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On September 15, 1887, a muscular man stood in the First District Police Court listening to Judge Cady. As he looked out between eyes almost swollen shut and a busted lip, he waited to see if justice would be done. It was as Judge Cady told the beaten man, “$10 fine for disturbing the peace. $100 for resisting arrest. Chi
Ar Dachwedd 30, 1910, Daeth adroddiadau o Loegr fod cyn Pwysau Trwm y Byd Prizefighting Pencampwr Jem Mace wedi marw yn 79 mlwydd oed. Roedd Mace bencampwr byd o 1860 i 1862 ac eto o 1866 i 1876. Ar ôl reportedly ennill miliwn o ddoleri mewn gyrfa sy'n rhychwantu 1857 i 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest
On September 15, 1919, St. Louis citizens woke up to read about the death of one of their oldest citizens, Alexander Baptiste. Just a few months before his 101st or 102nd birthday depending on which source you believed, Alexander Baptiste passed away from intestinal disease. Ar gyfer blynyddoedd, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
“Terrible” Terry McGovern proved to be a rare fighter at the turn of the Twentieth Century. While smaller boxers packed no power in their punches, McGovern, who scaled between 110 a 126 bunnoedd, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. Ar Orffennaf 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at
On August 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis met the British Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in Judo. O leiaf dyna oeddwn i'n ei feddwl yn wreiddiol ac mae'r rhan fwyaf o haneswyr wedi'i ddyfynnu. Modern
Cefnder cyntaf fy nhaid, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, oedd un o St. Louis’ arloeswyr awyrennau. Julius, yr hwn a adnabyddid yn y teulu fel “Punks”, ymunodd â'r Gwarchodlu Cenedlaethol Awyr yng nghanol y 1920au. Byddai'n cael ei gomisiynu fel Is-gapten. Hedfanodd Julius awyrennau ar gyfer y corfflu awyr milwrol a sifil. Y rhan fwyaf o'r dynion yn ei uned, oedd yn cynnwys Charles
Yn ystod wythnos olaf mis Rhagfyr 1902, William Rudolph, glöwr newydd ddychwelyd i Franklin Sir, a George Collins robbed y Banc Undeb yn Undeb, MO. Maent yn dwyn dros nos, pan nad oes unrhyw un yn bresennol trwy chwythu i fyny 'r yn ddiogel. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
Er bod ychydig o actorion yn chwarae Charlie Chan cyn Warner Oland ac ychydig portreadu Arolygydd Chan ar ôl Roland Winters, prif gorff o Earl Derr Biggers’ Digwyddodd addasiadau ffilm Charlie Chan rhwng 1931 i 1949. Dechreuodd Warner Oland Charlie Chan yn chwarae yn The Camel Black (1931). Ar ôl ei farwolaeth, Sidney Toler started playing the role of Charlie Chan in the
On February 10, 1897, 60-year-old William H. Stewart, a civil engineer, died in St. Louis City Hospital. Stewart passed away from a morphine overdose. St. Louis Police originally thought it was a case of suicide or accidental overdose. Stewart lived with his son-in-law F.C. Bennett at 2634 Dickson Street. Mr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. As part of the Russian Empire at the time, Estonia contained a number of elementary and high schools with superior physical education programs. Lurich and Hackenschmidt both started out as weightlifters and transitioned into