Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Posts about miscellaneous history.
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 jaren, 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” in St. Louis during the 1904 Fair World's. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
Kate Chopin, daughter of a prominent French family and at the time local author, collapsed at the St. Louis 1904 World’s Fair on August 20, 1904. Madame Chopin was only 54 years old and suffered a brain hemorrhage or aneurism. She died at her home on McPherson Avenue on August 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Op augustus 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, de
Oliver Leonard Kirk heeft het onderscheid van het zijn de enige Olympische bokser om een gouden medaille te winnen in twee verschillende gewichtsklassen in dezelfde Olympische Spelen. Oliver Kirk bereikte dit resultaat in zijn geboortestad Olympische Spelen in 1904. St. Louis gastheer van de derde Olympiade tijdens de 1904 World's Fair Exposition. 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. Voor de jaren, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Op woensdag, November 26, 1902, 110 paren aangekomen bij het St. Louis Marriage License Bureau officieel om te trouwen op Thanksgiving. De 110 koppels brak het vorige record set in 1901. Dit record zou ook alleen maar staan voor een jaar, totdat 1903. Beginnend bij 9 a.m. en doorgaat tot 5 p.m., Recorder Hahn issued license after license as three ministers
In het begin van maart 1873, Bare Knuckle bokser Ned “The Irish Giant” O'Baldwin bereidde zich voor op een mogelijke match met Jem Mace, die de Wereld Bare Knuckle prizefighting Championship beweerde. Echter, voordat O'Baldwin kunnen worden geconfronteerd met Mace, Hij diende als een tweede voor een vriend en collega-bokser noemde Hicken. Professionele gevechten genoten in de 19e eeuw buiten een slechte reputatie
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. Echter, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
Als het gaat om de machine de politiek en de georganiseerde misdaad, Kansas City heeft altijd overtroffen St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City was ook de thuishaven van een aantal high-profile gangland schietpartijen. St. Louis’ laatste georganiseerde misdaad leider werd gearresteerd voor speelkaarten. We did have a Democratic party political machine around