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From: Marc Nozell <>
Subject: FWD David Minor's NYNY 1940
Date: 04 Nov 1997 07:20:33 +0000


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From: David Minor <>
Subject: NYNY 1940

<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Jan 2

The first U. S. anti-aircraft defense area is set up at Mitchell Field,
New York.

Jan 9

James Thurber and Elliott Nugent's <italic>The Male Animal
</italic>opens at Broadway's Cort Theater.

Jan 11

Howard Hawks' <italic>His Girl Friday</italic> opens in New York City.

Feb 2

Soprano Martina Arroyo is born in New York City.

Feb 5

Youth Congress demonstrators in New York City stage an anti-war
protest.

Feb 8

Walt Disney's <italic>Pinocchio</italic> opens in New York City.

Feb 23

John Cromwell's film <italic>Abe Lincoln in Illinois </italic> opens at
Radio City Music Hall.

Mar 3

The first major folk concert is held, in New York City, with Woody
Guthrie, the Lomaxes, Leadbelly, and others.

Mar 7

The <italic>Queen Elizabeth </italic> arrives in New York on its maiden
voyage.

Mar 8

King Vidor's <italic>Northwest Passage </italic>has its New York
premiere.

Mar 11

Pianist Artur Rubenstein gives the first recital of the Carnegie Hall
season.

Mar 28

Alfred Hitchcock's <italic>Rebecca</italic> opens in New York.

Mar 29

Joe Louis knocks out Johnny Paychek at Madison Square Garden.

Mar 31

New York's LaGuardia airport opens to traffic.

Apr 1

Maurice Evans returns to New York City to play in Shakespeare's
<italic>King Richard II .</italic>

Apr 12

Historical mystery novelist Miriam Grace (Monfredo) is born in
Rochester.

Apr 17

Eagles Byte founder David Carr Minor is born in Batavia.

Apr 26

Henry O. Flipper, first black graduate of West Point, dies of a heart
attack in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 84.

May 9

Vivien Leigh makes her U. S. stage debut, starring with Laurence
Olivier in <italic>Romeo and Juliet</italic>. on Broadway.

May 10

Germany invades Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

May 11

The New York World's Fair opens for its second year.

Aug 17

Roosevelt meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King at
Ogdensburg to discuss the defense of North America,

Aug 18

Roosevelt and King sign the Ogdensburg Agreement, creating the
Permanent Joint Board of Defense.

Sep 6

Russian-American chemist Phoebus Aaron Theodor Levene dies in New York
City.

Sep 11

Al Jolson returns to Broadway in <italic>Hold on to Your Hats</italic>.

Sep 21

Journalist Paul Cowan is born in New York City.

Sep 29

Busby Berkeley's musical <italic>Strike Up the Band </italic>opens in
New York.

October

New York nightclub owner Barney Josephson opens Cafe Society Uptown.

Oct 16

Charlie Chaplin's <italic>The Great Dictator</italic> has its New York
premiere.

Oct 19

Lloyd Bacon's<italic> Knute Rockne-All American </italic> has its New
York premiere.

Oct 24

William Wyler's <italic>The Westerner </italic>opens in New York.

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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Oct 27

The New York World's Fair ends its second season.

Nov 3

Fred Niblo's <italic>The Mark of Zorro</italic> opens in New York.

Nov 13

Walt Disney's <italic>Fantasia</italic> opens in New York .

Nov 18

An unexploded bomb is found in a New York City Consolidated Edison
building. It is the first to be planted by the "Mad Bomber".

Nov 23

William Wyler's <italic>The Letter</italic> has its New York
premiere.

Dec 6

Rock and roll singer Steve Alaimo is born in Rochester.

Dec 31

Russian-born photographer Roman Vishniac arrives in New York City, from
France.

City

Construction begins on East Harlem's Benjamin Franklin High School.
** The city takes over the operation of the Interborough Rapid
Transit (IRT) and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (BMT) Company's subway
lines. ** Hulan E Jack is elected New York State assemblyman for
Harlem. ** Circulation of the Sunday edition of the <italic>Daily
News</italic> approaches 4,000,000. ** George Abbott's production
of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's <italic>Pal Joey</italic>
premieres. ** <italic>Pagliacci</italic> is telecast from the
Metropolitan Opera House. ** Critic-author Irving Howe graduates
from New York's City College. ** Jazz violinist Leon Abbey leads
his own big band for a brief time this year. ** The New York
Rangers win hockey's Stanley Cup. ** Jerome Robbins dances in
George Balanchine's <italic>Keep Off the Grass</italic>. **
English actress Jessica Tandy makes New York City her permanent home.
** Jose Ferrer makes his New York professional stage debut playing
the lead in <italic>Charley's Aunt</italic>.

State

Batavian Donald Naegely buys a lunch stand at 106 Main Street, names it
Don's Dinette. ** Archaeologist-historian Sheldon Fisher buys the
market building at Valentown, near Victor. ** Baseball authority
Harold Seymour receives his master's degree from Cornell University.

Rochester

The city annexes abandoned Erie Canal lands near Monroe Avenue and
property near the airport, increasing its own size to 35.25 square
miles. ** The Italian-language newspaper <italic>La Stampa
Unita</italic> changes its name to <italic>The Rochester Press</italic>
and introduces features in English. ** 130 buses are ordered over
the next two years to replace remaining trolley cars.

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<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Copyright 1997 David Minor /
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David Minor

Eagles Byte Historical Research

Rochester, New York

716 264-0423

http://home.eznet.net/~dminor

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