格鬥運動史學家和武術家
Posts about miscellaneous history.
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 歲月, 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 “哈克” 在聖. Louis during the 1904 世界博覽會. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. 路易, the match would not occur until 1908 在芝加哥,
凱特·肖邦, 一個突出的法國家庭和當時當地作家的女兒, 在聖倒塌. 路易 1904 世界博覽會於八月 20, 1904. 杜莎夫人肖邦是唯一 54 歲，遭受了腦出血或動脈瘤. 她在她的家在麥弗遜大道死了8月 22, 1904. 凱特·肖邦出生凱特奧弗萊厄蒂在聖.
八月 17, 1891, 聖. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. 在 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. 路易. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. 在 1847, 在
奧利弗·倫納德·柯克具有作為唯一的奧運拳擊手贏得一枚金牌在兩個不同的重量等級在同奧運會的區別. 奧利弗·柯克完成了這一壯舉在他的家鄉在奧運會 1904. 聖. 路易主辦的第三屆奧運會期間 1904 世界博覽會博覽會. Like the Paris Games four years before, 聖. Louis gave
在9月 15, 1919, 聖. 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. 多年來，, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
週三, 十一月 26, 1902, 110 夫婦抵達聖. 路易斯結婚證局在感恩節正式結婚. 該 110 夫婦打破了以往的記錄集 1901. 這一紀錄也只能站在一年，直到 1903. 在開始 9 比前收市價. 並一直持續到 5 下午, 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. 然而, 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. 然而, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
當涉及到機器的政治和有組織犯罪, 堪薩斯城一直相形見絀聖. 路易. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. 堪薩斯城也有幾家高調黑幫槍擊. 聖. 路易’ 最後有組織犯罪的領導者打牌被抓. We did have a Democratic party political machine around