League World Series. Steeplechase Park closes. 1965 February 8: Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes at Jones Beach when after takeoff from JFK it is forced to evade inbound PanAm Flight 212. All 84 on board are killed. February 21: Black nationalist leader Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom by three members of the Nation of Islam. August 15: The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium. October: Pope Paul VI arrives as the first Catholic pope to ever visit the U.S. and gives his "war never again" speech against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. November 9: New York City is affected as part of the Northeast Blackout of 1965. The Velvet Underground musical group formed. WINS (AM) 1010 changed its format from standard pop to all news. Max's Kansas City nightclub and Oscar de la Renta in business. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and Chelsea Theater Center established. 1966 January 1: New York City Transit workers strike for 12 days following failed contract negotiations between TWU Local 100 and the MTA. January 1: John Lindsay sworn in as the 103rd mayor. October 17: A fire across 23rd Street from Madison Square kills 12 members of the New York City Fire Department when a floor collapses beneath them. It was the worst day in the FDNY's history until September 11, 2001. November 28: Black and White Ball held. 1967 October 8: James "Groovy" Hutchinson, 21, an East Village hippie/stoner, and Linda Fitzpatrick, 18, a newly converted flower child from a wealthy Greenwich, Connecticut family, are found bludgeoned to death at 169 Avenue B, an incident dubbed "The Groovy Murders" by the press. Two drifters later pleaded guilty to the murders. Public Theater and Paley Park open. South Street Seaport Museum founded. Premiere of musical Hair. 1968 June 3: Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol. July 3: Man opens fire in Central Park, killing a 24-year-old woman and an 80-year-old man before being gunned down by police. New York magazine begins publication. Madison Square Garden (arena) and Performing Garage open. Studio Museum in Harlem and Liberty Plaza Park established. Ford Foundation Building constructed. Columbia University protests of 1968. New York City teachers' strike of 1968. Singer Building demolished. Tallest structure ever destroyed until the World Trade Center is destroyed on September 11, 2001. 1969 January 12: Jets win their only Super Bowl Championship, beating the Baltimore Colts. February 10:Nor'easter kills 14 and