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I thought Pete Rose was the greatest player in baseball history not named Cobb. To look at him, you’d think, ‘’gee, how can HE be anything BUT a scrub, if that?’’ And it was true, no one player got so very much out of such little natural talent. Rose was a working-man’s ballplayer, who got in early, read hit charts before anyone else knew what they were, left hours after his team mates and signed every autograph request he ever received.I was only eight years old when i watched him play Left-Field in the 1972 World Series. Curt Gowdy and Joe Gariagola and Tony Kubek were the NBC announce team, and they just gushed all over Rose. He never turned down an interview request, and he was able to pass along the nuances of the game in such a way that a little puke like myself could understand.As a 16-year old I was able to land a job as an Astros clubhouse boy. It offered me the chance to meet Rose in person. It was like meeting Jesus. I tried not let my high-school friends see how amped up I was after talking to him for about ten minutes about how he played the game when he was a teenager.He said something along the lines of ‘’I was always looking for a game. When our team was not playing, I was on the field somewhere else in the city. I rarely went two days in a row where I wasn’t playing. And I wasn’t very good. I never had a strong arm, never hit for power, never could run real fast…I had no tools other than hunger and desire.’’ Crap. If that’s all it took, I could make it too. :)I played ball in High School and I had two things going for me that Pete did not have. I could always throw super hard and I ran lights out. I was technically pure because I would mimic the players on the baseball cards, stance, stride, follow through, bunting, etc… I even taught myself to switch hit.In 1980, I thought i was the next stud. I raised money, chartered a bus, and went to a Major League Try Out camp with the Astros. I went up to Tyler Texas and had enough money for a bag of hash-browns, which lasted me two full days as long as they were microwaved. I didn’t make it, but I got further than a bunch of other guys did, and they were older than i was. So the dream was alive!Making All-State was the pinnacle, until my family came along. No one ever played baseball in my family. Education came first.While I wasn’t in love with the idea, I went to school in England, pretty much ending baseball for me over the next four years. When I tried to walk on as a 22 year old grad-student, I was shocked that the game had passed me by so. Everything was faster than I had remembered. Guys were faster than I was. Guys threw faster than I did. Those four years I gave up one dream while pursuing another.But for me, all these years later, it is still, and it will always be, Pete Rose.If you were asking me what player outside of a Sure Hall-of-Famer I would have selected, it would have to been JR Richard for sure. If you know his story, you know that this 6′8′’ beast of a pitcher who threw 98 and had a wicked slider to boot, was astonishing. You should have heard the other teams when they had to face him. Bill Madlock would come down with a stomach virus. He was terrified, and I am sure he would say the same thing today. Davey Lopes, who hated to not be in the lineup, would miss being in when JR pitched. I would marvel at his graceful delivery and the violent thwack it made in the catchers mitt.Think about it. Bruce Bochy was just a backup catcher for Houston. He often got the privelidge of warming Richard up before a game when Stretch Suba wasn’t there. (Suba was a ‘Bullpen Catcher’ - something lost in the game today) . Bochy’s hand would be swollen and sore.A typical linescore for James Rodney Richard would be 9 innings, 2 hits, 2 BB, 15 strikeouts and two WP, with made the hitters all the more ready to get the hell out of there in a hurry. I was in the dome on an off day, because we still had jobs to do, when JR - who was on the Disabled List for a ‘shoulder stiffness’ collapsed and had a stroke. It was sickening. He had seldom complained and when he did, Astros management thought JR was dogging it. Not the case - not then - not now - and not ever. JR loved to play so much, that when he was playing in Shreveport, he pitched TWO complete game shutouts in ONE day and hit a homerun in each game. The next day, he played first base. I mean, this guy was a machine.The ‘’shoulder stiffness’’ was a blood clot. It wasn’t stiff at all. He was losing circulation to his fingers and he was having trouble feeling the ball, which is all the more frightening when you are throwing 98–99 mph. His hands hurt. His head hurt. He was sluggish. For the entire month of May 1980, something was off. We clubhouse boys saw a side JR was afraid to share with his team mates other than Willie Howard and Enos Cabell. JR was scared of what he felt physically, as something inside told him this was much different than ‘shoulder stiffness.’’As much as I will always love Bill Virdon, I think he could have backed his pitcher up more than he did. Maybe it’s just me, a 16–17 year old kid, but what i heard out the mans mouth and what I saw on the field would have demanded the best of medical care right away. Our trainer, Doc Ewell, always felt bad that he more wasn’t done proactively.Treat yourself to a Youtube of one of JR’s games. His 1980 All-Star game was the second-to-last time he ever took the mound. How’s that for a trivia question. Name the only guy to start an All Star Game and only pitch one game afterwards? They limited him to two innings rather than the customary three because he had complained of dizziness before he left for LA, where the All-Star game was being played. But he was so excited to be there.I was at JR’s last game in the dome. It was against an Atlanta team that always gave him fits. But on this last day - He was dominant, and I think he had 10 strikeouts by the sixth inning. But his last pitch, the last play he ever made, I was standing under the box-seats where the grounds crew was. A ball was hit to Art Howe at first, but he had to toss it routinely to JR. As JR made it to the bag, he stutter stepped awkwardly. It’s very subtle, but its there. He somehow caught the ball for the third out in the inning. He turned around, looked upward and was sweating more than usual. Slowly he walked to the Houston dugout, told Virdon he was sick to his stomach and dizzy and that was it. He came out, went into the lockerroom, laid out on the bench in front of his locker and passed out. The man had left his soul on the baseball diamond.I wonder what could have been…..

