Ιστορικός Μάχης και Πολεμικός Καλλιτέχνης
Posts about miscellaneous history.
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 χρόνια, 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 “Hack” στο St. Louis during the 1904 Παγκόσμια Έκθεση. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
Kate Chopin, Η κόρη ενός εξέχοντος γαλλική οικογένεια και την τοπική ώρα συγγραφέα, κατέρρευσε στο St. Louis 1904 Παγκόσμια Έκθεση Αυγούστου 20, 1904. Madame Chopin ήταν μόνο 54 ετών και υπέστη εγκεφαλική αιμορραγία ή ανεύρυσμα. Πέθανε στο σπίτι της στη Λεωφόρο McPherson τον Αύγουστο 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
On August 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. Σε 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. Σε 1847, ο
Oliver Leonard Kirk έχει τη διάκριση της ύπαρξης το μόνο ολυμπιακό μπόξερ για να κερδίσει ένα χρυσό μετάλλιο σε δύο διαφορετικές κατηγορίες βάρους στους ίδιους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες. Oliver Kirk καταφέρει αυτόν τον άθλο γενέτειρά του Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες στο 1904. St. Louis φιλοξένησε την τρίτη Ολυμπιάδα κατά τη διάρκεια της 1904 Κόσμο Fair Έκθεση. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
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. Για χρόνια, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Την Τετάρτη, Νοέμβριος 26, 1902, 110 couples arrived at the St. Louis Marriage License Bureau to be officially married on Thanksgiving. Ο 110 couples broke the previous record set in 1901. This record would also only stand for one year until 1903. Beginning at 9 π.μ. and continuing until 5 μ.μ., 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. Ωστόσο, 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. Ωστόσο, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
Όταν πρόκειται για την πολιτική της μηχανής και του οργανωμένου εγκλήματος, Κάνσας Σίτι έχει επισκίασε πάντα St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City ήταν επίσης το σπίτι σε διάφορες υψηλού προφίλ πυροβολισμοί συμμοριών. St. Louis’ τελευταίου ηγέτη του οργανωμένου εγκλήματος συνελήφθη για χαρτιά. We did have a Democratic party political machine around