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General john forbes names the area near fort duquesne "PITTSBURGH" after william pitt elder
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pittsburgh is incorpated as a town
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Pittsburgh is incorrpated as bourgh
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pittsburgh incorriated as a city
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Andrew william mellon became head of T. mellon and sons bank him and his brother Richard B. coal,coke,steel,aluminum,oil,railrads,devolplupt one of the greatest finalial empires
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united states borad on geographic names desingnates the city as pittsburg
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due to protests the usbgn reverses its decesion and city becomes offically PITTSBURGH
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liberty tubes project completed in 1924 joespheh g armstrong and his two grandsons undid a ribbion to open the liberty bridge
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tubes project completed in 1924
joespheh G armstrong two grandsons un did a ribbion to open the liberity bridge -
in 1940 pittsburgh geared up to fight another war with mills expandimg and working around the clock to produce 95 million tons of steel
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1944 LST-750 financed entirely by $5 milion worth of extra war bounds bought by allenghy country residents was lauchend befroe a crowd of 25,000 people
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hill district 95 acres cleared for new buildings civic arena and high rise apartments led to declinc of hill district
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Gateway center old buildings torn down new buldings/sky scrappers replaceing them
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william steinburgh escaped germany conductor of nbc syothony perminit conductor
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greater pittsburgh airport in 1952 families watched the planes
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mellon square park public /private funding richard mellon and david larwence dedicatied it 5,000 people came to opening
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John cardnial wright served as bishop to pittsburgh elevated to cardinal by pope paul VI
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pirates won won world seris was aginst new york yankees bill mazerozski hit the winning homerun
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rachel carson silent spring which alerted world about the dangors of pesticides she gradutaed from chadham
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hill district $620,000 in property damage national called in to guard the streets
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walt harper he opened the attic night club market squrae used to play at crawford grill
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collective bargan steel industry union agreed not to strike when neotiong done by I.W. Abel union
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Robert C. Alberts described it in his own the shaping of a point book in 1980
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Penn hills chanegs in neighborhoods developed of subrubs