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George Washington visits the Forks of the Ohio and is taken back at how situated it was. What really he was amazed by was the structure of the rivers and how they connected. He liked the control that the Ohio had over the other two rivers.
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George Washington had led two Virginia companies into the Great Meadows to try and take down the French and their allies. He had two horses shot from under him in the route of General Braddock’s army on the Monongahela plains. Later, Braddock end up being killed there.
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Mary Jemison and, all but two, family members were captured by French Soldiers and Shawnee warriors by their home. Later, she was separated from her family and sold to a party of Senecas. The rest of her family was murdered.
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Johns Forbes was a British general who directed the last six weeks of his march to Duquesne. He died 4 months after he successfully accomplished his march to Duquesne. Before he died he named the land in honor of William Pitt.
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Thomas Campbell laid a street plan for Pittsburgh in 1764. The Penn family had commissioned him. The street plan only included 4 blocks which was later added onto 20 years later by Col. George Woods and his assistant, Thomas Vickroy.
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Isaac Craig and Stephen Bayard were one of the first settlers. In 1783, they had bought the first real estate in Pittsburgh. The people who sold it to them were the Penn Family. It was located at the Forks of the Ohio.
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Neville B. Craig is born in the blockhouse of Pittsburgh. His parents had attached an annex, where they set up house keeping. He became the editor of the Pittsburgh Gazette.
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Pittsburgh is bumped up from Borough to a City. Major Ebenezer Denny was elected its' first mayor.
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Stephens Collins Foster is born in a small cottage in Lawrenceville. He later went on to write 189 songs, in his short lived life.
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Thomas Mellon Married Sarah Jane negley on this day, and later on,, had 8 children together ( in whom 5 survived)
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In 1845 - 1847, John Roebling used wire rope in the design of the world's first cable suspension bridge in Pittsburgh. It went across the Monongahela River at Smithfield Street.
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A washerwoman’s open fire spread quickly throughout one-third of the city of Pittsburgh. 1000 building and homes were destroyed. 12,000 people were left homeless, and two lives were lost.
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Jane Grey Swisshelm publishes the Pittsburgh Saturday Visitor, which lasted from 1848 to 1854.
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At the young age of 19, George Westinghouse obtained his first patent for the invention of a rotary steam engine.
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Due to recent protestst, the USBGN reversed it's decision and the city is offically "Pittsburgh"
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Frick Acres became the site of University of Pittsburgh.
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1,000 Pittsburgers tuned into KDKA to hear the first scheduled broadcast.
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The $6 Million Liberty Tubes project is completed.
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"The new building is to express that spirit of achievement"
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FDR comes to Pittsburgh to inspect Homestead Works and Mesto Machine Plant.
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When word of the war being over was announced at 7:02, a mass of people filled downtown with screaming and excitement.
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Pittsburgh was in snow up to people's car's tops.
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After its' opening, many Pittsburgh family brought their children to watch planes arrive and take off.
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The Andy Warhol Museum attracted about 25,000 visitors in its' opening weekend alone.
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August Wilson died at the age of 60 from lung cancer in Seattle.
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The 58th mayor of Pittsburgh, Bob O'Connor , dies 24 hours after being taken off life care. He suffered from primary central nervous system lymphoma, which is a rare form of brain cancer. He was 61 years old.
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57,125 fans voted the bottom of the ninth homer was the greatest moment in Pittsburgh Sport History.
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Roberts Berk's created a Mister Rogers statue and opened it to the public on this day.