Which area? I am from the Williamsbridge area of the Bronx near the Edenwald area. It depends on the area. That community is mixed middle income home owners with a high concentration of people of Caribbean ancestry but it was not like that during the 1970s and has evolved to a recent increase in mid high rise apartment developments so you would have to provide the neighborhood and then, although I was not in NYC during the seventies, I have lived enough in the Bronx to have a historical frame of reference for that period given that I have lived in different areas of NYC for over 35 years.So please provide the name of the neighborhood the film will focus on and I will give you a history and photos from that period.There are over 50 neighborhoods in the Bronx:This is the first of a series of five in which I try to explicate as best I can the names of the neighborhoods of each borough. Some of them are easily inferrable, while some of them have to be ferreted out, Holmes-like. Tackling the Bronx first, the only mainland borough…The Riverdale Memorial Tower, Riverdale Avenue and Henry Hudson ParkwayRIVERDALE, NORTH RIVERDALE, SOUTH RIVERDALEIn the mid-19th Century the Spaulding, Dodge, Goodrich and other families (whose names ended up on area street maps) embarked on a real estate venture, calling it Riverdale because of the numerous brooks, streams and meadows in the hilly region.Fieldston Road north of Manhattan College ParkwayFIELDSTONThe community, many of whose streets are private (I was discouraged from running a tour there by the neighborhood watch) , is north of Manhattan College, east and south of the Henry Hudson Parkway and west of Broadway. The area was purchased and subsequently developed by Major Joseph Delafield in 1829; he named it for his estate in England.Edgehill Church, Independence Avenue near Kappock StreetSPUYTEN DUYVILThis neighborhood tucked at the confluence of the Harlem and Hudson Rivers under the Henry Hudson Bridge has been known as Speight den Duyvil, Spike & Devil, Spitting Devil, Spilling Devil, Spiten Debill and Spouting Devil, among other spellings. In Dutch, “spuyten duyvil,” the mostly-accepted spelling these days, can be pronounced two ways; one pronunciation means “devil’s whirlpool” and the other means “spite the devil.”In Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker History, a Dutch bugler vows to swim the turbulent waters of (then) Spuyten Duyvil Creek where it meets the Hudson during the British attack on New Amsterdam in the 1660s “en spijt den Duyvil,” or in “spite of the devil.” The Lenape Indians inhabited the land for hundreds of years before Europeans arrived; they called the banks of the creek “shorakapok” or “sitting-down place”. After a few hundred years, the name has been pared down and exists as a street name: Kappock (pronounced kay’ pock).In the early 20th Century Spuyten Duyvil Creek was dredged and made deeper in order to allow commercial vessels to access the Hudson River via the Harlem River, which took over the creek’s route. This process first made the Manhattan neighborhood of Marble Hill and island, and later part of the mainland — the only bit of Manhattan found there.The former 50th Precinct building, looking down Summit Place at Kingsbridge TerraceKINGSBRIDGE and KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTSThese neighborhoods take their names from a vanished bridge that spanned a rerouted creek. The story of the King’s Bridge can be found on a grime-encrusted plaque on one of the Marble Hill Houses, on Broadway just south of West 230thStreet. The plaque is devilishly hard to read, since it’s out of range of sight from the street; you have to climb the short fence or walk around it. The plaque reads:“Northwest of this tablet within a distance of 100 feet stood the original Kings Bridge and its successors from 1693 until 1913 when Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled up.“Over it marched the troops of both armies during the American Revolution and its possession controlled the land approach to New York City.“General George Washington rested at Kings Bridge the night of June 26, 1776 while en route from Philadelphia to Cambridge to assume command of the Continental Army.“This tablet was erected by the Empire State Society Sons of the American Revolution, June 27, 1914.”Frederick Philipse built the first King’s Bridge, a tolled span over Spuyten Duyvil Creek, in 1693. Benjamin Palmer and Jacob Dyckman built a second bridge in 1759 to avoid paying the high tolls charged by Philipse. During his retreat from the Battle of Harlem Heights in 1776, General George Washington used both the King’s Bridge and Palmer and Dyckman’s free bridge to escape to White Plains. The original King’s Bridge has inspired a network of roads in Manhattan and the Bronx, some surviving, some not, named for it. The span survived till the excavations for the Harlem Ship Canal between 1913 and 1916.The Rambling House, one of the many bars on Katonah AvenueWOODLAWN HEIGHTSThis neighborhood is tucked neatly into a wedge of territory between Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, the Yonkers city line and the Metro-North Railroad/Bronx river/Bronx River Parkway. Its namesake cemetery was initiated in 1863 from an idea bu Reverend Absalom Peters, a theologian, poet and proponent of the Rural Cemetery movement in which burial grounds became ‘memorial parks,’ places to go and quietly contemplate, away from the clatter of the city. Woodlawn’s name evokes such serenity. The cemetery’s first interment was in 1865.Mundy Lane, on the Bronx-Mount Vernon city line in Wakefield. The blacktopped section is in the Bronx, while the concrete surface is in Mount Vernon.WAKEFIELDThis Bronx neighborhood at the city line, bordered by White Plains Road, East 233rd Street and Mundy Lane/Seton Avenue was surveyed in 1855 and given the name of the estate in Virginia where George Washington was born in 1732. His brother William inherited the house after their gather Augustine’s death, naming it “Wakefield.” The house burned down in 1779. Nearby, of course, is the town of Mount Vernon, named for the Washington family residence in Virginia.PS 15, Dyre AvenueEASTCHESTERThe further northeast in the Bronx you get to Westchester County, the further into Eastchester you penetrate … Eastchester is a neighborhood in the northeast Bronx that actually used to belong to Westchester County (the Bronx was formed from New York and Westchester Counties and became a county in 1914) and didn’t become a part of New York City until 1895.It’s not to be confused with the current town of Eastchester which is actually northwest of here, in Westchester County. The Bronx neighborhood of Eastchester, along with Mount Vernon, used to be a part of the town of Eastchester in Westchester, but was annexed by the Bronx in 1895. Who’s on first?The neighborhood includes Seton Falls Park, where rattlesnakes prowled as late as the 19th Century.Co-Op City BoulevardCO-OP CITYThe present-day housing project (really a complete neighborhood) is called Co-Op City because it consists of cooperative apartments:A housing cooperative, or co-op, is a legal entity, usually a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure. Housing cooperatives are a distinctive form of home ownership that have many characteristics that differ from other residential arrangements such as single family ownership, condominiums and renting.The corporation is membership-based, with membership granted by way of a share purchase in the cooperative. Each shareholder in the legal entity is granted the right to occupy one housing unit. A primary advantage of the housing cooperative is the pooling of the members’ resources so that their buying power is leveraged, thus lowering the cost per member in all the services and products associated with home ownership.Another key element is that the members, through their elected representatives, screen and select who may live in the cooperative, unlike any other form of home ownership. wikipediaThe project was built along the Hutchinson