Historik bojových sportů a bojový umělec
Posts about miscellaneous history.
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 let, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley “The Michigan Assassin” Ketchel was exhausted. Ketchel took a vacation on the Missouri ranch of his friend Colonel R. P. Dickerson in an attempt to regain his strength and enthusiasm for fighting. Ketchel never returned from vacation as he was shot and killed at
Frank Gotch took the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Tom Jenkins in December 1903. Gotch intended on following up this triumph with a match for World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from George Hackenschmidt. Gotch wanted to meet “Kopnutí” v St. Louis during the 1904 Světová výstava. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 v Chicagu,
Kate Chopin, dcera prominentního francouzského rodiny a v době, kdy místní autora, zhroutil na St. Louis 1904 Světová výstava srpna 20, 1904. Madame Chopin byl jen 54 let a utrpěl krvácení do mozku nebo aneurysma. Zemřela ve svém domě na McPherson Avenue srpna 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Srpna 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. V 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. V 1847, the
Oliver Leonard Kirk má vyznamenání za bytí jediný olympijský boxer vyhrát zlatou medaili ve dvou různých váhových třídách ve stejných olympijských hrách. Oliver Kirk vykonal tento čin v jeho rodném městě olympijských her v 1904. St. Louis hostil třetí olympiádu v průběhu 1904 Světová výstava Expozice. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Září 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. Po celá léta, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Ve středu, Listopad 26, 1902, 110 páry dorazil na St. Louis Manželství License předsednictvo, aby se oficiálně ženatý na Den díkůvzdání. The 110 páry zlomil předchozí rekord z roku 1901. Tento záznam by se také stát pouze na jeden rok až do 1903. Začátek v 9 a.m. a pokračuje až do 5 odpoledne, Recorder Hahn issued license after license as three ministers
In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. Však, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Professional fighting in the 19th Century enjoyed a poor reputation outside of
After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Však, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
Pokud jde o obráběcí politiky a organizovaného zločinu, Kansas City se vždy zastínil St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City byl také domov pro několik vysoce postavených gangsterských přestřelek. St. Louis’ poslední vůdce organizovaného zločinu byl zatčen za hrací karty. We did have a Democratic party political machine around