1997 New York Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconcious and gets 2 stitches while watching the game as a plexiglass falls on her
1997 New York jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988
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
1996 New York Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374
1996 New York Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals
1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY
1995 New York MTA raises subway and bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
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 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
1993 NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
1993 NY Newsday reports Ore Sen Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
1992 NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
1992 Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing 1 billion dollars worth of damage
1992 New York Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games
1992 Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to New York
1992 New York senator Alphonse D'Mato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 mins
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 New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
1990 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY
1990 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
1988 NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
1988 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1988 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York
1988 New York Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist
1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY
1987 Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies
1987 New York's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting
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 Tim Kides of West New York, New Jersey performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15
1986 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's)
1985 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM NY
1985 Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY)
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)
1984 84th U.S. Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot GC NY
1983 New York Ranger Ron Greschner marries model Carol Alt
1983 Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black
1983 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in NY
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
1979 New York Stars (WBL) home opener at MSG in New York City
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
1976 New York Nets Julius "Dr. J" Erving sold to Philadelphia 76ers
1975 William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61
1975 New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
1975 Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
1974 New York Dolls disband
1974 Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs)
1974 74th U.S. Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot GC NY
1973 Tammy Melinda Pearman, Brooklyn Ny, soccer forward/defender 1996 Olympics
1973 Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ
1972 N.Y. Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34)
1971 New York's Electric Circus Club goes out of business
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 New York Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos
1969 Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America
1969 Tom Aherne, actor (Hustler, April Fools), dies of influenza in NY
1968 New York Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
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
1964 Star of India and other jewels are stolen in New York
1963 New York newspaper "Mirror" last edition
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 India's premier Nehru arrives in New York
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
1959 59th U.S. Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY
1958 W C Handy, composer/musician, dies at 84 in NY
1958 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 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 NY, Cleveland, and Boston retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the Browns to play afternoon games to avoid sharing TV revenues
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
1944 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 8th Symphony, premieres in 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 New York Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
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 HR 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 NY Gov Franklin D Roosevelt visits LA
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
1926 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury GC Westbury NY
1925 NY's Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pitt's Ray Waters makes 70
1925 American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
1925 Al Rosen, born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 3rd baseman, AL MVP 1953, /NY Yankee pres
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
1919 Babe Ruth hits his 26th HR off Jack Quinn in NY, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25
1917 New York state allows women to vote
1916 1st PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Siwanoy CC Bronxville NY
1915 British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
1914 New York Post Office Building opens to public
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
1911 New York receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1910 New Yorks's Penn Station opens as world's largest train station
1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in N.Y.
1906 NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo
1906 New York Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader
1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in NY
1904 New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)
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
1897 New York Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial
1897 Brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of 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)
1890 Casey Stengel, baseball manager, Yankees, 1949-60, /NY Met's 1st
1889 New York World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip
1888 St. Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes
1885 Ulysses S Grant, 18th U.S. pres, dies in Mount McGregor NY, at 63
1882 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station)
1880 NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
1877 American Chemical Society chartered in New York
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)
1874 Samuel J. Tilden elected governor of New York
1871 1st U.S. amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)
1868 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
1868 American Philological Association organized in NY
1868 New York Athletic Club forms
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
1836 18" of snow falls in Bridgewater, New York
1834 1st U.S. dental society organized (NY)
1833 New York Anti-Slavery Society organized
1833 NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1827 Slavery abolished in NY
1824 New York City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
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
1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
1788 New York City becomes 1st capital of US
1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY
1777 Vermont declares independence from NY
1776 Great fire in NY
1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
1765 Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote declaration of rights and liberties
1765 Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York
1763 James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies
1759 French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY
1745 John Jay, diplomat/governor, NY
1727 New York General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath
1695 New York Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties
1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1672 NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York and Boston
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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