Taisteluurheiluhistorioitsija ja kamppailutaiteilija
Posts about miscellaneous history.
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 vuotta, 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 “Hakata” St. Louis during the 1904 Maailmannäyttely. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Ludvig, the match would not occur until 1908 Chicago,
Kate Chopin, tytär merkittävä ranskalainen perhe ja tuolloin paikallinen kirjailija, romahti St. Ludvig 1904 Maailmannäyttely August 20, 1904. Madame Chopin oli vain 54 vuotias ja kärsi aivoverenvuotoon tai aneurism. Hän kuoli kotonaan on McPherson Avenue August 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. Sisään 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Ludvig. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. Sisään 1847, the
Oliver Leonard Kirk on kunnia olla ainoa Olympic nyrkkeilijä voittaa kultamitalin kahdessa eri painoluokassa samassa olympialaisiin. Oliver Kirk tämän urotyön hänen kotikaupungissaan olympialaisissa 1904. St. Louis isännöi kolmannen olympiadin aikana 1904 Maailmannäyttely Expo. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Syyskuun 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. Vuosia, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Keskiviikkona, Marraskuu 26, 1902, 110 couples arrived at the St. Louis Marriage License Bureau to be officially married on Thanksgiving. The 110 couples broke the previous record set in 1901. This record would also only stand for one year until 1903. Beginning at 9 a.m. and continuing until 5 iltapäivällä, 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. Kuitenkin, 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. Kuitenkin, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt valitsi sotaministerin ja entisen Phillipinesin kuvernöörin
Kun se tulee koneen politiikan ja järjestäytyneen rikollisuuden, Kansas City on aina loisti St. Ludvig. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City oli myös useita korkean profiilin gangland ampumista. St. Ludvig’ viime järjestäytyneen rikollisuuden johtaja pidätettiin pelikortit. We did have a Democratic party political machine around