(1974) The undefeated
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team is ranked for the 1st time in 15 seasons, at number seventeen they will rank for 11 consecutive weeks, 3 in the top 10.
(1969) The student organization, the Black Action Society, takes over the university computer center on the eighth floor of the
Cathedral of Learning in a non-violent protest that prompts efforts to improve African-American academic resources and increase the number of black students and faculty at Pitt.
(1993) A three-point bomb by
Pitt basketball freshman Garrick Thomas breaks a 73-73 tie with four seconds remaining, lifting the Panthers to an upset win over seventh ranked
Seton Hall 76-73. Thomas finishes with 16 points while teammate Chris McNeal scores 19 points and grabs 11 rebounds.
(1988) World media report heavily about the doctors at the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for their innovative transplant surgery on nine-year-old Tabatha Foster after a Presidential address by
Ronald Reagan commending the hospital and urging American's to donate to Tabatha's recovery.
(1963) The Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team loses the
Backyard Brawl despite Bobby Roman's buzzer-beating shot for what fans rushing the court think is a 69–68 win. A time keeper at the Fitzgerald Field House had stopped the clock at one second after seeing Pitt call time. The Panthers lose and 11 days and 2 ejections later will beat
West Virginia in Morgantown by the same score.
(2002) President
George W. Bush visits Pitt, touring university biomedical facilities and giving a speech in
Alumni Hall outlining his
bioterrorism defense plan.
(1988) The largest crowd in Pittsburgh history to watch a basketball game, 16,798 at Pittsburgh's
Civic Arena, watches eleventh ranked Syracuse upset fifth ranked
Pitt.
(1963) Eleven days after a time out gaffe erases a last second Bobby Roman basket allowing
West Virginia the win 68-67 at Fitzgerald Field House, the
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team wins at Morgantown 69-68 after Brian Generalovich and
Gale Catlett are both ejected.
(1987) The number ten ranked
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team get their 21st win of the season and 8th straight conference win. Pitt rallies back to force two overtime periods before beating Boston College, all without star
Charles Smith.
[3]
(1984)
Pitt surgeons perform the world's first ever double-organ transplant, a pediatric heart-liver transplant for six-year-old
Stormie Jones.
(2004) The number 4 ranked
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team never trails and beats number 5 ranked UConn 75-68 in a rematch of the prior year's Big East Title Game at the
Petersen Events Center. Tickets are scalped for over $300 and 150 media outlets request credentials to the first meeting of top 5 teams in Pittsburgh city history.
(1859)
Allegheny Observatory, to become part of the university in 1867, is founded by the Allegheny Telescope Association in what was then the city of
Allegheny.
(1935) In what may be the longest basketball game in history, the clock stops in the 2nd half at Notre Dame as the
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team use it to rally from 10 behind, scoring the game winner in the last second (after the clock once again was started), prompting Irish coach George Keegan to grab the clock and throw it the length of the court.
[4]
(1978) Conference rival Villanova finally meets the
Panthers after having their game postponed due to an outbreak of "Russian Flu" with their players (though Pitt fans suspected it was to rest Villanova star Bradley), though Bradley scores 35 points the Panthers win 97–81 as fans chant "Who's got the Flu?" throughout the game.
[5]
(1949) The
Panthers snap West Virginia's 58 game home win streak with a 1 basket win.
[6]
(1978) At the height of the
City Game rivalry
Duquesne Dukes coach John Cinicola complains to referees that Pitt's band is playing past the whistle, as he points to the band,
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball coach
Tim Grgurich leads them into yet another song. Pitt freshman
Sam Clancy scores 20 points and grabs 20 rebounds for the win.
[7][8]
(1905)
Samuel McCormick is inaugurated as the ninth permanent Chancellor of the university.
(1940)
Pitt plays in the first ever televised basketball game, a 57–37 victory over
Fordham at
Madison Square Garden that is televised by
NBC station W2XBS.
