1891
All aboard! The Akron Street Railway Co. completes more than 15 miles of track.
1899
High-speed chases get a little more speed. The first-ever horseless police car is used in Akron.
All aboard! The Akron Street Railway Co. completes more than 15 miles of track.
High-speed chases get a little more speed. The first-ever horseless police car is used in Akron.
Two circles of The Daughters of the King—The Heart and Hand Circle at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and The Wayside Circle at First Congregational—establish a day nursery to care for the children of working women.
The Akron Day Nursery is renamed Mary Day Nursery in honor of Colonel George Tod Perkins' first granddaughter, Mary Perkins Raymond.
The first Mary Day Nursery Ball is held at Albert Hall. Renamed the Charity Ball in 1897, the gala raised money for the nursery and kindergarten.
Colonel George Tod Perkins donates a house at 406 S. High St. to allow the nursery to expand.
The Mary Day Nursery adds a kindergarten class, which is the forerunner of kindergartens in the Akron Public Schools.
Colonel George Tod Perkins builds a new home for the nursery at 43 Buchtel St.
Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin.
It's like a super power come to life! Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays.
Look Mom, no hands! Bicycles become mass produced.
The first U.S. Golf Open tees off in Newport, Rhode Island.
Ice cream cones are invented at the World's Fair by the Menches brothers, who then open Premium Ice Cream Cone and Candy in Akron.
John R. Gammeter, owner of Akron's first plane, takes off from a fairway at Portage Country Club.
Harvey Firestone makes a deal to supply tires for cars produced by Henry Ford.
The Mary Day Nursery opens a ward for crippled children in a room vacated by the kindergarten and is operated in cooperation with Akron City Hospital.
The facility is incorporated as the Mary Day Nursery and Ward for Crippled Children.
Six doctors are selected by the Executive Board to be the Ward's first staff: James P. Boyd, William S. Chase, Thomas K. Moore and surgeons Harold H. Jacobs, James W. Rabe and George T. Rankin. Dr. Chase is named Chief.
The ABO blood group is discovered by Karl Landsteiner at the University of Vienna.
The ABO blood typing technique is successfully used for a human blood transfusion.
Chocolate for all! Hershey's begins mass-producing milk chocolate bars, making what was once a luxury item for the wealthy affordable to the masses.
A rainbow of fun! Noticing a need for safe and affordable wax crayons, Binney & Smith produces the first box of 8 Crayola crayons, featuring red, orange, yellow, green, violet, brown and black sticks.
The first unofficial world ping-pong championship gets paddled into history.
All aboard for fun! Lionel introduces preassembled track and a selection of toy trains and cars.
The founding of the Flashes! Kent State Universtiy is established as a teacher training school.
Trustees transfer Buchtel College and its assets to the city of Akron, and it is renamed the Municipal University of Akron.
Before his death, Colonel George Tod Perkins approves plans to add a six-ward hospital to the facility. The name is changed to Mary Day Nursery and Children's Hospital. It houses 50 beds, and Akron is hailed at its opening as "having more beds pro-rata than any other city in the country."
Akron Children's officially begins its nursing education program.
Because of the need for space for hospital patients, the Mary Day Nursery separates from the hospital and moves to a house at 312 Locust St.
An infantile paralysis (polio) clinic opens at Akron Children's Hospital.
A bronze tablet is installed as a tribute to Colonel George Tod Perkins. It features a della Robbia "bambino," with the Latin inscription: "Fides, Spes, Charitas" or "Faith, Hope, Charity."
Children's Hospital opens a clinic to treat conditions of the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Children's Hospital recruits Dr. Walter Hoyt to organize and head its department of orthopedic surgery. He also served as chief of staff from 1919-1923, and in 1928 and 1943.
German researcher Paul Erhlich tests Salvarsan, the first treatment effective against syphilis; regarded as the birth of modern chemotherapy.
The Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, later renamed the American Heart Association, is founded.
Dr. Paul Dudley White pioneers the use of the electrocardiograph (ECG).
On my honor, I will do my best... The Boy Scouts of America is founded by W. D. Boyce and Ernest Thompson Seton.
Juliette Gordon Low founds the Girl Scouts of the United States of America after she met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, in 1911.
Inspired by watching children play with pencils, sticks and empty spools of thread, Charles Pajeau and Robert Pettit create Tinker Toys.
Lincoln Logs are first produced by John Lloyd Wright, the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
"What didya get?" Cracker Jacks introduces "A Prize in Every Box."
The Great Flood of 1913 causes one of the most widespread disasters in our nation's history, bringing an end to the Ohio and Erie Canal.
Raggedy Ann is created by Johnny Gruelle to entertain his daughter. He later creates stories based on the doll.
A bouncing good time! George Hansburg patents his pogo stick.
The Akron Art Museum, then called the Akron Art Institute, opens in two rooms on the ground floor of the Akron Public Library on East Market Street.
Construction of the USS Akron begins at the newly completed Goodyear-Zeppelin Airdock in Akron.
100 years of Akron. The city celebrates its centennial.
The American Hospital Association accredits Akron Children's Hospital for the first time.
Akron's Junior League agrees to manage the Mary Day Nursery with the hospital continuing its financial support.
The first polio epidemic strikes Children's Hospital.
The new hospital building opens at the corner of West Buchtel and Bowery streets.
Children's Hospital's nurses' instructional program is named a training school for nurses in children's diseases by the Ohio State Department of Registration.
Dr. Noah Miller becomes Children's Hospital's first pediatric resident. He went on to be chief of staff for several years and also a chairman of pediatrics.
Children's Hospital starts the first approved residency program for pediatric specialists in Akron, becoming one of only 59 hospitals at that time to have American Medical Association approval for "Residencies in Specialties."
Frederick G. Banting and John Macleod are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of insulin."
The tetanus vaccine is developed.
A happy accident! Penicillin is discovered by Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming.
The first successful diphtheria vaccine is developed.
The iron lung is invented and becomes a valuable tool in the battle against polio.
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby."
No caddy needed! Garnet Carter patents a game of miniature golf, which he called "Tom Thumb Golf."
Oh bother! A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh.
A Disney Debut. Mickey and Minnie Mouse make their debut in Steamboat Willie.
Roadway Express is founded by brothers Galen and Carroll Roush in Akron, and the city becomes a national trucking hub.
Henrietta Seiberling introduces Dr. Bob Smith of Akron to stockbroker Bill Wilson in the Gate Lodge of Stan Hywet Hall. The two men will go on to form Alcoholics Anonymous.
The All-American Soap Box Derby finds its home in Akron.
The American Pediatric Society selects Akron Children's as one of 25 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada to help formulate a set of medical standards for hospitals.
Akron Children's is given a top rating by the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association.
Children's Hospital's Luetic Clinic, led by Drs. Myrl M. Miller and Carl E. Krill, Sr., is considered one of the best in the country.
The sulfa drug, Prontosil, wins wide publicity in the United States when it is used to treat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son, who was severely ill from a streptococcic infection.
The whooping cough vaccine, developed by Pearl Kendrick, Ph.D., is shown to be effective.
Ernie Bushmiller introduces Nancy in the comic strip Fritzi Ritz.
Up, up and away! Superman, created by Clevelanders, debuts in Action Comics #1.
"On the Good Ship Lollipop!" At age 3, Shirley Temple appears in "Bright Eyes," her first film.
The first synthetic rubber tire, made in Akron, is marketed.
Built with the support of the Works Progress Administration, the Akron Rubber Bowl opens.
Orthopedist Dr. Walter Hoyt, along with Drs. Adrian Davis and George Van Buren, are recognized for their successful treatment of osteomyelitis (an infection of the bone and bone marrow).
Akron Children's is pushed beyond its capacity with 415 polio cases. Acute cases are kept at Children's while less severe cases are housed next door at the Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church.
Roger Sherman becomes the president of Children's Hospital, a post he holds until 1979.
Akron Children's begins a major expansion. It includes inpatient units, updates to the X-ray and physiotherapy departments, a new lobby and a clinical lab.
The first influenza vaccine is developed.
Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin.
Dr. Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonic-ultrasound.
That's what it's all about! The Hokey Pokey is introduced.
The monthly children's magazine "Highlights" is published and features puzzles, jokes, crafts, articles and silly stories.
"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity sound?" The Slinky is invented by naval engineer Richard James.
Play ball little ones! The National Little League Tournament is first held in 1947 at South Williamsport, PA. It was later renamed the Little League Baseball World Series.
WAKR-TV becomes the first and only television station to be broadcast from Akron.
Lions, tigers and bears! The Akron Children's Zoo opens.
Akron Children's establishes its first EEG (electroencephalographic) lab, blood bank and bone bank, as well as the speech and hearing clinic.
Akron Children's Hospital, Akron General Medical Center and Summa Health System Hospitals jointly establish the Cooperative Medical Technology Program.
A building fund drive for Children's Hospital raises $2.3 million to add 5 new floors and surgery facilities, as well as establish a new radiology department.
Children's Hospital opens the Cystic Fibrosis Center with Dr. Lewis Walker at the helm.
Children's initiates its Candy Striper volunteer program for teens, making it the only pediatric hospital using teen volunteers in direct patient contact.
Children's Hospital establishes a Poison Control Center.
Children's establishes the School of Radiologic Technology.
The Women's Board launches Friends of Children's Hospital, a women's auxiliary, to aid the hospital in various ways.
Pinkie the Puppet, a small hand puppet given to every inpatient under the age of 12, is introduced and funded by the Friends of Children’s Hospital.
The Children's Hospital Women's Board opens a hospital gift shop, with proceeds benefiting the hospital.
Children's begins construction of its education building, which includes an auditorium and classrooms for interns and nurses. Biochemistry and clinical research labs are expanded, as well as the laundry and maintenance shop.
The molecular structure of DNA is first identified by James Watson and Francis Crick.
Medical history! After years of research, American medical researcher and virologist Jonas Salk develops the first safe and effective polio vaccine.
Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant.
Good grief! Charlie Brown appears in the first Peanuts comic strip.
The original, world-renowned Tangier Restaurant opens for business.
Originally marketed as the "Pluto Platter," the Wham-O toy company changes the name of the flying disc after learning that college students in the Northeast were calling it a "Frisbee."
Mattel introduces the Barbie doll, created by Ruth Handler, who said it was inspired by and named after her daughter Barbara.
Tile floors become racetracks as the first Matchbox cars are introduced.
Everybody's doing a brand new dance now… America's teens take to the dance floor when American Bandstand debuts with Dick Clark!
The modern hula hoop is invented by Arthur K. "Spud" Melin and Richard Knerr.
The American Golf Classic, the forerunner of the World Series of Golf, is held for the first time at Firestone Country Club in Akron.
So many stores under one roof! Summit Mall opens, giving shoppers one convenient place for everything they need.
Cascade Plaza opens, featuring an ice-skating rink.
The Municipal University of Akron becomes a state institution, changing its name to The University of Akron.
The Friends of Children's Hospital launch Friendly TWIGS (Together With Important Goals), an arts and crafts group that assembles craft kits for patients.
Akron Children's Hospital jumps into the computer age with help from IBM. Children's is the nation's pilot facility for the program later known as HIS, Hospital Information System.
Children's Hospital establishes the Employee Foundation, which raises funds to help charitable agencies in the community and provide scholarships.
The Friends of Children's Hospital holds the first annual Harness Race Rally, still a popular fundraiser today.
Children's Hospital builds cardiac catheterization lab. Dr. John D. Kramer is the director.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the Margaret Stone Labs, which allows its pathology department to expand and adds two floors to its education building.
The measles vaccine is introduced.
The first rubella vaccine is licensed.
The Ohio Art Company introduces the first Etch A Sketch, which goes on to be named one of the top 100 toys of the 20th century.
Hasbro first markets GI Joe to boys, using the term "action figure" instead of doll.
"Can you tell me how to get to…" Sesame Street airs for the first time on public broadcasting stations on Nov. 10.
Yeah, yeah yeah! The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show. Their first appearance on American TV is considered a pop culture milestone and the beginning of the British Invasion.
"It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, created by Fred Rogers, debuts nationally on U.S. Network NET, the forerunner of PBS.
Music to Akron's ears! E.J. Thomas Hall opens October 9.
The musical group DEVO emerges from Akron. Their biggest hit, "Whip It," would debut 3 years later.
The former Quaker Oats grain silos are converted into a shopping and hotel complex.
Akron Children's Hospital builds a dormitory for student nurses.
The hospital establishes a social services (social work) department.
The Akron Children's Hospital Foundation is established by the Board of Trustees to secure funds to aid the hospital's mission.
Getting stitched up. Children's Hospital begins one of the first suture programs in the country.
The Employee Foundation establishes the Distinguished Service Award to recognize contributions in leadership, dedication, loyalty and service to Akron Children's. Hospital president Roger J. Sherman is the first recipient.
Akron Children's Hospital opens an outpatient wing that includes a new emergency department, admitting area, elevator tower, enlarged radiology department, gift shop, Mary A. Hower lobby, new outpatient and clinic facilities, outpatient lab, parent lobbies on each floor and rehabilitation services.
Children's becomes the teaching hospital for pediatrics and pathology for Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine, now called Northeast Ohio Medical University.
The hospital changes its name from Akron Children's Hospital to Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron to reflect the broad scope of services offered.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a burn center to treat all children and adult burn victims in a 17-county area. Children's becomes 1 of only 2 pediatric hospitals in the U.S. that treats adult patients.
Children's Hospital opens an inpatient psychiatric unit for children and teens.
Children's Hospital launches the child life program to help patients and their families cope before, during and after a medical procedure or hospital stay.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Akron Children's Hospital adds a medical library, called the Mary A. Hower Health Science Library, to its education building.
Akron Children's Hospital is the first to grow human skin in the lab. Drs. Howard J. Igel, Clifford Boeckman and Aaron Freeman collaborated in this effort that revolutionized burn treatment.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes the John B. Hower Award in Pediatric Neurology to honor a dedicated Board of Trustees member. The award has become a major international award in the field of pediatric neurology, with recipients selected by a committee of the Child Neurology Society.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes a department of psychiatry, with Dr. Chris VanDevere as its first director.
The Akron Children's Hospital Foundation establishes the Annual Fund drive to ensure the hospital will be able to fulfill its promise to the community.
Under the direction of Dr. Haynes Robinson, Children's opens a genetics clinic to help diagnose and manage genetic conditions, birth defects and developmental delays.
Children's Hospital builds a Level III 59-bed NICU.
Children's Hospital and Akron City Hospital establish the "2-roof" Regional Perinatal Center.
At the age of 32, William H. Considine is named president of Children's Hospital.
Less itching! The first vaccine is developed for chickenpox.
The world's first successful "test-tube" baby is born in Great Britain on July 25.
Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans.
But it won't roll over on its own. Advertising executive Gary Dahl comes up with the idea of a pet rock after listening to his friends complain about their pets being too much trouble and costing too much money.
"Tomorrow! Tomorrow!" The original Broadway musical "Annie" debuts at Alvin Theatre in New York City.
Left, right, repeat over and over. Atari introduces Pong, a tennis sports game featuring simple 2-dimensional graphics. It is one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity.
Garden takeover! Art student Xavier Roberts creates Cabbage Patch Dolls, one of the first fad toys of the 1980s.
Akron is voted All-America City by the National Civic League for the first time.
Archbishop Hoban High School graduate Butch Reynolds wins the silver medal in the 400-meter dash during the 1988 Olympics.
Buchtel High School graduate Rita Dove wins the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Children's Hospital establishes a division of adolescent medicine with Dr. James Fitzgibbon as director.
Children's Hospital collaborates with Kent State University to establish the Family Child Learning Center to work with young children with developmental concerns and their families.
Children's Hospital establishes a division of nephrology to diagnose and treat children with kidney diseases.
On your mark, get set, RUN! Children's Hospital's Employee Foundation launches the Kids Are #1 Run to benefit special projects at the hospital and in the community.
The Ronald McDonald House of Akron opens, providing a "home away from home" for patients' families. The 17,000-square-foot house has 20 bedrooms.
The Children's Circle is created to recognize a distinguished group of donors who make Akron Children’s Hospital a priority in their philanthropy.
Children's Hospital develops a child advocacy initiative to address concerns such as violence and injury prevention, healthcare for the uninsured, and health education.
Children's Hospital establishes the CARE (Children At Risk Evaluation) Center to evaluate and initiate treatment for abused children. Dr. R. Daryl Steiner is the director.
Children's Hospital expands its Locust Professional Building.
Children's Hospital Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford Boeckman performs the first bowel-lengthening surgery. This procedure becomes the standard of care in the U.S., Canada and England.
Children's Hospital's volunteer department launches the Holiday Tree Festival as a major fundraiser and Children's gift to the community. Admission is free and proceeds from the sale benefit Children's.
The sports medicine center opens, with Dr. William Moat as director.
Children's Hospital opens a kidney dialysis center to diagnose and treat babies, children and teens suffering from chronic or acute kidney failure.
Barbie Emler becomes Children's Hospital's first kidney transplant patient.
Children's Hospital participates in the Children's Miracle Network Telethon for the first time. The CMN Telethon is sponsored nationally by the Osmond Foundation.
Stark and Summit County firefighters start ACBC (Aluminum Cans for Burned Children) to collect and recycle aluminum cans to raise money to help Children's Hospital burn victims.
The hospital launches Children's Home Care Group to support children who require special care but do not need the full services of a hospital.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, commonly referred to as an MRI, is used for the first time to obtain clinically valuable scans of a patient.
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified.
The first hepatitis B vaccine is approved for use in the United States.
Dinner parties have a lot more questions as friends challenge each other's smarts with Trivial Pursuit—the diversion that starts a rebirth in the board game industry.
Game on! The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is introduced and becomes an instant hit.
Turtle Power! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are born in the pages of a Mirage Studios comic book before expanding into a cartoon series, films, video games and toys.
The Goodyear Polymer Center opens at the University of Akron, signaling Akron’s rebirth as the Polymer Valley.
Play ball! The opening of Canal Park helps spur the revitalization of downtown Akron.
Eureka! The National Inventors Hall of Fame is dedicated.
With $1 million in funding from the Ohio Department of Education, the Decker Family Development Center opens in Barberton.
Children's establishes Safe Kids Summit County with community partners, representing regional health agencies, businesses, fire and police departments, and other county-wide agencies.
Children's Hospital's Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford R. Boeckman performs the first pediatric laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery in the U.S.
Eight new stories! The Centennial Modernization and Renovation Project is completed. The 250,000 sq. ft. addition created: 104 private medical / surgical rooms with sleeping accommodations, 59-bed NICU, 12-bed PICU, 24-bed psychiatric unit, a surgery suite with eight ORs and an ER.
Children's Hospital forms the Parent Advisory Council to give parents a voice and offers parent-to-parent support.
Children's Hospital's first website springs to life.
Children's Hospital's cardiology department opens an arrhythmia center to diagnose and treat children and teens with all types of irregular heartbeats.
Children's Hospital opens a new 12,000-square-foot respiratory center in the hospital, which includes the cystic fibrosis center, asthma education program, pulmonary medicine and pulmonary function testing lab.
Children's Hospital launches the PATHS (Promoting Adolescents Through Health Services) program to provide social, medical, educational and employment support services to at-risk adolescents in Summit County.
The Doggie Brigade bounds into the hearts of Children's Hospital patients and staff alike. A program of the volunteer department, it is the country's second pet visitation program at a children's hospital.
Children's Hospital establishes an on-site MRI.
Children's Hospital Physician Associates, now called Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics, opens its first office in Fairlawn, followed closely by a Twinsburg office.
Ask Children's begins offering Children's After Hours to help families after pediatrician offices close for the day.
Petie the Pony begins making bedside visits to hospital patients. Petie is accompanied by staff from Victory Gallop Farm. It is the first and only horse to visit a hospital.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a sick child care center as an alternative for working parents with mildly ill children.
The parent mentor program is established to connect parents who have similar medical experiences for emotional support and information.
AZT, known as azidothymidine, is the first drug approved for the treatment of AIDS.
The protease inhibitor, an antiviral drug for the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis C is developed, leading to additional research and potential cures.
The Hepatitis C vaccine is created and provides indefinite protection from the infection.
Dolly doubles! A sheep is the first mammal to be cloned.
A whole new game to play! The Sony PlayStation is introduced in Japan in 1994, and in North America and Europe the following year.
"That tickles!" Tyco introduces Tickle Me Elmo, and it quickly creates a shopping craze due to its scarcity.
The Pokémon Company is created by Satoshi Tajiri.
A new way to roll. The first Razor scooter is distributed by The Sharper Image.
The Cuyahoga Valley Recreation Area is designated as a national park.
University of Akron completes the Landscape for Learning with 22 new buildings and 34 acres of new green space.
Run, Akron, run! The first Akron Marathon brings tens of thousands downtown for what becomes an annual event.
The rebuilt Akron Art Museum opens.
Children's Hospital partners with WKDD 98.1 to hold its first radiothon, called "Have a Heart, Do Your Part." In just three days, it raises $327,000, making it one of the top ten radiothons in the country.
Children's Hospital develops a division of rheumatology to treat and diagnose children with inflammation of joints and muscles and autoimmune diseases, such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, Kawasaki syndrome and lupus.
American College of Surgeons designates Akron Children's Hospital as a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center.
Akron Children's Hospital installs a new digital catheterization lab, only the second such pediatric digital facility in the country.
Akron Children's Hospital, in cooperation with Akron General Medical Center and Summa Health System, establishes the Fetal Treatment Center of Northeast Ohio.
Children's Hospital and Akron General Medical Center form a partnership for specialty newborn care. Under the agreement, Children's leases and operates Akron General's 15-bed special care nursery.
Akron Children's Arrhythmia Center becomes a national leader in using 3-D mapping to eliminate the use of fluoroscopy (x-ray) in cardiac catheter ablation.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes school health services. Akron, Cuyahoga Falls and Hudson are the first clients.
In September, Akron Children's pediatric intensive care unit moves into more spacious quarters in the hospital's north addition. The new 25,200 sq. ft. PICU features 23 private rooms, a family waiting room, bright & airy spaces, & child-friendly art. It also houses a rooftop helipad, hematology-oncology unit & 12-bed burn unit.
In July 2005, Akron Children's Hospital begins offering pediatric outpatient services and after-hours care in Hudson.
Akron Children's school health services launches a pilot telemedicine program with Akron Public Schools, giving doctors and nurses at the hospital the ability to examine students with symptoms of minor ailments.
Children's and Humility of Mary Health Partners acquire Tri-County Child Advocacy Center in Youngstown.
Akron Children's combines orthopedics, sports medicine and sport rehab services under one roof. The 30,000-square-foot center for orthopedics and sports medicine comprises a team of highly trained medical professional and support staff to offer patients a personalized, all-in-one approach to care.
Akron Children's opens $3.5 million office suite in Boardman to house pediatric specialists. The 20,500-square-foot space features 21 exam rooms, including 2 cast rooms for orthopedics, 3 assessment rooms, 3 nursing stations, 2 consultation rooms, EKG and cardiac exercise labs, a pulmonary exercise lab, and a digital radiology suite.