River on what was known as Pinckney’s Meadows in the colonial era. It remained mostly empty in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, but it burst forth briefly in the early 1960s asFreedomland, a frontier-themed amusement park that ultimately was a financial failure. Co-Op City was built shortly after its demise.Belden House, Belden StreetCITY ISLANDFrom the ForgottenBook: Located on a spit of an island in Eastchester Bay in the extreme northeast Bronx, City Island is a transplanted New England fishing village seemingly beamed into the New York Metropolitan area. City Island was privately owned, first by the Pell family and then by the Palmer family, from 1654 until it became a part of the town of Pelham, in Westchester County, in 1819. The island became a part of New York City in 1895 when parts of the town of Pelham were annexed by NYC, and found itself in the Bronx in 1898 after consolidation, though it was still in New York County (the Bronx received a separate designation as a county only in 1914).Benjamin Palmer, who owned the island in 1761, thought of it as a potential commercial rival to New York City, and so it picked up a new nickname (it previously had been called Great Minnefords Island). Of course it never rivaled New York City as a seaport but it did develop thriving seaside industries. Palmer’s group laid out streets and established two ferries to the mainland. Palmer, a staunch supporter of the Revolution, engaged the ire of the British, who plundered the island in 1776. Three years later, Palmer and his family were captured and forced to leave the island for Manhattan; he never returned to City Island.The two World Wars saw City Island become a busy shipbuilding and sailmaking center, adding to its fishing and oyster industries. City Island was an important armament manufacturing center during World War II with the construction of submarine chasers, minesweepers and landing craft. In the postwar era, City Island began to develop as a resort, while island yachtyards Nevins and Minneford produced five America’s Cup winners: theColumbia (1958), the Constellation (1964), the Intrepid (1970), the Courageous (1974 & 1977; media mogul Ted Turner skippered the Courageous in ‘77) and the Freedom (1980). The USA won 24 consecutive America’s Cup yacht race championships between 1851 and 1983.FNY has done two tours in City Island, in 2002 and 2012. In 2009 a film called City Island was set on and filmed there, featuring Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies. Parts of Long Day’s Journey Into Night and The Royal Tenenbaums were filmed in a house on Tier Street that now belongs to the director of the City Island Nautical Museum (who graciously admitted both tours onto her lawn). The island community has been the setting for many other feature films and TV shows.Dyre Avenue Line #5 train overpass at Boston Road and Needham AvenueBAYCHESTERNamed for its proximity to the town, then neighborhood, of Eastchester and Eastchester Bay and Pelham Bay Park, Baychester remained suburban and even semirural until after World War II when streets were finally paved and homes built. Even today, some of the streets are sans sidewalks. The neighborhood id bisected by the old New York, Westchester and Boston Railroad, which was purchased by NYC in 1940 and made into first a shuttle elevated, then connected to the White Plains Road el at the 180th Street station (see below).Pelham Bay Park War MemorialPELHAM GARDENS, PELHAM PARKWAYEnglishman Thomas Pell, a physician, purchased a vast tract of over 9000 acres of land (most of what is now eastern Bronx) from the local Siwanoy Indians in 1654. Descendants of the Pells occupied the tract for nearly 150 years. By 1813 the acreage was sold out of the Pell-Bartow family (Ann Pell had married John Bartow), but in 1836 John’s grandson Robert reacquired the property and in 1842 built the mansion that still stands in Pelham Bay Park today. A small cemetery is also on the property in which is interred Pell family members going back well into the 18th Century.NYC bought the house from the Bartows in 1888; in 1915 the Pell Mansion underwent a complete restoration by the International Garden Club organization, which continues to maintain the grounds, now numbering nine acres, as a public garden to this day. In 1946 the Mansion opened as a museum exhibiting furniture and painting from the 19th Century.The town of Pelham in Westchester County, the Bronx and Pelham Parkway (usually abbreviated to Pelham Parkway), Pelham Bay Park, and even Pelham Cemetery in City Island are all named for Thomas Pell.Gun Hill Road bridge crossing the Bronx River, the site of John Williams’ bridgeWILLIAMSBRIDGEThe name of this site comes from a bridge across the Bronx River that was named for John Williams. In the 18th century, Williams had a farm on the east bank of the Bronx River in the vicinity of Gun Hill Road and White Plains Road. Some credit him with building the first Bronx River crossing. Though the story remains unproven, his farm was closest to the earliest span, and by the 19th century the bridge and surrounding community became known as Williamsbridge. NYC ParksThe Williams Bridge Metro-North station (spelled with two words) and Williamsbridge Road were also named for John Williams’ bridge.Catania Shoes, Westchester Avenue near Hobart AvenueMIDDLETOWNMiddletown, south of Westchester Avenue and between the Hutchinson River Parkway and the Bruckner Expressway, is a bit puzzling because in the modern era, there are no clear two places it’s in the middle of. Perhaps it was so named because it was midway from the village of Westchester to the Pelham Bridge. The adjoining Stinardtown, just to Middletown’s northeast, was wiped out when Pelham Bay Park was created in the mid-1800s.Stadium AvenueCOUNTRY CLUBThis neighborhood east of the Bruckner Expressway where it meets the Throgs Neck Expressway recalls the turn-of-the-20th Century Westchester Country Club that faced Eastchester Bay, on the old Layton estate (for which Layton Avenue is named). That club had disappeared by the 1920s, and has nothing to do with the modern Westchester Country Club.“American Boy,” Pelham Bay ParkSPENCER ESTATESThe neighborhoods immediately south of Pelham Bay Park along Eastchester Bay are called Spencer Estates and further south, Country Club. In the 19th Century prominent merchant William Spencer married first one, then another woman from the tobacco-growing Lorillard family. William Spencer was a benefactor of the NY Public Library and son Lorillard Spencer was the publisher ofThe Illustrated American magazine.East Tremont Avenue and Lamport PlaceSCHUYLERVILLEFort Schuyler, located on a peninsula that juts into the East River near the Throgs Neck Bridge, and its namesake neighborhood bisected by East Tremont Avenue a couple of miles to the northwest, were named for Revolutionary War general and later US Senator from New York Philip Schuyler (1733-1804; pronounced SKY-ler).As department commanding General, he was active in preparing a defense against the Saratoga Campaign, part of the “Three Pronged Attack” strategy of the British to cut the American Colonies in two by invading and occupying New York State in 1777. In the summer of that year General John Burgoyne marched his British army south from Quebec over the valleys of Lakes Champlain