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On This Day In Buffalo

Sunday, October 20

Skyway opens, 1955

Buffalo waterfront

Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan addresses large crowd, 1900

The Broadway Market, 999 Broadway, Buffalo, NY 14212, USA

Storm on Lake Erie sinks 27 ships, 1905

Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village dedicated, 1973

Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village, 3755 Tonawanda Creek Rd, Amherst, NY 14228, USA

Monday, October 21

St. Columba cornerstone laid, 1888

Presidential candidate Warren Harding campaigns in Buffalo, 1920

Broadway Auditorium

WPA Workers Strike for Higher Wages in Buffalo, 1935

Saturn Club founded, 1885

Tuesday, October 22

Cartoonist Tom Toles born, 1951

Buffalo, NY, USA

Ingleside Home incorporated, 1869

Niagara Frontier Industrial Exposition opens, 1923

Broadway Auditorium

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, African-American soprano, debuts in Buffalo, 1851

Townsend Hall, Main & Swan

Wednesday, October 23

Twentieth Century Club incorporated, 1894

OB/GYN Barnett Slepian assassinated, 1998

Amherst, NY, USA

Deaconess Hospital opens, 1895

Presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower campaigns in Buffalo, 1952

Thursday, October 24

Anna Edson Taylor plunges over Niagara Falls in barrel, 1901

Niagara Falls, NY, USA

Meeting to protest Fugitive Slave Bill, 1850

Collins Center, Collins, NY, USA

Juneteenth Festival incorporated, 1985

Birth of Belva A. Lockwood, 1884 presidential candidate, 1830

Royalton, NY, USA

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