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On This Day In Buffalo

Saturday, April 19

Kittinger Company incorporated, 1917

Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus incorporated, 1990

New Temple Beth Zion dedicated, 1967

805 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, USA

Buffalo resident Capt. W.W. Bush, first man to enlist for Civil War, dies, 1887

Sunday, April 20

Buffalo incorporated as city, 1832

Erie grain elevator destroyed by fire, 1867

Town of Lancaster established, 1833

Buffalo & East Aurora Electric Railroad incorporated, 1892

Monday, April 21

Broadway National Bank opens, 1919

1067 Broadway, Buffalo, NY 14212, USA

Buffalo's Marse Joe McCarthy born, 1887

Buffalo called "Cradle of Aircraft" gets huge air show (1929), 1928

Tuesday, April 22

Babe Ruth defeats Buffalo 6-0, 1914

Ralph Nader speaks on first Earth Day, 1970

Clark Gym, University at Buffalo

Wednesday, April 23

Catholic Diocese of Buffalo established, 1847

Ballplayer Warren Spahn born, 1921

John Truces of Seneca Street becomes the first Arab to be naturalized in the US, 1896

C.R. Rao of Amherst wins Nobel Prize in Statistics, 2023