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In 1681, King Charles II of England granted a charter to William Penn for a large tract of...
Read more →In July 1776, delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered in Philadelphia and adopted th...
Read more →Pennsylvania ratified the United States Constitution on December 12, 1787, becoming the se...
Read more →The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, producing the doc...
Read more →In August 1859, Edwin Drake drilled the first commercially successful oil well in the Unit...
Read more →From July 1 to 3, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg in southern Pennsylvania was the bloodies...
Read more →Pittsburgh became one of the world's great steel-producing cities in the late nineteenth c...
Read more →Pennsylvania's steel mills and manufacturing plants operated at maximum capacity during Wo...
Read more →On March 28, 1979, a partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Ha...
Read more →Today, Pennsylvania is home to world-class universities, research hospitals, and a diverse...
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