and George. On the way he invested the small Colonial garrison occupying Fort Ticonderoga at the nexus of the two lakes. When General St. Clair surrendered Fort Ticonderoga in July, the Congress replaced Schuyler with General Horatio Gates, who had accused Schuyler of dereliction of duty.In 1789, he was elected a U.S. Senator from New York to the First United States Congress, serving from July 27, 1789, to March 4, 1791. After losing his bid for re-election in 1791, he returned to the State Senate from 1792 to 1797. In 1797, he was elected again to the U.S. Senate and served in the 5th United States Congress from March 4, 1797 until his resignation because of ill health on January 3, 1798. wikipediaThe former Charlie’s Inn, Harding AvenueTHROG(G)S NECKThrogs Neck, mainland Bronx’ most southeastern redoubt, was named for a very early British settler, John Throckmorton, who arrived in the peninsula now capped by Fort Schuyler in 1642. Throckmorton, like Anne Hutchinson, had had religious differences with the rigid Puritans of New England, moved to Rhode Island with its founder, Roger Williams in 1636, and later decamped to the Bronx because he may have feared that Massachusetts would invade the tiny colony. Both the aforementioned Thomas Pell and Throckmorton had to pledge allegiance to the Dutch crown before being granted permission to settle. Throckmorton later fled Indian aggression and wound up in Rhode Island again and later, New Jersey.The peninsula, or “neck” (cf. Little Neck in Queens) was bestowed an abbreviation of his lengthy name and Throgmorton Avenue, also a tribute, is a variant spelling. Throgs Neck is also occasionally spelled with a double g, especially by area residents. The explanation for all this may lie in the fact that in the early days of printing (which in Throckmorton’s day had been an industry for only about a century and a half) spellings were hardly standardized, and wouldn’t be until the days of Samuel Johnson and Noah Webster. However Throgs Neck is spelled, it is a peaceful, tranquil area with a couple of private communities that enjoy terrific views of the water-filled surroundings.SILVER BEACHWhen Silver Beach was initiated as a bungalow colony in the 1920s, just west of Fort Schuyler, it was named for the supposed color of the sand along its East River shoreline. Today the semiprivate community, whose residents formed a co-op arrangement in 1972, enjoy spectacular views of the Bronx-Whitestone and Throgs Neck Bridges and the distant Manhattan skyline.Volunteer firehouse, Edgewater ParkEDGEWATER PARKEdgewater Park is a second private community in the eastern Bronx, this one facing Eastchester Bay east of the Throgs Neck Expressway.What really sets both communities apart from the nearby streets of Throgs Neck is that they are cooperatives — Edgewater Park has 675 single-family homes, Silver Beach Gardens 451 — whose residents own their homes but lease the land from owners’ collectives. Each owner pays a monthly maintenance fee for the upkeep of the streets,beaches and common areas and the signs that proclaim: “Private Property, No Trespassing, No Soliciting, No Loitering.” NY TimesBoth Edgewater Park and Silver Beach have unique street lighting and street sign designs different from the rest of NYC.Pelham Parkway station at White Plains RoadBRONXDALEI’m unsure just when the name of Bronxdale was first applied to the neighborhood on either side of Pelham Parkway east of Bronx Park. The mane is straightforward and indicates a dale, or valley. Interestingly, Bronxdale Avenue begins south of the neighborhood and runs southeast to East Tremont Avenue, originally running through swampy territory called Bear Swamp, and Bronxdale Avenue was called Bear Swamp Road until the early 20th Century.Lourdes recreation, Church of St.Lucy, Bronxville and Mace AvenuesALLERTONThe Allerton neighborhood, bordering on Bronxdale, is named for east-west Allerton Avenue, the main shopping drag, that honors 19th-Century landowner Daniel Allerton, whose ancestors arrived on the Mayflowerin 1620. Allertons are interred in Woodlawn Cemetery.Morris Park AvenueMORRIS PARKIn 1888, John P. Morris opened the Morris Park Racetrack where this neighborhood eventually wound up, naming it for himself.From FNY’s Morris Park page:The name Morris turns up a number of times in the Bronx, primarily from two different families: the Revolution-era Morrises: Richard, who arrived in the 1660s and first settled the South Bronx; Declaration signer Lewis, US Senator Gouverneur, and Robert, who was a 3-term NYC mayor in the 1850s.The Morris of Morris Park was John A. Morris, whose Westchester Racing Association acquired 152 acres in 1888 on the outskirts of the old Bear Swamp (which was quite literally named) and built a huge racetrack and clubhouse there. As opulent as the racetrack was, though, it was in operation only from 1890 to 1904 (though a vestige of horse racing in the area, the Track Restaurant and Tavern, held down a corner at Eastchester and Williamsbridge Roads some distance from the old track until 1957). The track itself burned to the ground in 1910.In 1908 the abandoned racetrack became the world’s first formal airfield and the American Eagle, the largest dirigible in history to that time at a full 105 feet in length, was built there, and one of the first gliders, piloted by 17-year-old Lawrence Lesh, was launched from the former track that year. And, in the early 1900s, the old racetrack was also used for speed and endurance races for the newfangled automobile, and a young Swiss driver named Louis once won a gold watch for driving a Fiat a the-record 52.8 MPH there. The driver along with his brother Gaston competed in many road races at the Morris Park track and Gaston won at Indianapolis in 1920. Of course, it was Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941), who ironically sold his share in the Chevrolet Motor Car Company he founded in 1911 to original partner William Durant in 1915, and returned to the racing business, as well as aeronautics. (The gold watch he won had been donated by Walter Chrysler.)It was not until the 1920s that streets were cut through and houses constructed; the neighborhood was not “completed” until the 1970s!St. Peter’s ChurchWESTCHESTER SQUAREWhat is now the Bronx used to be part of Westchester County and was ceded to the City of New York over time. West of the Bronx River (which bisects the borough) was annexed by NYC in 1874 while everything east of the river joined New York County by 1895. Until 1898, when NYC became an agglomeration of five boroughs, Manhattan and the Bronx were the same county: New York County. Finally, the Bronx became a county on its own in 1914. Today, the boroughs are coterminous as Manhattan occupies New York County, Brooklyn, Kings County, and so forth.Westchester Square, even to the present day, appears to be a small town hub, clustering around the triangle formed by Westchester, East Tremont and Lane Avenues. The “town” has recently celebrated its 350thanniversary, having been settled here, as Oostdorp (‘east village’) by the Dutch in 1654 and taken over by the British with the rest of New Amsterdam in 1664. It became a busy port along Westchester Creek, which hastened its development; by 1693 St. Peter’s Episcopal Church was founded. The parish is still in existence. During the