Geographical Location - New York City

  1. Brooks Brothers Introduces Button-down Shirts
  2. Brower Forms Friends of the Earth
  3. Buckley Founds National Review
  4. Captain Kangaroo Debuts
  5. Carnegie Publishes His Self-Help Best-Seller
  6. Catch-22 Illustrates Antiwar Sentiment
  7. Chinese Immigrants Are Detained in New York
  8. Cohan’s Little Johnny Jones Premieres
  9. Construction Begins on the Empire State Building
  10. Consumers Union of the United States Emerges
  11. Coppola Revives Gangster Films with The Godfather Trilogy
  12. Cousins Founds SANE
  13. Crane Publishes The Bridge
  14. Davis’ Birth of the Cool Recordings Spawn 1950’s Cool Jazz
  15. Deconstructivists Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art
  16. Design for the Real World Reorients Industrial Design
  17. Diners Club Begins a New Industry
  18. Disney’s Fantasia Premieres and Redefines the Boundaries of Animation
  19. Do the Right Thing Establishes Lee as a World-Class Director
  20. Dow Jones Adds Microsoft and Intel
  21. Dow Jones Industrial Average Tops 10,000
  22. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie Shatters Literary Taboos
  23. Drexel and Michael Milken Are Charged with Insider Trading
  24. Dreyfuss Designs the Bell “300” Telephone
  25. Drucker Examines Managerial Roles
  26. Du Pont Announces the Discovery of Nylon 66
  27. Dutch Elm Disease Arrives in the United States
  28. Ellington Begins an Influential Engagement at the Cotton Club
  29. Ellison’s Invisible Man Is Published
  30. Empire State Building Opens
  31. The Empire State Building Opens as the World’s Tallest Building
  32. Esslin Publishes The Theatre of the Absurd
  33. Federalist Papers Are Published
  34. Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy Meets with Unexpected Success
  35. A Financial Panic Results from a Run on the Knickerbocker Trust
  36. The First Color Television Broadcast Takes Place
  37. First Digital High-Definition Television Signals Are Broadcast
  38. The First Female Conservative Rabbi Is Ordained
  39. First Jewish Settlers
  40. The First Pulitzer Prizes Are Awarded
  41. The First Successful Synthesizer Is Completed
  42. First Telegraph Message
  43. The First Transcontinental Telephone Call Is Made
  44. Forbes Magazine Is Founded
  45. The Ford Foundation Begins to Fund Nonprofit Theaters
  46. The Formation of the Blue Four Advances Abstract Painting
  47. The Garbage Industry Introduces Reforms
  48. General Public Utilities Announces Plans for a Commercial Nuclear Reactor
  49. Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Opens in New York
  50. Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue Premieres in New York