1919 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY 1916 1st PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Siwanoy CC Bronxville NY 1915 British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool 1913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY 1912 18th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY 1906 NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo 1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in NY 1903 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY 1903 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to NY 1902 AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY 1902 8th U.S. Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City NY 1901 President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later 1899 Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY) 1899 Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney, NY 1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY 1896 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY) 1896 2nd U.S. Golf Open: James Foulis shoots a 152 at Shinnecock Hills NY 1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY 1894 Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY 1894 1st Greek-language publication in U.S. begins, "NY Atlantis" 1890 John Hart or William Kemmler, U.S., 1st executed in electric chair (NY) 1888 St. Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes 1882 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station) 1880 NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way" 1876 NY Mutuals and Philadelphia A's expelled from NL for not completing sked 1876 Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY) 1875 Anti-slavery society forms (NY) 1871 1st U.S. amateur outdoor athletic games (NY) 1868 1st American bicycle college opens (NY) 1868 American Philological Association organized in NY 1864 Skirmish at Ny River Virginia 1864 Stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY 1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY 1860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY 1857 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY" 1857 Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in New York City 1854 Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die 1847 NY and Boston linked by telegraph wires 1843 B'nai B'rith founded (NY) 1842 NY Philharmonic's 1st concert 1841 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 1839 1st U.S. anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY 1839 Great fire in NY 1834 1st U.S. dental society organized (NY) 1833 NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) 1827 Slavery abolished in NY 1823 "Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel 1813 Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in U.S. (NY) 1806 Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary, 1848-49 1797 Albany replaces New York City as capital of NY 1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY 1777 Vermont declares independence from NY 1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY 1763 James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies 1759 French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY 1745 John Jay, diplomat/governor, NY 1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English 1665 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights 1664 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers 1645 Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY)) 1621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY) |
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