1996 67th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
1992 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Phila
1992 NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Phila
1991 Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Phila
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila
1989 1st playoff goal scored by a goalie, Ron Hextall of Phila
1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila
1986 FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP Phila
1984 Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd
1984 Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila)
1984 Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Phila's 1st black mayor
1983 WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila
1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th U.S. tour (John F. Kennedy Stadium, Phila)
1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila
1976 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
1976 29th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Phila
1974 Smallest attendance at Phila's Veterans Stadium (4,149)
1972 Ron Johnson becomes 1st New York Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila)
1971 1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 4-1
1958 Phils drop plans for New York sportcast as Yanks threat to do same in Phila
1956 Tom Hanks, born in Concord, California, actor, Bossom Buddies, Forrest Gump, Phila
1955 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Phila
1954 A's defeats Yanks 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Phila
1952 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Phila
1950 Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19
1946 Bela Bartoks 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Phila
1946 Bert Bell becomes 2nd NFL commissioner, moves Chicago HQ to Phila
1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila
1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila
1938 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
1938 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5
1938 Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1
1935 1,200 at St. Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class
1930 World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis 5-2
1930 Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle, New York Yankees, Cleveland, Phila
1928 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila
1925 Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker, Phila
1920 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)
1911 Opera "Natoma," premieres in Phila
1906 3000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Phila
1891 61 degrees F, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore and Phila
1889 American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Phila
1884 Herbert Hordern, cricketer, pioneering leggie for Aust and Phila
1883 Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Phila
1883 American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Phila)
1880 National Croquet League organizes (Phila)
1876 Philadelphia A's and Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila
1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila
1849 1st U.S. skating club formed (Phila)
1847 American Medical Association organizes (Phila)
1835 6th national black convention (Phila)
1833 American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila
1833 4th national black convention meets (Phila)
1830 1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila
1821 1st U.S. pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Phila
1810 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
1809 1st practical U.S. railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila
1809 1st U.S. steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves New York for Phila
1807 Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila)
1797 1st U.S. frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila
1794 Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
1794 1st U.S. textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the U.S. lifts off in Phila
1792 1st life insurance policy issued in U.S. (Phila)
1792 Cornerstone laid for 1st U.S. government building: U.S. Mint in Phila
1778 British Redcoats evacuate Phila
1776 Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Independence (Phila)
1774 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights (Phila)
1773 Construction authorized for Walnut St. jail (Phila) (1st solitary)
1759 1st music store in America opens (Phila)
1752 Liberty Bell arrives in Phila
1732 1st U.S. professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Phila
1732 Mass celebrated for 1st time at St. Joseph's Church (Phila)
1703 1st Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Phila
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