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100 Hopewell culture begins in what is now Ohio circa this date.
1782 Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca. In Ohio the Gnadenhutten massacre of Native Americans takes place in which 29 men, 27 women, and 34 children were killed by white militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by another Native American group.
1796 Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1803 Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state, retroactive from August 7, 1953.
1844 The Columbus and Xenia Railroad, the first railroad that is planned to be built in Ohio, is chartered.
1862 American Civil War: Morgan's Raid - At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
1952 First successful surgical separation of Siamese twins in Mount Sinai Hospital, Ohio.
1953 Ohio admitted as a U. S. state, retroactive to 1803.
1963 The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
1964 John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, resigns from the space program and announces the next day that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio.
1970 The Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and nine wounded by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting against the incursion into Cambodia.
1973 Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in metric on signs. (See: Metric system in the United States).
1979 The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the Kent State University shootings.
1985 Forty-one tornadoes hit in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
2003 Ohio celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
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