(1939) Legendary Pittsburgh Panthers football head coach
Jock Sutherland announces his resignation, prompting student protests, after a series of disagreements with Chancellor
John Bowman. It will be 15 seasons until the program recovers with a Bowl Game appearance.
(1954)
WQEDPBS channel 13, established by the university in what is now the
Music Building, begins broadcasting as the first community-sponsored television station in the United States.
(2011) The
Petersen Sports Complex holds its grand opening with a "First Pitch Event" that featured games played by Pitt's
baseball, softball, and men's and women's soccer teams.
(2007) The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center announces it will move its headquarters operations to the
U.S. Steel Tower in
downtown Pittsburgh.
(1789) George Welch becomes the first principal of the
Pittsburgh Academy, forerunner of the university.
(1935) The
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team loses by just two baskets to LSU in the American Legion "national championship game" in Atlantic City.
(1920) The Pitt Aero Team, the
University of Pittsburgh's
air racing team, finishes fourth at the annual meet of Intercollegiate Flying Association, which also consists of teams from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Williams, Cornell, Rutgers, Penn, Lehigh, and Connecticut Wesleyan.
(1953)
Lothrop Hall, then a nurses' residence, is dedicated on the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth with the presentation of a brick from her home.
(1910) The song "Hail to Pitt", which becomes the university's fight song, is debuted at Pitt by its lyric writer George M. Kirk during the student
Cap and Gown Club play Here and There at the
Carnegie Music Hall.
(1925) The University of Pittsburgh announces that the fund for the
Cathedral of Learning has reached $5.6 million, double what any philanthropic cause has raised in the city's history.
(2000) The building housing the
Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic (WPIC) is officially dedicated as Thomas Detre Hall in honor of Detre, a former WPIC director and university Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences.
(1796) The first known prospectus listing a complete catalogue of courses for the
Pittsburgh Academy, forerunner of the University of Pittsburgh, is issued in the Pittsburgh Gazette by academy principal Reverend Robert Andrews.
(1918) During commencement exercises, Mary O'Hara Darlington and Edith Darlington Ammon present the University with the initial 11,000 volumes of the
Darlington Collection, one of the most important library collections on Western Pennsylvania history.
(1948) Five stations respond to a chemical fire at the University of Pittsburgh's University of Pittsburgh
Engineering Labs in the Oakland neighborhood.
(1910)
Thaw Hall, the original Engineering Building and the only remaining building of architect
Henry Hornbostel's "Acropolis Plan" for the campus, is dedicated.
(1996)
Mark Nordenberg, who had served as interim chancellor since August 1, 1995, is selected as Pitt's 17th permanent chancellor by the Board of Trustees.
(1999) John Peterson, a University of Pittsburgh alumnus, and his wife Gertrude, make the largest individual gift the university up until that point. The gift will be used for the
Peterson Events Center.
(1954) The University of Pittsburgh has the groundbreaking ceremony for the $15 million
Parran Hall to house the schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing.
(1988)
Pitt surgeons perform the first ever liver-pancrease transplant surgery in the United States.
(1987) University of Pittsburgh trustees vote to divest any funds affiliated with investment in
South Africa in response to that country's system of
Apartheid.
(1954) Ground is broken on a Fifth Avenue site, facing the Cathedral of Learning, for the University of Pittsburgh's new $2.5 million
Clapp Hall.
(1927)
Charles Lindbergh is welcomed to
Pittsburgh in front of a large crowd at the university's
Pitt Stadium during his national tour promoting aviation and celebrating his achievement in being the first to fly nonstop from New York to Paris.
(1854) The cornerstone is laid for a sixteen-room building in
downtown Pittsburgh, at the site of the present day
City-County Building, that would serve as the university's main facility from 1854 to 1882.
(1983) The
William Pitt Union reopens after a $13.9 million renovation that added a new Fifth Avenue entrance and functional lower level as well as an award-winning restoration of the original Louis XV-style interiors.
(1947) The Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund gave $13.6 million to the University of Pittsburgh to build and operate a
Graduate School of Public Health.
