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Carnegie Museums and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh founded. Pittsburgh Arts Society founded. May 29: Schenley Park Casino opens; September: The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club football team is formed. December 30: The very first ice hockey game is played inside the city, held at the Schenley Park Casino. 1896
Forging a Majority: The Formation of the Republican Party in Pittsburgh, 1848-18 (1969). Ingham, John N. Making Iron and Steel: Independent Mills in Pittsburgh, 1820–1920. Ohio State U. Press, 1991. 297 pp. Kleinberg, S. J. The Shadow of the Mills: Working-Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870–1907. U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. 414 pp.
Pittsburgh (/ ˈ p ɪ t s b ɜːr ɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census.
The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was founded in 1919. Kosovo: Independence Day: 17 February: 2008 Serbia: February 17th is celebrated as Independence Day in Kosovo, commemorating the declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008, marking a significant milestone in the nation's history. Kuwait: National Day: 25 February: 1961
Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 through a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of the state's namesake. Before that, between 1638 and 1655, a southeast portion of the state was part of New Sweden, a Swedish colony.
The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855, and in 1863 the school became Pennsylvania's land-grant university under the terms of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Temple University in Philadelphia was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell, originally as a night school for working-class citizens.
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An 1825 invitation to an Independence Day celebration A 2014 Independence Day parade in Washington, D.C., the national capital Independence Day is a national holiday marked by patriotic displays. Per 5 U.S.C. § 6103 , Independence Day is a federal holiday, so all non-essential federal institutions (such as the postal service and federal courts ...