The first two television stations in the city signed on the air for the first time. The first was WNBT Channel 1 (now WNBC Channel 4), to signed on the air. And the second was WCBW (now WCBS-TV) Channel 2, to signed on the air. October 6: New York Yankees won their 9th World Series championship. Le Pavillon restaurant in business. 1942 Art of This Century gallery opens. Burning and capsizing of the French transatlantic ocean liner the SS Normandie in Pier 88. New York at War military parade. 1943 July: Józef Piłsudski Institute of America founded. August 1: Race riot erupts in Harlem after an African-American soldier is shot by the police and rumored to be killed. The incident touches off a simmering brew of racial tension, unemployment, and high prices to a day of rioting and looting. Several looters are shot dead, with blood everywhere, and about 500 persons are injured and another 500 arrested. New York City Opera company founded. New York Fashion Week begins. 1944 Fashion Institute of Technology established. May 2: WABD Channel 4 (now WNYW Channel 5) became the 3rd television station in the city to signed on the air for the first time. Luna Park closes, after a fire. 1945 July 28: A B-25 Mitchell bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, killing 13 people. August 14: Victory over Japan Day celebrated in Times Square with famous kiss photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt. December 17: WABD moved from Channel 4 to Channel 5. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. becomes U.S. representative for New York's 22nd congressional district. 1946 January 12: New York City Victory Parade of 1946. May 20: a United States Army Air Forces C-45 Beechcraft airplane crashed into the 58th floor on the north side of 40 Wall Street killing 5. June 25: Fire destroys the St. George terminal of the Staten Island Ferry, killing 3 and injuring 280. November 1: Channel 2 changed its call letters from WCBW to WCBS-TV. Living Theatre founded. Balducci's grocery in business. 1947 Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers crosses the baseball color line. Over six million New Yorkers are vaccinated in order to end the 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak. Actors Studio founded. Premiere of Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. December 25: Blizzard of 1947 shuts down city and kills 77. 1948 May 4: 95.5 FM signs on