(2011) Pitt announced that alumnus and board of trustees member William S. Dietrich II had given the school its then largest ever donation; a $125 million gift that resulted in the
School of Arts and Sciences being renamed for his Dietrich's father, Kenneth.
(1951)
Pitt hosts Duke in the first nationwide television broadcast of a live sporting event, a
football game at
Pitt Stadium, which is televised coast-to-coast by
NBC.
(1905) The university assumes charge of the Dental Department which is renamed to the
School of Dentistry thus becoming an integral part of the university.
(1957) All major student activities are moved into the former Schenley Hotel, recently acquired and renovated, and today known as the
William Pitt Union.
(1985)
Pitt beings operations of the first campus-wide
fiber optic communications network in higher education allowing for high-speed voice, data, and video communications.
(1982)
Pitt's women's volleyball team earns the university's first ever
Big East Conference championship by winning the Big East Volleyball Tournament in the school's first year of conference play.
(2002) Pitt dedicates the
College of General Studies' 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success which was then located on fourth floor of the
Cathedral of Learning.
(1909) The
Panther is adopted as the official animal and mascot of the university, the first time a panther is adopted as a mascot by any college or university.
(1904) The
Pitt football team puts the finishing touches on its first undefeated season with 22-5 victory over Penn State, thus improving to 10-0.
(1910) The
Pitt football team clinches a undefeated and unscored upon season, credited by some as a
National Championship, when they shut out Penn State 11-0.
(1926) Panthers rusher
Gibby Welch sets a new all time yardage record in a college career, breaking
Red Grange's mark with a win over Penn State at
Pitt Stadium.
(2008) In one of sports' biggest upsets, the unranked
Pittsburgh Panthers stun undefeated number 2 West Virginia University at Morgantown, 19–15, in that season's
Backyard Brawl.
(1856)
John F. McLaren is formally inaugurated as the university's Principal, a title, originating from the school's days as the Pittsburgh Academy, that was used for the
head of the university until it was changed in 1872 to Chancellor.
(1974) The undefeated
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team is ranked for the 1st time in 15 seasons, at number seventeen they will rank for 11 consecutive weeks, 3 in the top 10.
(1969) The student organization, the Black Action Society, takes over the university computer center on the eighth floor of the
Cathedral of Learning in a non-violent protest that prompts efforts to improve African-American academic resources and increase the number of black students and faculty at Pitt.
(1993) A three-point bomb by
Pitt basketball freshman Garrick Thomas breaks a 73-73 tie with four seconds remaining, lifting the Panthers to an upset win over seventh ranked
Seton Hall 76-73. Thomas finishes with 16 points while teammate Chris McNeal scores 19 points and grabs 11 rebounds.
(1988) World media report heavily about the doctors at the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for their innovative transplant surgery on nine-year-old Tabatha Foster after a Presidential address by
Ronald Reagan commending the hospital and urging American's to donate to Tabatha's recovery.
(1963) The Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team loses the
Backyard Brawl despite Bobby Roman's buzzer-beating shot for what fans rushing the court think is a 69–68 win. A time keeper at the Fitzgerald Field House had stopped the clock at one second after seeing Pitt call time. The Panthers lose and 11 days and 2 ejections later will beat
West Virginia in Morgantown by the same score.
(2002) President
George W. Bush visits Pitt, touring university biomedical facilities and giving a speech in
Alumni Hall outlining his
bioterrorism defense plan.
(1988) The largest crowd in Pittsburgh history to watch a basketball game, 16,798 at Pittsburgh's
Civic Arena, watches eleventh ranked Syracuse upset fifth ranked
Pitt.
(1963) Eleven days after a time out gaffe erases a last second Bobby Roman basket allowing
West Virginia the win 68-67 at Fitzgerald Field House, the
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team wins at Morgantown 69-68 after Brian Generalovich and
Gale Catlett are both ejected.
(1987) The number ten ranked
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team get their 21st win of the season and 8th straight conference win. Pitt rallies back to force two overtime periods before beating Boston College, all without star
Charles Smith.
