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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the sixth-most-populous city in the United States and the largest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, both in area and population. Since 1854, the city has been coterminous with Philadelphia County. Philadelphia has the third-largest downtown residential population in the U.S., behind New York and Chicago. The Philadelphia metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in the U.S. by the official definition, with some 5.7 million people, though other definitions place it sixth behind the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington-Baltimore. Philadelphia is the central city of the Delaware Valley metropolitan area.

Philadelphia is one of the oldest and most historically significant U.S. cities. It was the nation's first capital. At the time of the American Revolution, it was the second-largest English-speaking city in the world, after only London. Into the first part of the 19th century, it was the country's most populous city and eclipsed Boston and New York City in political and social importance. Benjamin Franklin played an extraordinary role in Philadelphia's rise.

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The Army–Navy Game is an annual college football game between the teams of the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York and the United States Naval Academy (USNA) at Annapolis, Maryland. The USMA team, "Army", and the USNA team, "Navy", each represent their services' oldest officer commissioning sources. As such, the game has come to embody the spirit of the interservice rivalry of the United States Armed Forces. Traditionally, the game is played in Philadelphia, Pensylvania, due to the historic nature of the city and the fact that it is approximately halfway between West Point and Annapolis.

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There have been twenty head coaches of the Philadelphia Eagles. The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Eagles joined the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion team in 1933 Currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC), the team has won three NFL titles and made two Super Bowl appearances (1980 and 2004). There have been 20 head coaches of the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football League (NFL). Two different coaches have won NFL championships with the team: Earl Neale in 1948 and 1949, and Buck Shaw in 1960. Andy Reid is the all-time leader in games coached, wins, and in winning percentage with .611 (with at least one full season coached). Bert Bell is statistically the worst coach the Eagles have had in terms of winning percentage, with .185 win/loss percentage. Of the 20 Eagles coaches, three have been elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Bell, Neale, and Wayne Millner. Several former National Football League (NFL) players have been head coach for the Eagles, including Jerry Williams, Ed Khayat, and Marion Campbell. The current coach is Andy Reid, who was hired on January 11, 1999.

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Walter O'Malley was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979 and who was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He served as the Dodgers' chief legal counsel when Jackie Robinson broke the racial color barrier in 1947. In 1958, as the Dodgers' owner, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and coordinating the move of the New York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west of Missouri. For this, he was long vilified by Brooklyn Dodgers fans. However, neutral parties have called him a visionary for the same business action, and many authorities cite him as one of the most influential sportsmen of the 20th century. His detractors say that he was no visionary, just a man who was in the right place at the right time, yet still regard him as the most powerful and influential owner in baseball after moving the team. O'Malley's Irish father, Edwin Joseph O'Malley, was politically connected. Walter, a University of Pennsylvania salutatorian, went on to earn a Juris Doctorate, and he used the combination of his family connections, his personal contacts, and his educational and vocational skills to rise to prominence. First, he became an entrepreneur involved in public works contracting, and then he became an executive with the Dodgers. He rose from the team's lawyer to the Dodgers' owner and president, and he eventually made the decision to relocate the franchise. Although he moved the team, O'Malley is known as a businessman whose major philosophy was stability through loyalty to and from his employees. During the 1975 season, the Dodgers' inability to negotiate a contract with Andy Messersmith led to the Seitz decision, which limited the baseball reserve clause and paved the way for modern free agency. O'Malley ceded the team presidency to his son, Peter, in 1970 but held the titles of owner and chairman until his death in 1979, when he bequeathed the team to his children Peter O'Malley and Therese O'Malley Seidler.

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December 9, 1981 - Police officer Daniel Faulkner is murdered, Mumia Abu-Jamal is later found guilty for the murder.
December 20, 1853 - A bill is presented to the Pennsylvania Assembly for the Consolidation of Philadelphia.
December 22, 1719 - Philadelphia's first newspaper, Andrew Bradford's American Weekly Mercury began publishing.
December 29, 1870 - Philadelphia City Council eliminates the volunteer fire companies and creates a paid fire department.

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December 3: Comcast announces a deal that it will acquire a controlling interest in entertainment giant NBC Universal from General Electric. (CNN)
November 27: Signer and former Philadelphia TV host Al Alberts dies. (WPVI)
November 9: The strike by Transport Workers Union Local 234 ends and SEPTA service is restored. (KYW-TV)

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… that Emlen Tunnell, who was born in the Main Line community of Garrett Hill, was the first African-American football player to be inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame?

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