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1997 Carolina Hurricanes 1st home game vs Pitts Penguins
1997 Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals 1997 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia 1994 65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at 3 Rivers Stad, Pitts 1994 Denis Pitts, film-maker, journalist, novelist, wrote, 'This City is Ours', 'The Predator', dies at 64 1993 Doctors announce Pitts Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease 1991 Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals and 744 assists) 1991 Buffalo Bill Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pitts (52-34) 1991 Greatest extra-inning comeback, Pitts scores 6 in bottom of 11th erasing 5 run Cub lead, Pirates also trailed 7-2 in bottom of 9th 1990 For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Philadelphia 11-0 1989 Cold wave: -4 degrees F in Oklahoma City, -6 degrees F in Tulsa, -12 degrees F in Pitts, 1989 Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Philadelphia if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season broadcaster 1983 New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins 1982 1st New Jersey Devils game, tie the Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands 1980 Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season 1980 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts 1974 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts 1973 Andreas Johansson, Hofors SWE, NHL forward, Pitts, New York Islanders 1972 Roberto Clemente, slugger (Pitts Pirate), dies in a plane crash at 38 1972 Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07) 1972 Darius Kasparaitis, Elektrenai Lit, NHL defenseman, Islanders, Pitts 1972 Ian Moran, born in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. hockey defenseman, Olympics-1994, Pitts 1971 Bryan Smolinski, born in Toledo, Ohio, NHL forward, Team USA, Pitts Penguins 1971 Petr Nedved, born in Libercec, Czechoslovakia, NHL center, Team Czechoslovakia, Pitts Penguins 1970 Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0 1968 1st ABA championship: Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers, 4 games to 3 1966 Kevin Hatcher, born in Detroit, Michigan, NHL defenseman, Team USA, Dallas, Pitts 1966 Luc Robitaille, Montreal, NHL left wing, New York Rangers, Pitts Penguins 1965 Dmitri Mironov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman, Pitts Penguins, Anaheim 1965 Mario Lemieux, Montreal, NHL high scoring center, Pitts Penguin, #66 1963 Allen Pitts, CFL slot back for the Calgary Stampeders 1963 Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65 1963 Charles Van Eman, Pitts, actor, Charlie-All My Children, Dynasty II 1958 University of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates 1957 New York Giants play and lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts) 1954 Daniel Seemiller, Pitts, U.S. Olympic table tennis player 1992 Olympics 1952 Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base 1943 Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps and cash 1941 John Davidson, Pitts, TV host, Hollywood Squares, That's Incredible 1940 Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7 1940 Calvin Fowler, Pitts, basketball player, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics 1938 Only time brothers hit back-to-back home runs (Lloyd and Paul Waner, Pitts) 1936 Bill Mazeroski, MLB 2nd baseman, won 1960 World Series for Pitts 1934 Pitts ends Detroit Lions' shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7 1933 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Brooklyn Dodgers 32-0 1930 Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with home runs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th) 1930 Denis Pitts, film-maker, journalist, novelist, wrote, 'This City is Ours', 'The Predator' 1921 1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts) 1920 Bill Cullen, Pitts, TV game show host, over 20 different games 1918 Dodgers trade Casey Stengel and Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes and Mamaux 1917 William Tracy, Pitts, actor, To the Shores of Tripoli 1916 Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0 1915 Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0 1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts) 1911 Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511 1907 Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits New York Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game 1906 Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game 1906 Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th 1902 Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League 1899 Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor, Broadway Melody, Little Giant 1898 ZaSu Pitts, Parsons Kansas, actress, Life With Father, Dames 1892 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football 1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette |
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