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On This Day In Buffalo

Sunday, December 22

Monday, December 23

Niagara Cantilever Bridge opens, 1883

President Trump pardons felon & former Rep. Chris Collins, 2020

Blizzard of 2022 begins, 2022

Erie County Correctional Facility dedicated, 1985

Erie County Correctional Facility, 11581 Walden Ave, Alden, NY 14004, USA

Tuesday, December 24

Treaty of Ghent signed, ending the War of 1812, 1814

Belgium

First mass celebrated at St. Margaret's Church, 1916

St Margaret R. C. Church, 1395 Hertel Ave #2, Buffalo, NY 14216, USA

First known exhibition of paintings and statuary in Buffalo, 1861

American Hall, Main Street

Blizzard of 2001 begins, dropping 70+ inches of snow

Wednesday, December 25

Buffalo Stockyards founded, 1863

First mass celebrated at Our Lady of Victory Basilica, 1925

Our Lady of Victory Basilica, 767 Ridge Rd, Buffalo, NY 14218, United States

Nine smallpox victims quarantined, 1903

First mass celebrated at St . Bernard's, 1907

Thursday, December 26

Kwanzaa first celebrated in Buffalo, 1966

Death of anchorman Irv Weinstein, 2017

Wood pulp paper first exhibited in Buffalo, 1854

First telephone installed in Buffalo, 1877

204 Pearl St, Buffalo, NY 14202, USA

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