With generous support from the Women's Board, Akron Children's opens the Garden of Hope and Healing in Perkins Square Park. The garden provides patients, their families and hospital staff an outdoor space for reflection, meditation and renewal.
Akron Children's establishes a division of clinical pharmacology and toxicology to provide patients and families with specialized expertise on children's specific medication and poisoning issues.
Akron Children's hematology-oncology program is verified by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer as one of only 14 pediatric teaching hospital cancer programs in the nation.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a sleep center under the direction of Dr. Greg Omlor, who is also the director of pulmonology.
Akron Children's Hospital greatly expands its cardiac services with the opening of its heart center. The center adds pediatric heart surgery, adult congenital heart disease and maternal-fetal cardiology to its list of services.
Thanks to a generous donation from the hospital's Women's Board, Akron Children's opens a skeletal dysplasia center under the direction of its founders, Dr. Dennis Weiner and Dr. Haynes Robinson.
Akron Children's Hospital hires Dr. Grace Smith to start a heart center office in Boardman.
The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer verifies Akron Children's cancer program as one of only 14 pediatric teaching hospital cancer programs in the nation.
Akron Children's Hospital opens the $45 million, 239,400-square-foot Bowery (later named Considine) Professional Building across from the hospital's main entrance. The medical office building houses the heart center, sick child care center, medical education and a conference center that includes a 211-seat auditorium and ten conference rooms.
Children's returns to doing business as Akron Children's Hospital but retains Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron as its legal name.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes the department of maternal-fetal medicine to provide basic and specialty maternal care with advanced fetal diagnosis and treatment.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the $9 million, 27,000-square-foot east addition. It houses an expanded and renovated Kids' Café, 5 new post-anesthesia care unit beds, and 4 new ORs.
Akron Children's Hospital estabalishes a hospitalist program called diagnostic referral services. These in-house physicians manage patient care from admission to discharge.
Akron Children's Hospital enters into an agreement with Humility of Mary Health Partners (HMHP) to establish a hospitalist program at St. Elizabeth's in Youngstown. In addition, Children's creates a 20-bed pediatric unit at HMHP's new Boardman facility.
Akron Children's begins operating the 20-bed neonatal intensive care unit at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown.
After undergoing a rigorous application and evaluation process, Akron Children's is awarded Magnet recognition status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
In December 2008, Akron Children's opens a second hospital in Boardman to serve the patients and families of the Mahoning Valley. The 189,174-square-foot Beeghly campus has 32 inpatient rooms, an ER, and rehabilitation, radiology, lab and other services.
It's a bird, it's a plane... it's Air Bear! Ohio's first medical transport helicopter dedicated to pediatrics arrives at its new home at Akron Children's Hospital.
Akron Children's opens the 10,000-square-foot Ear, Nose and Throat Center.
Scientists release a rough draft of the Human Genome Project to the public.
The first single-port surgery is performed in Cleveland, revolutionizing minimally invasive surgery.
Rumaisa Rahman is born Sept. 19, 2004, at less than 26 week's gestation at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. At 8.6 oz., or lighter than a can of Coke, Rumaisa is the smallest preemie born to live past discharge in the United States.
Stem cell research continues to expand, following the end to the ban on federal funding.
Let's walk & roll! Roger Adams creates Heelys, athletic shoes with wheels in the heels, and they quickly became a pop culture craze among teens.
Kids online, everywhere! Webkinz are released by the Canadian toy company Ganz.
Everyone's favorite waiting game—Angry Birds is released for Apple iPhones.
The four original 10-inch Bratz dolls are released by MGA Entertainment.
Move to play! The interactive Wii home video game console is released by Nintendo.
We are the champions! The University of Akron Men’s Soccer Team wins the NCAA Championship.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company completes its new world headquarters building.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company welcomed Wingfoot Three to the company’s fleet of airships on Aug. 30, 2018.
The Black Keys—Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, a blues-rock duo from Akron, win four Grammy Awards and another four in 2013.
For the fifth time, the Double-A Akron RubberDucks are Eastern League champions.
In September 2010, Akron Children's hires its first language access services coordinator.
Akron Children's opens the Emily Cooper Welty Expressive Therapy Center. The 3,000-square-foot center allows patients to use various forms of art to deal with illness, cope with emotions and find comfort.
Akron Children's is ranked in eight pediatric specialties in the U.S. News and World Report's 2012-2013 Best Children's Hospitals rankings: urology, pulmonology, neonatology, cancer, nephrology, orthopedics, neurology and neurosurgery, and cardiology and heart surgery.
Akron Children's establishes a Parent Advisory Council in Mahoning Valley.
Akron Children’s Hospital, the fastest growing hospital in the country, opened doors to its $180 million Kay Jewelers Pavilion. The 7-story, nearly 370K sq. ft. facility is home to a NICU with 75 private rooms, an emergency department, an expanded outpatient surgery center and the hospital’s first delivery unit for high-risk births.
The American Nurses Credentialing Center re-designates Akron Children’s a Magnet hospital for the 3rd time for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice.
Akron Children's opens the Celeste Myers Dental Clinic to offer complete oral healthcare to children, especially those with special needs.
Akron Children's opens urgent care centers in Hudson, Mansfield and Warren.
1 million served. For the first time in our history, Akron Children's surpasses 1 million outpatient visits.
Time for an upgrade! Akron Children's enhances many areas including the inpatient units in the Centennial Building, the Maynard unit in the Kay Jewelers Pavilion, the Sleep Lab, and the Heart Center’s catheterization lab. It also opens a $4 million interventional radiology suite.
Akron Children's launches centralized scheduling.
In July 2017, Akron Children's opens a new 2-story addition on its Beeghly campus. This $20-million project adds more than 51,000 square feet to Building A, including 47 exam rooms, a welcome center and support testing rooms.
The "Have a Heart, Do Your Part" Radiothon surpasses $10 million in funds raised over 18 years.
Grace Wakulchik assumes the title of president and CEO of Akron Children’s Hospital, as William H. Considine becomes CEO Emeritus.
In August 2018, Akron Children's opens the 230,000-square-foot addition to the Considine Professional Building. The $82-million addition is 8-stories tall and brings together all of our outpatient clinics on the Akron campus.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics opens new offices in Massillon and Liberty.
Akron Children's signs an agreement with MetroHealth to provide pediatric specialty care in the areas of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, gastroenterology, cancer and blood disorders, and critical care.
Akron Children's opens the Kikel Center for Pediatric Surgery at its Beeghly campus in Boardman.
Akron Children's goes live with the Epic electronic medical records system. This $50 million investment makes it possible for the hospital to provide all staff with 24/7 access to the same patient information across the enterprise.
Akron Children's Hospital hires its 5,000th employee.
Akron Children's Hospital opens its first urgent care center at the Akron General Wellness Center in Montrose. The center offers extended hours and lower-cost options for minor medical situations.
Akron Children’s received a 2016 “Most Wired” award, a national benchmark for hospitals with exceptional IT integration.
Akron Children's adds dermatology services at the Akron campus.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics opens new offices in Austintown, Lisbon and Mansfield.
Akron Children's completes a $4.5 million expansion of our behavioral health services inpatient unit in Akron, doubling the number of beds.
Akron Children's Hospital becomes the title beneficiary of the Akron Marathon Race Series. In addition to promoting healthy lifestyles and showcasing our vibrant community, the hospital brought patient heroes to the race experience to inspire runners and spectators alike.
In March 2017, Akron Children's breaks ground on the 230,000-square-foot addition to the Considine Professional Building. The expanded building will offer space to serve more patients and brings outpatient care in Akron together in one location.
Akron Children's invests $8.6 million in a dedicated neurosurgery suite and intraoperative MRI scanner (iMRI) to help improve surgical outcomes for patients.
Akron Children's implements a new leadership structure, separating the functions of chief executive officer (CEO) and president. On July 17, Bill Considine announces that he will continue to serve as CEO while Grace Wakulchik takes on the duties of president.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics and Locust Pediatric Care Group earn Patient-Centered Medical Home certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
Akron Children’s Hospital celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Beeghly campus.
Akron Public Schools and Akron Children's come together to launch the Akron Children’s Hospital Academy of Health and Human Services at North High School. The school offers pathways in healthcare operations, early childhood education, biomedical science and allied health.
A medical marvel. Doctors in Barcelona complete the world’s first full facial transplant.
No mountain high enough! Jordan Romero, 13, becomes the youngest person to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
19-year-old gymnast Simone Biles earns four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, becoming the first American gymnast to accomplish that feat and one of only four women to do so in Olympic history.
Apple unveils the iPad tablet computer. The company's founder, Steve Jobs, calls it, "the best browsing experience you've ever had."
The 13th Doctor has landed! Jodie Whittaker makes her debut as the first female Doctor Who.
Akron Children’s opens Campbell pediatrics practice.
Salem Regional Medical Center’s pediatric primary care offices in Columbiana and Salem will join the Akron Children’s Pediatrics network, bring the number of locations to 44.
Akron Children's opens Outpatient Surgery Center in Beachwood.
Akron Children’s launches breastfeeding medicine program
Pediatric behavioral health centers opened in Canton and Mansfield.
Akron Children’s opens a new Urgent Care and Orthopedic and Sports Injury Walk-in Clinic in Montrose.
New sports medicine facility opens at the University of Akron's Stile Fieldhouse.
High-speed chases get a little more speed. The first-ever horseless police car is used in Akron.
Colonel George Tod Perkins donates a house at 406 S. High St. to allow the nursery to expand.
It's like a super power come to life! Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays.
Ice cream cones are invented at the World's Fair by the Menches brothers, who then open Premium Ice Cream Cone and Candy in Akron.
The facility is incorporated as the Mary Day Nursery and Ward for Crippled Children.
The ABO blood typing technique is successfully used for a human blood transfusion.
All aboard for fun! Lionel introduces preassembled track and a selection of toy trains and cars.
The founding of the Flashes! Kent State Universtiy is established as a teacher training school.
Children's Hospital recruits Dr. Walter Hoyt to organize and head its department of orthopedic surgery. He also served as chief of staff from 1919-1923, and in 1928 and 1943.
The Akron Art Museum, then called the Akron Art Institute, opens in two rooms on the ground floor of the Akron Public Library on East Market Street.
The American Hospital Association accredits Akron Children's Hospital for the first time.
A happy accident! Penicillin is discovered by Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming.
Henrietta Seiberling introduces Dr. Bob Smith of Akron to stockbroker Bill Wilson in the Gate Lodge of Stan Hywet Hall. The two men will go on to form Alcoholics Anonymous.
Children's Hospital's Luetic Clinic, led by Drs. Myrl M. Miller and Carl E. Krill, Sr., is considered one of the best in the country.
The sulfa drug, Prontosil, wins wide publicity in the United States when it is used to treat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son, who was severely ill from a streptococcic infection.
"On the Good Ship Lollipop!" At age 3, Shirley Temple appears in "Bright Eyes," her first film.
Orthopedist Dr. Walter Hoyt, along with Drs. Adrian Davis and George Van Buren, are recognized for their successful treatment of osteomyelitis (an infection of the bone and bone marrow).
Dr. Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonic-ultrasound.
The monthly children's magazine "Highlights" is published and features puzzles, jokes, crafts, articles and silly stories.
Children's Hospital opens the Cystic Fibrosis Center with Dr. Lewis Walker at the helm.
The molecular structure of DNA is first identified by James Watson and Francis Crick.
The modern hula hoop is invented by Arthur K. "Spud" Melin and Richard Knerr.
The American Golf Classic, the forerunner of the World Series of Golf, is held for the first time at Firestone Country Club in Akron.
Akron Children's Hospital jumps into the computer age with help from IBM. Children's is the nation's pilot facility for the program later known as HIS, Hospital Information System.
Hasbro first markets GI Joe to boys, using the term "action figure" instead of doll.
Children's Hospital launches the child life program to help patients and their families cope before, during and after a medical procedure or hospital stay.
"Tomorrow! Tomorrow!" The original Broadway musical "Annie" debuts at Alvin Theatre in New York City.
Children's Hospital establishes a division of nephrology to diagnose and treat children with kidney diseases.
Turtle Power! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are born in the pages of a Mirage Studios comic book before expanding into a cartoon series, films, video games and toys.
Play ball! The opening of Canal Park helps spur the revitalization of downtown Akron.
Children's establishes Safe Kids Summit County with community partners, representing regional health agencies, businesses, fire and police departments, and other county-wide agencies.
The protease inhibitor, an antiviral drug for the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis C is developed, leading to additional research and potential cures.
A new way to roll. The first Razor scooter is distributed by The Sharper Image.
Run, Akron, run! The first Akron Marathon brings tens of thousands downtown for what becomes an annual event.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the $9 million, 27,000-square-foot east addition. It houses an expanded and renovated Kids' Café, 5 new post-anesthesia care unit beds, and 4 new ORs.
Stem cell research continues to expand, following the end to the ban on federal funding.
Kids online, everywhere! Webkinz are released by the Canadian toy company Ganz.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company completes its new world headquarters building.
A medical marvel. Doctors in Barcelona complete the world’s first full facial transplant.
No mountain high enough! Jordan Romero, 13, becomes the youngest person to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
New sports medicine facility opens at the University of Akron's Stile Fieldhouse.
All aboard! The Akron Street Railway Co. completes more than 15 miles of track.
High-speed chases get a little more speed. The first-ever horseless police car is used in Akron.
Two circles of The Daughters of the King—The Heart and Hand Circle at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and The Wayside Circle at First Congregational—establish a day nursery to care for the children of working women.
The Akron Day Nursery is renamed Mary Day Nursery in honor of Colonel George Tod Perkins' first granddaughter, Mary Perkins Raymond.
The first Mary Day Nursery Ball is held at Albert Hall. Renamed the Charity Ball in 1897, the gala raised money for the nursery and kindergarten.
Colonel George Tod Perkins donates a house at 406 S. High St. to allow the nursery to expand.
The Mary Day Nursery adds a kindergarten class, which is the forerunner of kindergartens in the Akron Public Schools.
Colonel George Tod Perkins builds a new home for the nursery at 43 Buchtel St.
Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin.
It's like a super power come to life! Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays.
Look Mom, no hands! Bicycles become mass produced.
The first U.S. Golf Open tees off in Newport, Rhode Island.
Ice cream cones are invented at the World's Fair by the Menches brothers, who then open Premium Ice Cream Cone and Candy in Akron.
John R. Gammeter, owner of Akron's first plane, takes off from a fairway at Portage Country Club.
Harvey Firestone makes a deal to supply tires for cars produced by Henry Ford.
The Mary Day Nursery opens a ward for crippled children in a room vacated by the kindergarten and is operated in cooperation with Akron City Hospital.
The facility is incorporated as the Mary Day Nursery and Ward for Crippled Children.
Six doctors are selected by the Executive Board to be the Ward's first staff: James P. Boyd, William S. Chase, Thomas K. Moore and surgeons Harold H. Jacobs, James W. Rabe and George T. Rankin. Dr. Chase is named Chief.
The ABO blood group is discovered by Karl Landsteiner at the University of Vienna.
The ABO blood typing technique is successfully used for a human blood transfusion.
Chocolate for all! Hershey's begins mass-producing milk chocolate bars, making what was once a luxury item for the wealthy affordable to the masses.
A rainbow of fun! Noticing a need for safe and affordable wax crayons, Binney & Smith produces the first box of 8 Crayola crayons, featuring red, orange, yellow, green, violet, brown and black sticks.
The first unofficial world ping-pong championship gets paddled into history.
All aboard for fun! Lionel introduces preassembled track and a selection of toy trains and cars.
The founding of the Flashes! Kent State Universtiy is established as a teacher training school.
Trustees transfer Buchtel College and its assets to the city of Akron, and it is renamed the Municipal University of Akron.
Before his death, Colonel George Tod Perkins approves plans to add a six-ward hospital to the facility. The name is changed to Mary Day Nursery and Children's Hospital. It houses 50 beds, and Akron is hailed at its opening as "having more beds pro-rata than any other city in the country."
Akron Children's officially begins its nursing education program.
Because of the need for space for hospital patients, the Mary Day Nursery separates from the hospital and moves to a house at 312 Locust St.
An infantile paralysis (polio) clinic opens at Akron Children's Hospital.
A bronze tablet is installed as a tribute to Colonel George Tod Perkins. It features a della Robbia "bambino," with the Latin inscription: "Fides, Spes, Charitas" or "Faith, Hope, Charity."
Children's Hospital opens a clinic to treat conditions of the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Children's Hospital recruits Dr. Walter Hoyt to organize and head its department of orthopedic surgery. He also served as chief of staff from 1919-1923, and in 1928 and 1943.
German researcher Paul Erhlich tests Salvarsan, the first treatment effective against syphilis; regarded as the birth of modern chemotherapy.
The Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, later renamed the American Heart Association, is founded.
Dr. Paul Dudley White pioneers the use of the electrocardiograph (ECG).
On my honor, I will do my best... The Boy Scouts of America is founded by W. D. Boyce and Ernest Thompson Seton.
Juliette Gordon Low founds the Girl Scouts of the United States of America after she met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, in 1911.
Inspired by watching children play with pencils, sticks and empty spools of thread, Charles Pajeau and Robert Pettit create Tinker Toys.
Lincoln Logs are first produced by John Lloyd Wright, the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
"What didya get?" Cracker Jacks introduces "A Prize in Every Box."
The Great Flood of 1913 causes one of the most widespread disasters in our nation's history, bringing an end to the Ohio and Erie Canal.
Raggedy Ann is created by Johnny Gruelle to entertain his daughter. He later creates stories based on the doll.
A bouncing good time! George Hansburg patents his pogo stick.
The Akron Art Museum, then called the Akron Art Institute, opens in two rooms on the ground floor of the Akron Public Library on East Market Street.
Construction of the USS Akron begins at the newly completed Goodyear-Zeppelin Airdock in Akron.
100 years of Akron. The city celebrates its centennial.
The American Hospital Association accredits Akron Children's Hospital for the first time.
Akron's Junior League agrees to manage the Mary Day Nursery with the hospital continuing its financial support.
The first polio epidemic strikes Children's Hospital.
The new hospital building opens at the corner of West Buchtel and Bowery streets.
Children's Hospital's nurses' instructional program is named a training school for nurses in children's diseases by the Ohio State Department of Registration.
Dr. Noah Miller becomes Children's Hospital's first pediatric resident. He went on to be chief of staff for several years and also a chairman of pediatrics.
Children's Hospital starts the first approved residency program for pediatric specialists in Akron, becoming one of only 59 hospitals at that time to have American Medical Association approval for "Residencies in Specialties."
Frederick G. Banting and John Macleod are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of insulin."
The tetanus vaccine is developed.
A happy accident! Penicillin is discovered by Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming.
The first successful diphtheria vaccine is developed.
The iron lung is invented and becomes a valuable tool in the battle against polio.
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby."
No caddy needed! Garnet Carter patents a game of miniature golf, which he called "Tom Thumb Golf."
Oh bother! A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh.
A Disney Debut. Mickey and Minnie Mouse make their debut in Steamboat Willie.
Roadway Express is founded by brothers Galen and Carroll Roush in Akron, and the city becomes a national trucking hub.
Henrietta Seiberling introduces Dr. Bob Smith of Akron to stockbroker Bill Wilson in the Gate Lodge of Stan Hywet Hall. The two men will go on to form Alcoholics Anonymous.
The All-American Soap Box Derby finds its home in Akron.
The American Pediatric Society selects Akron Children's as one of 25 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada to help formulate a set of medical standards for hospitals.
Akron Children's is given a top rating by the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association.
Children's Hospital's Luetic Clinic, led by Drs. Myrl M. Miller and Carl E. Krill, Sr., is considered one of the best in the country.
The sulfa drug, Prontosil, wins wide publicity in the United States when it is used to treat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son, who was severely ill from a streptococcic infection.
The whooping cough vaccine, developed by Pearl Kendrick, Ph.D., is shown to be effective.
Ernie Bushmiller introduces Nancy in the comic strip Fritzi Ritz.
Up, up and away! Superman, created by Clevelanders, debuts in Action Comics #1.
"On the Good Ship Lollipop!" At age 3, Shirley Temple appears in "Bright Eyes," her first film.
The first synthetic rubber tire, made in Akron, is marketed.
Built with the support of the Works Progress Administration, the Akron Rubber Bowl opens.
Orthopedist Dr. Walter Hoyt, along with Drs. Adrian Davis and George Van Buren, are recognized for their successful treatment of osteomyelitis (an infection of the bone and bone marrow).
Akron Children's is pushed beyond its capacity with 415 polio cases. Acute cases are kept at Children's while less severe cases are housed next door at the Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church.
Roger Sherman becomes the president of Children's Hospital, a post he holds until 1979.
Akron Children's begins a major expansion. It includes inpatient units, updates to the X-ray and physiotherapy departments, a new lobby and a clinical lab.
The first influenza vaccine is developed.
Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin.
Dr. Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonic-ultrasound.
That's what it's all about! The Hokey Pokey is introduced.
The monthly children's magazine "Highlights" is published and features puzzles, jokes, crafts, articles and silly stories.
"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity sound?" The Slinky is invented by naval engineer Richard James.
Play ball little ones! The National Little League Tournament is first held in 1947 at South Williamsport, PA. It was later renamed the Little League Baseball World Series.
WAKR-TV becomes the first and only television station to be broadcast from Akron.
Lions, tigers and bears! The Akron Children's Zoo opens.
Akron Children's establishes its first EEG (electroencephalographic) lab, blood bank and bone bank, as well as the speech and hearing clinic.
Akron Children's Hospital, Akron General Medical Center and Summa Health System Hospitals jointly establish the Cooperative Medical Technology Program.
A building fund drive for Children's Hospital raises $2.3 million to add 5 new floors and surgery facilities, as well as establish a new radiology department.
Children's Hospital opens the Cystic Fibrosis Center with Dr. Lewis Walker at the helm.
Children's initiates its Candy Striper volunteer program for teens, making it the only pediatric hospital using teen volunteers in direct patient contact.
Children's Hospital establishes a Poison Control Center.
Children's establishes the School of Radiologic Technology.
The Women's Board launches Friends of Children's Hospital, a women's auxiliary, to aid the hospital in various ways.
Pinkie the Puppet, a small hand puppet given to every inpatient under the age of 12, is introduced and funded by the Friends of Children’s Hospital.
The Children's Hospital Women's Board opens a hospital gift shop, with proceeds benefiting the hospital.
Children's begins construction of its education building, which includes an auditorium and classrooms for interns and nurses. Biochemistry and clinical research labs are expanded, as well as the laundry and maintenance shop.
The molecular structure of DNA is first identified by James Watson and Francis Crick.
Medical history! After years of research, American medical researcher and virologist Jonas Salk develops the first safe and effective polio vaccine.
Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant.
Good grief! Charlie Brown appears in the first Peanuts comic strip.
The original, world-renowned Tangier Restaurant opens for business.
Originally marketed as the "Pluto Platter," the Wham-O toy company changes the name of the flying disc after learning that college students in the Northeast were calling it a "Frisbee."
