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** In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Garry Kasparov beats " Deep Blue " in a second chess match.
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** The Benjamin Franklin Bridge across the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey
** The Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia, which presents the Benjamin Franklin Medal
** The Portland Trail Blazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109 – 107 to win the National Basketball Association finals four games to two.
** Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney, are murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, by local Klansmen, cops, and a sheriff.
** Jim Bunning pitches a perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies, the first in the National League since 1880.
** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.
** Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak of Legionnaires ' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.
** The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills 3 firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building.
** United States politics: The Republican Party begins its national convention in Philadelphia and nominates Wendell Willkie as its candidate for president.
** 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, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Boston, and Denver, Colorado ; 210, 000 out of 750, 000 U. S. postal employees walk out.
** The cargo ship Khian Sea departs from the docks of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, carrying 14, 000 tons of toxic waste.
** Live Aid pop concerts in London and Philadelphia raise over £ 50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.
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** An avalanche in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania kills 26, including Vulcan Crucible Steel Co heir-apparent Samuel A. Stafford Sr., when two 100 ton boulders fall on a bus filled with wartime steel workers on their way home.
** ENIAC ( for " Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer "), an early general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
** The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad merge to form Penn Central, the largest ever corporate merger up to this date.
** Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the company's history ( the event lasts two days ).
** In the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ( owned by Westinghouse ) starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station.
** Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six other people are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
** Johnstown Flood: The South Fork Dam collapses in western Pennsylvania, killing more than 2, 200 people in and around Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
** An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
** Four hundred students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest institute for higher education for African Americans.
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** Editor & Publisher report that Garry Trudeau is to receive a lifetime achievement award from Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy on April 4.
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