Revolution, patriots dismantled a bridge over the creek, delaying British advancement (the present-day bridge carries East Tremont Avenue).World War I memorial, Castle Hill Avenue and Cross-Bronx ExpresswayCASTLE HILLCastle Hill was named for a slight elevation at what is now Lacombe and Castle Hill Avenues noticed by 17th-Century Dutch explorer Adrian Block, who thought it resembled a castle.Westchester and Glebe AvenuesUNIONPORTUnionport was a mecca for German and Irish immigrants in the mid-to-late 1890s. After the eastern Bronx was annexed to NYC in 1895 the streets were renamed for local luminaries and settlers, and Unionport was absorbed into what’s now Castle Hill. Unionport Road still runs as a main route from Castle Hill through Parkchester to Bronx Park. Its name seems to have something to do with the navigability of the adjoining Westchester Creek, and at one time it was hoped that a major port could be built here.Hula girl terra cotta, ParkchesterPARKCHESTERParkchester, a large apartment complex (large enough to comprise an entire neighborhood) in the mid-Bronx, is bounded by White Plains Road, East Tremont Avenue, McGraw Avenue and (part of the way) by Castle Hill Avenue. The complex was built in 1941 by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company on 110 acres, some of which had been occupied by the New York Catholic Protectorate, a home for poor children. For its time, Parkchester was a pioneer in rental-unit engineering, as it included amenities like gleaming new bathrooms with non-slip bathtub bottoms, double sinks and cabinets in the kitchens — an innovation at the time. The complex boasted a bowling alley, recreation areas, the very first Macy’s branch outlet, and three movie theatres in or near it: The Loew’s American (still there as a multiplex), the Palace and the Circle.Its name seems to be an imitation of place names like Eastchester and Baychester.Mannequins, Westchester and Ward AvenuesBRONX RIVERThe neighborhood is found on the east end of its namesake river (the only true river in NYC) between the Cross Bronx Expressway, Soundview Park on the south and the Bronx River Parkway on the east.Manhattan view from Bronx River and Cornell AvenuesCLASON POINTBronx historian, the late John McNamara: Isaac Clason was a wealthy merchant whose lands were subdivided into smaller estates. He purchased the east end of Cornell’s Neck in 1793-1794 and lived there for many years. A son, Augustus Washington Clason, had a nearby home which was eventually sold to Joseph J. Husson along with 15 acres of land.” Clason’s mansion eventually became an inn but was razed when the area became a beach club and acquired the name Harding Park.Bronx River boating, Harding ParkHARDING PARKThe semiprivate community of Harding Park, located in the southwest end of Clason Point,was named in the Roaring 20s for President Warren G. Harding, who died in office in 1923 during a mostly unsuccessful and scandal-ridden administration. The bungalows are arranged along sidewalk-free streets that aren’t included on official street maps (but do show up on computer maps like Google).Soundview HousesSOUNDVIEWWhen you think about it, “Soundview” as a name doesn’t make sense. Unless, of course, an adjacent body of water is called the Long Island Sound. It’s a matter of debate where theEast River leaves off and the Long Island Sound begins. I’ve always made it the Throgs Neck Bridge. In the 19th Century, the Sound was mapped as beginning somewhat west of where it does now, and when VClason pount Road was renamed Soundview Avenue in 1918, there was no confusion about it whatever.Adams StreetVAN NESTVan Nest is an old name and comes from Dutch colonial settler Pieter Pietersen Van Neste, who arrived in North America from Holland in 1647. However, the family is only honored here because of the Van Nest Land & Improvement Company, which began developing the neighborhood in 1892. Scions of the Van Nests became railroad company directors and developers but according to Bronx historian John McNamara, no Van Nest actually lived in the Bronx.East 180th Street station, #5 IRT, Morris Park AvenueWEST FARMSWest Farms took its name in the colonial era from farms west of the Bronx River, which served as the Bronx’ main geographical dividing line from then on up to the later 1800s. The Bronx became a part of New York City in sections between the years 1874 and 1898: all of the Bronx west of the Bronx River was annexed to the City of New York in 1874, while everything east of the river became part of the City in 1895. Soon after, in 1898, New York City consolidated with the city of Brooklyn and the boroughs of Queens and Staten Island. Though it was already a borough, the Bronx was a part of New York County until 1914 when it became a county in its own right. Today, New York County is coterminous with Manhattan.East Tremont and Park AvenuesTREMONT and EAST TREMONTThe genesis of Tremont’s name is similar to that of Boston’s: while that city’s Tremont was named for three hills on the originally narrow peninsula where Boston grew and prospered, so the Bronx’ Tremont was named by its first postmaster for three hills in mid-Bronx: Mount Eden, Mount Hope and Fairmount. The main difference is that Bostonians pronounce it Treh’ mont, while Bronxites say Tree’ mont.Arthur AvenueBELMONTBelmont, which takes its name from tobacco magnate Jacob Lorillard’s estate, is famous for its Little Italy centered along Arthur Avenue, with its panoply of small mom and pop shops purveying delicacies, and small, intimate restaurants. Lorillard’s imprint is all over the Bronx; the snuff mill employed on his tobacco farm can still be found deep within the NY Botanic Garden. The Lorillards owned nearly all of what would become The Bronx Zoo, the NY Botanical Garden, and the neighborhoods of Belmont, Bronx Park South and Norwood.Poe Cottage, Grand ConcourseFORDHAMThe name Fordham was given by John Archer, a Dutch settler who had anglicized his name, when he established a community at 225th Street near the Harlem River in 1666. Alternatively, Fordham (house by the ford) originated as either as a reference to its location near a shallow crossing of the Bronx River or as a reference to Rev. John Fordham, an Anglican priest. wikipediaUrsuline AcademyBEDFORD PARKBedford, England, inspired the name of the Bedford Park neighborhood when it was conceived and laid out in the 1880s. The British town also inspired the neighborhood’s use of Queen Anne architecture, and some of these grand old homes can still be seen crouching amid the area’s now-predominant multifamily apartment buildings. Norwood was originally part of the Varian family’s dairy farm. The Varians, who produced a New York City mayor, owned the oldest house in the area, which is still standing.52nd Police Precinct, Webster AvenueNORWOODNorwood was originally part of the Varian family’s dairy farm.The name either comes from “North Woods” or from Carlisle Norwood, a friend of Leonard Jerome, the grandfather of Winston Churchill who owned the nearby Jerome Park Race Track in the 1860s. The neighborhood was laid out in 1889 by entrepreneur Josiah Briggs.For a couple of decades in the late 20th Century, Norwood and its immediate neighbor to the south, Bedford Park, were major Irish enclaves, after immigrants from Northern Island during the era of The Troubles fled the auld