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Originally Posted by rfaulk34

1793 First settlement in Ohio to publish a newspaper
1835 First bag of airmail lifted by a hot air balloon.
1849 First city in the U.S. to hold a municipal song festival—Saengerfest.
1850 First city in the U.S. to establish a Jewish hospital.
1850 First city in the U.S. to publish greeting cards—Gibson Greeting Card Company.
1853 First practical steam fire engine. First city to establish a municipal fire department and first fireman's pole.
1869 First city to establish a weather bureau.
1869 First professional baseball team—the Cincinnati Red Stockings, now known as the Cincinnati Reds.
1870 First city in the U.S. to establish a municipal university—University of Cincinnati.
1870 First city to hold annual industrial expositions.
1875 First city to establish a Jewish theological college—Hebrew Union College.
1875 Reuben Springer offered to finance building of Music Hall for May Festival if citizens also contribute; becomes first matching fund-raiser.
1880 First city in which a woman, Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, began and operated a large manufacturing operation—Rookwood Pottery.
1880 First and only city to build and own a major railroad.
1902 First concrete skyscraper built in the U.S.—the Ingalls Building.
1905 Daniel Carter Beard founded the Sons of Daniel Boone, later known as the Boy Scouts of America.
1906 First university to offer cooperative education—University of Cincinnati.
1935 First night baseball game played under lights.
1952 First heart-lung machine makes open heart surgery possible. Developed at Children's Hospital Medical Center.
1954 First city to have a licensed Public television station—WCET TV.