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Cincinnati

city in and seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States

10 dated entries naming Cincinnati, drawn from 9 separate years between 1789 CE and 1990 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati, Ohio in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

  • 1789Fort Washington is built in Cincinnati, to protect early U.S. settlements in the Northwest Territory.source

19th century

  • 1831Xavier University in Cincinnati (as "The Athenaeum")source
  • 1837April 12 – The conglomerate of Procter & Gamble has its origins, when British-born businessmen William Procter and James Gamble begin selling their first manufactured goods (soap and candles) in Cincinnati, Ohio.source
  • 1865May 5 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the country takes place.source
  • 1867January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It is renamed after its designer, John A. Roebling, in 1983.source
  • 1867January 1 – The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world.source
  • 1883Bernard Kroger establishes the first Kroger grocery store, in Cincinnati, Ohio.source

20th century

  • 1922March 22 – Radio station WLW in Cincinnati begins broadcasting.source
  • 1979December 3 – The Who concert disaster: Eleven fans are killed during a crowd crush for unreserved seats before The Who rock concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati.source
  • 1990April 6 – Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homoerotic photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.source

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