What event marked the opening of the Sesquicentennial Exposition in 1926 in Philadelphia?
A boxing match between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey was staged in a stadium built for the Sesquicentennial. This stadium, first called Municipal and then later J.F.K., was at the time it was built the largest in the U.S.. It was torn down in the 1990s. Source: Fairmount Park, a History and Guidebook, 1974, p.39, Esther M. Klein, 917.
