Historik bojových sportů a bojový umělec
Posts about miscellaneous history.
Ledna 7, 1903, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond married 24-year-old Hannah McLaughlin in a ceremony he hoped to keep secret. The 46-year-old Desmond always said he would never marry due to the dangers of his job. Však, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. V březnu 1897, St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an
A 122-year-old brick house dominates the street scene at the corner of Whittier Street and Cook Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. Builders erected the 2378 square foot house in 1892. Jeho unikátní architektura zahrnuje věžový balkon ve druhém patře severovýchodní stěny. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. Dnes, 4200 Cook je
Září 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Louis’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. St. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Louis’ South
V pátek, Říjen 14, and Saturday, Říjen 15, 1904, 42 wrestlers in 7 weight classes met in the first Olympic Games contested in the freestyle wrestling method. Prior Olympic Games were contested in the Greco-Roman style of wrestling. The 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Kate Chopin, dcera prominentního francouzského rodiny a v době, kdy místní autora, zhroutil na St. Louis 1904 Světová výstava srpna 20, 1904. Madame Chopin byl jen 54 let a utrpěl krvácení do mozku nebo aneurysma. Zemřela ve svém domě na McPherson Avenue srpna 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Oliver Leonard Kirk má vyznamenání za bytí jediný olympijský boxer vyhrát zlatou medaili ve dvou různých váhových třídách ve stejných olympijských hrách. Oliver Kirk vykonal tento čin v jeho rodném městě olympijských her v 1904. St. Louis hostil třetí olympiádu v průběhu 1904 Světová výstava Expozice. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Září 21, 1897, Joseph Bloomfield Jackson attempted to sneak into the White House armed with a loaded revolver. Jackson had boasted of plans to attack a high government official for days. Jackson was arrested before he could carry out his plans to attack President McKinley. Police quickly realized Jackson was mentally disturbed. Poslali ho do washingtonského azylu
Theodore Roosevelt udělal osudové rozhodnutí v den voleb 1904. Oznámil poté, co byl zvolen do předsednictví v jeho vlastní pravý poté, co vzestupně do kanceláře na vraždě William McKinley, že nebude kandidovat na další funkční období v 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.
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 “Kopnutí” v St. Louis during the 1904 Světová výstava. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 v Chicagu,
V sobotu, Březen 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran a detektivové