Mattel introduces the Barbie doll, created by Ruth Handler, who said it was inspired by and named after her daughter Barbara.
Tile floors become racetracks as the first Matchbox cars are introduced.
Everybody's doing a brand new dance now… America's teens take to the dance floor when American Bandstand debuts with Dick Clark!
The modern hula hoop is invented by Arthur K. "Spud" Melin and Richard Knerr.
The American Golf Classic, the forerunner of the World Series of Golf, is held for the first time at Firestone Country Club in Akron.
So many stores under one roof! Summit Mall opens, giving shoppers one convenient place for everything they need.
Cascade Plaza opens, featuring an ice-skating rink.
The Municipal University of Akron becomes a state institution, changing its name to The University of Akron.
The Friends of Children's Hospital launch Friendly TWIGS (Together With Important Goals), an arts and crafts group that assembles craft kits for patients.
Akron Children's Hospital jumps into the computer age with help from IBM. Children's is the nation's pilot facility for the program later known as HIS, Hospital Information System.
Children's Hospital establishes the Employee Foundation, which raises funds to help charitable agencies in the community and provide scholarships.
The Friends of Children's Hospital holds the first annual Harness Race Rally, still a popular fundraiser today.
Children's Hospital builds cardiac catheterization lab. Dr. John D. Kramer is the director.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the Margaret Stone Labs, which allows its pathology department to expand and adds two floors to its education building.
The measles vaccine is introduced.
The first rubella vaccine is licensed.
The Ohio Art Company introduces the first Etch A Sketch, which goes on to be named one of the top 100 toys of the 20th century.
Hasbro first markets GI Joe to boys, using the term "action figure" instead of doll.
"Can you tell me how to get to…" Sesame Street airs for the first time on public broadcasting stations on Nov. 10.
Yeah, yeah yeah! The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show. Their first appearance on American TV is considered a pop culture milestone and the beginning of the British Invasion.
"It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, created by Fred Rogers, debuts nationally on U.S. Network NET, the forerunner of PBS.
Music to Akron's ears! E.J. Thomas Hall opens October 9.
The musical group DEVO emerges from Akron. Their biggest hit, "Whip It," would debut 3 years later.
The former Quaker Oats grain silos are converted into a shopping and hotel complex.
Akron Children's Hospital builds a dormitory for student nurses.
The hospital establishes a social services (social work) department.
The Akron Children's Hospital Foundation is established by the Board of Trustees to secure funds to aid the hospital's mission.
Getting stitched up. Children's Hospital begins one of the first suture programs in the country.
The Employee Foundation establishes the Distinguished Service Award to recognize contributions in leadership, dedication, loyalty and service to Akron Children's. Hospital president Roger J. Sherman is the first recipient.
Akron Children's Hospital opens an outpatient wing that includes a new emergency department, admitting area, elevator tower, enlarged radiology department, gift shop, Mary A. Hower lobby, new outpatient and clinic facilities, outpatient lab, parent lobbies on each floor and rehabilitation services.
Children's becomes the teaching hospital for pediatrics and pathology for Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine, now called Northeast Ohio Medical University.
The hospital changes its name from Akron Children's Hospital to Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron to reflect the broad scope of services offered.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a burn center to treat all children and adult burn victims in a 17-county area. Children's becomes 1 of only 2 pediatric hospitals in the U.S. that treats adult patients.
Children's Hospital opens an inpatient psychiatric unit for children and teens.
Children's Hospital launches the child life program to help patients and their families cope before, during and after a medical procedure or hospital stay.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Akron Children's Hospital adds a medical library, called the Mary A. Hower Health Science Library, to its education building.
Akron Children's Hospital is the first to grow human skin in the lab. Drs. Howard J. Igel, Clifford Boeckman and Aaron Freeman collaborated in this effort that revolutionized burn treatment.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes the John B. Hower Award in Pediatric Neurology to honor a dedicated Board of Trustees member. The award has become a major international award in the field of pediatric neurology, with recipients selected by a committee of the Child Neurology Society.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes a department of psychiatry, with Dr. Chris VanDevere as its first director.
The Akron Children's Hospital Foundation establishes the Annual Fund drive to ensure the hospital will be able to fulfill its promise to the community.
Under the direction of Dr. Haynes Robinson, Children's opens a genetics clinic to help diagnose and manage genetic conditions, birth defects and developmental delays.
Children's Hospital builds a Level III 59-bed NICU.
Children's Hospital and Akron City Hospital establish the "2-roof" Regional Perinatal Center.
At the age of 32, William H. Considine is named president of Children's Hospital.
Less itching! The first vaccine is developed for chickenpox.
The world's first successful "test-tube" baby is born in Great Britain on July 25.
Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans.
But it won't roll over on its own. Advertising executive Gary Dahl comes up with the idea of a pet rock after listening to his friends complain about their pets being too much trouble and costing too much money.
"Tomorrow! Tomorrow!" The original Broadway musical "Annie" debuts at Alvin Theatre in New York City.
Left, right, repeat over and over. Atari introduces Pong, a tennis sports game featuring simple 2-dimensional graphics. It is one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity.
Garden takeover! Art student Xavier Roberts creates Cabbage Patch Dolls, one of the first fad toys of the 1980s.
Akron is voted All-America City by the National Civic League for the first time.
Archbishop Hoban High School graduate Butch Reynolds wins the silver medal in the 400-meter dash during the 1988 Olympics.
Buchtel High School graduate Rita Dove wins the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Children's Hospital establishes a division of adolescent medicine with Dr. James Fitzgibbon as director.
Children's Hospital collaborates with Kent State University to establish the Family Child Learning Center to work with young children with developmental concerns and their families.
Children's Hospital establishes a division of nephrology to diagnose and treat children with kidney diseases.
On your mark, get set, RUN! Children's Hospital's Employee Foundation launches the Kids Are #1 Run to benefit special projects at the hospital and in the community.
The Ronald McDonald House of Akron opens, providing a "home away from home" for patients' families. The 17,000-square-foot house has 20 bedrooms.
The Children's Circle is created to recognize a distinguished group of donors who make Akron Children’s Hospital a priority in their philanthropy.
Children's Hospital develops a child advocacy initiative to address concerns such as violence and injury prevention, healthcare for the uninsured, and health education.
Children's Hospital establishes the CARE (Children At Risk Evaluation) Center to evaluate and initiate treatment for abused children. Dr. R. Daryl Steiner is the director.
Children's Hospital expands its Locust Professional Building.
Children's Hospital Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford Boeckman performs the first bowel-lengthening surgery. This procedure becomes the standard of care in the U.S., Canada and England.
Children's Hospital's volunteer department launches the Holiday Tree Festival as a major fundraiser and Children's gift to the community. Admission is free and proceeds from the sale benefit Children's.
The sports medicine center opens, with Dr. William Moat as director.
Children's Hospital opens a kidney dialysis center to diagnose and treat babies, children and teens suffering from chronic or acute kidney failure.
Barbie Emler becomes Children's Hospital's first kidney transplant patient.
Children's Hospital participates in the Children's Miracle Network Telethon for the first time. The CMN Telethon is sponsored nationally by the Osmond Foundation.
Stark and Summit County firefighters start ACBC (Aluminum Cans for Burned Children) to collect and recycle aluminum cans to raise money to help Children's Hospital burn victims.
The hospital launches Children's Home Care Group to support children who require special care but do not need the full services of a hospital.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, commonly referred to as an MRI, is used for the first time to obtain clinically valuable scans of a patient.
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified.
The first hepatitis B vaccine is approved for use in the United States.
Dinner parties have a lot more questions as friends challenge each other's smarts with Trivial Pursuit—the diversion that starts a rebirth in the board game industry.
Game on! The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is introduced and becomes an instant hit.
Turtle Power! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are born in the pages of a Mirage Studios comic book before expanding into a cartoon series, films, video games and toys.
The Goodyear Polymer Center opens at the University of Akron, signaling Akron’s rebirth as the Polymer Valley.
Play ball! The opening of Canal Park helps spur the revitalization of downtown Akron.
Eureka! The National Inventors Hall of Fame is dedicated.
With $1 million in funding from the Ohio Department of Education, the Decker Family Development Center opens in Barberton.
Children's establishes Safe Kids Summit County with community partners, representing regional health agencies, businesses, fire and police departments, and other county-wide agencies.
Children's Hospital's Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford R. Boeckman performs the first pediatric laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery in the U.S.
Eight new stories! The Centennial Modernization and Renovation Project is completed. The 250,000 sq. ft. addition created: 104 private medical / surgical rooms with sleeping accommodations, 59-bed NICU, 12-bed PICU, 24-bed psychiatric unit, a surgery suite with eight ORs and an ER.
Children's Hospital forms the Parent Advisory Council to give parents a voice and offers parent-to-parent support.
Children's Hospital's first website springs to life.
Children's Hospital's cardiology department opens an arrhythmia center to diagnose and treat children and teens with all types of irregular heartbeats.
Children's Hospital opens a new 12,000-square-foot respiratory center in the hospital, which includes the cystic fibrosis center, asthma education program, pulmonary medicine and pulmonary function testing lab.
Children's Hospital launches the PATHS (Promoting Adolescents Through Health Services) program to provide social, medical, educational and employment support services to at-risk adolescents in Summit County.
The Doggie Brigade bounds into the hearts of Children's Hospital patients and staff alike. A program of the volunteer department, it is the country's second pet visitation program at a children's hospital.
Children's Hospital establishes an on-site MRI.
Children's Hospital Physician Associates, now called Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics, opens its first office in Fairlawn, followed closely by a Twinsburg office.
Ask Children's begins offering Children's After Hours to help families after pediatrician offices close for the day.
Petie the Pony begins making bedside visits to hospital patients. Petie is accompanied by staff from Victory Gallop Farm. It is the first and only horse to visit a hospital.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a sick child care center as an alternative for working parents with mildly ill children.
The parent mentor program is established to connect parents who have similar medical experiences for emotional support and information.
AZT, known as azidothymidine, is the first drug approved for the treatment of AIDS.
The protease inhibitor, an antiviral drug for the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis C is developed, leading to additional research and potential cures.
The Hepatitis C vaccine is created and provides indefinite protection from the infection.
Dolly doubles! A sheep is the first mammal to be cloned.
A whole new game to play! The Sony PlayStation is introduced in Japan in 1994, and in North America and Europe the following year.
"That tickles!" Tyco introduces Tickle Me Elmo, and it quickly creates a shopping craze due to its scarcity.
The Pokémon Company is created by Satoshi Tajiri.
A new way to roll. The first Razor scooter is distributed by The Sharper Image.
The Cuyahoga Valley Recreation Area is designated as a national park.
University of Akron completes the Landscape for Learning with 22 new buildings and 34 acres of new green space.
Run, Akron, run! The first Akron Marathon brings tens of thousands downtown for what becomes an annual event.
The rebuilt Akron Art Museum opens.
Children's Hospital partners with WKDD 98.1 to hold its first radiothon, called "Have a Heart, Do Your Part." In just three days, it raises $327,000, making it one of the top ten radiothons in the country.
Children's Hospital develops a division of rheumatology to treat and diagnose children with inflammation of joints and muscles and autoimmune diseases, such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, Kawasaki syndrome and lupus.
American College of Surgeons designates Akron Children's Hospital as a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center.
Akron Children's Hospital installs a new digital catheterization lab, only the second such pediatric digital facility in the country.
Akron Children's Hospital, in cooperation with Akron General Medical Center and Summa Health System, establishes the Fetal Treatment Center of Northeast Ohio.
Children's Hospital and Akron General Medical Center form a partnership for specialty newborn care. Under the agreement, Children's leases and operates Akron General's 15-bed special care nursery.
Akron Children's Arrhythmia Center becomes a national leader in using 3-D mapping to eliminate the use of fluoroscopy (x-ray) in cardiac catheter ablation.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes school health services. Akron, Cuyahoga Falls and Hudson are the first clients.
In September, Akron Children's pediatric intensive care unit moves into more spacious quarters in the hospital's north addition. The new 25,200 sq. ft. PICU features 23 private rooms, a family waiting room, bright & airy spaces, & child-friendly art. It also houses a rooftop helipad, hematology-oncology unit & 12-bed burn unit.
In July 2005, Akron Children's Hospital begins offering pediatric outpatient services and after-hours care in Hudson.
Akron Children's school health services launches a pilot telemedicine program with Akron Public Schools, giving doctors and nurses at the hospital the ability to examine students with symptoms of minor ailments.
Children's and Humility of Mary Health Partners acquire Tri-County Child Advocacy Center in Youngstown.
Akron Children's combines orthopedics, sports medicine and sport rehab services under one roof. The 30,000-square-foot center for orthopedics and sports medicine comprises a team of highly trained medical professional and support staff to offer patients a personalized, all-in-one approach to care.
Akron Children's opens $3.5 million office suite in Boardman to house pediatric specialists. The 20,500-square-foot space features 21 exam rooms, including 2 cast rooms for orthopedics, 3 assessment rooms, 3 nursing stations, 2 consultation rooms, EKG and cardiac exercise labs, a pulmonary exercise lab, and a digital radiology suite.
With generous support from the Women's Board, Akron Children's opens the Garden of Hope and Healing in Perkins Square Park. The garden provides patients, their families and hospital staff an outdoor space for reflection, meditation and renewal.
Akron Children's establishes a division of clinical pharmacology and toxicology to provide patients and families with specialized expertise on children's specific medication and poisoning issues.
Akron Children's hematology-oncology program is verified by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer as one of only 14 pediatric teaching hospital cancer programs in the nation.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a sleep center under the direction of Dr. Greg Omlor, who is also the director of pulmonology.
Akron Children's Hospital greatly expands its cardiac services with the opening of its heart center. The center adds pediatric heart surgery, adult congenital heart disease and maternal-fetal cardiology to its list of services.
Thanks to a generous donation from the hospital's Women's Board, Akron Children's opens a skeletal dysplasia center under the direction of its founders, Dr. Dennis Weiner and Dr. Haynes Robinson.
Akron Children's Hospital hires Dr. Grace Smith to start a heart center office in Boardman.
The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer verifies Akron Children's cancer program as one of only 14 pediatric teaching hospital cancer programs in the nation.
Akron Children's Hospital opens the $45 million, 239,400-square-foot Bowery (later named Considine) Professional Building across from the hospital's main entrance. The medical office building houses the heart center, sick child care center, medical education and a conference center that includes a 211-seat auditorium and ten conference rooms.
Children's returns to doing business as Akron Children's Hospital but retains Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron as its legal name.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes the department of maternal-fetal medicine to provide basic and specialty maternal care with advanced fetal diagnosis and treatment.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the $9 million, 27,000-square-foot east addition. It houses an expanded and renovated Kids' Café, 5 new post-anesthesia care unit beds, and 4 new ORs.
Akron Children's Hospital estabalishes a hospitalist program called diagnostic referral services. These in-house physicians manage patient care from admission to discharge.
Akron Children's Hospital enters into an agreement with Humility of Mary Health Partners (HMHP) to establish a hospitalist program at St. Elizabeth's in Youngstown. In addition, Children's creates a 20-bed pediatric unit at HMHP's new Boardman facility.
Akron Children's begins operating the 20-bed neonatal intensive care unit at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown.
After undergoing a rigorous application and evaluation process, Akron Children's is awarded Magnet recognition status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
In December 2008, Akron Children's opens a second hospital in Boardman to serve the patients and families of the Mahoning Valley. The 189,174-square-foot Beeghly campus has 32 inpatient rooms, an ER, and rehabilitation, radiology, lab and other services.
It's a bird, it's a plane... it's Air Bear! Ohio's first medical transport helicopter dedicated to pediatrics arrives at its new home at Akron Children's Hospital.
Akron Children's opens the 10,000-square-foot Ear, Nose and Throat Center.
Scientists release a rough draft of the Human Genome Project to the public.
The first single-port surgery is performed in Cleveland, revolutionizing minimally invasive surgery.
Rumaisa Rahman is born Sept. 19, 2004, at less than 26 week's gestation at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. At 8.6 oz., or lighter than a can of Coke, Rumaisa is the smallest preemie born to live past discharge in the United States.
Stem cell research continues to expand, following the end to the ban on federal funding.
Let's walk & roll! Roger Adams creates Heelys, athletic shoes with wheels in the heels, and they quickly became a pop culture craze among teens.
Kids online, everywhere! Webkinz are released by the Canadian toy company Ganz.
Everyone's favorite waiting game—Angry Birds is released for Apple iPhones.
The four original 10-inch Bratz dolls are released by MGA Entertainment.
Move to play! The interactive Wii home video game console is released by Nintendo.
We are the champions! The University of Akron Men’s Soccer Team wins the NCAA Championship.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company completes its new world headquarters building.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company welcomed Wingfoot Three to the company’s fleet of airships on Aug. 30, 2018.
The Black Keys—Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, a blues-rock duo from Akron, win four Grammy Awards and another four in 2013.
For the fifth time, the Double-A Akron RubberDucks are Eastern League champions.
In September 2010, Akron Children's hires its first language access services coordinator.
Akron Children's opens the Emily Cooper Welty Expressive Therapy Center. The 3,000-square-foot center allows patients to use various forms of art to deal with illness, cope with emotions and find comfort.
Akron Children's is ranked in eight pediatric specialties in the U.S. News and World Report's 2012-2013 Best Children's Hospitals rankings: urology, pulmonology, neonatology, cancer, nephrology, orthopedics, neurology and neurosurgery, and cardiology and heart surgery.
Akron Children's establishes a Parent Advisory Council in Mahoning Valley.
Akron Children’s Hospital, the fastest growing hospital in the country, opened doors to its $180 million Kay Jewelers Pavilion. The 7-story, nearly 370K sq. ft. facility is home to a NICU with 75 private rooms, an emergency department, an expanded outpatient surgery center and the hospital’s first delivery unit for high-risk births.
The American Nurses Credentialing Center re-designates Akron Children’s a Magnet hospital for the 3rd time for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice.
Akron Children's opens the Celeste Myers Dental Clinic to offer complete oral healthcare to children, especially those with special needs.
Akron Children's opens urgent care centers in Hudson, Mansfield and Warren.
1 million served. For the first time in our history, Akron Children's surpasses 1 million outpatient visits.
Time for an upgrade! Akron Children's enhances many areas including the inpatient units in the Centennial Building, the Maynard unit in the Kay Jewelers Pavilion, the Sleep Lab, and the Heart Center’s catheterization lab. It also opens a $4 million interventional radiology suite.
Akron Children's launches centralized scheduling.
In July 2017, Akron Children's opens a new 2-story addition on its Beeghly campus. This $20-million project adds more than 51,000 square feet to Building A, including 47 exam rooms, a welcome center and support testing rooms.
The "Have a Heart, Do Your Part" Radiothon surpasses $10 million in funds raised over 18 years.
Grace Wakulchik assumes the title of president and CEO of Akron Children’s Hospital, as William H. Considine becomes CEO Emeritus.
In August 2018, Akron Children's opens the 230,000-square-foot addition to the Considine Professional Building. The $82-million addition is 8-stories tall and brings together all of our outpatient clinics on the Akron campus.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics opens new offices in Massillon and Liberty.
Akron Children's signs an agreement with MetroHealth to provide pediatric specialty care in the areas of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, gastroenterology, cancer and blood disorders, and critical care.
Akron Children's opens the Kikel Center for Pediatric Surgery at its Beeghly campus in Boardman.
Akron Children's goes live with the Epic electronic medical records system. This $50 million investment makes it possible for the hospital to provide all staff with 24/7 access to the same patient information across the enterprise.
Akron Children's Hospital hires its 5,000th employee.
Akron Children's Hospital opens its first urgent care center at the Akron General Wellness Center in Montrose. The center offers extended hours and lower-cost options for minor medical situations.
Akron Children’s received a 2016 “Most Wired” award, a national benchmark for hospitals with exceptional IT integration.
Akron Children's adds dermatology services at the Akron campus.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics opens new offices in Austintown, Lisbon and Mansfield.
Akron Children's completes a $4.5 million expansion of our behavioral health services inpatient unit in Akron, doubling the number of beds.
Akron Children's Hospital becomes the title beneficiary of the Akron Marathon Race Series. In addition to promoting healthy lifestyles and showcasing our vibrant community, the hospital brought patient heroes to the race experience to inspire runners and spectators alike.
In March 2017, Akron Children's breaks ground on the 230,000-square-foot addition to the Considine Professional Building. The expanded building will offer space to serve more patients and brings outpatient care in Akron together in one location.
Akron Children's invests $8.6 million in a dedicated neurosurgery suite and intraoperative MRI scanner (iMRI) to help improve surgical outcomes for patients.
Akron Children's implements a new leadership structure, separating the functions of chief executive officer (CEO) and president. On July 17, Bill Considine announces that he will continue to serve as CEO while Grace Wakulchik takes on the duties of president.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics and Locust Pediatric Care Group earn Patient-Centered Medical Home certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
Akron Children’s Hospital celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Beeghly campus.
Akron Public Schools and Akron Children's come together to launch the Akron Children’s Hospital Academy of Health and Human Services at North High School. The school offers pathways in healthcare operations, early childhood education, biomedical science and allied health.
A medical marvel. Doctors in Barcelona complete the world’s first full facial transplant.
No mountain high enough! Jordan Romero, 13, becomes the youngest person to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
19-year-old gymnast Simone Biles earns four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, becoming the first American gymnast to accomplish that feat and one of only four women to do so in Olympic history.
Apple unveils the iPad tablet computer. The company's founder, Steve Jobs, calls it, "the best browsing experience you've ever had."
The 13th Doctor has landed! Jodie Whittaker makes her debut as the first female Doctor Who.
Akron Children’s opens Campbell pediatrics practice.
Salem Regional Medical Center’s pediatric primary care offices in Columbiana and Salem will join the Akron Children’s Pediatrics network, bring the number of locations to 44.
Akron Children's opens Outpatient Surgery Center in Beachwood.
Akron Children’s launches breastfeeding medicine program
Pediatric behavioral health centers opened in Canton and Mansfield.
Akron Children’s opens a new Urgent Care and Orthopedic and Sports Injury Walk-in Clinic in Montrose.
New sports medicine facility opens at the University of Akron's Stile Fieldhouse.
All aboard! The Akron Street Railway Co. completes more than 15 miles of track.
The first Mary Day Nursery Ball is held at Albert Hall. Renamed the Charity Ball in 1897, the gala raised money for the nursery and kindergarten.
Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
Ice cream cones are invented at the World's Fair by the Menches brothers, who then open Premium Ice Cream Cone and Candy in Akron.
The Mary Day Nursery opens a ward for crippled children in a room vacated by the kindergarten and is operated in cooperation with Akron City Hospital.
The ABO blood typing technique is successfully used for a human blood transfusion.
All aboard for fun! Lionel introduces preassembled track and a selection of toy trains and cars.
Trustees transfer Buchtel College and its assets to the city of Akron, and it is renamed the Municipal University of Akron.
A bronze tablet is installed as a tribute to Colonel George Tod Perkins. It features a della Robbia "bambino," with the Latin inscription: "Fides, Spes, Charitas" or "Faith, Hope, Charity."
