Ohio History Timeline (Part 2)

Events 101 - 193 of 193

• 1936-01-15 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
• 1937-01-01 US Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio
• 1940-06-05 A synthetic rubber tire exhibited in Akron, Ohio by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• 1942-12-01 With WWII travel restrictions in mind, MLB owners decide to restrict travel to a 3-trip schedule rather than customary 4; Spring training in 1943 limited to locations north of Potomac or Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi
• 1944-10-20 Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland, Ohio, explode, 135 die, and 3,600 are left homeless
• 1944-12-02 10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les Horvath, Ohio State (QB)
• 1947-05-11 BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)
• 1947-09-15 First four-engined jet-propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Ohio
• 1947-12-17 WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, Ohio (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1949-07-10 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced in Toledo, Ohio
• 1949-12-19 WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, Ohio (CBS) begins broadcasting

• 1950-09-11 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton, Ohio
• 1950-12-12 16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB)
• 1952-05-28 Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio; the park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America.
• 1953-01-03 Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress, both representing Ohio
• 1953-03-27 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut, Ohio
• 1955-12-08 21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB)
• 1956-12-22 Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Columbus, Ohio
• 1957-11-02 1st titanium mill opened at Toronto, Ohio
• 1957-12-12 Willem J. Kolff and his team at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic removed the heart from a dog and replaced it with a pneumatic pump which kept the dog alive for 90 minutes, proving the viability of the artificial heart
• 1961-04-27 NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio
• 1962-12-31 Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cin for 10 yrs
• 1963-09-07 Two-building Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio is officially opened

• 1965-02-07 WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, Ohio (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1965-06-19 KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia
• 1965-10-05 Dick McInnes from Henderson, Kentucky stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite pulled by a speedboat along the Ohio River
• 1966-07-12 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall in Sandusky,Ohio (state record, until broken in 1995)
• 1967-06-12 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
• 1967-11-07 Carl Stokes elected first African American mayor of a major US city - Cleveland, Ohio
• 1967-11-13 Carl Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland, Ohio)
• 1967-12-15 The Silver Bridge collapses over the Ohio River in the US, killing 46 people
• 1968-01-19 WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1968-04-26 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
• 1968-06-15 "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" by Ohio Express hits #4
• 1968-06-17 Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold
• 1968-09-15 WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1969-07-04 The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
• 1969-11-15 Wendy's Hamburgers, American fast food restaurant chains founded by Dave Thomas opens in Columbus, Ohio
• 1970-05-04 National Guard kills 4 student anti-war protesters at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio
• 1970-05-08 Thousands of students protest against the Vietnam War following the Kent State University shootings in Ohio
• 1970-05-21 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University
• 1971-07-01 North Carolina becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, ratifying 26th amendment
• 1973-05-26 "Funky Worm" by Ohio Players hits #15
• 1973-09-15 Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing
• 1973-12-28 Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby
• 1974-06-26 The Universal Product Code (UPC) is scanned for the first time, to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
• 1974-12-24 Former US astronaut John Glenn joins the US Senate representing Ohio
• 1974-12-27 40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
• 1975-12-06 41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
• 1976-01-31 "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1
• 1976-03-04 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
• 1976-03-29 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State University students in 1970
• 1977-08-15 "Wow" possible alien radio signal from deep space received at "The Big Ear", Ohio State's radio telescope in Delaware
• 1978-12-16 Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks.
• 1978-12-30 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
• 1979-01-04 US State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State University shooting victims, in an out of court settlement
• 1979-05-03 1979 NFL Draft: Tom Cousineau from Ohio State first pick by Buffalo Bills
• 1979-06-22 Pro Football Researchers Association forms in Canton, Ohio
• 1982-11-01 Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
• 1982-12-03 77°F highest December temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1983-09-23 Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa KOs American Michael Dokes in 10 rounds in Richfield. Ohio for WBA heavyweight boxing title
• 1985-05-31 Tornado outbreak in the United States and Canada sees 41 tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, leaving 90 dead
• 1985-06-11 WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
• 1987-08-18 Ohio health care worker Donald Harvey sentenced to triple life for poisoning 24 patients
• 1989-10-30 Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
• 1991-09-19 Colt Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug at Delaware, Ohio
• 1992-08-31 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM
• 1993-04-11 450 prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continue for ten days, citing grievances about prison conditions and the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis)
• 1994-01-07 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
• 1994-01-19 -20°F (-29°C) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio
• 1994-04-24 NFL Draft: Ohio State defensive tackle Dan Wilkinson first pick by Cincinnati Bengals
• 1995-09-01 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum opens in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1995-09-11 Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day"
• 1995-12-09 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB)
• 1997-04-19 NFL Draft: Ohio State offensive tackle Orlando Pace first pick by St. Louis Rams
• 1997-06-17 NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul & Columbus, Ohio in 2000

