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 U.S. Air Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board
1994 65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at 3 Rivers Stad, Pitts
1994 Denis Pitts, journalist, 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
1988 Willie Stargell (Pitts Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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
1974 Tuomas Gronman, NHL defenseman, Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998, 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, Libercec CZE, NHL center, Team Czechoslovakia, Pitts Penguins
1970 Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
1969 Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits New York Mets, 4-0
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, Moscow Rus, 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)
1957 Mark Johnson, Madison WI, NHL forward, Olympics gold 1980, Pitts, NJ
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, 1968 Olympics gold
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
1935 Pitts Crawfords beat New York Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0
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, journalist
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
1754 George Washington defeats French and indians at Ft. Duquesne (Pitts)
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