sod and settled here, in Woodlawn Heights to the north, and in Queens’ Woodside. For a time Norwood became known as “Little Belfast” and was a hotbed for supporters of the Irish Republican Army, which sought to sever Northern Ireland’s ties with the United Kingdom by violent means. Eventually the Irish influence in the area lessened, as many Irish returned home to participate in the homeland’s roaring economy in the 1990s and early 2000s. Traces of Little Belfast, though, can still be found along Bainbridge Avenue. Norwood was where the Irish-American band Black 47 first attracted notice. Today Norwood attracts Hispanics, Indians, Asians, and New Yorkers looking for apartment bargains: some are still available for three figures!Orloff Avenue stepsVAN CORTLANDT VILLAGEThe story of Van Cortlandt Park , ansd the neighborhood on its southwest corner, Van Cortlandt Village, begins in 1699, when future NYC mayor Jacobus Van Cortlandt bought a large tract of the Frederick Philipse holdings in the northern Bronx. The land was originally populated by the local Indians as early as 500-600 years ago.In 1748, Jacobus’ son, Frederick, built Van Cortlandt Mansion, which still stands today. New York City obtained the land in 1888 and committed much of it to parkland.The story goes that as buffalo (properly called bison) were overhunted in western states in the frontier era, putting them in danger of extinction, Dr. William Hornaday of the Bronx Zoo acquired a few buffalo and bred them on the zoo grounds. By 1907 the Bronx herd outstripped the Zoo’s resources, so a few bulls and cows were transferred to Van Cortlandt Park. Later that year, they were sent to Oklahoma, where some of the buffalo are still descended from the Bronx specimens.Van Cortlandt Park is marked by rocky outcroppings made mostly of gneiss, a metamorphic rock with a distinctive banded texture. Streaks of mica can be found in the rocks, as well as quartz. Van Cortlandt Park’s Northwest Forest contains the park’s older-growth trees, featuring red, white and black oak, hickories, beech, cherry birch, sweetgum, red maple and of course, the incredibly tall and straight tulip trees. Fauna fans won’t be disappointed either as owls, bats, chipmunks, woodchucks and large gypsy moths, rabbits, raccoons, opossums and coyotes are all here and accounted for.Van Cortlandt Park is divided by no fewer than three major roadways, the Henry Hudson Parkway, the Mosholu Parkway and the Major Deegan Expressway, yet is large enough to accommodate them all without losing its distinctive rural character. The 1997 John Muir Nature Trail as well as the Putnam Railroad and Croton Aqueduct Trails run through the park.Hall of Fame for Great AmericansUNIVERSITY HEIGHTSThis neighborhood is set on high bluffs overlooking the Harlem River. The “University” is, or was, New York University, which had a substantial campus in the neighborhood which in turn became home to the Bronx Community College. The Hall of Fame for Great Americans, an outdoor portico featuring 97 busts of notable American men and women, is a fascinating attraction here that most New Yorkers have no idea exists.Shuttleworth Mansion, Anthony Avenue and Mount Hope PlaceMOUNT HOPEThis mid-Bronx neighborhood is named for one of the trio of now-leveled hills from which Tremont and Tremont Avenue also take their names.Mount Eden AvenueMOUNT EDENAnother of the Tremont trio of hills, this one is named for an early 19th-century property owner, Rachel Eden.Lorelei Fountain, Kilmer ParkCONCOURSE and CONCOURSE VILLAGEThese neighborhoods, famed for Art Deco and Moderne high rise apartment buildings, are named for the roadway that vertically bisects them, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, designed by French-born engineer Louis Risse.The Grand Boulevard and Concourse marches north from the Major Deegan Expressway to Mosholu Parkway through Mott Haven, Concourse Village, Mount Eden, Mount Hope (the Concourse is constructed on a hill), Fordham, and Bedford Park.Eleven lanes wide from 161st Street north to Mosholu, the GB&C (shortened to Grand Concourse for the benefit of sign makers and cabbies) was built, from 161st Street north, in 1909 by engineer Risse. In 1927, it absorbed Mott Avenue, which ran from 138th north to 161st, and the older street was widened. The Grand Concourse became the Bronx’s showpiece as the Bronx County Courthouse, Yankee Stadium, and an array of elegant apartment buildings were constructed along its length. The Concourse and surrounding streets are a wonderworld of Art Deco…spend an afternoon along its length and observe the sumptuous buildings.The Concourse is dominated by two separate architectural trends. The Art Deco style, characterized by highly stylized and colored ornamentation, ironworked doors, colorful terra cotta and mosaics, originated at the 1925 Exposition Internationale in Paris. Art Moderne, noted for its striped block patterns, cantilevered corners, stylized letterforms and generally streamlined appearance, first gained wide notice at the 1937 Exposition.Claremont ParkwayCLAREMONT VILLAGEThe neighborhood, park, and parkway are named for Polish immigrant Martin Zboroski’s 19th Century estate, Clermont.Herman Ridder Junior High School, Boston Road and East 173rd StreetCROTONA PARK EASTCrotona Park is nowhere near the Croton Aqueduct, which runs through the western Bronx; it was named for a colony in ancient Greece famed for Olympic athletes. It was purchased from the estate belonging to Andrew Bathgate in the 1880s; a dispute with the Bathgate family prevented the new Crotona Park from being named for them. Bathgate Avenue today remembers these early Bronx gentry.Dawson StreetLONGWOODLongwood Park was an 1870s estate owned by Samuel B. White, and Hunts Point was formerly a collection of country estates owned by the Casanovas, Barrettos, Spoffords, Failes, and other wealthy families, many of whose names now grace street signs.In the late 19th Century Longwood and the surrounding area was subdivided into residential lots. A group of now-landmarked brownstone buildings was developed by Warren C. Dickerson for landowner George Johnson between 1897 and 1901 consisting of parts of Beck, Kelly and Dawson Streets and Hewitt Place between East 156th Street and Longwood Avenue. Designated a New York City Landmark District, its buildings are marked by their eclectic peaks and roof embellishments.The region’s odd street layout… streets sort of undulate, twist and turn…was, in part, defined by the now-underground Sacrahong Brook, whose route is now nearly exactly copied by Intervale Avenue.Former American Bank Note Building, Lafayette Avenue/Tiffany StreetHUNT’S POINTHunt’s Point had been first settled by Thomas Hunt in 1670; the Hunts joined the Morrises as the Bronx’ foremost landowning families in the colonial era. Hunt’s Point (not to be confused with Hunter’s Point in Queens) has been home to the New York City Terminal Market since 1965; much of the city’s fresh produce is purchased by merchants here. The former Fulton Street Fish Market relocated here from its long-standing facility on South and Fulton Streets in mid-2005.Church of Saint Augustine, East 166th StreetMORRISANIA, MORRIS HEIGHTS, PORT MORRISMuch of the southern Bronx was once owned by the colonial-era Morris family.Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) half-brother of Lewis Morris, was a political leader, diplomat, U.S. Senator, and American ambassador to France. He was an outspoken opponent to what he termed ‘unchecked popular democracy’. His son, G. Morris II, sold the estate to Jordan Mott.Gouverneur Morris was outspoken and brash – nonetheless, he became ambassador due to his through knowledge of the French language and its nuances. In his youth, he would drive teams of horses without the benefit of reins, yelling and cracking a whip instead, but one day one of his teams ran off and he was dragged, winding up with a crushed leg. For the rest of his life he hobbled along on a wooden leg, like a Dutch predecessor, Peter Stuyvesant.Lewis Morris (1726-1798) was an ardent supporter of American independence and served in the Continental Congress from 1775-1777, and in the NY state legislature between 1777 and 1790. He signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. His great grandfather (Richard, died 1672) had immigrated to New York through Barbados after being part of Oliver Cromwell‘s army in the English Civil War of 1648. He purchased the first tract of land in the Bronx that became the basis for the Morrisania manor. wikipediaAlso interred here is Judge Robert H. Morris (1802-1855), a three-term mayor of New York City from 1841 to 1844.H.W. Wilson publishing company tower on University AvenueHIGHBRIDGE HEIGHTSThe neighborhood arrayed east of where High Bridge ends at University Avenue and West 170th Street is named for the structure that bridged the Croton Aqueduct across the Harlem River. When High Bridge was built between 1837 and 1848 by architect John Jervis it actually connected two separate towns, since that area of the mainland would not become a part of New York County until 1874.Originally, High Bridge featured massive stone arches (like Roman aqueducts had) for its entire length. The arches survive on the Bronx side, but the steel span was constructed in the 20s to allow navigation on the Harlem River. Water was carried in two 33”-diameter pipes, later replaced by a more massive 90” pipe. It was able to conduit as much as 24 million gallons of water per day.High Bridge has featured a walkway since the 1860s, although it never had roads for auto or horse traffic. Edgar Allan Poe, a Bronx resident toward the end of his life, enjoyed frequenting the bridge. The walkway features attractive cast iron hand railings and interlocked red brick paving stones, along with views of High Bridge’s neighboring spans across the Harlem, the Alexander Hamilton and Washington Bridges. In 1960, the walkway was closed, never to again reopen, because of vandals throwing objects from the bridge onto boats plying the Harlem River. Plans call rehabilitating and reopening High Bridge in the mid-2010s.Original Bronx Borough Courthouse, Third Avenue and East 161st StreetMELROSE19th-century surveyor Andrew Findlay was Scottish-born and was a fan of the fiction of Sir Walter Scott, so this small neighborhood adjoining the first Bronx Borough Courthouse was named for one of Scott’s novels, Melrose Abbey.Third Avenue and East 150th StreetTHE HUBOne of the Bronx’ busiest shopping districts is at the confluence of Third, Willis and Melrose Avenues, as well as East 149th Street. In addition the IRT subway joined several trolley lines as well as the 3rd Avenue El once upon a time.Estey Piano factory, Bruckner Boulevard and Lincoln AvenueMOTT HAVENJordan Mott built a tremendously successful iron works beginning in 1828 (the iron works continued to 1906), centered along the Harlem River from about Third Avenue to East 138thStreet. His handiwork can be still seen all over town on airshaft and manhole covers built by the Mott Iron Works. Mott had bought the original property from Gouverneur Morris II in 1849; Morris was asked if he minded if the area was called Mott Haven, a name it had quickly acquired. “I don’t care…while [Mott] is about it, he might as well change the Harlem River to the Jordan.” The iron works produced practical and ornamental metalwork used worldwide.PART TWO: BROOKLYN2/23/14

Well lots of things I'll just list them for you311. St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope* 1140 Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht* 1214 Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers)* 1214 English king John begins siege around Lille France* 1298 Battle on Hasenbuhl (G”llheim) between German kings Adolf & Albrecht I* 1576 Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea* 1600 Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army* 1644 Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists* 1681 Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high-treason* 1687 King James II disbands English parliament* 1776 NJ gave all adults who could show a net worth of 50œ right to vote* 1776 Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free & Independent States"* 1777 Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery* 1787 De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered* 1794 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria* 1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam* 1843 An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm* 1847 Envelope bearing 1st US 10¢ stamps, still exists today* 1849 Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike* 1850 Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus* 1858 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs* 1861 Battle of Hoke's Run, WV - small Union victory* 1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges* 1863 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)* 1863 R Morgan's: Burksville, KY to Salineville, OH [->JUL 26]* 1864 Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Wash DC* 1864 Statuary Hall in US Capitol forms* 1865 William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation)* 1867 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC* 1881 Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker* 1885 Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear* 1890 Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act* 1894 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers* 1900 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies* 1900 Sibelius' "Finlandia," premieres in Helsinki* 1901 Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana* 1902 John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)* 1903 AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later* 1903 Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs* 1906 Yanks win by forfeit, for their 1st time* 1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism* 1916 Russian offensive in Armenia* 1917 Riots in East St Louis Mo* 1921 41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton (46 26 61 60 75)* 1921 Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)* 1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized* 1927 40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64)* 1927 Earthquake hits Palestine* 1928 British parliament accept female sufferage* 1932 52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (64 62 60)* 1932 FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech* 1933 Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk* 1934 General Laz ro C rdenas elected president of Mexico* 1935 Great Britain