In honor of this historic milestone, the DDN is taking a look back 50 years in a weekly series highlighting what was happening in Dayton around the 200th anniversary, back in 1976.
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For this edition of Vintage Dayton, we look back at the week of Feb. 15-21, 1976.
More stories from the archives
⢠Henny Penny: The 69-year-old food equipment business that began in an Eaton restaurant
⢠When Ronald Reagan called to space from Daytonâs Union Station
⢠The unsolved 1973 double murder of Dayton nightclub singer Eddie Herring and his wife
Did you know?
Here are a few great Dayton history facts weâve learned from our stories:
⢠DDN reporter Bertha Comstock began her career writing under the male pseudonym George K. Roemer because female reporters were virtually unheard of in the late 1800s.
⢠Before it was Piqua, the village was surveyed in 1807 and originally named Washington. It wasnât until 1816 that the citizens petitioned the state legislature to change the name to Piqua.
⢠W.S. McIntosh, a Dayton civil rights pioneer, once led a protest inside a department store that ended with he and five other men being carried out of the building by police because they refused to walk.
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