Historyk sportów walki i artysta sztuk walki
Posts about miscellaneous history.
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 lat, 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 “Siekać” w St. Louis during the 1904 Targi na świecie. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
Kate Chopin, Córka wybitnego francuskiego rodziny i na czas lokalny autora, upadł na St. Louis 1904 Świecie targach sierpnia 20, 1904. Madame Chopin był tylko 54 lat i doznał krwotoku mózgu lub tętniaka. Zmarła w swoim domu na Alei sierpnia McPherson 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Na sierpień 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. W 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. W 1847, the
Oliver Leonard Kirk ma rozróżnienie jest jedynym bokserem Olympic wygrać złoty medal w dwóch oddzielnych kategoriach wagowych w tych samych igrzyskach olimpijskich. Oliver Kirk osiągnąć ten wyczyn na Igrzyskach Olimpijskich w jego rodzinnym mieście 1904. St. Louis gospodarzem Olimpiady w trakcie trzeciego 1904 Wystawa Wystawa Światowa. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Września 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. Przez lata, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
W środę, Listopad 26, 1902, 110 pary przybył na St. Biuro Licencja Louis Małżeństwo zostać oficjalnie poślubił w Święto Dziękczynienia. The 110 pary pobił rekord w poprzedniego zestawu 1901. Ten rekord również stać tylko na jeden rok, do 1903. Począwszy od 9 a.m. i kontynuuje aż do 5 po południu, 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. Jednak, 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. Jednak, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
Jeśli chodzi o politykę maszyn i przestępczością zorganizowaną, Kansas City zawsze przyćmił St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City był także domem dla wielu głośnych strzelanin Gangland. St. Louis’ ostatni przywódca przestępczości zorganizowanej został aresztowany za karty do gry. We did have a Democratic party political machine around