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I-CON was preceded by SUNYcon (April 14, 1973), Mudcon (May 8, 1977), and Brookcon (October 28–30, 1977), held on the Stony Brook campus. I-CON was held annually from 1983 through 2012 at Stony Brook University, except for 2009, when it relocated temporarily to the Brentwood campus of Suffolk County Community College, due to planned construction at Stony Brook University.
New York: August 2–6, 1948: Endorses Henry Agard Wallace for President; Eugene Dennis indicts the Wall Street conspirators. Fifteenth: New York: December 28–30, 1950: What it means to be a Communist; On Guard against Browderism, Titoism, Trotskyism. Sixteenth: New York: February 9–12, 1957: Seventeenth: New York: December 10–13, 1959 ...
18th: 1960 Pittcon: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: US ... New York, New York US Lester del Rey (pro) ... 2001 Millennium Philcon: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...
Academy Con, New York City (1965–1967) Adventure Con, Knoxville, Tennessee (2002–2012) Atlanta Fantasy Fair, Atlanta (1975–1995) Boston Comic Con, Boston (2007–2017) Comic Art Convention, New York City (1968–1983) — also held in Philadelphia from 1977–1979; Comix Fair, Houston (1983–c. 1996) — replaced the defunct Houstoncon
New York City, New York August 28, 1939 – Began use of "General Convention" [35] 28 th ΒΛ Kansas City, Missouri December 30, 1940 – Tri-Convention with Alpha Kappa Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi, Membership requirement to be Negro removed [36] [37] [38] 29 th ΑΛ Louisville, Kentucky: 1941 35 th 30 th ΑΘΛ Atlantic City, New Jersey: 1944 38 ...
October 12–13: National Comic Book, Art, Toy, and Sci-Fi Expo III (St. Paul's Church Auditorium, New York City) — run as a charity event to benefit victims of the September 11 attacks October 19–21 : Bat.con (Dallas, Texas) — celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the Batman TV show.
Some fan historians claim that the 1936 Philadelphia Science Fiction Conference, a.k.a. Philcon, was the first science fiction convention ever held. Others, such as Fred Patten and Rob Hansen , make this claim for the January 1937 event in Leeds , England , [ 1 ] organized by the Leeds Science Fiction League, which was specifically organized as ...
September 17 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression. September 18 – The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as letters containing anthrax spores are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey, to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National ...