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storyThe Night the Three Rivers Took PittsburghThe Great St. Patrick’s Day Flood of 1936 drove the rivers to roughly 46 feet at the Point and temporarily broke the machinery of Downtown Pittsburgh.History1936 floodSt Patricks Day flood
storyThe Week Pittsburgh’s Grief Became FireAfter Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, grief, anger, unrest and a later peace march transformed Pittsburgh’s Hill District in different ways across the same week.History1968Martin Luther King Jr
storyPittsburgh Cleaned Up City Hall—Then Power Learned the New RulesIn 1911 Pittsburgh replaced its sprawling ward-based councils with nine at-large seats; decades later, representation problems forced the city to reform the reform.Historycity council1911 reform