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1759 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
1774 First Continental Congress
assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1787 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution
for the United States
.
1787 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to convene a Constitutional Convention intended to amend the Articles of Confederation
. However, a new Constitution
for the United States
was eventually produced. George Washington
presided over the Convention.
1787 United States Constitution
is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
.
1793 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania more than 4000 die from yellow fever
1821 the first American
pharmacy college holds classes in Philadelphia
.
1847 In Philadelphia
, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
1850 The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
1856 The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential
candidate, former President Millard Fillmore
.
1876 United States of America Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
.
1900 The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
1959 With the admission of Alaska
as the 49th U.S. state
earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States
debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1960 July 4 — Following the admission of Hawaii
as the 50th U.S. state
the previous year, the 50-star flag of the United States
debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1970 United States Postal Service
workers in New York City
go on strike; the strike spreads to the state of California
and the cities of Akron, Philadelphia
, Chicago
, Boston, and Denver
; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. The strike lasts two weeks.
1981 Philadelphia
police officer Daniel Faulkner is shot and killed during a routine traffic stop of a vehicle driven by William Cook, Mumia Abu-Jamal's younger brother.
1985 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mayor Wilson Goode orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 61 city residents in the resulting fire.
1985 ''Live Aid'' pop concerts in Philadelphia
and London
raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia
.
1986 Cargo ship ''Khian Sea'' departs from the docks of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, carrying 14,000 tons of toxic waste. It will wander the seas for the next 16 months trying to find a place to dump its cargo.
1996 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Garry Kasparov
beats "Deep Blue" in a second chess
match.
1996 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet
. The panel says that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults.
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