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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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