1962 Event KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1954 Birthday Bill Pullman, actor, Sommersby, League of their Own, Independence Day 1946 Birthday Philip Pullman, English Writer 1937 Event Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1894 Event 2000 federal troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike 1894 Event Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike 1894 Event Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers 1894 Event Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company 1894 Event American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co 1859 Event 1st Pullman sleeping car in service 1831 Birthday George M. Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car