boxers beat US team in 1st intl Golden Gloves* 1937 57th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (63 64 62)* 1937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean* 1938 51st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (64 60)* 1940 Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)* 1940 Hitler orders invasion of England* 1940 Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated* 1940 PM Churchill meets gen-mjr B Montgomery* 1941 DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)* 1941 Earthquake hits Palestine* 1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)* 1941 Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," premieres in London* 1943 Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126* 1943 Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0* 1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane* 1944 Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt* 1946 Dutch Beel govt forms* 1946 Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam & Amsterdam* 1947 Military coup discovered in France* 1948 62nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (75 06 62 36 75)* 1949 "High Button Shoes" closes at Century Theater NYC after 727 perfs* 1949 "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV* 1949 56th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: L Brough beats M duPont (10-8 16 10-8)* 1950 Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit* 1951 Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt* 1951 Bob & Ray show premieres on NBC radio* 1951 Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester v Scotland* 1951 Island advisor of Cura‡ao installed* 1951 Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system* 1952 Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam* 1952 Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila* 1954 68th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Drobny beats K Rosewall (13-11 46 62 97)* 1954 Denis Compton scores 278 in 290 minutes v Pakistan* 1955 "7th Heaven" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 44 performances* 1955 "Almost Crazy" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 16 performances* 1955 "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC* 1955 10th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker* 1955 62nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats B Fleitz (75 86)* 1955 Desmond Tutu marries Leah Nomalizo Shinxani* 1956 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel"* 1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)* 1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback* 1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pŠlerinage De Lourdes* 1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island* 1959 "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres* 1959 Prince Albert marries Princess Paola in Brussels* 1960 "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 perfs* 1961 Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers* 1962 Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Ra£l Castro arrives in Moscow* 1962 Fidel Castro visits Moscow* 1963 Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves* 1963 Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings* 1964 Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano* 1964 Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers* 1964 Pres Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law* 1965 79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64)* 1966 1st France nuclear explosion on Mururoa atoll* 1966 73rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Frasier (63 36 61)* 1966 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island* 1967 22nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste* 1967 Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) & 1st amateur to US Women's open golf tournament* 1969 Ireland bowl out WI for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts* 1969 Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain* 1970 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels* 1970 NY Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days* 1971 78th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats M Smith (64 61)* 1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test* 1972 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 perfs* 1972 27th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning* 1972 Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m* 1972 India & Pakistan sign peace accord* 1973 James R Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA* 1973 Nation Black Network begins operation on radio* 1974 Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81)* 1976 83rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86)* 1976 Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam* 1976 Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual* 1977 91st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bj”rn B”rg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64)* 1978 Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start* 1979 Susan B Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman* 1980 Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement* 1980 Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr* 1982 Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'* 1982 Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth* 1983 90th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63)* 1985 Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR* 1985 European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)* 1986 After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his 1st loss of year* 1986 General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile* 1986 Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings* 1987 Jim Eisenreich, comeback after nervous disorder in 1984* 1988 95th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (57 62 61)* 1989 10th US Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody* 1989 17th du Maurier Golf Classic: Tammie Green* 1990 Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering* 1990 Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death* 1991 Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St Louis* 1992 Braniff Airlines goes out of business* 1993 Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die* 1993 F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die* 1993 Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder* 1993 Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36* 1993 NY Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27)* 1993 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test* 1994 101st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: C Martinez beats Navratilova (64 36 63)* 1994 37 dies in US Air DC-9 crash in NC* 1994 John Wayne Bobbitt & Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery* 1994 Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire* 1994 US Air DC-9 crash in NC, 37 killed* 1995 "Rose Tattoo" closes at Circle in the Square NYC after 80 perfs* 1995 16th US Seniors Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf* 1995 Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic* 1995 Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins electionHope this helps