Lincoln Logs are first produced by John Lloyd Wright, the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Dr. Noah Miller becomes Children's Hospital's first pediatric resident. He went on to be chief of staff for several years and also a chairman of pediatrics.
The iron lung is invented and becomes a valuable tool in the battle against polio.
No caddy needed! Garnet Carter patents a game of miniature golf, which he called "Tom Thumb Golf."
Roadway Express is founded by brothers Galen and Carroll Roush in Akron, and the city becomes a national trucking hub.
Akron Children's is given a top rating by the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association.
The sulfa drug, Prontosil, wins wide publicity in the United States when it is used to treat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son, who was severely ill from a streptococcic infection.
Built with the support of the Works Progress Administration, the Akron Rubber Bowl opens.
Roger Sherman becomes the president of Children's Hospital, a post he holds until 1979.
Play ball little ones! The National Little League Tournament is first held in 1947 at South Williamsport, PA. It was later renamed the Little League Baseball World Series.
WAKR-TV becomes the first and only television station to be broadcast from Akron.
The Children's Hospital Women's Board opens a hospital gift shop, with proceeds benefiting the hospital.
The Municipal University of Akron becomes a state institution, changing its name to The University of Akron.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the Margaret Stone Labs, which allows its pathology department to expand and adds two floors to its education building.
"It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, created by Fred Rogers, debuts nationally on U.S. Network NET, the forerunner of PBS.
The hospital changes its name from Akron Children's Hospital to Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron to reflect the broad scope of services offered.
The world's first successful "test-tube" baby is born in Great Britain on July 25.
"Tomorrow! Tomorrow!" The original Broadway musical "Annie" debuts at Alvin Theatre in New York City.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, commonly referred to as an MRI, is used for the first time to obtain clinically valuable scans of a patient.
Game on! The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is introduced and becomes an instant hit.
The Goodyear Polymer Center opens at the University of Akron, signaling Akron’s rebirth as the Polymer Valley.
Children's establishes Safe Kids Summit County with community partners, representing regional health agencies, businesses, fire and police departments, and other county-wide agencies.
It's a bird, it's a plane... it's Air Bear! Ohio's first medical transport helicopter dedicated to pediatrics arrives at its new home at Akron Children's Hospital.
Scientists release a rough draft of the Human Genome Project to the public.
Kids online, everywhere! Webkinz are released by the Canadian toy company Ganz.
For the fifth time, the Double-A Akron RubberDucks are Eastern League champions.
Akron Children's Hospital opens its first urgent care center at the Akron General Wellness Center in Montrose. The center offers extended hours and lower-cost options for minor medical situations.
A medical marvel. Doctors in Barcelona complete the world’s first full facial transplant.
19-year-old gymnast Simone Biles earns four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, becoming the first American gymnast to accomplish that feat and one of only four women to do so in Olympic history.
All aboard! The Akron Street Railway Co. completes more than 15 miles of track.
High-speed chases get a little more speed. The first-ever horseless police car is used in Akron.
Two circles of The Daughters of the King—The Heart and Hand Circle at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and The Wayside Circle at First Congregational—establish a day nursery to care for the children of working women.
The Akron Day Nursery is renamed Mary Day Nursery in honor of Colonel George Tod Perkins' first granddaughter, Mary Perkins Raymond.
The first Mary Day Nursery Ball is held at Albert Hall. Renamed the Charity Ball in 1897, the gala raised money for the nursery and kindergarten.
Colonel George Tod Perkins donates a house at 406 S. High St. to allow the nursery to expand.
The Mary Day Nursery adds a kindergarten class, which is the forerunner of kindergartens in the Akron Public Schools.
Colonel George Tod Perkins builds a new home for the nursery at 43 Buchtel St.
Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin.
It's like a super power come to life! Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays.
Look Mom, no hands! Bicycles become mass produced.
The first U.S. Golf Open tees off in Newport, Rhode Island.
Ice cream cones are invented at the World's Fair by the Menches brothers, who then open Premium Ice Cream Cone and Candy in Akron.
John R. Gammeter, owner of Akron's first plane, takes off from a fairway at Portage Country Club.
Harvey Firestone makes a deal to supply tires for cars produced by Henry Ford.
The Mary Day Nursery opens a ward for crippled children in a room vacated by the kindergarten and is operated in cooperation with Akron City Hospital.
The facility is incorporated as the Mary Day Nursery and Ward for Crippled Children.
Six doctors are selected by the Executive Board to be the Ward's first staff: James P. Boyd, William S. Chase, Thomas K. Moore and surgeons Harold H. Jacobs, James W. Rabe and George T. Rankin. Dr. Chase is named Chief.
The ABO blood group is discovered by Karl Landsteiner at the University of Vienna.
The ABO blood typing technique is successfully used for a human blood transfusion.
Chocolate for all! Hershey's begins mass-producing milk chocolate bars, making what was once a luxury item for the wealthy affordable to the masses.
A rainbow of fun! Noticing a need for safe and affordable wax crayons, Binney & Smith produces the first box of 8 Crayola crayons, featuring red, orange, yellow, green, violet, brown and black sticks.
The first unofficial world ping-pong championship gets paddled into history.
All aboard for fun! Lionel introduces preassembled track and a selection of toy trains and cars.
The founding of the Flashes! Kent State Universtiy is established as a teacher training school.
Trustees transfer Buchtel College and its assets to the city of Akron, and it is renamed the Municipal University of Akron.
Before his death, Colonel George Tod Perkins approves plans to add a six-ward hospital to the facility. The name is changed to Mary Day Nursery and Children's Hospital. It houses 50 beds, and Akron is hailed at its opening as "having more beds pro-rata than any other city in the country."
Akron Children's officially begins its nursing education program.
Because of the need for space for hospital patients, the Mary Day Nursery separates from the hospital and moves to a house at 312 Locust St.
An infantile paralysis (polio) clinic opens at Akron Children's Hospital.
A bronze tablet is installed as a tribute to Colonel George Tod Perkins. It features a della Robbia "bambino," with the Latin inscription: "Fides, Spes, Charitas" or "Faith, Hope, Charity."
Children's Hospital opens a clinic to treat conditions of the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Children's Hospital recruits Dr. Walter Hoyt to organize and head its department of orthopedic surgery. He also served as chief of staff from 1919-1923, and in 1928 and 1943.
German researcher Paul Erhlich tests Salvarsan, the first treatment effective against syphilis; regarded as the birth of modern chemotherapy.
The Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, later renamed the American Heart Association, is founded.
Dr. Paul Dudley White pioneers the use of the electrocardiograph (ECG).
On my honor, I will do my best... The Boy Scouts of America is founded by W. D. Boyce and Ernest Thompson Seton.
Juliette Gordon Low founds the Girl Scouts of the United States of America after she met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, in 1911.
Inspired by watching children play with pencils, sticks and empty spools of thread, Charles Pajeau and Robert Pettit create Tinker Toys.
Lincoln Logs are first produced by John Lloyd Wright, the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
"What didya get?" Cracker Jacks introduces "A Prize in Every Box."
The Great Flood of 1913 causes one of the most widespread disasters in our nation's history, bringing an end to the Ohio and Erie Canal.
Raggedy Ann is created by Johnny Gruelle to entertain his daughter. He later creates stories based on the doll.
A bouncing good time! George Hansburg patents his pogo stick.
The Akron Art Museum, then called the Akron Art Institute, opens in two rooms on the ground floor of the Akron Public Library on East Market Street.
Construction of the USS Akron begins at the newly completed Goodyear-Zeppelin Airdock in Akron.
100 years of Akron. The city celebrates its centennial.
The American Hospital Association accredits Akron Children's Hospital for the first time.
Akron's Junior League agrees to manage the Mary Day Nursery with the hospital continuing its financial support.
The first polio epidemic strikes Children's Hospital.
The new hospital building opens at the corner of West Buchtel and Bowery streets.
Children's Hospital's nurses' instructional program is named a training school for nurses in children's diseases by the Ohio State Department of Registration.
Dr. Noah Miller becomes Children's Hospital's first pediatric resident. He went on to be chief of staff for several years and also a chairman of pediatrics.
Children's Hospital starts the first approved residency program for pediatric specialists in Akron, becoming one of only 59 hospitals at that time to have American Medical Association approval for "Residencies in Specialties."
Frederick G. Banting and John Macleod are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of insulin."
The tetanus vaccine is developed.
A happy accident! Penicillin is discovered by Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming.
The first successful diphtheria vaccine is developed.
The iron lung is invented and becomes a valuable tool in the battle against polio.
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby."
No caddy needed! Garnet Carter patents a game of miniature golf, which he called "Tom Thumb Golf."
Oh bother! A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh.
A Disney Debut. Mickey and Minnie Mouse make their debut in Steamboat Willie.
Roadway Express is founded by brothers Galen and Carroll Roush in Akron, and the city becomes a national trucking hub.
Henrietta Seiberling introduces Dr. Bob Smith of Akron to stockbroker Bill Wilson in the Gate Lodge of Stan Hywet Hall. The two men will go on to form Alcoholics Anonymous.
The All-American Soap Box Derby finds its home in Akron.
The American Pediatric Society selects Akron Children's as one of 25 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada to help formulate a set of medical standards for hospitals.
Akron Children's is given a top rating by the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association.
Children's Hospital's Luetic Clinic, led by Drs. Myrl M. Miller and Carl E. Krill, Sr., is considered one of the best in the country.
The sulfa drug, Prontosil, wins wide publicity in the United States when it is used to treat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son, who was severely ill from a streptococcic infection.
The whooping cough vaccine, developed by Pearl Kendrick, Ph.D., is shown to be effective.
Ernie Bushmiller introduces Nancy in the comic strip Fritzi Ritz.
Up, up and away! Superman, created by Clevelanders, debuts in Action Comics #1.
"On the Good Ship Lollipop!" At age 3, Shirley Temple appears in "Bright Eyes," her first film.
The first synthetic rubber tire, made in Akron, is marketed.
Built with the support of the Works Progress Administration, the Akron Rubber Bowl opens.
Orthopedist Dr. Walter Hoyt, along with Drs. Adrian Davis and George Van Buren, are recognized for their successful treatment of osteomyelitis (an infection of the bone and bone marrow).
Akron Children's is pushed beyond its capacity with 415 polio cases. Acute cases are kept at Children's while less severe cases are housed next door at the Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church.
Roger Sherman becomes the president of Children's Hospital, a post he holds until 1979.
Akron Children's begins a major expansion. It includes inpatient units, updates to the X-ray and physiotherapy departments, a new lobby and a clinical lab.
The first influenza vaccine is developed.
Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin.
Dr. Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonic-ultrasound.
That's what it's all about! The Hokey Pokey is introduced.
The monthly children's magazine "Highlights" is published and features puzzles, jokes, crafts, articles and silly stories.
"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity sound?" The Slinky is invented by naval engineer Richard James.
Play ball little ones! The National Little League Tournament is first held in 1947 at South Williamsport, PA. It was later renamed the Little League Baseball World Series.
WAKR-TV becomes the first and only television station to be broadcast from Akron.
Lions, tigers and bears! The Akron Children's Zoo opens.
Akron Children's establishes its first EEG (electroencephalographic) lab, blood bank and bone bank, as well as the speech and hearing clinic.
Akron Children's Hospital, Akron General Medical Center and Summa Health System Hospitals jointly establish the Cooperative Medical Technology Program.
A building fund drive for Children's Hospital raises $2.3 million to add 5 new floors and surgery facilities, as well as establish a new radiology department.
Children's Hospital opens the Cystic Fibrosis Center with Dr. Lewis Walker at the helm.
Children's initiates its Candy Striper volunteer program for teens, making it the only pediatric hospital using teen volunteers in direct patient contact.
Children's Hospital establishes a Poison Control Center.
Children's establishes the School of Radiologic Technology.
The Women's Board launches Friends of Children's Hospital, a women's auxiliary, to aid the hospital in various ways.
Pinkie the Puppet, a small hand puppet given to every inpatient under the age of 12, is introduced and funded by the Friends of Children’s Hospital.
The Children's Hospital Women's Board opens a hospital gift shop, with proceeds benefiting the hospital.
Children's begins construction of its education building, which includes an auditorium and classrooms for interns and nurses. Biochemistry and clinical research labs are expanded, as well as the laundry and maintenance shop.
The molecular structure of DNA is first identified by James Watson and Francis Crick.
Medical history! After years of research, American medical researcher and virologist Jonas Salk develops the first safe and effective polio vaccine.
Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant.
Good grief! Charlie Brown appears in the first Peanuts comic strip.
The original, world-renowned Tangier Restaurant opens for business.
Originally marketed as the "Pluto Platter," the Wham-O toy company changes the name of the flying disc after learning that college students in the Northeast were calling it a "Frisbee."
Mattel introduces the Barbie doll, created by Ruth Handler, who said it was inspired by and named after her daughter Barbara.
Tile floors become racetracks as the first Matchbox cars are introduced.
Everybody's doing a brand new dance now… America's teens take to the dance floor when American Bandstand debuts with Dick Clark!
The modern hula hoop is invented by Arthur K. "Spud" Melin and Richard Knerr.
The American Golf Classic, the forerunner of the World Series of Golf, is held for the first time at Firestone Country Club in Akron.
So many stores under one roof! Summit Mall opens, giving shoppers one convenient place for everything they need.
Cascade Plaza opens, featuring an ice-skating rink.
The Municipal University of Akron becomes a state institution, changing its name to The University of Akron.
The Friends of Children's Hospital launch Friendly TWIGS (Together With Important Goals), an arts and crafts group that assembles craft kits for patients.
Akron Children's Hospital jumps into the computer age with help from IBM. Children's is the nation's pilot facility for the program later known as HIS, Hospital Information System.
Children's Hospital establishes the Employee Foundation, which raises funds to help charitable agencies in the community and provide scholarships.
The Friends of Children's Hospital holds the first annual Harness Race Rally, still a popular fundraiser today.
Children's Hospital builds cardiac catheterization lab. Dr. John D. Kramer is the director.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the Margaret Stone Labs, which allows its pathology department to expand and adds two floors to its education building.
The measles vaccine is introduced.
The first rubella vaccine is licensed.
The Ohio Art Company introduces the first Etch A Sketch, which goes on to be named one of the top 100 toys of the 20th century.
Hasbro first markets GI Joe to boys, using the term "action figure" instead of doll.
"Can you tell me how to get to…" Sesame Street airs for the first time on public broadcasting stations on Nov. 10.
Yeah, yeah yeah! The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show. Their first appearance on American TV is considered a pop culture milestone and the beginning of the British Invasion.
"It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, created by Fred Rogers, debuts nationally on U.S. Network NET, the forerunner of PBS.
Music to Akron's ears! E.J. Thomas Hall opens October 9.
The musical group DEVO emerges from Akron. Their biggest hit, "Whip It," would debut 3 years later.
The former Quaker Oats grain silos are converted into a shopping and hotel complex.
Akron Children's Hospital builds a dormitory for student nurses.
The hospital establishes a social services (social work) department.
The Akron Children's Hospital Foundation is established by the Board of Trustees to secure funds to aid the hospital's mission.
Getting stitched up. Children's Hospital begins one of the first suture programs in the country.
The Employee Foundation establishes the Distinguished Service Award to recognize contributions in leadership, dedication, loyalty and service to Akron Children's. Hospital president Roger J. Sherman is the first recipient.
Akron Children's Hospital opens an outpatient wing that includes a new emergency department, admitting area, elevator tower, enlarged radiology department, gift shop, Mary A. Hower lobby, new outpatient and clinic facilities, outpatient lab, parent lobbies on each floor and rehabilitation services.
Children's becomes the teaching hospital for pediatrics and pathology for Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine, now called Northeast Ohio Medical University.
The hospital changes its name from Akron Children's Hospital to Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron to reflect the broad scope of services offered.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a burn center to treat all children and adult burn victims in a 17-county area. Children's becomes 1 of only 2 pediatric hospitals in the U.S. that treats adult patients.
Children's Hospital opens an inpatient psychiatric unit for children and teens.
Children's Hospital launches the child life program to help patients and their families cope before, during and after a medical procedure or hospital stay.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Akron Children's Hospital adds a medical library, called the Mary A. Hower Health Science Library, to its education building.
Akron Children's Hospital is the first to grow human skin in the lab. Drs. Howard J. Igel, Clifford Boeckman and Aaron Freeman collaborated in this effort that revolutionized burn treatment.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes the John B. Hower Award in Pediatric Neurology to honor a dedicated Board of Trustees member. The award has become a major international award in the field of pediatric neurology, with recipients selected by a committee of the Child Neurology Society.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes a department of psychiatry, with Dr. Chris VanDevere as its first director.
The Akron Children's Hospital Foundation establishes the Annual Fund drive to ensure the hospital will be able to fulfill its promise to the community.
Under the direction of Dr. Haynes Robinson, Children's opens a genetics clinic to help diagnose and manage genetic conditions, birth defects and developmental delays.
Children's Hospital builds a Level III 59-bed NICU.
Children's Hospital and Akron City Hospital establish the "2-roof" Regional Perinatal Center.
At the age of 32, William H. Considine is named president of Children's Hospital.
Less itching! The first vaccine is developed for chickenpox.
The world's first successful "test-tube" baby is born in Great Britain on July 25.
Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans.
But it won't roll over on its own. Advertising executive Gary Dahl comes up with the idea of a pet rock after listening to his friends complain about their pets being too much trouble and costing too much money.
"Tomorrow! Tomorrow!" The original Broadway musical "Annie" debuts at Alvin Theatre in New York City.
Left, right, repeat over and over. Atari introduces Pong, a tennis sports game featuring simple 2-dimensional graphics. It is one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity.
Garden takeover! Art student Xavier Roberts creates Cabbage Patch Dolls, one of the first fad toys of the 1980s.
Akron is voted All-America City by the National Civic League for the first time.
Archbishop Hoban High School graduate Butch Reynolds wins the silver medal in the 400-meter dash during the 1988 Olympics.
Buchtel High School graduate Rita Dove wins the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Children's Hospital establishes a division of adolescent medicine with Dr. James Fitzgibbon as director.
Children's Hospital collaborates with Kent State University to establish the Family Child Learning Center to work with young children with developmental concerns and their families.
Children's Hospital establishes a division of nephrology to diagnose and treat children with kidney diseases.
On your mark, get set, RUN! Children's Hospital's Employee Foundation launches the Kids Are #1 Run to benefit special projects at the hospital and in the community.
The Ronald McDonald House of Akron opens, providing a "home away from home" for patients' families. The 17,000-square-foot house has 20 bedrooms.
The Children's Circle is created to recognize a distinguished group of donors who make Akron Children’s Hospital a priority in their philanthropy.
Children's Hospital develops a child advocacy initiative to address concerns such as violence and injury prevention, healthcare for the uninsured, and health education.
Children's Hospital establishes the CARE (Children At Risk Evaluation) Center to evaluate and initiate treatment for abused children. Dr. R. Daryl Steiner is the director.
Children's Hospital expands its Locust Professional Building.
Children's Hospital Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford Boeckman performs the first bowel-lengthening surgery. This procedure becomes the standard of care in the U.S., Canada and England.
Children's Hospital's volunteer department launches the Holiday Tree Festival as a major fundraiser and Children's gift to the community. Admission is free and proceeds from the sale benefit Children's.
The sports medicine center opens, with Dr. William Moat as director.
Children's Hospital opens a kidney dialysis center to diagnose and treat babies, children and teens suffering from chronic or acute kidney failure.
Barbie Emler becomes Children's Hospital's first kidney transplant patient.
Children's Hospital participates in the Children's Miracle Network Telethon for the first time. The CMN Telethon is sponsored nationally by the Osmond Foundation.
Stark and Summit County firefighters start ACBC (Aluminum Cans for Burned Children) to collect and recycle aluminum cans to raise money to help Children's Hospital burn victims.
The hospital launches Children's Home Care Group to support children who require special care but do not need the full services of a hospital.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, commonly referred to as an MRI, is used for the first time to obtain clinically valuable scans of a patient.
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified.
The first hepatitis B vaccine is approved for use in the United States.
Dinner parties have a lot more questions as friends challenge each other's smarts with Trivial Pursuit—the diversion that starts a rebirth in the board game industry.
Game on! The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is introduced and becomes an instant hit.
Turtle Power! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are born in the pages of a Mirage Studios comic book before expanding into a cartoon series, films, video games and toys.
The Goodyear Polymer Center opens at the University of Akron, signaling Akron’s rebirth as the Polymer Valley.
Play ball! The opening of Canal Park helps spur the revitalization of downtown Akron.
Eureka! The National Inventors Hall of Fame is dedicated.
With $1 million in funding from the Ohio Department of Education, the Decker Family Development Center opens in Barberton.
Children's establishes Safe Kids Summit County with community partners, representing regional health agencies, businesses, fire and police departments, and other county-wide agencies.
Children's Hospital's Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford R. Boeckman performs the first pediatric laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery in the U.S.
Eight new stories! The Centennial Modernization and Renovation Project is completed. The 250,000 sq. ft. addition created: 104 private medical / surgical rooms with sleeping accommodations, 59-bed NICU, 12-bed PICU, 24-bed psychiatric unit, a surgery suite with eight ORs and an ER.
Children's Hospital forms the Parent Advisory Council to give parents a voice and offers parent-to-parent support.
Children's Hospital's first website springs to life.
Children's Hospital's cardiology department opens an arrhythmia center to diagnose and treat children and teens with all types of irregular heartbeats.
Children's Hospital opens a new 12,000-square-foot respiratory center in the hospital, which includes the cystic fibrosis center, asthma education program, pulmonary medicine and pulmonary function testing lab.
Children's Hospital launches the PATHS (Promoting Adolescents Through Health Services) program to provide social, medical, educational and employment support services to at-risk adolescents in Summit County.
The Doggie Brigade bounds into the hearts of Children's Hospital patients and staff alike. A program of the volunteer department, it is the country's second pet visitation program at a children's hospital.
Children's Hospital establishes an on-site MRI.
Children's Hospital Physician Associates, now called Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics, opens its first office in Fairlawn, followed closely by a Twinsburg office.
Ask Children's begins offering Children's After Hours to help families after pediatrician offices close for the day.
Petie the Pony begins making bedside visits to hospital patients. Petie is accompanied by staff from Victory Gallop Farm. It is the first and only horse to visit a hospital.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a sick child care center as an alternative for working parents with mildly ill children.
The parent mentor program is established to connect parents who have similar medical experiences for emotional support and information.
AZT, known as azidothymidine, is the first drug approved for the treatment of AIDS.
The protease inhibitor, an antiviral drug for the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis C is developed, leading to additional research and potential cures.
The Hepatitis C vaccine is created and provides indefinite protection from the infection.
Dolly doubles! A sheep is the first mammal to be cloned.
A whole new game to play! The Sony PlayStation is introduced in Japan in 1994, and in North America and Europe the following year.
"That tickles!" Tyco introduces Tickle Me Elmo, and it quickly creates a shopping craze due to its scarcity.
The Pokémon Company is created by Satoshi Tajiri.
A new way to roll. The first Razor scooter is distributed by The Sharper Image.
