https://youtube.com/shorts/ObVo7hKdc3A?si=-YYZs5GMNfxLMcrH #OnThisDay In 1983, At 8:23 p.m., Buffalo Fire Department responds to a propane gas leak at North Division Street. Engine 32 from Hook & Ladder No. 5 had just…
https://youtube.com/shorts/WDxImGHAPT0?si=SepAODGKhHhmRwMf #OnThisDay In 2017, Buffalo broadcasting legend, Irv Weinstein, passes away at 87 years old. Weinstein hosted Channel & WKBW-TV's Eyewitness News from 1964 to 1998, serving as their anchorman…
https://youtube.com/shorts/buHOl2VGoDk?si=JXLfC285PNcN7QRl #OnThisDay In 1863, The Buffalo Stockyards are founded and opened to the public on William Street, in between Fillmore and Bailey, by Dean Richmond. The Stockyards was a 100-acre…
https://youtube.com/shorts/U_ZbleIcy54?si=89BUmeesPPjwH4I0 #OnThisDay In 2001, Snow begins to fall over WNY and Southern Ontario. Just the week before, the weather was mild and rainy, looking like it would be Buffalo's warmest…
https://youtube.com/shorts/hKXJ-Y-ZDdI?si=qSf9DA3hIt7wGKY4 #OnThisDay in 2022, The Blizzard of 2020 begins in Buffalo. Dubbed a "Once-in-a-generation storm" by the National Weather Service, the blizzard stalled, "freezing" the entire Buffalo-Niagara area for 5…
https://youtube.com/shorts/QhXhUShlZok?si=sPMn5GJes4wvGI8k #OnThisDay in 1915, Buffalo's last Major League baseball team, The Buffalo Blues fold, along with the entire Federal League. The Federal League was a third Major League, which would…
https://youtube.com/shorts/JkZWnl4GhjA?si=SCSi_s2-e856-Dov #OnThisDay In 1970, WUTV-TV begins broadcastung in Buffalo, with their original studios located at their transmitter suite on Grand Island. For years, it was Buffalo's only independent station, broadcasting…
https://youtube.com/shorts/8XCFkJypeuY?si=zesy6vb3u_JWPxaM #OnThisDay In 1919, Everett Greenbaum, a television and film writer, is born in Buffalo. Greenbaum contributed largely to television's foundations, writing more than dozens of episodes for The Andy…
https://youtube.com/shorts/nD_szYiOMyo?si=hC765GwuTFWDWl6B #OnThisDay In 1986, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church at Broadway and Pine is destroyed by fire. The main steeple had burnt and collapsed into an intersection, smoldering for hours.…
https://youtube.com/shorts/9mpre39ZkkY?si=r9P-znN7ucG5YZuF #OnThisDay In 1867, The Angola Horror occurs. Two passenger cars, located at the back of the train, derail and uncouple from train while crossing truss bridge over Big Sister…