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By 1783, the free Black community in Philadelphia surpassed one thousand residents, while four hundred residents remained enslaved. Richard Allen and Absolom Jones founded the Free African Society in 1787, a mutual aid society, and Allen, with his wife Sarah Allen, established the Bethel African Methodist Church in 1794.
The Philadelphia Athletics were a Major League Baseball team that played in Philadelphia from 1901 to 1954, when they moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and became the Kansas City Athletics. Following another move in 1967, the team became the Oakland Athletics .
1652 – John Hull and Robert Sanderson begin producing Massachusetts colonial coinage. 1656 – Ann Hibbins hanged as a witch. 1657 – Scots Charitable Society of Boston founded. 1658 – Town-House built. 1660. June 1: Mary Dyer hanged as a Quaker. Copp's Hill Burying Ground and Granary Burying Ground established.
Buffalo is the county seat of Erie County, and the second most populous city in the U.S. state of New York, after New York City. Originating around 1789 as a small trading community inhabited by the Neutral Nation near the mouth of Buffalo Creek, the city, then a town, grew quickly after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, with the city at ...
During the first half of the 20th century, Milwaukee was the hub of the socialist movement in the United States. Milwaukeeans elected three Socialist mayors during this time: Emil Seidel (1910–1912), Daniel Hoan (1916–1940), and Frank Zeidler (1948–1960), and remains the only major city in the country to have done so.
Appearance. The History of the Philadelphia Eagles begins in 1933. [1] In their history, the Eagles have appeared in the Super Bowl four times, losing in their first two appearances but winning the third, Super Bowl LII, in 2018, and losing their fourth, Super Bowl LVII, in 2022. [2]
Clemson has played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina since 1942. [1] The Tigers have three national championship titles ( 1981, 2016 and 2018) along with two other national championship appearances in 2015 and 2019. [2] The Tigers have claimed 26 conference championships and have appeared in 50 postseason bowl ...
The timeline of Cardiff history shows the significant events in the history of Cardiff which transformed it from a small Roman fort into the modern capital city of Wales. The word Caerdyf has its origins in post-Roman Brythonic words meaning "the fort of the Taff". The fort probably refers to that established by the Romans.