Pennsylvania Statehood Day
Pennsylvania Statehood Day is held on December 12. 1787. This event in the second decade of the month December is annual. Help us
Pennsylvania's early history, influenced by the idealism of its founder William Penn, makes it unique among the original thirteen colonies. Religious tolerance, diversity, and representative government became reality here in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania's capital, Philadelphia, was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775, the latter of which produced the Declaration of Independence, sparking the American Revolution. After the war, Pennsylvania became the second state, after Delaware, to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
The Chocolate Capital of the US is Hershey, Pa. The first piano in America was built in Philadelphia in 1775. The first baseball stadium was built in Pittsburgh in 1909. In 1913 the first automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh. The first computer existed in Philadelphia in 1946.
Pennsylvania is the first state of the fifty United States to list their web site URL on a license plate.