The Cuyahoga Valley Recreation Area is designated as a national park.
University of Akron completes the Landscape for Learning with 22 new buildings and 34 acres of new green space.
Run, Akron, run! The first Akron Marathon brings tens of thousands downtown for what becomes an annual event.
The rebuilt Akron Art Museum opens.
Children's Hospital partners with WKDD 98.1 to hold its first radiothon, called "Have a Heart, Do Your Part." In just three days, it raises $327,000, making it one of the top ten radiothons in the country.
Children's Hospital develops a division of rheumatology to treat and diagnose children with inflammation of joints and muscles and autoimmune diseases, such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, Kawasaki syndrome and lupus.
American College of Surgeons designates Akron Children's Hospital as a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center.
Akron Children's Hospital installs a new digital catheterization lab, only the second such pediatric digital facility in the country.
Akron Children's Hospital, in cooperation with Akron General Medical Center and Summa Health System, establishes the Fetal Treatment Center of Northeast Ohio.
Children's Hospital and Akron General Medical Center form a partnership for specialty newborn care. Under the agreement, Children's leases and operates Akron General's 15-bed special care nursery.
Akron Children's Arrhythmia Center becomes a national leader in using 3-D mapping to eliminate the use of fluoroscopy (x-ray) in cardiac catheter ablation.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes school health services. Akron, Cuyahoga Falls and Hudson are the first clients.
In September, Akron Children's pediatric intensive care unit moves into more spacious quarters in the hospital's north addition. The new 25,200 sq. ft. PICU features 23 private rooms, a family waiting room, bright & airy spaces, & child-friendly art. It also houses a rooftop helipad, hematology-oncology unit & 12-bed burn unit.
In July 2005, Akron Children's Hospital begins offering pediatric outpatient services and after-hours care in Hudson.
Akron Children's school health services launches a pilot telemedicine program with Akron Public Schools, giving doctors and nurses at the hospital the ability to examine students with symptoms of minor ailments.
Children's and Humility of Mary Health Partners acquire Tri-County Child Advocacy Center in Youngstown.
Akron Children's combines orthopedics, sports medicine and sport rehab services under one roof. The 30,000-square-foot center for orthopedics and sports medicine comprises a team of highly trained medical professional and support staff to offer patients a personalized, all-in-one approach to care.
Akron Children's opens $3.5 million office suite in Boardman to house pediatric specialists. The 20,500-square-foot space features 21 exam rooms, including 2 cast rooms for orthopedics, 3 assessment rooms, 3 nursing stations, 2 consultation rooms, EKG and cardiac exercise labs, a pulmonary exercise lab, and a digital radiology suite.
With generous support from the Women's Board, Akron Children's opens the Garden of Hope and Healing in Perkins Square Park. The garden provides patients, their families and hospital staff an outdoor space for reflection, meditation and renewal.
Akron Children's establishes a division of clinical pharmacology and toxicology to provide patients and families with specialized expertise on children's specific medication and poisoning issues.
Akron Children's hematology-oncology program is verified by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer as one of only 14 pediatric teaching hospital cancer programs in the nation.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a sleep center under the direction of Dr. Greg Omlor, who is also the director of pulmonology.
Akron Children's Hospital greatly expands its cardiac services with the opening of its heart center. The center adds pediatric heart surgery, adult congenital heart disease and maternal-fetal cardiology to its list of services.
Thanks to a generous donation from the hospital's Women's Board, Akron Children's opens a skeletal dysplasia center under the direction of its founders, Dr. Dennis Weiner and Dr. Haynes Robinson.
Akron Children's Hospital hires Dr. Grace Smith to start a heart center office in Boardman.
The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer verifies Akron Children's cancer program as one of only 14 pediatric teaching hospital cancer programs in the nation.
Akron Children's Hospital opens the $45 million, 239,400-square-foot Bowery (later named Considine) Professional Building across from the hospital's main entrance. The medical office building houses the heart center, sick child care center, medical education and a conference center that includes a 211-seat auditorium and ten conference rooms.
Children's returns to doing business as Akron Children's Hospital but retains Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron as its legal name.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes the department of maternal-fetal medicine to provide basic and specialty maternal care with advanced fetal diagnosis and treatment.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the $9 million, 27,000-square-foot east addition. It houses an expanded and renovated Kids' Café, 5 new post-anesthesia care unit beds, and 4 new ORs.
Akron Children's Hospital estabalishes a hospitalist program called diagnostic referral services. These in-house physicians manage patient care from admission to discharge.
Akron Children's Hospital enters into an agreement with Humility of Mary Health Partners (HMHP) to establish a hospitalist program at St. Elizabeth's in Youngstown. In addition, Children's creates a 20-bed pediatric unit at HMHP's new Boardman facility.
Akron Children's begins operating the 20-bed neonatal intensive care unit at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown.
After undergoing a rigorous application and evaluation process, Akron Children's is awarded Magnet recognition status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
In December 2008, Akron Children's opens a second hospital in Boardman to serve the patients and families of the Mahoning Valley. The 189,174-square-foot Beeghly campus has 32 inpatient rooms, an ER, and rehabilitation, radiology, lab and other services.
It's a bird, it's a plane... it's Air Bear! Ohio's first medical transport helicopter dedicated to pediatrics arrives at its new home at Akron Children's Hospital.
Akron Children's opens the 10,000-square-foot Ear, Nose and Throat Center.
Scientists release a rough draft of the Human Genome Project to the public.
The first single-port surgery is performed in Cleveland, revolutionizing minimally invasive surgery.
Rumaisa Rahman is born Sept. 19, 2004, at less than 26 week's gestation at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. At 8.6 oz., or lighter than a can of Coke, Rumaisa is the smallest preemie born to live past discharge in the United States.
Stem cell research continues to expand, following the end to the ban on federal funding.
Let's walk & roll! Roger Adams creates Heelys, athletic shoes with wheels in the heels, and they quickly became a pop culture craze among teens.
Kids online, everywhere! Webkinz are released by the Canadian toy company Ganz.
Everyone's favorite waiting game—Angry Birds is released for Apple iPhones.
The four original 10-inch Bratz dolls are released by MGA Entertainment.
Move to play! The interactive Wii home video game console is released by Nintendo.
We are the champions! The University of Akron Men’s Soccer Team wins the NCAA Championship.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company completes its new world headquarters building.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company welcomed Wingfoot Three to the company’s fleet of airships on Aug. 30, 2018.
The Black Keys—Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, a blues-rock duo from Akron, win four Grammy Awards and another four in 2013.
For the fifth time, the Double-A Akron RubberDucks are Eastern League champions.
In September 2010, Akron Children's hires its first language access services coordinator.
Akron Children's opens the Emily Cooper Welty Expressive Therapy Center. The 3,000-square-foot center allows patients to use various forms of art to deal with illness, cope with emotions and find comfort.
Akron Children's is ranked in eight pediatric specialties in the U.S. News and World Report's 2012-2013 Best Children's Hospitals rankings: urology, pulmonology, neonatology, cancer, nephrology, orthopedics, neurology and neurosurgery, and cardiology and heart surgery.
Akron Children's establishes a Parent Advisory Council in Mahoning Valley.
Akron Children’s Hospital, the fastest growing hospital in the country, opened doors to its $180 million Kay Jewelers Pavilion. The 7-story, nearly 370K sq. ft. facility is home to a NICU with 75 private rooms, an emergency department, an expanded outpatient surgery center and the hospital’s first delivery unit for high-risk births.
The American Nurses Credentialing Center re-designates Akron Children’s a Magnet hospital for the 3rd time for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice.
Akron Children's opens the Celeste Myers Dental Clinic to offer complete oral healthcare to children, especially those with special needs.
Akron Children's opens urgent care centers in Hudson, Mansfield and Warren.
1 million served. For the first time in our history, Akron Children's surpasses 1 million outpatient visits.
Time for an upgrade! Akron Children's enhances many areas including the inpatient units in the Centennial Building, the Maynard unit in the Kay Jewelers Pavilion, the Sleep Lab, and the Heart Center’s catheterization lab. It also opens a $4 million interventional radiology suite.
Akron Children's launches centralized scheduling.
In July 2017, Akron Children's opens a new 2-story addition on its Beeghly campus. This $20-million project adds more than 51,000 square feet to Building A, including 47 exam rooms, a welcome center and support testing rooms.
The "Have a Heart, Do Your Part" Radiothon surpasses $10 million in funds raised over 18 years.
Grace Wakulchik assumes the title of president and CEO of Akron Children’s Hospital, as William H. Considine becomes CEO Emeritus.
In August 2018, Akron Children's opens the 230,000-square-foot addition to the Considine Professional Building. The $82-million addition is 8-stories tall and brings together all of our outpatient clinics on the Akron campus.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics opens new offices in Massillon and Liberty.
Akron Children's signs an agreement with MetroHealth to provide pediatric specialty care in the areas of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, gastroenterology, cancer and blood disorders, and critical care.
Akron Children's opens the Kikel Center for Pediatric Surgery at its Beeghly campus in Boardman.
Akron Children's goes live with the Epic electronic medical records system. This $50 million investment makes it possible for the hospital to provide all staff with 24/7 access to the same patient information across the enterprise.
Akron Children's Hospital hires its 5,000th employee.
Akron Children's Hospital opens its first urgent care center at the Akron General Wellness Center in Montrose. The center offers extended hours and lower-cost options for minor medical situations.
Akron Children’s received a 2016 “Most Wired” award, a national benchmark for hospitals with exceptional IT integration.
Akron Children's adds dermatology services at the Akron campus.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics opens new offices in Austintown, Lisbon and Mansfield.
Akron Children's completes a $4.5 million expansion of our behavioral health services inpatient unit in Akron, doubling the number of beds.
Akron Children's Hospital becomes the title beneficiary of the Akron Marathon Race Series. In addition to promoting healthy lifestyles and showcasing our vibrant community, the hospital brought patient heroes to the race experience to inspire runners and spectators alike.
In March 2017, Akron Children's breaks ground on the 230,000-square-foot addition to the Considine Professional Building. The expanded building will offer space to serve more patients and brings outpatient care in Akron together in one location.
Akron Children's invests $8.6 million in a dedicated neurosurgery suite and intraoperative MRI scanner (iMRI) to help improve surgical outcomes for patients.
Akron Children's implements a new leadership structure, separating the functions of chief executive officer (CEO) and president. On July 17, Bill Considine announces that he will continue to serve as CEO while Grace Wakulchik takes on the duties of president.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics and Locust Pediatric Care Group earn Patient-Centered Medical Home certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
Akron Children’s Hospital celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Beeghly campus.
Akron Public Schools and Akron Children's come together to launch the Akron Children’s Hospital Academy of Health and Human Services at North High School. The school offers pathways in healthcare operations, early childhood education, biomedical science and allied health.
A medical marvel. Doctors in Barcelona complete the world’s first full facial transplant.
No mountain high enough! Jordan Romero, 13, becomes the youngest person to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
19-year-old gymnast Simone Biles earns four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, becoming the first American gymnast to accomplish that feat and one of only four women to do so in Olympic history.
Apple unveils the iPad tablet computer. The company's founder, Steve Jobs, calls it, "the best browsing experience you've ever had."
The 13th Doctor has landed! Jodie Whittaker makes her debut as the first female Doctor Who.
Akron Children’s opens Campbell pediatrics practice.
Salem Regional Medical Center’s pediatric primary care offices in Columbiana and Salem will join the Akron Children’s Pediatrics network, bring the number of locations to 44.
Akron Children's opens Outpatient Surgery Center in Beachwood.
Akron Children’s launches breastfeeding medicine program
Pediatric behavioral health centers opened in Canton and Mansfield.
Akron Children’s opens a new Urgent Care and Orthopedic and Sports Injury Walk-in Clinic in Montrose.
New sports medicine facility opens at the University of Akron's Stile Fieldhouse.
High-speed chases get a little more speed. The first-ever horseless police car is used in Akron.
The Mary Day Nursery adds a kindergarten class, which is the forerunner of kindergartens in the Akron Public Schools.
John R. Gammeter, owner of Akron's first plane, takes off from a fairway at Portage Country Club.
The facility is incorporated as the Mary Day Nursery and Ward for Crippled Children.
The ABO blood typing technique is successfully used for a human blood transfusion.
Chocolate for all! Hershey's begins mass-producing milk chocolate bars, making what was once a luxury item for the wealthy affordable to the masses.
The founding of the Flashes! Kent State Universtiy is established as a teacher training school.
Because of the need for space for hospital patients, the Mary Day Nursery separates from the hospital and moves to a house at 312 Locust St.
Raggedy Ann is created by Johnny Gruelle to entertain his daughter. He later creates stories based on the doll.
Construction of the USS Akron begins at the newly completed Goodyear-Zeppelin Airdock in Akron.
Children's Hospital starts the first approved residency program for pediatric specialists in Akron, becoming one of only 59 hospitals at that time to have American Medical Association approval for "Residencies in Specialties."
Roadway Express is founded by brothers Galen and Carroll Roush in Akron, and the city becomes a national trucking hub.
Akron Children's is given a top rating by the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association.
The sulfa drug, Prontosil, wins wide publicity in the United States when it is used to treat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son, who was severely ill from a streptococcic infection.
Up, up and away! Superman, created by Clevelanders, debuts in Action Comics #1.
Built with the support of the Works Progress Administration, the Akron Rubber Bowl opens.
Orthopedist Dr. Walter Hoyt, along with Drs. Adrian Davis and George Van Buren, are recognized for their successful treatment of osteomyelitis (an infection of the bone and bone marrow).
Dr. Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonic-ultrasound.
The monthly children's magazine "Highlights" is published and features puzzles, jokes, crafts, articles and silly stories.
The Women's Board launches Friends of Children's Hospital, a women's auxiliary, to aid the hospital in various ways.
The modern hula hoop is invented by Arthur K. "Spud" Melin and Richard Knerr.
The American Golf Classic, the forerunner of the World Series of Golf, is held for the first time at Firestone Country Club in Akron.
The Friends of Children's Hospital launch Friendly TWIGS (Together With Important Goals), an arts and crafts group that assembles craft kits for patients.
The Ohio Art Company introduces the first Etch A Sketch, which goes on to be named one of the top 100 toys of the 20th century.
Left, right, repeat over and over. Atari introduces Pong, a tennis sports game featuring simple 2-dimensional graphics. It is one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity.
Akron is voted All-America City by the National Civic League for the first time.
Children's Hospital develops a child advocacy initiative to address concerns such as violence and injury prevention, healthcare for the uninsured, and health education.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, commonly referred to as an MRI, is used for the first time to obtain clinically valuable scans of a patient.
Dinner parties have a lot more questions as friends challenge each other's smarts with Trivial Pursuit—the diversion that starts a rebirth in the board game industry.
The Hepatitis C vaccine is created and provides indefinite protection from the infection.
Akron Children's Hospital installs a new digital catheterization lab, only the second such pediatric digital facility in the country.
Stem cell research continues to expand, following the end to the ban on federal funding.
Move to play! The interactive Wii home video game console is released by Nintendo.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company completes its new world headquarters building.
Akron Children’s received a 2016 “Most Wired” award, a national benchmark for hospitals with exceptional IT integration.
A medical marvel. Doctors in Barcelona complete the world’s first full facial transplant.
No mountain high enough! Jordan Romero, 13, becomes the youngest person to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
All aboard! The Akron Street Railway Co. completes more than 15 miles of track.
High-speed chases get a little more speed. The first-ever horseless police car is used in Akron.
Two circles of The Daughters of the King—The Heart and Hand Circle at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and The Wayside Circle at First Congregational—establish a day nursery to care for the children of working women.
The Akron Day Nursery is renamed Mary Day Nursery in honor of Colonel George Tod Perkins' first granddaughter, Mary Perkins Raymond.
The first Mary Day Nursery Ball is held at Albert Hall. Renamed the Charity Ball in 1897, the gala raised money for the nursery and kindergarten.
Colonel George Tod Perkins donates a house at 406 S. High St. to allow the nursery to expand.
The Mary Day Nursery adds a kindergarten class, which is the forerunner of kindergartens in the Akron Public Schools.
Colonel George Tod Perkins builds a new home for the nursery at 43 Buchtel St.
Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin.
It's like a super power come to life! Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays.
Look Mom, no hands! Bicycles become mass produced.
The first U.S. Golf Open tees off in Newport, Rhode Island.
Ice cream cones are invented at the World's Fair by the Menches brothers, who then open Premium Ice Cream Cone and Candy in Akron.
John R. Gammeter, owner of Akron's first plane, takes off from a fairway at Portage Country Club.
Harvey Firestone makes a deal to supply tires for cars produced by Henry Ford.
The Mary Day Nursery opens a ward for crippled children in a room vacated by the kindergarten and is operated in cooperation with Akron City Hospital.
The facility is incorporated as the Mary Day Nursery and Ward for Crippled Children.
Six doctors are selected by the Executive Board to be the Ward's first staff: James P. Boyd, William S. Chase, Thomas K. Moore and surgeons Harold H. Jacobs, James W. Rabe and George T. Rankin. Dr. Chase is named Chief.
The ABO blood group is discovered by Karl Landsteiner at the University of Vienna.
The ABO blood typing technique is successfully used for a human blood transfusion.
Chocolate for all! Hershey's begins mass-producing milk chocolate bars, making what was once a luxury item for the wealthy affordable to the masses.
A rainbow of fun! Noticing a need for safe and affordable wax crayons, Binney & Smith produces the first box of 8 Crayola crayons, featuring red, orange, yellow, green, violet, brown and black sticks.
The first unofficial world ping-pong championship gets paddled into history.
All aboard for fun! Lionel introduces preassembled track and a selection of toy trains and cars.
The founding of the Flashes! Kent State Universtiy is established as a teacher training school.
Trustees transfer Buchtel College and its assets to the city of Akron, and it is renamed the Municipal University of Akron.
Before his death, Colonel George Tod Perkins approves plans to add a six-ward hospital to the facility. The name is changed to Mary Day Nursery and Children's Hospital. It houses 50 beds, and Akron is hailed at its opening as "having more beds pro-rata than any other city in the country."
Akron Children's officially begins its nursing education program.
Because of the need for space for hospital patients, the Mary Day Nursery separates from the hospital and moves to a house at 312 Locust St.
An infantile paralysis (polio) clinic opens at Akron Children's Hospital.
A bronze tablet is installed as a tribute to Colonel George Tod Perkins. It features a della Robbia "bambino," with the Latin inscription: "Fides, Spes, Charitas" or "Faith, Hope, Charity."
Children's Hospital opens a clinic to treat conditions of the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Children's Hospital recruits Dr. Walter Hoyt to organize and head its department of orthopedic surgery. He also served as chief of staff from 1919-1923, and in 1928 and 1943.
German researcher Paul Erhlich tests Salvarsan, the first treatment effective against syphilis; regarded as the birth of modern chemotherapy.
The Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, later renamed the American Heart Association, is founded.
Dr. Paul Dudley White pioneers the use of the electrocardiograph (ECG).
On my honor, I will do my best... The Boy Scouts of America is founded by W. D. Boyce and Ernest Thompson Seton.
Juliette Gordon Low founds the Girl Scouts of the United States of America after she met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, in 1911.
Inspired by watching children play with pencils, sticks and empty spools of thread, Charles Pajeau and Robert Pettit create Tinker Toys.
Lincoln Logs are first produced by John Lloyd Wright, the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
"What didya get?" Cracker Jacks introduces "A Prize in Every Box."
The Great Flood of 1913 causes one of the most widespread disasters in our nation's history, bringing an end to the Ohio and Erie Canal.
Raggedy Ann is created by Johnny Gruelle to entertain his daughter. He later creates stories based on the doll.
A bouncing good time! George Hansburg patents his pogo stick.
The Akron Art Museum, then called the Akron Art Institute, opens in two rooms on the ground floor of the Akron Public Library on East Market Street.
Construction of the USS Akron begins at the newly completed Goodyear-Zeppelin Airdock in Akron.
100 years of Akron. The city celebrates its centennial.
The American Hospital Association accredits Akron Children's Hospital for the first time.
Akron's Junior League agrees to manage the Mary Day Nursery with the hospital continuing its financial support.
The first polio epidemic strikes Children's Hospital.
The new hospital building opens at the corner of West Buchtel and Bowery streets.
Children's Hospital's nurses' instructional program is named a training school for nurses in children's diseases by the Ohio State Department of Registration.
Dr. Noah Miller becomes Children's Hospital's first pediatric resident. He went on to be chief of staff for several years and also a chairman of pediatrics.
Children's Hospital starts the first approved residency program for pediatric specialists in Akron, becoming one of only 59 hospitals at that time to have American Medical Association approval for "Residencies in Specialties."
Frederick G. Banting and John Macleod are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of insulin."
The tetanus vaccine is developed.
A happy accident! Penicillin is discovered by Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming.
The first successful diphtheria vaccine is developed.
The iron lung is invented and becomes a valuable tool in the battle against polio.
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby."
No caddy needed! Garnet Carter patents a game of miniature golf, which he called "Tom Thumb Golf."
Oh bother! A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh.
A Disney Debut. Mickey and Minnie Mouse make their debut in Steamboat Willie.
Roadway Express is founded by brothers Galen and Carroll Roush in Akron, and the city becomes a national trucking hub.
Henrietta Seiberling introduces Dr. Bob Smith of Akron to stockbroker Bill Wilson in the Gate Lodge of Stan Hywet Hall. The two men will go on to form Alcoholics Anonymous.
The All-American Soap Box Derby finds its home in Akron.
The American Pediatric Society selects Akron Children's as one of 25 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada to help formulate a set of medical standards for hospitals.
Akron Children's is given a top rating by the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association.
Children's Hospital's Luetic Clinic, led by Drs. Myrl M. Miller and Carl E. Krill, Sr., is considered one of the best in the country.
The sulfa drug, Prontosil, wins wide publicity in the United States when it is used to treat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son, who was severely ill from a streptococcic infection.
The whooping cough vaccine, developed by Pearl Kendrick, Ph.D., is shown to be effective.
Ernie Bushmiller introduces Nancy in the comic strip Fritzi Ritz.
Up, up and away! Superman, created by Clevelanders, debuts in Action Comics #1.
"On the Good Ship Lollipop!" At age 3, Shirley Temple appears in "Bright Eyes," her first film.
The first synthetic rubber tire, made in Akron, is marketed.
Built with the support of the Works Progress Administration, the Akron Rubber Bowl opens.
Orthopedist Dr. Walter Hoyt, along with Drs. Adrian Davis and George Van Buren, are recognized for their successful treatment of osteomyelitis (an infection of the bone and bone marrow).
Akron Children's is pushed beyond its capacity with 415 polio cases. Acute cases are kept at Children's while less severe cases are housed next door at the Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church.
Roger Sherman becomes the president of Children's Hospital, a post he holds until 1979.
Akron Children's begins a major expansion. It includes inpatient units, updates to the X-ray and physiotherapy departments, a new lobby and a clinical lab.
The first influenza vaccine is developed.
Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin.
Dr. Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonic-ultrasound.