[3]
(1984)
Pitt surgeons perform the world's first ever double-organ transplant, a pediatric heart-liver transplant for six-year-old
Stormie Jones.
(2004) The number 4 ranked
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team never trails and beats number 5 ranked UConn 75-68 in a rematch of the prior year's Big East Title Game at the
Petersen Events Center. Tickets are scalped for over $300 and 150 media outlets request credentials to the first meeting of top 5 teams in Pittsburgh city history.
(1859)
Allegheny Observatory, to become part of the university in 1867, is founded by the Allegheny Telescope Association in what was then the city of
Allegheny.
(1935) In what may be the longest basketball game in history, the clock stops in the 2nd half at Notre Dame as the
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team use it to rally from 10 behind, scoring the game winner in the last second (after the clock once again was started), prompting Irish coach George Keegan to grab the clock and throw it the length of the court.
[4]
(1978) Conference rival Villanova finally meets the
Panthers after having their game postponed due to an outbreak of "Russian Flu" with their players (though Pitt fans suspected it was to rest Villanova star Bradley), though Bradley scores 35 points the Panthers win 97–81 as fans chant "Who's got the Flu?" throughout the game.
[5]
(1949) The
Panthers snap West Virginia's 58 game home win streak with a 1 basket win.
[6]
(1978) At the height of the
City Game rivalry
Duquesne Dukes coach John Cinicola complains to referees that Pitt's band is playing past the whistle, as he points to the band,
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball coach
Tim Grgurich leads them into yet another song. Pitt freshman
Sam Clancy scores 20 points and grabs 20 rebounds for the win.
[7][8]
(1905)
Samuel McCormick is inaugurated as the ninth permanent Chancellor of the university.
(1940)
Pitt plays in the first ever televised basketball game, a 57–37 victory over
Fordham at
Madison Square Garden that is televised by
NBC station W2XBS.
(1939) Legendary Pittsburgh Panthers football head coach
Jock Sutherland announces his resignation, prompting student protests, after a series of disagreements with Chancellor
John Bowman. It will be 15 seasons until the program recovers with a Bowl Game appearance.
(1954)
WQEDPBS channel 13, established by the university in what is now the
Music Building, begins broadcasting as the first community-sponsored television station in the United States.
(2011) The
Petersen Sports Complex holds its grand opening with a "First Pitch Event" that featured games played by Pitt's
baseball, softball, and men's and women's soccer teams.
(2007) The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center announces it will move its headquarters operations to the
U.S. Steel Tower in
downtown Pittsburgh.
(1789) George Welch becomes the first principal of the
Pittsburgh Academy, forerunner of the university.
(1935) The
Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball team loses by just two baskets to LSU in the American Legion "national championship game" in Atlantic City.
(1920) The Pitt Aero Team, the
University of Pittsburgh's
air racing team, finishes fourth at the annual meet of Intercollegiate Flying Association, which also consists of teams from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Williams, Cornell, Rutgers, Penn, Lehigh, and Connecticut Wesleyan.
(1953)
Lothrop Hall, then a nurses' residence, is dedicated on the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth with the presentation of a brick from her home.
(1910) The song "Hail to Pitt", which becomes the university's fight song, is debuted at Pitt by its lyric writer George M. Kirk during the student
Cap and Gown Club play Here and There at the
Carnegie Music Hall.
(1925) The University of Pittsburgh announces that the fund for the
Cathedral of Learning has reached $5.6 million, double what any philanthropic cause has raised in the city's history.
(2000) The building housing the
Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic (WPIC) is officially dedicated as Thomas Detre Hall in honor of Detre, a former WPIC director and university Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences.
(1796) The first known prospectus listing a complete catalogue of courses for the
Pittsburgh Academy, forerunner of the University of Pittsburgh, is issued in the Pittsburgh Gazette by academy principal Reverend Robert Andrews.