• 2005-10-15 Riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested

• 2006-12-09 72nd Heisman Trophy Award: Troy Smith, Ohio State (QB)
• 2007-06-28 NBA Draft: Ohio State center Greg Oden first pick by Portland Trail Blazers
• 2012-06-30 Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia
• 2012-08-06 A large fire erupts at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Ohio, injuring six employees
• 2015-08-06 Republican Presidential nomination race begins with debate between 7 lesser ranked candidates in Cleveland, Ohio
• 2015-10-29 Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives, succeeding John Boehner (R-Ohio)
• 2018-11-13 Four members of a family arrested for the Rhoden family massacre where eight people were shot, south of Columbus, Ohio in 2016
• 2019-06-05 Ohio doctor William Husel charged with 25 counts of murder for prescribing potentially fatal doses of opioids in Franklin County
• 2019-08-04 Gunman kills nine and injures 27 at a bar in Dayton, Ohio, in 2nd mass shooting in 24 hours in the US
• 2019-10-15 Record 12 Democratic presidential candidates participate in a live TV debate in Westerville, Ohio

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• 1848-10-31 Boston Custer, brother of George Armstrong Custer, born in New Rumley, Ohio (d. 1876)
• 1849-04-17 William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, born in Ravenna, Ohio (d. 1923)
• 1851-06-21 Daniel Carter Beard, American author, social reformer and founder of the Boy Scouts of America, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1941)
• 1851-08-13 John Lincoln Clem, American general and drummer boy (Union Army), born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1937)
• 1856-09-12 Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1924)
• 1857-01-14 Alice Pike Barney, American painter, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1931)
• 1857-04-18 Clarence Darrow, American defense attorney at Scopes Monkey Trial, born in Kinsman, Ohio (d. 1938)
• 1857-05-05 Lee Richmond, American baseball pitcher (first ever MLB perfect game 1880), born in Sheffield, Ohio (d. 1929)
• 1857-05-19 John Jacob Abel, American pharmacologist (endocrine glands), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1938)

• 1857-10-07 Moses Walker, American baseball catcher (first African-American open about his heritage to play MLB; Toledo Blue Stockings), born in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio (d. 1924)
• 1858-06-20 Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (The Conjure Woman), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1932)
• 1860-01-02 William Corless Mills, American museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds), born in Pyrmont, Ohio. (d. 1928)
• 1860-01-26 Harry Micajah Daugherty, American politician, lawyer and political manager accused of corruption, born in Washington Court House, Ohio (d. 1941)

• 1860-08-15 Florence Harding [DeWolfe], US 1st lady (1921-23), born in Marion, Ohio (d. 1924)
• 1861-07-11 George W. Norris, U.S. Senator noted for his advocacy of political reform and of public ownership of hydroelectric-power plants, born in Sandusky, Ohio (d. 1944)
• 1862-04-11 William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer and Director of Lick Observatory, born in Hancock County, Ohio (d. 1938)
• 1863-12-06 Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and investor, born in Thompson, Ohio (d. 1914)
• 1864-06-03 Ransom Eli Olds, American auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer, born in Geneva, Ohio (d. 1950)
• 1864-11-11 George Washington Crile, American surgeon (conducted the first direct blood transfusion and studied the effects of surgical shock), born in Chili, Ohio (d. 1943)
• 1865-04-10 Jack Miner, Canadian naturalist and conservationist, born in Dover Center, Ohio (d. 1944)
• 1865-06-24 Robert Henri, American painter (The Eight) and leader of Ashcan school of painting, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1929)
• 1865-08-02 Irving Babbitt, American writer (Rousseau & Romanticism), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1933)
• 1865-08-27 Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States, banker and 1925 Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Marietta, Ohio (d. 1951)