That's what it's all about! The Hokey Pokey is introduced.
The monthly children's magazine "Highlights" is published and features puzzles, jokes, crafts, articles and silly stories.
"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity sound?" The Slinky is invented by naval engineer Richard James.
Play ball little ones! The National Little League Tournament is first held in 1947 at South Williamsport, PA. It was later renamed the Little League Baseball World Series.
WAKR-TV becomes the first and only television station to be broadcast from Akron.
Lions, tigers and bears! The Akron Children's Zoo opens.
Akron Children's establishes its first EEG (electroencephalographic) lab, blood bank and bone bank, as well as the speech and hearing clinic.
Akron Children's Hospital, Akron General Medical Center and Summa Health System Hospitals jointly establish the Cooperative Medical Technology Program.
A building fund drive for Children's Hospital raises $2.3 million to add 5 new floors and surgery facilities, as well as establish a new radiology department.
Children's Hospital opens the Cystic Fibrosis Center with Dr. Lewis Walker at the helm.
Children's initiates its Candy Striper volunteer program for teens, making it the only pediatric hospital using teen volunteers in direct patient contact.
Children's Hospital establishes a Poison Control Center.
Children's establishes the School of Radiologic Technology.
The Women's Board launches Friends of Children's Hospital, a women's auxiliary, to aid the hospital in various ways.
Pinkie the Puppet, a small hand puppet given to every inpatient under the age of 12, is introduced and funded by the Friends of Children’s Hospital.
The Children's Hospital Women's Board opens a hospital gift shop, with proceeds benefiting the hospital.
Children's begins construction of its education building, which includes an auditorium and classrooms for interns and nurses. Biochemistry and clinical research labs are expanded, as well as the laundry and maintenance shop.
The molecular structure of DNA is first identified by James Watson and Francis Crick.
Medical history! After years of research, American medical researcher and virologist Jonas Salk develops the first safe and effective polio vaccine.
Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant.
Good grief! Charlie Brown appears in the first Peanuts comic strip.
The original, world-renowned Tangier Restaurant opens for business.
Originally marketed as the "Pluto Platter," the Wham-O toy company changes the name of the flying disc after learning that college students in the Northeast were calling it a "Frisbee."
Mattel introduces the Barbie doll, created by Ruth Handler, who said it was inspired by and named after her daughter Barbara.
Tile floors become racetracks as the first Matchbox cars are introduced.
Everybody's doing a brand new dance now… America's teens take to the dance floor when American Bandstand debuts with Dick Clark!
The modern hula hoop is invented by Arthur K. "Spud" Melin and Richard Knerr.
The American Golf Classic, the forerunner of the World Series of Golf, is held for the first time at Firestone Country Club in Akron.
So many stores under one roof! Summit Mall opens, giving shoppers one convenient place for everything they need.
Cascade Plaza opens, featuring an ice-skating rink.
The Municipal University of Akron becomes a state institution, changing its name to The University of Akron.
The Friends of Children's Hospital launch Friendly TWIGS (Together With Important Goals), an arts and crafts group that assembles craft kits for patients.
Akron Children's Hospital jumps into the computer age with help from IBM. Children's is the nation's pilot facility for the program later known as HIS, Hospital Information System.
Children's Hospital establishes the Employee Foundation, which raises funds to help charitable agencies in the community and provide scholarships.
The Friends of Children's Hospital holds the first annual Harness Race Rally, still a popular fundraiser today.
Children's Hospital builds cardiac catheterization lab. Dr. John D. Kramer is the director.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the Margaret Stone Labs, which allows its pathology department to expand and adds two floors to its education building.
The measles vaccine is introduced.
The first rubella vaccine is licensed.
The Ohio Art Company introduces the first Etch A Sketch, which goes on to be named one of the top 100 toys of the 20th century.
Hasbro first markets GI Joe to boys, using the term "action figure" instead of doll.
"Can you tell me how to get to…" Sesame Street airs for the first time on public broadcasting stations on Nov. 10.
Yeah, yeah yeah! The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show. Their first appearance on American TV is considered a pop culture milestone and the beginning of the British Invasion.
"It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, created by Fred Rogers, debuts nationally on U.S. Network NET, the forerunner of PBS.
Music to Akron's ears! E.J. Thomas Hall opens October 9.
The musical group DEVO emerges from Akron. Their biggest hit, "Whip It," would debut 3 years later.
The former Quaker Oats grain silos are converted into a shopping and hotel complex.
Akron Children's Hospital builds a dormitory for student nurses.
The hospital establishes a social services (social work) department.
The Akron Children's Hospital Foundation is established by the Board of Trustees to secure funds to aid the hospital's mission.
Getting stitched up. Children's Hospital begins one of the first suture programs in the country.
The Employee Foundation establishes the Distinguished Service Award to recognize contributions in leadership, dedication, loyalty and service to Akron Children's. Hospital president Roger J. Sherman is the first recipient.
Akron Children's Hospital opens an outpatient wing that includes a new emergency department, admitting area, elevator tower, enlarged radiology department, gift shop, Mary A. Hower lobby, new outpatient and clinic facilities, outpatient lab, parent lobbies on each floor and rehabilitation services.
Children's becomes the teaching hospital for pediatrics and pathology for Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine, now called Northeast Ohio Medical University.
The hospital changes its name from Akron Children's Hospital to Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron to reflect the broad scope of services offered.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a burn center to treat all children and adult burn victims in a 17-county area. Children's becomes 1 of only 2 pediatric hospitals in the U.S. that treats adult patients.
Children's Hospital opens an inpatient psychiatric unit for children and teens.
Children's Hospital launches the child life program to help patients and their families cope before, during and after a medical procedure or hospital stay.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Akron Children's Hospital adds a medical library, called the Mary A. Hower Health Science Library, to its education building.
Akron Children's Hospital is the first to grow human skin in the lab. Drs. Howard J. Igel, Clifford Boeckman and Aaron Freeman collaborated in this effort that revolutionized burn treatment.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes the John B. Hower Award in Pediatric Neurology to honor a dedicated Board of Trustees member. The award has become a major international award in the field of pediatric neurology, with recipients selected by a committee of the Child Neurology Society.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes a department of psychiatry, with Dr. Chris VanDevere as its first director.
The Akron Children's Hospital Foundation establishes the Annual Fund drive to ensure the hospital will be able to fulfill its promise to the community.
Under the direction of Dr. Haynes Robinson, Children's opens a genetics clinic to help diagnose and manage genetic conditions, birth defects and developmental delays.
Children's Hospital builds a Level III 59-bed NICU.
Children's Hospital and Akron City Hospital establish the "2-roof" Regional Perinatal Center.
At the age of 32, William H. Considine is named president of Children's Hospital.
Less itching! The first vaccine is developed for chickenpox.
The world's first successful "test-tube" baby is born in Great Britain on July 25.
Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans.
But it won't roll over on its own. Advertising executive Gary Dahl comes up with the idea of a pet rock after listening to his friends complain about their pets being too much trouble and costing too much money.
"Tomorrow! Tomorrow!" The original Broadway musical "Annie" debuts at Alvin Theatre in New York City.
Left, right, repeat over and over. Atari introduces Pong, a tennis sports game featuring simple 2-dimensional graphics. It is one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity.
Garden takeover! Art student Xavier Roberts creates Cabbage Patch Dolls, one of the first fad toys of the 1980s.
Akron is voted All-America City by the National Civic League for the first time.
Archbishop Hoban High School graduate Butch Reynolds wins the silver medal in the 400-meter dash during the 1988 Olympics.
Buchtel High School graduate Rita Dove wins the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Children's Hospital establishes a division of adolescent medicine with Dr. James Fitzgibbon as director.
Children's Hospital collaborates with Kent State University to establish the Family Child Learning Center to work with young children with developmental concerns and their families.
Children's Hospital establishes a division of nephrology to diagnose and treat children with kidney diseases.
On your mark, get set, RUN! Children's Hospital's Employee Foundation launches the Kids Are #1 Run to benefit special projects at the hospital and in the community.
The Ronald McDonald House of Akron opens, providing a "home away from home" for patients' families. The 17,000-square-foot house has 20 bedrooms.
The Children's Circle is created to recognize a distinguished group of donors who make Akron Children’s Hospital a priority in their philanthropy.
Children's Hospital develops a child advocacy initiative to address concerns such as violence and injury prevention, healthcare for the uninsured, and health education.
Children's Hospital establishes the CARE (Children At Risk Evaluation) Center to evaluate and initiate treatment for abused children. Dr. R. Daryl Steiner is the director.
Children's Hospital expands its Locust Professional Building.
Children's Hospital Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford Boeckman performs the first bowel-lengthening surgery. This procedure becomes the standard of care in the U.S., Canada and England.
Children's Hospital's volunteer department launches the Holiday Tree Festival as a major fundraiser and Children's gift to the community. Admission is free and proceeds from the sale benefit Children's.
The sports medicine center opens, with Dr. William Moat as director.
Children's Hospital opens a kidney dialysis center to diagnose and treat babies, children and teens suffering from chronic or acute kidney failure.
Barbie Emler becomes Children's Hospital's first kidney transplant patient.
Children's Hospital participates in the Children's Miracle Network Telethon for the first time. The CMN Telethon is sponsored nationally by the Osmond Foundation.
Stark and Summit County firefighters start ACBC (Aluminum Cans for Burned Children) to collect and recycle aluminum cans to raise money to help Children's Hospital burn victims.
The hospital launches Children's Home Care Group to support children who require special care but do not need the full services of a hospital.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, commonly referred to as an MRI, is used for the first time to obtain clinically valuable scans of a patient.
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified.
The first hepatitis B vaccine is approved for use in the United States.
Dinner parties have a lot more questions as friends challenge each other's smarts with Trivial Pursuit—the diversion that starts a rebirth in the board game industry.
Game on! The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is introduced and becomes an instant hit.
Turtle Power! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are born in the pages of a Mirage Studios comic book before expanding into a cartoon series, films, video games and toys.
The Goodyear Polymer Center opens at the University of Akron, signaling Akron’s rebirth as the Polymer Valley.
Play ball! The opening of Canal Park helps spur the revitalization of downtown Akron.
Eureka! The National Inventors Hall of Fame is dedicated.
With $1 million in funding from the Ohio Department of Education, the Decker Family Development Center opens in Barberton.
Children's establishes Safe Kids Summit County with community partners, representing regional health agencies, businesses, fire and police departments, and other county-wide agencies.
Children's Hospital's Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford R. Boeckman performs the first pediatric laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery in the U.S.
Eight new stories! The Centennial Modernization and Renovation Project is completed. The 250,000 sq. ft. addition created: 104 private medical / surgical rooms with sleeping accommodations, 59-bed NICU, 12-bed PICU, 24-bed psychiatric unit, a surgery suite with eight ORs and an ER.
Children's Hospital forms the Parent Advisory Council to give parents a voice and offers parent-to-parent support.
Children's Hospital's first website springs to life.
Children's Hospital's cardiology department opens an arrhythmia center to diagnose and treat children and teens with all types of irregular heartbeats.
Children's Hospital opens a new 12,000-square-foot respiratory center in the hospital, which includes the cystic fibrosis center, asthma education program, pulmonary medicine and pulmonary function testing lab.
Children's Hospital launches the PATHS (Promoting Adolescents Through Health Services) program to provide social, medical, educational and employment support services to at-risk adolescents in Summit County.
The Doggie Brigade bounds into the hearts of Children's Hospital patients and staff alike. A program of the volunteer department, it is the country's second pet visitation program at a children's hospital.
Children's Hospital establishes an on-site MRI.
Children's Hospital Physician Associates, now called Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics, opens its first office in Fairlawn, followed closely by a Twinsburg office.
Ask Children's begins offering Children's After Hours to help families after pediatrician offices close for the day.
Petie the Pony begins making bedside visits to hospital patients. Petie is accompanied by staff from Victory Gallop Farm. It is the first and only horse to visit a hospital.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a sick child care center as an alternative for working parents with mildly ill children.
The parent mentor program is established to connect parents who have similar medical experiences for emotional support and information.
AZT, known as azidothymidine, is the first drug approved for the treatment of AIDS.
The protease inhibitor, an antiviral drug for the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis C is developed, leading to additional research and potential cures.
The Hepatitis C vaccine is created and provides indefinite protection from the infection.
Dolly doubles! A sheep is the first mammal to be cloned.
A whole new game to play! The Sony PlayStation is introduced in Japan in 1994, and in North America and Europe the following year.
"That tickles!" Tyco introduces Tickle Me Elmo, and it quickly creates a shopping craze due to its scarcity.
The Pokémon Company is created by Satoshi Tajiri.
A new way to roll. The first Razor scooter is distributed by The Sharper Image.
The Cuyahoga Valley Recreation Area is designated as a national park.
University of Akron completes the Landscape for Learning with 22 new buildings and 34 acres of new green space.
Run, Akron, run! The first Akron Marathon brings tens of thousands downtown for what becomes an annual event.
The rebuilt Akron Art Museum opens.
Children's Hospital partners with WKDD 98.1 to hold its first radiothon, called "Have a Heart, Do Your Part." In just three days, it raises $327,000, making it one of the top ten radiothons in the country.
Children's Hospital develops a division of rheumatology to treat and diagnose children with inflammation of joints and muscles and autoimmune diseases, such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, Kawasaki syndrome and lupus.
American College of Surgeons designates Akron Children's Hospital as a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center.
Akron Children's Hospital installs a new digital catheterization lab, only the second such pediatric digital facility in the country.
Akron Children's Hospital, in cooperation with Akron General Medical Center and Summa Health System, establishes the Fetal Treatment Center of Northeast Ohio.
Children's Hospital and Akron General Medical Center form a partnership for specialty newborn care. Under the agreement, Children's leases and operates Akron General's 15-bed special care nursery.
Akron Children's Arrhythmia Center becomes a national leader in using 3-D mapping to eliminate the use of fluoroscopy (x-ray) in cardiac catheter ablation.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes school health services. Akron, Cuyahoga Falls and Hudson are the first clients.
In September, Akron Children's pediatric intensive care unit moves into more spacious quarters in the hospital's north addition. The new 25,200 sq. ft. PICU features 23 private rooms, a family waiting room, bright & airy spaces, & child-friendly art. It also houses a rooftop helipad, hematology-oncology unit & 12-bed burn unit.
In July 2005, Akron Children's Hospital begins offering pediatric outpatient services and after-hours care in Hudson.
Akron Children's school health services launches a pilot telemedicine program with Akron Public Schools, giving doctors and nurses at the hospital the ability to examine students with symptoms of minor ailments.
Children's and Humility of Mary Health Partners acquire Tri-County Child Advocacy Center in Youngstown.
Akron Children's combines orthopedics, sports medicine and sport rehab services under one roof. The 30,000-square-foot center for orthopedics and sports medicine comprises a team of highly trained medical professional and support staff to offer patients a personalized, all-in-one approach to care.
Akron Children's opens $3.5 million office suite in Boardman to house pediatric specialists. The 20,500-square-foot space features 21 exam rooms, including 2 cast rooms for orthopedics, 3 assessment rooms, 3 nursing stations, 2 consultation rooms, EKG and cardiac exercise labs, a pulmonary exercise lab, and a digital radiology suite.
With generous support from the Women's Board, Akron Children's opens the Garden of Hope and Healing in Perkins Square Park. The garden provides patients, their families and hospital staff an outdoor space for reflection, meditation and renewal.
Akron Children's establishes a division of clinical pharmacology and toxicology to provide patients and families with specialized expertise on children's specific medication and poisoning issues.
Akron Children's hematology-oncology program is verified by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer as one of only 14 pediatric teaching hospital cancer programs in the nation.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a sleep center under the direction of Dr. Greg Omlor, who is also the director of pulmonology.
Akron Children's Hospital greatly expands its cardiac services with the opening of its heart center. The center adds pediatric heart surgery, adult congenital heart disease and maternal-fetal cardiology to its list of services.
Thanks to a generous donation from the hospital's Women's Board, Akron Children's opens a skeletal dysplasia center under the direction of its founders, Dr. Dennis Weiner and Dr. Haynes Robinson.
Akron Children's Hospital hires Dr. Grace Smith to start a heart center office in Boardman.
The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer verifies Akron Children's cancer program as one of only 14 pediatric teaching hospital cancer programs in the nation.
Akron Children's Hospital opens the $45 million, 239,400-square-foot Bowery (later named Considine) Professional Building across from the hospital's main entrance. The medical office building houses the heart center, sick child care center, medical education and a conference center that includes a 211-seat auditorium and ten conference rooms.
Children's returns to doing business as Akron Children's Hospital but retains Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron as its legal name.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes the department of maternal-fetal medicine to provide basic and specialty maternal care with advanced fetal diagnosis and treatment.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the $9 million, 27,000-square-foot east addition. It houses an expanded and renovated Kids' Café, 5 new post-anesthesia care unit beds, and 4 new ORs.
Akron Children's Hospital estabalishes a hospitalist program called diagnostic referral services. These in-house physicians manage patient care from admission to discharge.
Akron Children's Hospital enters into an agreement with Humility of Mary Health Partners (HMHP) to establish a hospitalist program at St. Elizabeth's in Youngstown. In addition, Children's creates a 20-bed pediatric unit at HMHP's new Boardman facility.
Akron Children's begins operating the 20-bed neonatal intensive care unit at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown.
After undergoing a rigorous application and evaluation process, Akron Children's is awarded Magnet recognition status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
In December 2008, Akron Children's opens a second hospital in Boardman to serve the patients and families of the Mahoning Valley. The 189,174-square-foot Beeghly campus has 32 inpatient rooms, an ER, and rehabilitation, radiology, lab and other services.
It's a bird, it's a plane... it's Air Bear! Ohio's first medical transport helicopter dedicated to pediatrics arrives at its new home at Akron Children's Hospital.
Akron Children's opens the 10,000-square-foot Ear, Nose and Throat Center.
Scientists release a rough draft of the Human Genome Project to the public.
The first single-port surgery is performed in Cleveland, revolutionizing minimally invasive surgery.
Rumaisa Rahman is born Sept. 19, 2004, at less than 26 week's gestation at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. At 8.6 oz., or lighter than a can of Coke, Rumaisa is the smallest preemie born to live past discharge in the United States.
Stem cell research continues to expand, following the end to the ban on federal funding.
Let's walk & roll! Roger Adams creates Heelys, athletic shoes with wheels in the heels, and they quickly became a pop culture craze among teens.
Kids online, everywhere! Webkinz are released by the Canadian toy company Ganz.
Everyone's favorite waiting game—Angry Birds is released for Apple iPhones.
The four original 10-inch Bratz dolls are released by MGA Entertainment.
Move to play! The interactive Wii home video game console is released by Nintendo.
We are the champions! The University of Akron Men’s Soccer Team wins the NCAA Championship.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company completes its new world headquarters building.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company welcomed Wingfoot Three to the company’s fleet of airships on Aug. 30, 2018.
The Black Keys—Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, a blues-rock duo from Akron, win four Grammy Awards and another four in 2013.
For the fifth time, the Double-A Akron RubberDucks are Eastern League champions.
In September 2010, Akron Children's hires its first language access services coordinator.
Akron Children's opens the Emily Cooper Welty Expressive Therapy Center. The 3,000-square-foot center allows patients to use various forms of art to deal with illness, cope with emotions and find comfort.
Akron Children's is ranked in eight pediatric specialties in the U.S. News and World Report's 2012-2013 Best Children's Hospitals rankings: urology, pulmonology, neonatology, cancer, nephrology, orthopedics, neurology and neurosurgery, and cardiology and heart surgery.
Akron Children's establishes a Parent Advisory Council in Mahoning Valley.
Akron Children’s Hospital, the fastest growing hospital in the country, opened doors to its $180 million Kay Jewelers Pavilion. The 7-story, nearly 370K sq. ft. facility is home to a NICU with 75 private rooms, an emergency department, an expanded outpatient surgery center and the hospital’s first delivery unit for high-risk births.
The American Nurses Credentialing Center re-designates Akron Children’s a Magnet hospital for the 3rd time for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice.
Akron Children's opens the Celeste Myers Dental Clinic to offer complete oral healthcare to children, especially those with special needs.
Akron Children's opens urgent care centers in Hudson, Mansfield and Warren.
1 million served. For the first time in our history, Akron Children's surpasses 1 million outpatient visits.
Time for an upgrade! Akron Children's enhances many areas including the inpatient units in the Centennial Building, the Maynard unit in the Kay Jewelers Pavilion, the Sleep Lab, and the Heart Center’s catheterization lab. It also opens a $4 million interventional radiology suite.
Akron Children's launches centralized scheduling.
In July 2017, Akron Children's opens a new 2-story addition on its Beeghly campus. This $20-million project adds more than 51,000 square feet to Building A, including 47 exam rooms, a welcome center and support testing rooms.
The "Have a Heart, Do Your Part" Radiothon surpasses $10 million in funds raised over 18 years.
Grace Wakulchik assumes the title of president and CEO of Akron Children’s Hospital, as William H. Considine becomes CEO Emeritus.
In August 2018, Akron Children's opens the 230,000-square-foot addition to the Considine Professional Building. The $82-million addition is 8-stories tall and brings together all of our outpatient clinics on the Akron campus.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics opens new offices in Massillon and Liberty.
Akron Children's signs an agreement with MetroHealth to provide pediatric specialty care in the areas of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, gastroenterology, cancer and blood disorders, and critical care.
Akron Children's opens the Kikel Center for Pediatric Surgery at its Beeghly campus in Boardman.
Akron Children's goes live with the Epic electronic medical records system. This $50 million investment makes it possible for the hospital to provide all staff with 24/7 access to the same patient information across the enterprise.
Akron Children's Hospital hires its 5,000th employee.
Akron Children's Hospital opens its first urgent care center at the Akron General Wellness Center in Montrose. The center offers extended hours and lower-cost options for minor medical situations.
Akron Children’s received a 2016 “Most Wired” award, a national benchmark for hospitals with exceptional IT integration.
Akron Children's adds dermatology services at the Akron campus.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics opens new offices in Austintown, Lisbon and Mansfield.
Akron Children's completes a $4.5 million expansion of our behavioral health services inpatient unit in Akron, doubling the number of beds.
Akron Children's Hospital becomes the title beneficiary of the Akron Marathon Race Series. In addition to promoting healthy lifestyles and showcasing our vibrant community, the hospital brought patient heroes to the race experience to inspire runners and spectators alike.
In March 2017, Akron Children's breaks ground on the 230,000-square-foot addition to the Considine Professional Building. The expanded building will offer space to serve more patients and brings outpatient care in Akron together in one location.
Akron Children's invests $8.6 million in a dedicated neurosurgery suite and intraoperative MRI scanner (iMRI) to help improve surgical outcomes for patients.
Akron Children's implements a new leadership structure, separating the functions of chief executive officer (CEO) and president. On July 17, Bill Considine announces that he will continue to serve as CEO while Grace Wakulchik takes on the duties of president.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics and Locust Pediatric Care Group earn Patient-Centered Medical Home certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
Akron Children’s Hospital celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Beeghly campus.
