Detail of head-taken at the Cincinnati Zoo.

* 1918 – The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.

Martha, thought to be the world's last Passenger Pigeon, died on September 1, 1914, at the Cincinnati Zoo.

The last attempt to breed the remaining specimens was done by Whitman and the Cincinnati Zoo, which included attempts at making a rock dove foster passenger pigeon eggs.

Whitman sent Martha, which was to be the last known specimen, to Cincinnati Zoo in 1902.

Remains of the last wild passenger pigeon at Cincinnati Zoo

On September 1, 1914, Martha, the last known Passenger Pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati, Ohio.

A memorial statue of Martha stands on the grounds of the Cincinnati Zoo.

The song tells the story about the Passenger Pigeon's extinction and Martha's life in her cage in Cincinnati Zoo.

* 1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

* February 21 – The last captive Carolina Parakeet ( the last breed of parrot native to the eastern United States ) dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.

Detail of head – taken at the Cincinnati Zoo

The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is one of the oldest zoos in the United States and is located in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Cincinnati Zoo is located in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Avondale.

This site was acquired in 1874 and the zoo officially opened its doors to the public on September 18, 1875, making the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden the second oldest intentionally constructed zoo in the United States.

Founded by Jonathan Schoonover of Cincinnati and designed by the landscape engineer Theodor Fundeisen, The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden was originally named the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens.

There have been many animals at Cincinnati Zoo that have held records, including the longest living alligator in captivity at the time ( at about 70 years of age ), the fastest cheetah in captivity, and the largest Komodo Dragon ( which died in 2005 ).

Cincinnati Zoo is involved in a rescue and rehabilitation program, in which they care for rescued manatees before releasing them back into the wild, and since the opening of Manatee Springs the Zoo has successfully rehabilitated ten manatees.

One was an article on the U.N. by Alice Widener from the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

Walsh and the 49ers defeated Cincinnati in the Super Bowl, which was played in Pontiac, Michigan.

The nickname was first used for a baseball team by the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were members of the pioneering National Association of Base Ball Players.

When a new Cincinnati club was formed as a charter member of the National League in 1876, the " Red Stockings " nickname was commonly reserved for them once again, and the Boston team was referred to as the " Red Caps ".

Johnson, a Cincinnati-based reporter, had been recommended by his friend Charles Comiskey, former major league star with the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s, who was then managing the Cincinnati Reds.

He ultimately chose the former when a deal between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds ( who were seeking a replacement for the obsolete Crosley Field ) was struck that resulted in an agreement to build a multipurpose stadium which could host both baseball and football games.

There was also a complication: Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds were in need of a facility to replace the antiquated, obsolete Crosley Field, which they had used since 1912.

However, Crosley was adamant that the Reds remain in Cincinnati and tolerated worsening problems with the Crosley Field location, which were exacerbated by the Millcreek Expressway ( I-75 ) project that ran alongside the park.

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

During the 1869 season, Cleveland was among several cities which established professional baseball teams following the success of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional team.

The Ohio Cup was an annual pre-season baseball game, which pitted the Ohio rivals Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds.

Popular outfielder Dante Bichette was traded to the Cincinnati Reds.

A recurring theme on the show WKRP in Cincinnati was a hostile attitude towards disco music.

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Evanston to Alma Sophia ( née Welz, a housewife ) and William Kappelhoff ( a music teacher and choir master ).

In 1849, the first National Convention was held at Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Christian Standard was edited and published by Isaac Errett of Cincinnati.

It was also in 1967 that Wynn hit his famous home run onto Interstate 75 in Cincinnati.

On April 13, Aaron made his major league debut and was hitless in five at-bats against the Cincinnati Reds ' left-hander Joe Nuxhall.

He put his theories to the test by establishing an experimental " labor for labor store " called the Cincinnati Time Store where trade was facilitated by notes backed by a promise to perform labor.

Bench was drafted 36th overall by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 1965 amateur draft, playing for the minor-league Buffalo Bisons in the 1966 and 1967 seasons before being called up to the Reds in August 1967.

Three years earlier, Bench had been inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in and his uniform # 5 was retired by the team.

In a September interview with Heidi Watney of the New England Sports Network, Johnny Bench, who was watching a Cleveland Indians / Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, did an impression of late Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray after Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis, a native of Cincinnati, made a tough play.