(1918) During commencement exercises, Mary O'Hara Darlington and Edith Darlington Ammon present the University with the initial 11,000 volumes of the
Darlington Collection, one of the most important library collections on Western Pennsylvania history.
(1948) Five stations respond to a chemical fire at the University of Pittsburgh's University of Pittsburgh
Engineering Labs in the Oakland neighborhood.
(1910)
Thaw Hall, the original Engineering Building and the only remaining building of architect
Henry Hornbostel's "Acropolis Plan" for the campus, is dedicated.
(1996)
Mark Nordenberg, who had served as interim chancellor since August 1, 1995, is selected as Pitt's 17th permanent chancellor by the Board of Trustees.
(1999) John Peterson, a University of Pittsburgh alumnus, and his wife Gertrude, make the largest individual gift the university up until that point. The gift will be used for the
Peterson Events Center.
(1954) The University of Pittsburgh has the groundbreaking ceremony for the $15 million
Parran Hall to house the schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing.
(1988)
Pitt surgeons perform the first ever liver-pancrease transplant surgery in the United States.
(1987) University of Pittsburgh trustees vote to divest any funds affiliated with investment in
South Africa in response to that country's system of
Apartheid.
(1954) Ground is broken on a Fifth Avenue site, facing the Cathedral of Learning, for the University of Pittsburgh's new $2.5 million
Clapp Hall.
(1927)
Charles Lindbergh is welcomed to
Pittsburgh in front of a large crowd at the university's
Pitt Stadium during his national tour promoting aviation and celebrating his achievement in being the first to fly nonstop from New York to Paris.
(1854) The cornerstone is laid for a sixteen-room building in
downtown Pittsburgh, at the site of the present day
City-County Building, that would serve as the university's main facility from 1854 to 1882.
(1983) The
William Pitt Union reopens after a $13.9 million renovation that added a new Fifth Avenue entrance and functional lower level as well as an award-winning restoration of the original Louis XV-style interiors.
(1947) The Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund gave $13.6 million to the University of Pittsburgh to build and operate a
Graduate School of Public Health.
(2011) Pitt announced that alumnus and board of trustees member William S. Dietrich II had given the school its then largest ever donation; a $125 million gift that resulted in the
School of Arts and Sciences being renamed for his Dietrich's father, Kenneth.
(1951)
Pitt hosts Duke in the first nationwide television broadcast of a live sporting event, a
football game at
Pitt Stadium, which is televised coast-to-coast by
NBC.
(1905) The university assumes charge of the Dental Department which is renamed to the
School of Dentistry thus becoming an integral part of the university.
(1957) All major student activities are moved into the former Schenley Hotel, recently acquired and renovated, and today known as the
William Pitt Union.
(1985)
Pitt beings operations of the first campus-wide
fiber optic communications network in higher education allowing for high-speed voice, data, and video communications.
(1982)
Pitt's women's volleyball team earns the university's first ever
Big East Conference championship by winning the Big East Volleyball Tournament in the school's first year of conference play.
(2002) Pitt dedicates the
College of General Studies' 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success which was then located on fourth floor of the
Cathedral of Learning.
(1909) The
Panther is adopted as the official animal and mascot of the university, the first time a panther is adopted as a mascot by any college or university.
(1904) The
Pitt football team puts the finishing touches on its first undefeated season with 22-5 victory over Penn State, thus improving to 10-0.
(1910) The
Pitt football team clinches a undefeated and unscored upon season, credited by some as a
National Championship, when they shut out Penn State 11-0.
(1926) Panthers rusher
Gibby Welch sets a new all time yardage record in a college career, breaking
Red Grange's mark with a win over Penn State at
Pitt Stadium.
(2008) In one of sports' biggest upsets, the unranked
Pittsburgh Panthers stun undefeated number 2 West Virginia University at Morgantown, 19–15, in that season's
Backyard Brawl.
(1856)
John F. McLaren is formally inaugurated as the university's Principal, a title, originating from the school's days as the Pittsburgh Academy, that was used for the
head of the university until it was changed in 1872 to Chancellor.