Mwanahistoria wa Michezo ya Vita na Msanii wa Vita
Posts about miscellaneous history.
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 miaka, 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” katika St. Louis during the 1904 Dunia Fair. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
Kate Chopin, binti maarufu wa familia Kifaransa na wakati mwandishi wa ndani, kuanguka katika St. Louis 1904 Dunia Fair Agosti 20, 1904. Madame Chopin mara tu 54 umri wa miaka na mateso ubongo kutokwa na damu nyingi au aneurism. Alifariki nyumbani kwake juu ya McPherson Avenue Agosti 22, 1904. Kate Chopin alizaliwa Kate O'Flaherty katika St.
Juu ya Agosti 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, the
Oliver Leonard Kirk kinaweza kuwa tu ya Olimpiki boxer kushinda medali ya dhahabu katika mbili tofauti madarasa uzito katika huo Michezo ya Olimpiki. Oliver Kirk yametimia feat hii katika mji wake michezo ya Olimpiki katika 1904. St. Louis mwenyeji Olympiad ya tatu wakati wa 1904 Dunia Fair Ufafanuzi. Kama Michezo Paris miaka minne kabla ya, 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. Kwa miaka, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Siku ya Jumatano, Novemba 26, 1902, 110 wanandoa aliwasili katika St. Louis Ndoa Ofisi ya Leseni ya rasmi ndoa juu ya Shukrani. The 110 wanandoa kuvunja kuweka rekodi ya awali katika 1901. Rekodi hii pia kusimama tu kwa mwaka mmoja mpaka 1903. Kuanzia saa 9 a.m. na kuendelea hadi 5 vilket, 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. Hata hivyo, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Professional mapigano katika karne ya 19 walifurahia sifa mbaya nje ya
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. Hata hivyo, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
Linapokuja suala la siasa mashine na uhalifu wa kupangwa, Kansas City daima outshone St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City ilikuwa pia ni nyumbani kwa high-profile gangland shootings kadhaa. St. Louis’ mwisho kiongozi wahalifu alikamatwa kwa ajili ya kucheza kadi. We did have a Democratic party political machine around