** Early German-American or Pennsylvania Dutch and Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine

** Franklin Field, a football field once home to the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League and the home field of the University of Pennsylvania Quakers since 1895

** C. v. marilandicus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )-coastal New England to Pennsylvania and central Virginia

** Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

** Cumberland Valley, in Pennsylvania and Maryland

** Pennsylvania: a corridor from the southwestern corner to north central border.

** Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a ' stop-Goldwater ' movement.

** James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University

** 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.

** In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Garry Kasparov beats " Deep Blue " in a second chess match.

** 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.

** 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.

** The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills 3 firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building.

** 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.

** The first religious radio broadcast is heard over station KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

** 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.

** 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.

** Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, reporting mark BAR

** Harvey House Railroad Depot, station code BAR

** Four of 5 railroad operating unions strike against the Illinois Central Railroad without warning, bringing to a head a 5-year dispute over railroad work rules.

** Don Brewer, American drummer ( Grand Funk Railroad )

** Mark Farner, American rock guitarist and singer ( Grand Funk Railroad )

** The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the BNSF Railway, making it one of the largest railroad mergers in U. S. history.

** Ground is broken in Sacramento, California, on the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.

** The Nishitetsu Lions baseball club, part of the NPB's Pacific League, is sold to the Fukuoka Baseball Corporation, a subsidiary of Nishi-Nippon Railroad.

** The United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.

** Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the national income tax.

** President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Pacific Railway Acts, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

** Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The U. S. Supreme Court rules that corporations have the same rights as living persons.

** The 223-mile North Carolina Railroad is completed from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Salisbury to Charlotte.

** Railroad track maintenance

** Stratford ( Metro-North station ), Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Stratford, Connecticut via the New Haven Line

** Kingston Railroad Station ( Rhode Island )

** Philippi B & O Railroad Station

** Santa Fe Arroyo Seco Railroad Bridge

** Santa Fe Branch ( Chili Line ), a narrow-gauge branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

** Santa Fe Railroad Tugboats, across San Francisco Bay

** Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railroad

** This community was named by L. R. White who had lost a leg in the service of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.