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The Mummers Parade is held each New Year's Day in Philadelphia.Started in 1901, it is the longest-running continuous folk parade in the United States. [1]Local clubs, usually called "New Years Associations" or "New Years Brigades", compete in one of five categories: Comics, Wench Brigades, Fancies, String Bands, and Fancy Brigades.
Woodrow Wilson Goode Sr. (born August 19, 1938) is a former Mayor of Philadelphia and the first African American to hold that office. He served from 1984 to 1992, a period which included the controversial MOVE police action and house bombing in 1985.
Fox 29 may refer to one of the following television stations in the United States affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company: Current. O&O. WTXF-TV in Philadelphia ...
The Inquirer Building at 400 North Broad Street in Logan Square, formerly known as the Elverson Building, was home to the newspaper from 1924 to 2011.. The Philadelphia Inquirer was founded June 1, 1829, by printer John R. Walker and John Norvell, former editor of Philadelphia's largest newspaper, the Aurora & Gazette.
WXIN (channel 59) is a television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Bloomington-licensed CBS affiliate WTTV, channel 4 (and its Kokomo-licensed satellite WTTK, channel 29).
June 18: British troops abandon Philadelphia in order to defend New York City; Continental Army forces retake Philadelphia the same day; July 2: Congress returns to Philadelphia; 1781 March 1: Congress of the Confederation replaces Second Continental Congress; The Religious Society of Free Quakers founded; 1783 June 20: Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783
Fairhill is a neighborhood on the east side of the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.Fairhill is bordered by Front Street to the east, Germantown Avenue (10th Street) to the west, Allegheny Avenue to the north, and Cumberland Street to the south. [1]
After the shooting, 34-year-old local resident Rashann Vereen (born December 5, 1987) and 18-year-old local resident Quran Garner (born August 29, 2003) were arrested. Vereen was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault , and firearms-related offenses.