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George Washington Leads His Men to Virginia
In 1754, Lt. Col. George Washington, at 22, led two Virginia companies into the Great Meadows to try to dislodge the French and their American Indian Allies. -
The Death of Jumonville
Washington's army men had killed Jumonville because it was of missunderstanding. His men thought that they were underattack ever thought after they realized he was just trying to talk to George Washington and relay a message. -
Mary Jemison is Captured
Mary Jemison is captured from her home and forced to go and become one the memebers of the Senecas. After her death the story of her being help captive was published as a book which became a top seller. -
Marquis Duquesne 1758
The Marquis Duquesne stirred Brittish colonists to action with a plan to erect military forts from the St. Lawrence to the Missipisspi. The French, routed by the Brittish in 1758, destroyed before they took flight. -
Fort Pitt Was Created
Fort Pitt was one of the last and largest forts built by the Brittish and French at the Forks of Ohio. They used it to help fight for control of the land. Today it is now one the oldest buildings in Pittsburgh that still remains in tact. -
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette First Founded
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was founded by Neville B. Craig. -
Pittsburgh Now a City
Pittsburgh was evaluated from borough to city. -
Henry Heinz Dies
Henry Heinz dies form a bad case of Pneumonia at age 74. -
Pittsburgh's Great Fire
A great fire consumed nearly 24 blocks of the heart of the city and then started to spread East. After the fire was put out there was about 1,00 homes that were engulfed in flames. -
Pittsburgh Pirate World Series
The Pittsburgh pirates beat the Detroit Tigers in the World series of 1909. -
First Drive in Service Station
The world's first drive-in gasoline service station was opened at the corner of Baum Boulevard and St. Clair Street in 1913. -
KDKA First Radio Broadcast
it was created by Frank Conrad Westinghouse Electric Company's Assistant Chief Engineer. -
St. Patricks Day Flood
On March 17 and 18, 1936, the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania witnessed the worst flood in its history when flood levels peaked at 46 feet (14 m). This flood became known as The Great St. Patrick’s Day Flood, and also affected other areas of the Mid-Atlantic on both sides of the Eastern Continental Divide -
Atom Smasher
Odd shaped structure that houses the world’s first industrial atom smasher that was built by Westinghouse in 1937 in Forest Hills, Pennsylvania. -
Greater Pittsburgh Airport
Now know as Pittsburgh International Airport. -
Polio Vaccine
Until 1955, when the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was considered the most frightening public health problem of the post-war United States. -
Mellon Square Park
Mellon Square was built in 1953-1955, designed by Mitchell & Ritchey, landscaped by Simonds & Simonds, and paid for by Mellon family foundations. -
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson brought awareness to the harmful chemicals that were being used on plants. That chemical is now banned from any use on crops being consumed by humans. -
Heinz Hall Opens
Heinz Hall is is the cornerstone of the Cultural District of Pittsburgh. -
Fountain at the Point
Built on land acquired via eminent domain from industrial enterprises in the 1950s, the park opened in August 1974 when construction was completed on its iconic fountain. Pittsburgh settled on the current design after rejecting an alternative plan for a Point Park Civic Center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. -
Sophie Masloff becomes mayor.
She was the first woman and the first Jew to hold the post. -
Opening of Andys Warhol Museum
This museam contains 17 galleries, the museum features 900 paintings, close to 2,000 works on paper, over 1,000 published unique prints, 77 sculptures, 4,000 photographs, and over 4,350 Warhol films and videotaped works. -
Mayor Bob O’Connor dies while in office
The general election was uncompetitive, as is the standard in heavily Democratic Pittsburgh, as O'Connor won by 40 points against Republican attorney Joe Weinroth. A total of 59,961 votes were cast.
