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Posts about miscellaneous history.
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 año, 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 “Hachazo” en St. Louis during the 1904 Feria Mundial. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
Kate Chopin, hija de una prominente familia francesa y en el momento en el autor local, derrumbado en el St.. Louis 1904 Feria Mundial en agosto 20, 1904. Madame Chopin sólo era 54 años y sufrió una hemorragia cerebral o aneurisma. Murió en su casa en la avenida McPherson en agosto 22, 1904. Kate Chopin nació Kate O'Flaherty en St.
En agosto 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. In 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. In 1847, la
Oliver Leonard Kirk tiene la distinción de ser el único boxeador olímpico en ganar una medalla de oro en dos categorías de peso diferentes en los mismos Juegos Olímpicos. Oliver Kirk logró esta hazaña en su ciudad natal en los Juegos Olímpicos 1904. St. Louis hosted the third Olympiad during the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
En septiembre 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. Por años, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
El miércoles, Noviembre 26, 1902, 110 parejas llegaron al St. Oficina de Licencias de Matrimonio Louis se casó oficialmente en Acción de Gracias. La 110 parejas rompieron el récord anterior establecido en 1901. Este registro sería también sólo reposar durante un año hasta 1903. A partir de las 9 a.m. y continuando hasta 5 p.m., 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. Sin embargo, 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. Sin embargo, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
Cuando se trata de la maquinaria política y el crimen organizado, Kansas City siempre ha eclipsado St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City también fue el hogar de varios tiroteos entre bandas de alto perfil. St. Louis’ último líder del crimen organizado fue detenido por jugar a las cartas. We did have a Democratic party political machine around