Akron Public Schools and Akron Children's come together to launch the Akron Children’s Hospital Academy of Health and Human Services at North High School. The school offers pathways in healthcare operations, early childhood education, biomedical science and allied health.
A medical marvel. Doctors in Barcelona complete the world’s first full facial transplant.
No mountain high enough! Jordan Romero, 13, becomes the youngest person to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
19-year-old gymnast Simone Biles earns four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, becoming the first American gymnast to accomplish that feat and one of only four women to do so in Olympic history.
Apple unveils the iPad tablet computer. The company's founder, Steve Jobs, calls it, "the best browsing experience you've ever had."
The 13th Doctor has landed! Jodie Whittaker makes her debut as the first female Doctor Who.
Akron Children’s opens Campbell pediatrics practice.
Salem Regional Medical Center’s pediatric primary care offices in Columbiana and Salem will join the Akron Children’s Pediatrics network, bring the number of locations to 44.
Akron Children's opens Outpatient Surgery Center in Beachwood.
Akron Children’s launches breastfeeding medicine program
Pediatric behavioral health centers opened in Canton and Mansfield.
Akron Children’s opens a new Urgent Care and Orthopedic and Sports Injury Walk-in Clinic in Montrose.
New sports medicine facility opens at the University of Akron's Stile Fieldhouse.
High-speed chases get a little more speed. The first-ever horseless police car is used in Akron.
The Akron Day Nursery is renamed Mary Day Nursery in honor of Colonel George Tod Perkins' first granddaughter, Mary Perkins Raymond.
Ice cream cones are invented at the World's Fair by the Menches brothers, who then open Premium Ice Cream Cone and Candy in Akron.
The Mary Day Nursery opens a ward for crippled children in a room vacated by the kindergarten and is operated in cooperation with Akron City Hospital.
The ABO blood typing technique is successfully used for a human blood transfusion.
The founding of the Flashes! Kent State Universtiy is established as a teacher training school.
Children's Hospital opens a clinic to treat conditions of the eye, ear, nose and throat.
The Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, later renamed the American Heart Association, is founded.
The Akron Art Museum, then called the Akron Art Institute, opens in two rooms on the ground floor of the Akron Public Library on East Market Street.
The new hospital building opens at the corner of West Buchtel and Bowery streets.
The iron lung is invented and becomes a valuable tool in the battle against polio.
Oh bother! A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh.
Henrietta Seiberling introduces Dr. Bob Smith of Akron to stockbroker Bill Wilson in the Gate Lodge of Stan Hywet Hall. The two men will go on to form Alcoholics Anonymous.
Children's Hospital's Luetic Clinic, led by Drs. Myrl M. Miller and Carl E. Krill, Sr., is considered one of the best in the country.
The sulfa drug, Prontosil, wins wide publicity in the United States when it is used to treat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son, who was severely ill from a streptococcic infection.
"On the Good Ship Lollipop!" At age 3, Shirley Temple appears in "Bright Eyes," her first film.
Akron Children's is pushed beyond its capacity with 415 polio cases. Acute cases are kept at Children's while less severe cases are housed next door at the Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church.
"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity sound?" The Slinky is invented by naval engineer Richard James.
The Friends of Children's Hospital holds the first annual Harness Race Rally, still a popular fundraiser today.
Hasbro first markets GI Joe to boys, using the term "action figure" instead of doll.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes a department of psychiatry, with Dr. Chris VanDevere as its first director.
Garden takeover! Art student Xavier Roberts creates Cabbage Patch Dolls, one of the first fad toys of the 1980s.
Akron is voted All-America City by the National Civic League for the first time.
The Ronald McDonald House of Akron opens, providing a "home away from home" for patients' families. The 17,000-square-foot house has 20 bedrooms.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, commonly referred to as an MRI, is used for the first time to obtain clinically valuable scans of a patient.
Dinner parties have a lot more questions as friends challenge each other's smarts with Trivial Pursuit—the diversion that starts a rebirth in the board game industry.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a sick child care center as an alternative for working parents with mildly ill children.
The protease inhibitor, an antiviral drug for the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis C is developed, leading to additional research and potential cures.
A whole new game to play! The Sony PlayStation is introduced in Japan in 1994, and in North America and Europe the following year.
Stem cell research continues to expand, following the end to the ban on federal funding.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company welcomed Wingfoot Three to the company’s fleet of airships on Aug. 30, 2018.
Akron Children's opens urgent care centers in Hudson, Mansfield and Warren.
A medical marvel. Doctors in Barcelona complete the world’s first full facial transplant.
19-year-old gymnast Simone Biles earns four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, becoming the first American gymnast to accomplish that feat and one of only four women to do so in Olympic history.
Salem Regional Medical Center’s pediatric primary care offices in Columbiana and Salem will join the Akron Children’s Pediatrics network, bring the number of locations to 44.
All aboard! The Akron Street Railway Co. completes more than 15 miles of track.
High-speed chases get a little more speed. The first-ever horseless police car is used in Akron.
Two circles of The Daughters of the King—The Heart and Hand Circle at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and The Wayside Circle at First Congregational—establish a day nursery to care for the children of working women.
The Akron Day Nursery is renamed Mary Day Nursery in honor of Colonel George Tod Perkins' first granddaughter, Mary Perkins Raymond.
The first Mary Day Nursery Ball is held at Albert Hall. Renamed the Charity Ball in 1897, the gala raised money for the nursery and kindergarten.
Colonel George Tod Perkins donates a house at 406 S. High St. to allow the nursery to expand.
The Mary Day Nursery adds a kindergarten class, which is the forerunner of kindergartens in the Akron Public Schools.
Colonel George Tod Perkins builds a new home for the nursery at 43 Buchtel St.
Emil von Behring discovers antitoxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin.
It's like a super power come to life! Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays.
Look Mom, no hands! Bicycles become mass produced.
The first U.S. Golf Open tees off in Newport, Rhode Island.
Ice cream cones are invented at the World's Fair by the Menches brothers, who then open Premium Ice Cream Cone and Candy in Akron.
John R. Gammeter, owner of Akron's first plane, takes off from a fairway at Portage Country Club.
Harvey Firestone makes a deal to supply tires for cars produced by Henry Ford.
The Mary Day Nursery opens a ward for crippled children in a room vacated by the kindergarten and is operated in cooperation with Akron City Hospital.
The facility is incorporated as the Mary Day Nursery and Ward for Crippled Children.
Six doctors are selected by the Executive Board to be the Ward's first staff: James P. Boyd, William S. Chase, Thomas K. Moore and surgeons Harold H. Jacobs, James W. Rabe and George T. Rankin. Dr. Chase is named Chief.
The ABO blood group is discovered by Karl Landsteiner at the University of Vienna.
The ABO blood typing technique is successfully used for a human blood transfusion.
Chocolate for all! Hershey's begins mass-producing milk chocolate bars, making what was once a luxury item for the wealthy affordable to the masses.
A rainbow of fun! Noticing a need for safe and affordable wax crayons, Binney & Smith produces the first box of 8 Crayola crayons, featuring red, orange, yellow, green, violet, brown and black sticks.
The first unofficial world ping-pong championship gets paddled into history.
All aboard for fun! Lionel introduces preassembled track and a selection of toy trains and cars.
The founding of the Flashes! Kent State Universtiy is established as a teacher training school.
Trustees transfer Buchtel College and its assets to the city of Akron, and it is renamed the Municipal University of Akron.
Before his death, Colonel George Tod Perkins approves plans to add a six-ward hospital to the facility. The name is changed to Mary Day Nursery and Children's Hospital. It houses 50 beds, and Akron is hailed at its opening as "having more beds pro-rata than any other city in the country."
Akron Children's officially begins its nursing education program.
Because of the need for space for hospital patients, the Mary Day Nursery separates from the hospital and moves to a house at 312 Locust St.
An infantile paralysis (polio) clinic opens at Akron Children's Hospital.
A bronze tablet is installed as a tribute to Colonel George Tod Perkins. It features a della Robbia "bambino," with the Latin inscription: "Fides, Spes, Charitas" or "Faith, Hope, Charity."
Children's Hospital opens a clinic to treat conditions of the eye, ear, nose and throat.
Children's Hospital recruits Dr. Walter Hoyt to organize and head its department of orthopedic surgery. He also served as chief of staff from 1919-1923, and in 1928 and 1943.
German researcher Paul Erhlich tests Salvarsan, the first treatment effective against syphilis; regarded as the birth of modern chemotherapy.
The Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, later renamed the American Heart Association, is founded.
Dr. Paul Dudley White pioneers the use of the electrocardiograph (ECG).
On my honor, I will do my best... The Boy Scouts of America is founded by W. D. Boyce and Ernest Thompson Seton.
Juliette Gordon Low founds the Girl Scouts of the United States of America after she met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, in 1911.
Inspired by watching children play with pencils, sticks and empty spools of thread, Charles Pajeau and Robert Pettit create Tinker Toys.
Lincoln Logs are first produced by John Lloyd Wright, the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
"What didya get?" Cracker Jacks introduces "A Prize in Every Box."
The Great Flood of 1913 causes one of the most widespread disasters in our nation's history, bringing an end to the Ohio and Erie Canal.
Raggedy Ann is created by Johnny Gruelle to entertain his daughter. He later creates stories based on the doll.
A bouncing good time! George Hansburg patents his pogo stick.
The Akron Art Museum, then called the Akron Art Institute, opens in two rooms on the ground floor of the Akron Public Library on East Market Street.
Construction of the USS Akron begins at the newly completed Goodyear-Zeppelin Airdock in Akron.
100 years of Akron. The city celebrates its centennial.
The American Hospital Association accredits Akron Children's Hospital for the first time.
Akron's Junior League agrees to manage the Mary Day Nursery with the hospital continuing its financial support.
The first polio epidemic strikes Children's Hospital.
The new hospital building opens at the corner of West Buchtel and Bowery streets.
Children's Hospital's nurses' instructional program is named a training school for nurses in children's diseases by the Ohio State Department of Registration.
Dr. Noah Miller becomes Children's Hospital's first pediatric resident. He went on to be chief of staff for several years and also a chairman of pediatrics.
Children's Hospital starts the first approved residency program for pediatric specialists in Akron, becoming one of only 59 hospitals at that time to have American Medical Association approval for "Residencies in Specialties."
Frederick G. Banting and John Macleod are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of insulin."
The tetanus vaccine is developed.
A happy accident! Penicillin is discovered by Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming.
The first successful diphtheria vaccine is developed.
The iron lung is invented and becomes a valuable tool in the battle against polio.
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby."
No caddy needed! Garnet Carter patents a game of miniature golf, which he called "Tom Thumb Golf."
Oh bother! A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh.
A Disney Debut. Mickey and Minnie Mouse make their debut in Steamboat Willie.
Roadway Express is founded by brothers Galen and Carroll Roush in Akron, and the city becomes a national trucking hub.
Henrietta Seiberling introduces Dr. Bob Smith of Akron to stockbroker Bill Wilson in the Gate Lodge of Stan Hywet Hall. The two men will go on to form Alcoholics Anonymous.
The All-American Soap Box Derby finds its home in Akron.
The American Pediatric Society selects Akron Children's as one of 25 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada to help formulate a set of medical standards for hospitals.
Akron Children's is given a top rating by the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association.
Children's Hospital's Luetic Clinic, led by Drs. Myrl M. Miller and Carl E. Krill, Sr., is considered one of the best in the country.
The sulfa drug, Prontosil, wins wide publicity in the United States when it is used to treat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son, who was severely ill from a streptococcic infection.
The whooping cough vaccine, developed by Pearl Kendrick, Ph.D., is shown to be effective.
Ernie Bushmiller introduces Nancy in the comic strip Fritzi Ritz.
Up, up and away! Superman, created by Clevelanders, debuts in Action Comics #1.
"On the Good Ship Lollipop!" At age 3, Shirley Temple appears in "Bright Eyes," her first film.
The first synthetic rubber tire, made in Akron, is marketed.
Built with the support of the Works Progress Administration, the Akron Rubber Bowl opens.
Orthopedist Dr. Walter Hoyt, along with Drs. Adrian Davis and George Van Buren, are recognized for their successful treatment of osteomyelitis (an infection of the bone and bone marrow).
Akron Children's is pushed beyond its capacity with 415 polio cases. Acute cases are kept at Children's while less severe cases are housed next door at the Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church.
Roger Sherman becomes the president of Children's Hospital, a post he holds until 1979.
Akron Children's begins a major expansion. It includes inpatient units, updates to the X-ray and physiotherapy departments, a new lobby and a clinical lab.
The first influenza vaccine is developed.
Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin.
Dr. Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonic-ultrasound.
That's what it's all about! The Hokey Pokey is introduced.
The monthly children's magazine "Highlights" is published and features puzzles, jokes, crafts, articles and silly stories.
"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkity sound?" The Slinky is invented by naval engineer Richard James.
Play ball little ones! The National Little League Tournament is first held in 1947 at South Williamsport, PA. It was later renamed the Little League Baseball World Series.
WAKR-TV becomes the first and only television station to be broadcast from Akron.
Lions, tigers and bears! The Akron Children's Zoo opens.
Akron Children's establishes its first EEG (electroencephalographic) lab, blood bank and bone bank, as well as the speech and hearing clinic.
Akron Children's Hospital, Akron General Medical Center and Summa Health System Hospitals jointly establish the Cooperative Medical Technology Program.
A building fund drive for Children's Hospital raises $2.3 million to add 5 new floors and surgery facilities, as well as establish a new radiology department.
Children's Hospital opens the Cystic Fibrosis Center with Dr. Lewis Walker at the helm.
Children's initiates its Candy Striper volunteer program for teens, making it the only pediatric hospital using teen volunteers in direct patient contact.
Children's Hospital establishes a Poison Control Center.
Children's establishes the School of Radiologic Technology.
The Women's Board launches Friends of Children's Hospital, a women's auxiliary, to aid the hospital in various ways.
Pinkie the Puppet, a small hand puppet given to every inpatient under the age of 12, is introduced and funded by the Friends of Children’s Hospital.
The Children's Hospital Women's Board opens a hospital gift shop, with proceeds benefiting the hospital.
Children's begins construction of its education building, which includes an auditorium and classrooms for interns and nurses. Biochemistry and clinical research labs are expanded, as well as the laundry and maintenance shop.
The molecular structure of DNA is first identified by James Watson and Francis Crick.
Medical history! After years of research, American medical researcher and virologist Jonas Salk develops the first safe and effective polio vaccine.
Dr. Joseph E. Murray performs the first kidney transplant.
Good grief! Charlie Brown appears in the first Peanuts comic strip.
The original, world-renowned Tangier Restaurant opens for business.
Originally marketed as the "Pluto Platter," the Wham-O toy company changes the name of the flying disc after learning that college students in the Northeast were calling it a "Frisbee."
Mattel introduces the Barbie doll, created by Ruth Handler, who said it was inspired by and named after her daughter Barbara.
Tile floors become racetracks as the first Matchbox cars are introduced.
Everybody's doing a brand new dance now… America's teens take to the dance floor when American Bandstand debuts with Dick Clark!
The modern hula hoop is invented by Arthur K. "Spud" Melin and Richard Knerr.
The American Golf Classic, the forerunner of the World Series of Golf, is held for the first time at Firestone Country Club in Akron.
So many stores under one roof! Summit Mall opens, giving shoppers one convenient place for everything they need.
Cascade Plaza opens, featuring an ice-skating rink.
The Municipal University of Akron becomes a state institution, changing its name to The University of Akron.
The Friends of Children's Hospital launch Friendly TWIGS (Together With Important Goals), an arts and crafts group that assembles craft kits for patients.
Akron Children's Hospital jumps into the computer age with help from IBM. Children's is the nation's pilot facility for the program later known as HIS, Hospital Information System.
Children's Hospital establishes the Employee Foundation, which raises funds to help charitable agencies in the community and provide scholarships.
The Friends of Children's Hospital holds the first annual Harness Race Rally, still a popular fundraiser today.
Children's Hospital builds cardiac catheterization lab. Dr. John D. Kramer is the director.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the Margaret Stone Labs, which allows its pathology department to expand and adds two floors to its education building.
The measles vaccine is introduced.
The first rubella vaccine is licensed.
The Ohio Art Company introduces the first Etch A Sketch, which goes on to be named one of the top 100 toys of the 20th century.
Hasbro first markets GI Joe to boys, using the term "action figure" instead of doll.
"Can you tell me how to get to…" Sesame Street airs for the first time on public broadcasting stations on Nov. 10.
Yeah, yeah yeah! The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show. Their first appearance on American TV is considered a pop culture milestone and the beginning of the British Invasion.
"It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, created by Fred Rogers, debuts nationally on U.S. Network NET, the forerunner of PBS.
Music to Akron's ears! E.J. Thomas Hall opens October 9.
The musical group DEVO emerges from Akron. Their biggest hit, "Whip It," would debut 3 years later.
The former Quaker Oats grain silos are converted into a shopping and hotel complex.
Akron Children's Hospital builds a dormitory for student nurses.
The hospital establishes a social services (social work) department.
The Akron Children's Hospital Foundation is established by the Board of Trustees to secure funds to aid the hospital's mission.
Getting stitched up. Children's Hospital begins one of the first suture programs in the country.
The Employee Foundation establishes the Distinguished Service Award to recognize contributions in leadership, dedication, loyalty and service to Akron Children's. Hospital president Roger J. Sherman is the first recipient.
Akron Children's Hospital opens an outpatient wing that includes a new emergency department, admitting area, elevator tower, enlarged radiology department, gift shop, Mary A. Hower lobby, new outpatient and clinic facilities, outpatient lab, parent lobbies on each floor and rehabilitation services.
Children's becomes the teaching hospital for pediatrics and pathology for Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine, now called Northeast Ohio Medical University.
The hospital changes its name from Akron Children's Hospital to Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron to reflect the broad scope of services offered.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a burn center to treat all children and adult burn victims in a 17-county area. Children's becomes 1 of only 2 pediatric hospitals in the U.S. that treats adult patients.
Children's Hospital opens an inpatient psychiatric unit for children and teens.
Children's Hospital launches the child life program to help patients and their families cope before, during and after a medical procedure or hospital stay.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Akron Children's Hospital adds a medical library, called the Mary A. Hower Health Science Library, to its education building.
Akron Children's Hospital is the first to grow human skin in the lab. Drs. Howard J. Igel, Clifford Boeckman and Aaron Freeman collaborated in this effort that revolutionized burn treatment.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes the John B. Hower Award in Pediatric Neurology to honor a dedicated Board of Trustees member. The award has become a major international award in the field of pediatric neurology, with recipients selected by a committee of the Child Neurology Society.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes a department of psychiatry, with Dr. Chris VanDevere as its first director.
The Akron Children's Hospital Foundation establishes the Annual Fund drive to ensure the hospital will be able to fulfill its promise to the community.
Under the direction of Dr. Haynes Robinson, Children's opens a genetics clinic to help diagnose and manage genetic conditions, birth defects and developmental delays.
Children's Hospital builds a Level III 59-bed NICU.
Children's Hospital and Akron City Hospital establish the "2-roof" Regional Perinatal Center.
At the age of 32, William H. Considine is named president of Children's Hospital.
Less itching! The first vaccine is developed for chickenpox.
The world's first successful "test-tube" baby is born in Great Britain on July 25.
Robert S. Ledley invents CAT-Scans.
But it won't roll over on its own. Advertising executive Gary Dahl comes up with the idea of a pet rock after listening to his friends complain about their pets being too much trouble and costing too much money.
"Tomorrow! Tomorrow!" The original Broadway musical "Annie" debuts at Alvin Theatre in New York City.
Left, right, repeat over and over. Atari introduces Pong, a tennis sports game featuring simple 2-dimensional graphics. It is one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity.
Garden takeover! Art student Xavier Roberts creates Cabbage Patch Dolls, one of the first fad toys of the 1980s.
Akron is voted All-America City by the National Civic League for the first time.
Archbishop Hoban High School graduate Butch Reynolds wins the silver medal in the 400-meter dash during the 1988 Olympics.
Buchtel High School graduate Rita Dove wins the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Children's Hospital establishes a division of adolescent medicine with Dr. James Fitzgibbon as director.
Children's Hospital collaborates with Kent State University to establish the Family Child Learning Center to work with young children with developmental concerns and their families.
Children's Hospital establishes a division of nephrology to diagnose and treat children with kidney diseases.
On your mark, get set, RUN! Children's Hospital's Employee Foundation launches the Kids Are #1 Run to benefit special projects at the hospital and in the community.
The Ronald McDonald House of Akron opens, providing a "home away from home" for patients' families. The 17,000-square-foot house has 20 bedrooms.
The Children's Circle is created to recognize a distinguished group of donors who make Akron Children’s Hospital a priority in their philanthropy.
Children's Hospital develops a child advocacy initiative to address concerns such as violence and injury prevention, healthcare for the uninsured, and health education.
Children's Hospital establishes the CARE (Children At Risk Evaluation) Center to evaluate and initiate treatment for abused children. Dr. R. Daryl Steiner is the director.
Children's Hospital expands its Locust Professional Building.
Children's Hospital Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford Boeckman performs the first bowel-lengthening surgery. This procedure becomes the standard of care in the U.S., Canada and England.
Children's Hospital's volunteer department launches the Holiday Tree Festival as a major fundraiser and Children's gift to the community. Admission is free and proceeds from the sale benefit Children's.
The sports medicine center opens, with Dr. William Moat as director.
Children's Hospital opens a kidney dialysis center to diagnose and treat babies, children and teens suffering from chronic or acute kidney failure.
Barbie Emler becomes Children's Hospital's first kidney transplant patient.
Children's Hospital participates in the Children's Miracle Network Telethon for the first time. The CMN Telethon is sponsored nationally by the Osmond Foundation.
Stark and Summit County firefighters start ACBC (Aluminum Cans for Burned Children) to collect and recycle aluminum cans to raise money to help Children's Hospital burn victims.
The hospital launches Children's Home Care Group to support children who require special care but do not need the full services of a hospital.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, commonly referred to as an MRI, is used for the first time to obtain clinically valuable scans of a patient.
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified.
The first hepatitis B vaccine is approved for use in the United States.
Dinner parties have a lot more questions as friends challenge each other's smarts with Trivial Pursuit—the diversion that starts a rebirth in the board game industry.
Game on! The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is introduced and becomes an instant hit.
Turtle Power! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are born in the pages of a Mirage Studios comic book before expanding into a cartoon series, films, video games and toys.
The Goodyear Polymer Center opens at the University of Akron, signaling Akron’s rebirth as the Polymer Valley.
Play ball! The opening of Canal Park helps spur the revitalization of downtown Akron.
Eureka! The National Inventors Hall of Fame is dedicated.
With $1 million in funding from the Ohio Department of Education, the Decker Family Development Center opens in Barberton.
Children's establishes Safe Kids Summit County with community partners, representing regional health agencies, businesses, fire and police departments, and other county-wide agencies.
Children's Hospital's Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford R. Boeckman performs the first pediatric laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery in the U.S.
