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1796 Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1894 May Day Riots of 1894 break out in Cleveland, Ohio
1919 May 1 — The May Day Riots of 1919 break out in Cleveland, Ohio – two people killed, forty injured, and one hundred and sixteen arrested
1921 First Sweetest Day staged in Cleveland, Ohio.
1929 A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
1944 LNG explosion destroys a square mile (2.6 km˛) of Cleveland, Ohio
1957 United Church of Christ formed in Cleveland, Ohio by merger of Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
1966 The Hough Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio, the city's first race riot.
1967 Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major United States city.
1978 Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to go into default since the Great Depression, under Mayor Dennis Kucinich.
1981 Major League Baseball resumes from strike with the All-Star Game in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium.
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