• 1867-07-28 Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer working in Argentina, born in Steubenville, Ohio (d. 1951)
• 1867-08-11 Hobart Bosworth, American actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), born in Marietta, Ohio (d. 1943)
• 1867-08-22 Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor (altimeter, automobile self-starter, and early television pioneer), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1934)
• 1867-09-07 Evan Williams, American oratorio tenor, born in Mineral Ridge, Ohio (d. 1918)
• 1867-10-30 Ed Delahanty, American Baseball HOF left fielder (NL batting champion 1899; NL home run leader 1893, 96; 3 × NL RBI leader; Philadelphia Phillies), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1903)
• 1868-03-01 Alaska P. Davidson, America's first female FBI agent, born in Warren, Ohio (d. 1934)

• 1869-04-08 Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1939)
• 1869-07-01 William Strunk Jr., American grammarian and author (The Elements of Style), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1946)
• 1869-10-09 Harry Lawrence Freeman, American opera composer (Epthelia), composer, teacher, and impresario (Freeman Opera Company), known as the 'Black Wagner', born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1954)

• 1869-12-20 Charley Grapewin, American actor (The Wizard of Oz; Libeled Lady), born in Xenia, Ohio (d. 1956)
• 1870-12-13 Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (Modern Times, The Dumb Messenger), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1940)
• 1871-02-09 Howard T Ricketts, American pathologist (studied typhus fever), born in Findlay, Ohio (d. 1910)
• 1871-04-08 Clarence Hudson White, American photographer, born in Newark, Ohio (d. 1925)

• 1874-04-15 George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist, born in Clark County, Ohio (d. 1954)
• 1874-06-17 Grant Mitchell, American actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1957)
• 1874-06-28 Oley Speaks, American composer (On the Road to Mandalay), born in Canal Winchester, Ohio (d. 1948)
• 1874-07-31 Clarence Kolb, American actor and performer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1964)

• 1876-08-29 Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (auto self-starter), born in Loudenville, Ohio (d. 1958)
• 1876-09-13 Sherwood Anderson, American author and publisher (Winesburg Ohio), born in Camden, Ohio (d. 1941)
• 1877-05-04 Arthur Lang, American boxer and businessman, born in Van Wert, Ohio (d. 1992)
• 1877-07-06 David Stanley Smith, American composer (Merrymount), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1949)
• 1878-01-17 Oscar Apfel, American actor (The Squaw Man, Inspiration, Before Dawn), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1938)
• 1878-01-29 Barney Oldfield, American auto racer (International Motorsports Hall of Fame; first to drive at 60mph on circular track), born near Wauseon, Ohio (d. 1946)
• 1878-03-27 Miller Huggins, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (World Series 1923, 27, 28; 6 x AL pennants NY Yankees), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1929)
• 1878-08-31 Albert Riemenschneider, American pianist, educator, musicologist, and founder of America'a oldest Bach Festival, born in Berea, Ohio (d. 1950)
• 1879-02-03 Charles Follis "The Black Cyclone", American football halfback (1st black pro player Shelby Blues 1902-06), born in Cloverdale, Virginia (d. 1910)
• 1879-06-11 Roger Bresnahan, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, outfielder and manager (World Series 1905 NY Giants; St. Louis Cardinals; first shin guards and batting helmet), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1944)
• 1879-10-22 Joe Carr, American Pro Football HOF contributor (NFL President 1921-39), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1939)
• 1880-07-04 George Mullin, American baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers; no-hitter 1912), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1944)
• 1881-04-04 Charles Earle Funk, American lexicographer (Funk & Wagnalls) (d. 1957)

