Portal:Philadelphia/Selected anniversaries/May
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< Portal:Philadelphia | Selected anniversaries
- May 6, 1844 - An anti-Catholic riot erupts in Kensington, the riots continue for three days.
- May 10, 1877 - Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art opens the museum which would eventually become the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- May 12, 1985 - After a gun battle with members of MOVE, Philadelphia police drop a bomb on the MOVE compound starting a fire that destroys 61 houses and kills eleven MOVE members.
- May 28, 1755 - Construction of Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, begins.