Eight new stories! The Centennial Modernization and Renovation Project is completed. The 250,000 sq. ft. addition created: 104 private medical / surgical rooms with sleeping accommodations, 59-bed NICU, 12-bed PICU, 24-bed psychiatric unit, a surgery suite with eight ORs and an ER.
Children's Hospital forms the Parent Advisory Council to give parents a voice and offers parent-to-parent support.
Children's Hospital's first website springs to life.
Children's Hospital's cardiology department opens an arrhythmia center to diagnose and treat children and teens with all types of irregular heartbeats.
Children's Hospital opens a new 12,000-square-foot respiratory center in the hospital, which includes the cystic fibrosis center, asthma education program, pulmonary medicine and pulmonary function testing lab.
Children's Hospital launches the PATHS (Promoting Adolescents Through Health Services) program to provide social, medical, educational and employment support services to at-risk adolescents in Summit County.
The Doggie Brigade bounds into the hearts of Children's Hospital patients and staff alike. A program of the volunteer department, it is the country's second pet visitation program at a children's hospital.
Children's Hospital establishes an on-site MRI.
Children's Hospital Physician Associates, now called Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics, opens its first office in Fairlawn, followed closely by a Twinsburg office.
Ask Children's begins offering Children's After Hours to help families after pediatrician offices close for the day.
Petie the Pony begins making bedside visits to hospital patients. Petie is accompanied by staff from Victory Gallop Farm. It is the first and only horse to visit a hospital.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a sick child care center as an alternative for working parents with mildly ill children.
The parent mentor program is established to connect parents who have similar medical experiences for emotional support and information.
AZT, known as azidothymidine, is the first drug approved for the treatment of AIDS.
The protease inhibitor, an antiviral drug for the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis C is developed, leading to additional research and potential cures.
The Hepatitis C vaccine is created and provides indefinite protection from the infection.
Dolly doubles! A sheep is the first mammal to be cloned.
A whole new game to play! The Sony PlayStation is introduced in Japan in 1994, and in North America and Europe the following year.
"That tickles!" Tyco introduces Tickle Me Elmo, and it quickly creates a shopping craze due to its scarcity.
The Pokémon Company is created by Satoshi Tajiri.
A new way to roll. The first Razor scooter is distributed by The Sharper Image.
The Cuyahoga Valley Recreation Area is designated as a national park.
University of Akron completes the Landscape for Learning with 22 new buildings and 34 acres of new green space.
Run, Akron, run! The first Akron Marathon brings tens of thousands downtown for what becomes an annual event.
The rebuilt Akron Art Museum opens.
Children's Hospital partners with WKDD 98.1 to hold its first radiothon, called "Have a Heart, Do Your Part." In just three days, it raises $327,000, making it one of the top ten radiothons in the country.
Children's Hospital develops a division of rheumatology to treat and diagnose children with inflammation of joints and muscles and autoimmune diseases, such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, Kawasaki syndrome and lupus.
American College of Surgeons designates Akron Children's Hospital as a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center.
Akron Children's Hospital installs a new digital catheterization lab, only the second such pediatric digital facility in the country.
Akron Children's Hospital, in cooperation with Akron General Medical Center and Summa Health System, establishes the Fetal Treatment Center of Northeast Ohio.
Children's Hospital and Akron General Medical Center form a partnership for specialty newborn care. Under the agreement, Children's leases and operates Akron General's 15-bed special care nursery.
Akron Children's Arrhythmia Center becomes a national leader in using 3-D mapping to eliminate the use of fluoroscopy (x-ray) in cardiac catheter ablation.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes school health services. Akron, Cuyahoga Falls and Hudson are the first clients.
In September, Akron Children's pediatric intensive care unit moves into more spacious quarters in the hospital's north addition. The new 25,200 sq. ft. PICU features 23 private rooms, a family waiting room, bright & airy spaces, & child-friendly art. It also houses a rooftop helipad, hematology-oncology unit & 12-bed burn unit.
In July 2005, Akron Children's Hospital begins offering pediatric outpatient services and after-hours care in Hudson.
Akron Children's school health services launches a pilot telemedicine program with Akron Public Schools, giving doctors and nurses at the hospital the ability to examine students with symptoms of minor ailments.
Children's and Humility of Mary Health Partners acquire Tri-County Child Advocacy Center in Youngstown.
Akron Children's combines orthopedics, sports medicine and sport rehab services under one roof. The 30,000-square-foot center for orthopedics and sports medicine comprises a team of highly trained medical professional and support staff to offer patients a personalized, all-in-one approach to care.
Akron Children's opens $3.5 million office suite in Boardman to house pediatric specialists. The 20,500-square-foot space features 21 exam rooms, including 2 cast rooms for orthopedics, 3 assessment rooms, 3 nursing stations, 2 consultation rooms, EKG and cardiac exercise labs, a pulmonary exercise lab, and a digital radiology suite.
With generous support from the Women's Board, Akron Children's opens the Garden of Hope and Healing in Perkins Square Park. The garden provides patients, their families and hospital staff an outdoor space for reflection, meditation and renewal.
Akron Children's establishes a division of clinical pharmacology and toxicology to provide patients and families with specialized expertise on children's specific medication and poisoning issues.
Akron Children's hematology-oncology program is verified by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer as one of only 14 pediatric teaching hospital cancer programs in the nation.
Akron Children's Hospital opens a sleep center under the direction of Dr. Greg Omlor, who is also the director of pulmonology.
Akron Children's Hospital greatly expands its cardiac services with the opening of its heart center. The center adds pediatric heart surgery, adult congenital heart disease and maternal-fetal cardiology to its list of services.
Thanks to a generous donation from the hospital's Women's Board, Akron Children's opens a skeletal dysplasia center under the direction of its founders, Dr. Dennis Weiner and Dr. Haynes Robinson.
Akron Children's Hospital hires Dr. Grace Smith to start a heart center office in Boardman.
The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer verifies Akron Children's cancer program as one of only 14 pediatric teaching hospital cancer programs in the nation.
Akron Children's Hospital opens the $45 million, 239,400-square-foot Bowery (later named Considine) Professional Building across from the hospital's main entrance. The medical office building houses the heart center, sick child care center, medical education and a conference center that includes a 211-seat auditorium and ten conference rooms.
Children's returns to doing business as Akron Children's Hospital but retains Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron as its legal name.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes the department of maternal-fetal medicine to provide basic and specialty maternal care with advanced fetal diagnosis and treatment.
Akron Children's Hospital completes the $9 million, 27,000-square-foot east addition. It houses an expanded and renovated Kids' Café, 5 new post-anesthesia care unit beds, and 4 new ORs.
Akron Children's Hospital estabalishes a hospitalist program called diagnostic referral services. These in-house physicians manage patient care from admission to discharge.
Akron Children's Hospital enters into an agreement with Humility of Mary Health Partners (HMHP) to establish a hospitalist program at St. Elizabeth's in Youngstown. In addition, Children's creates a 20-bed pediatric unit at HMHP's new Boardman facility.
Akron Children's begins operating the 20-bed neonatal intensive care unit at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown.
After undergoing a rigorous application and evaluation process, Akron Children's is awarded Magnet recognition status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
In December 2008, Akron Children's opens a second hospital in Boardman to serve the patients and families of the Mahoning Valley. The 189,174-square-foot Beeghly campus has 32 inpatient rooms, an ER, and rehabilitation, radiology, lab and other services.
It's a bird, it's a plane... it's Air Bear! Ohio's first medical transport helicopter dedicated to pediatrics arrives at its new home at Akron Children's Hospital.
Akron Children's opens the 10,000-square-foot Ear, Nose and Throat Center.
Scientists release a rough draft of the Human Genome Project to the public.
The first single-port surgery is performed in Cleveland, revolutionizing minimally invasive surgery.
Rumaisa Rahman is born Sept. 19, 2004, at less than 26 week's gestation at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. At 8.6 oz., or lighter than a can of Coke, Rumaisa is the smallest preemie born to live past discharge in the United States.
Stem cell research continues to expand, following the end to the ban on federal funding.
Let's walk & roll! Roger Adams creates Heelys, athletic shoes with wheels in the heels, and they quickly became a pop culture craze among teens.
Kids online, everywhere! Webkinz are released by the Canadian toy company Ganz.
Everyone's favorite waiting game—Angry Birds is released for Apple iPhones.
The four original 10-inch Bratz dolls are released by MGA Entertainment.
Move to play! The interactive Wii home video game console is released by Nintendo.
We are the champions! The University of Akron Men’s Soccer Team wins the NCAA Championship.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company completes its new world headquarters building.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company welcomed Wingfoot Three to the company’s fleet of airships on Aug. 30, 2018.
The Black Keys—Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, a blues-rock duo from Akron, win four Grammy Awards and another four in 2013.
For the fifth time, the Double-A Akron RubberDucks are Eastern League champions.
In September 2010, Akron Children's hires its first language access services coordinator.
Akron Children's opens the Emily Cooper Welty Expressive Therapy Center. The 3,000-square-foot center allows patients to use various forms of art to deal with illness, cope with emotions and find comfort.
Akron Children's is ranked in eight pediatric specialties in the U.S. News and World Report's 2012-2013 Best Children's Hospitals rankings: urology, pulmonology, neonatology, cancer, nephrology, orthopedics, neurology and neurosurgery, and cardiology and heart surgery.
Akron Children's establishes a Parent Advisory Council in Mahoning Valley.
Akron Children’s Hospital, the fastest growing hospital in the country, opened doors to its $180 million Kay Jewelers Pavilion. The 7-story, nearly 370K sq. ft. facility is home to a NICU with 75 private rooms, an emergency department, an expanded outpatient surgery center and the hospital’s first delivery unit for high-risk births.
The American Nurses Credentialing Center re-designates Akron Children’s a Magnet hospital for the 3rd time for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice.
Akron Children's opens the Celeste Myers Dental Clinic to offer complete oral healthcare to children, especially those with special needs.
Akron Children's opens urgent care centers in Hudson, Mansfield and Warren.
1 million served. For the first time in our history, Akron Children's surpasses 1 million outpatient visits.
Time for an upgrade! Akron Children's enhances many areas including the inpatient units in the Centennial Building, the Maynard unit in the Kay Jewelers Pavilion, the Sleep Lab, and the Heart Center’s catheterization lab. It also opens a $4 million interventional radiology suite.
Akron Children's launches centralized scheduling.
In July 2017, Akron Children's opens a new 2-story addition on its Beeghly campus. This $20-million project adds more than 51,000 square feet to Building A, including 47 exam rooms, a welcome center and support testing rooms.
The "Have a Heart, Do Your Part" Radiothon surpasses $10 million in funds raised over 18 years.
Grace Wakulchik assumes the title of president and CEO of Akron Children’s Hospital, as William H. Considine becomes CEO Emeritus.
In August 2018, Akron Children's opens the 230,000-square-foot addition to the Considine Professional Building. The $82-million addition is 8-stories tall and brings together all of our outpatient clinics on the Akron campus.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics opens new offices in Massillon and Liberty.
Akron Children's signs an agreement with MetroHealth to provide pediatric specialty care in the areas of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, gastroenterology, cancer and blood disorders, and critical care.
Akron Children's opens the Kikel Center for Pediatric Surgery at its Beeghly campus in Boardman.
Akron Children's goes live with the Epic electronic medical records system. This $50 million investment makes it possible for the hospital to provide all staff with 24/7 access to the same patient information across the enterprise.
Akron Children's Hospital hires its 5,000th employee.
Akron Children's Hospital opens its first urgent care center at the Akron General Wellness Center in Montrose. The center offers extended hours and lower-cost options for minor medical situations.
Akron Children’s received a 2016 “Most Wired” award, a national benchmark for hospitals with exceptional IT integration.
Akron Children's adds dermatology services at the Akron campus.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics opens new offices in Austintown, Lisbon and Mansfield.
Akron Children's completes a $4.5 million expansion of our behavioral health services inpatient unit in Akron, doubling the number of beds.
Akron Children's Hospital becomes the title beneficiary of the Akron Marathon Race Series. In addition to promoting healthy lifestyles and showcasing our vibrant community, the hospital brought patient heroes to the race experience to inspire runners and spectators alike.
In March 2017, Akron Children's breaks ground on the 230,000-square-foot addition to the Considine Professional Building. The expanded building will offer space to serve more patients and brings outpatient care in Akron together in one location.
Akron Children's invests $8.6 million in a dedicated neurosurgery suite and intraoperative MRI scanner (iMRI) to help improve surgical outcomes for patients.
Akron Children's implements a new leadership structure, separating the functions of chief executive officer (CEO) and president. On July 17, Bill Considine announces that he will continue to serve as CEO while Grace Wakulchik takes on the duties of president.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics and Locust Pediatric Care Group earn Patient-Centered Medical Home certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
Akron Children’s Hospital celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Beeghly campus.
Akron Public Schools and Akron Children's come together to launch the Akron Children’s Hospital Academy of Health and Human Services at North High School. The school offers pathways in healthcare operations, early childhood education, biomedical science and allied health.
A medical marvel. Doctors in Barcelona complete the world’s first full facial transplant.
No mountain high enough! Jordan Romero, 13, becomes the youngest person to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
19-year-old gymnast Simone Biles earns four gold medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, becoming the first American gymnast to accomplish that feat and one of only four women to do so in Olympic history.
Apple unveils the iPad tablet computer. The company's founder, Steve Jobs, calls it, "the best browsing experience you've ever had."
The 13th Doctor has landed! Jodie Whittaker makes her debut as the first female Doctor Who.
Akron Children’s opens Campbell pediatrics practice.
Salem Regional Medical Center’s pediatric primary care offices in Columbiana and Salem will join the Akron Children’s Pediatrics network, bring the number of locations to 44.
Akron Children's opens Outpatient Surgery Center in Beachwood.
Akron Children’s launches breastfeeding medicine program
Pediatric behavioral health centers opened in Canton and Mansfield.
Akron Children’s opens a new Urgent Care and Orthopedic and Sports Injury Walk-in Clinic in Montrose.
New sports medicine facility opens at the University of Akron's Stile Fieldhouse.
High-speed chases get a little more speed. The first-ever horseless police car is used in Akron.
The Akron Day Nursery is renamed Mary Day Nursery in honor of Colonel George Tod Perkins' first granddaughter, Mary Perkins Raymond.
It's like a super power come to life! Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays.
Ice cream cones are invented at the World's Fair by the Menches brothers, who then open Premium Ice Cream Cone and Candy in Akron.
The facility is incorporated as the Mary Day Nursery and Ward for Crippled Children.
The ABO blood group is discovered by Karl Landsteiner at the University of Vienna.
Chocolate for all! Hershey's begins mass-producing milk chocolate bars, making what was once a luxury item for the wealthy affordable to the masses.
The founding of the Flashes! Kent State Universtiy is established as a teacher training school.
Children's Hospital recruits Dr. Walter Hoyt to organize and head its department of orthopedic surgery. He also served as chief of staff from 1919-1923, and in 1928 and 1943.
The Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, later renamed the American Heart Association, is founded.
Juliette Gordon Low founds the Girl Scouts of the United States of America after she met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, in 1911.
The American Hospital Association accredits Akron Children's Hospital for the first time.
A Disney Debut. Mickey and Minnie Mouse make their debut in Steamboat Willie.
Roadway Express is founded by brothers Galen and Carroll Roush in Akron, and the city becomes a national trucking hub.
Children's Hospital's Luetic Clinic, led by Drs. Myrl M. Miller and Carl E. Krill, Sr., is considered one of the best in the country.
The sulfa drug, Prontosil, wins wide publicity in the United States when it is used to treat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s son, who was severely ill from a streptococcic infection.
Built with the support of the Works Progress Administration, the Akron Rubber Bowl opens.
Akron Children's is pushed beyond its capacity with 415 polio cases. Acute cases are kept at Children's while less severe cases are housed next door at the Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church.
Play ball little ones! The National Little League Tournament is first held in 1947 at South Williamsport, PA. It was later renamed the Little League Baseball World Series.
A building fund drive for Children's Hospital raises $2.3 million to add 5 new floors and surgery facilities, as well as establish a new radiology department.
The molecular structure of DNA is first identified by James Watson and Francis Crick.
So many stores under one roof! Summit Mall opens, giving shoppers one convenient place for everything they need.
Children's Hospital establishes the Employee Foundation, which raises funds to help charitable agencies in the community and provide scholarships.
"Can you tell me how to get to…" Sesame Street airs for the first time on public broadcasting stations on Nov. 10.
The musical group DEVO emerges from Akron. Their biggest hit, "Whip It," would debut 3 years later.
The hospital changes its name from Akron Children's Hospital to Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron to reflect the broad scope of services offered.
Garden takeover! Art student Xavier Roberts creates Cabbage Patch Dolls, one of the first fad toys of the 1980s.
Archbishop Hoban High School graduate Butch Reynolds wins the silver medal in the 400-meter dash during the 1988 Olympics.
Stark and Summit County firefighters start ACBC (Aluminum Cans for Burned Children) to collect and recycle aluminum cans to raise money to help Children's Hospital burn victims.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, commonly referred to as an MRI, is used for the first time to obtain clinically valuable scans of a patient.
Turtle Power! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are born in the pages of a Mirage Studios comic book before expanding into a cartoon series, films, video games and toys.
Children's Hospital's Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford R. Boeckman performs the first pediatric laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery in the U.S.
"That tickles!" Tyco introduces Tickle Me Elmo, and it quickly creates a shopping craze due to its scarcity.
University of Akron completes the Landscape for Learning with 22 new buildings and 34 acres of new green space.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes school health services. Akron, Cuyahoga Falls and Hudson are the first clients.
Stem cell research continues to expand, following the end to the ban on federal funding.
Let's walk & roll! Roger Adams creates Heelys, athletic shoes with wheels in the heels, and they quickly became a pop culture craze among teens.
The Black Keys—Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, a blues-rock duo from Akron, win four Grammy Awards and another four in 2013.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics and Locust Pediatric Care Group earn Patient-Centered Medical Home certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
A medical marvel. Doctors in Barcelona complete the world’s first full facial transplant.
The 13th Doctor has landed! Jodie Whittaker makes her debut as the first female Doctor Who.
Two circles of The Daughters of the King—The Heart and Hand Circle at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and The Wayside Circle at First Congregational—establish a day nursery to care for the children of working women.
It's like a super power come to life! Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays.
Felix Hoffman develops aspirin.
The first unofficial world ping-pong championship gets paddled into history.
A rainbow of fun! Noticing a need for safe and affordable wax crayons, Binney & Smith produces the first box of 8 Crayola crayons, featuring red, orange, yellow, green, violet, brown and black sticks.
Harvey Firestone makes a deal to supply tires for cars produced by Henry Ford.
A bronze tablet is installed as a tribute to Colonel George Tod Perkins. It features a della Robbia "bambino," with the Latin inscription: "Fides, Spes, Charitas" or "Faith, Hope, Charity."
The Great Flood of 1913 causes one of the most widespread disasters in our nation's history, bringing an end to the Ohio and Erie Canal.
Raggedy Ann is created by Johnny Gruelle to entertain his daughter. He later creates stories based on the doll.
Oh bother! A. A. Milne publishes his first collection of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh.
A happy accident! Penicillin is discovered by Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming.
The All-American Soap Box Derby finds its home in Akron.
Up, up and away! Superman, created by Clevelanders, debuts in Action Comics #1.
Roger Sherman becomes the president of Children's Hospital, a post he holds until 1979.
The monthly children's magazine "Highlights" is published and features puzzles, jokes, crafts, articles and silly stories.
Tile floors become racetracks as the first Matchbox cars are introduced.
Medical history! After years of research, American medical researcher and virologist Jonas Salk develops the first safe and effective polio vaccine.
Pinkie the Puppet, a small hand puppet given to every inpatient under the age of 12, is introduced and funded by the Friends of Children’s Hospital.
Akron Children's Hospital jumps into the computer age with help from IBM. Children's is the nation's pilot facility for the program later known as HIS, Hospital Information System.
"Can you tell me how to get to…" Sesame Street airs for the first time on public broadcasting stations on Nov. 10.
Akron Children's Hospital is the first to grow human skin in the lab. Drs. Howard J. Igel, Clifford Boeckman and Aaron Freeman collaborated in this effort that revolutionized burn treatment.
Less itching! The first vaccine is developed for chickenpox.
Getting stitched up. Children's Hospital begins one of the first suture programs in the country.
The world's first successful "test-tube" baby is born in Great Britain on July 25.
At the age of 32, William H. Considine is named president of Children's Hospital.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, commonly referred to as an MRI, is used for the first time to obtain clinically valuable scans of a patient.
Children's Hospital Chief of Surgery Dr. Clifford Boeckman performs the first bowel-lengthening surgery. This procedure becomes the standard of care in the U.S., Canada and England.
On your mark, get set, RUN! Children's Hospital's Employee Foundation launches the Kids Are #1 Run to benefit special projects at the hospital and in the community.
Turtle Power! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are born in the pages of a Mirage Studios comic book before expanding into a cartoon series, films, video games and toys.
The Ronald McDonald House of Akron opens, providing a "home away from home" for patients' families. The 17,000-square-foot house has 20 bedrooms.
AZT, known as azidothymidine, is the first drug approved for the treatment of AIDS.
8 new stories! The Centennial Renovation Project is completed, adding 250,000 square feet, new ORs, a new ER and more.
Children's Hospital Physician Associates, now called Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics, opens its first office in Fairlawn, followed closely by a Twinsburg office.
Dolly doubles! A sheep is the first mammal to be cloned.
Petie the Pony begins making bedside visits to hospital patients. Petie is accompanied by staff from Victory Gallop Farm. It is the first and only horse to visit a hospital.
A new way to roll. The first Razor scooter is distributed by The Sharper Image.
Scientists release a rough draft of the Human Genome Project to the public.
Thanks to a generous donation from the hospital's Women's Board, Akron Children's opens a skeletal dysplasia center under the direction of its founders, Dr. Dennis Weiner and Dr. Haynes Robinson.
Run, Akron, run! The first Akron Marathon brings tens of thousands downtown for what becomes an annual event.
Akron Children's Hospital establishes school health services. Akron, Cuyahoga Falls and Hudson are the first clients.
Apple unveils the iPad tablet computer. The company's founder, Steve Jobs, calls it, "the best browsing experience you've ever had."
We are the champions! The University of Akron Men’s Soccer Team wins the NCAA Championship.
The Black Keys—Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, a blues-rock duo from Akron, win four Grammy Awards and another four in 2013.
Akron Children’s Hospital, the fastest growing hospital in the country, opened doors to its $180 million Kay Jewelers Pavilion. The 7-story, nearly 370K sq. ft. facility is home to a NICU with 75 private rooms, an emergency department, an expanded outpatient surgery center and the hospital’s first delivery unit for high-risk births.
For the first time in our history, Akron Children's surpasses 1 million outpatient visits.
Akron Children's Hospital becomes the title beneficiary of the Akron Marathon Race Series.
Grace Wakulchik assumes the title of president and CEO of Akron Children’s Hospital, as William H. Considine becomes CEO Emeritus.
In August 2018, Akron Children's opens the 230,000-square-foot addition to the Considine Professional Building.