• 1883-03-07 Marion Lord, American actress (Broadway), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1942)
• 1883-05-26 Mamie Smith, American vaudeville singer, dancer and actress (Crazy Blues), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1946)
• 1884-03-14 Wintter Watts, American classical music and art song composer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1962)
• 1884-09-06 Emerson Whithorne, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1958)
• 1884-11-20 Norman Thomas, American socialist, pacifist and presidential candidate (1928-48), born in Marion Ohio (d. 1968)
• 1885-07-29 Theda Bara, American film actress (Cleopatra, The Unchastened Woman), born in Avondale, Ohio (d. 1955)
• 1885-09-06 Otto Kruger, American actor (Lux Video Theater, High Noon), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1974)
• 1886-08-06 Edward Ballantine, American composer and music professor, born in Oberlin, Ohio (d. 1971)

• 1887-03-18 Frank Moran, American heavyweight boxer and film actor, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1967)
• 1887-04-08 Walter Connolly, American actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1940)
• 1887-06-23 John Finley Williamson, American choral conductor (Westminster Choir College, 1920-58), born in Canton, Ohio (d. 1964)
• 1887-09-14 Karl Taylor Compton, American physicist and 9th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, born in Wooster, Ohio (d. 1954)
• 1887-10-25 Emma "Grandma" Gatewood, American ultra-light hiking pioneer and 1st woman to hike the Appalachian Trail alone, born in Mercerville, Ohio (d. 1973)
• 1887-11-09 Gertrude Astor [Eyster], American silent and sound screen character actress (The Strong Man: Hell Bound), born in Lakewood, Ohio (d. 1977)
• 1887-12-23 John Cromwell, American actor and director (Spitfire, Of Human Bondage), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1979)

• 1888-09-19 Porter Hall, American actor (Half-Breed, Double Indemnity), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1953)
• 1888-11-23 Nana Bryant, American stage and screen actress (Ladies of the Chorus; Harvey; Brewster's Millions), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1955)
• 1889-01-02 Walter Baldwin, American actor (The Best Years of Our Lives, The Long, Long Trailer), born in Lima, Ohio (d. 1977)

• 1889-04-18 John Kilbane, American featherweight boxer and World Featherweight Champion (1912-23), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1957)
• 1889-06-25 Ethel Glenn Hier, American composer, born in Madisonville, Ohio (d. 1971)
• 1889-09-08 Robert A. Taft, American politician (U.S. Senator from Ohio), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1953)
• 1890-06-06 Ted Lewis [Theodore Leopold Friedman], American entertainer, bandleader and musician ("Is Everybody Happy?"), born in Circleville, Ohio (d. 1971)
• 1890-07-18 Charles Erwin Wilson, American engineer (President and CEO of General Motors) and politician (United States Secretary of Defense 1953-57), born in Minerva, Ohio (d. 1961)
• 1890-10-08 Eddie Rickenbacker, American aviator "Ace of Aces" (WWI), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1973)
• 1891-12-25 Earle Foxe, American actor (Dance Fools Dance), born in Oxford, Ohio (d. 1973)
• 1892-01-30 Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, American composer, pianist and lecturer (Tre Ritratti Characteristici), born in Delta, Ohio (d. 1978)
• 1892-04-06 Lowell Thomas, American newscaster (High Adventure), born in Woodington, Ohio (d. 1981)
• 1892-05-01 Howard Barlow, American conductor (Voice of Firestone), born in Plain City, Ohio (d. 1972)
• 1892-07-26 "Sad" Sam Jones, American baseball pitcher (no-hitter 1923; World Series 1918, 23; Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees), born in Woodsfield, Ohio (d. 1966)
• 1892-07-28 Joe E. Brown, American comedian (Buck Circus Hour), born in Holgate, Ohio (d. 1973)
• 1893-04-08 Grace Cunard, American silent screen actress (Untamed, Resurrection), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1967)

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