Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Posts about miscellaneous history.
Am January 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. Jedoch, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, die 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. Zu seiner einzigartigen Architektur gehört ein Turmbalkon im zweiten Stock der Nordostwand. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. Heute, 4200 Koch ist
On September 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. Die 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
Am Freitag,, Oktober 14, and Saturday, Oktober 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. Die 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, Tochter eines prominenten Französisch Familie und zu der Zeit lokale Autor, an der St zusammengebrochen. Louis 1904 Weltausstellung August 20, 1904. Madame Chopin war nur 54 Jahre alt und erlitt eine Gehirnblutung oder Aneurysma. Sie starb in ihrem Haus auf McPherson Avenue August 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Oliver Leonard Kirk hat die Unterscheidung des Seins der einzige Olympia-Boxer eine Goldmedaille in zwei Gewichtsklassen in den gleichen Olympischen Spielen. Oliver Kirk diese Leistung in seiner Heimatstadt Olympischen Spiele in 1904. St. Louis Gastgeber des dritten Olympiade während der 1904 Weltausstellung Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
On September 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. They sent him to a Washington asylum
Theodore Roosevelt machte eine schicksalhafte Entscheidung am Wahltag 1904. Er kündigte an, nachdem sie auf die Präsidentschaft in seinem eigenen Recht nach dem Aufstieg in das Büro von der Ermordung von William McKinley gewählt, dass er nicht für eine weitere Amtszeit in laufen 1908. Roosevelt hatte fast eine volle Amtszeit vor seiner Wahl diente als McKinley wurde im September ermordet 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 “Hack” in St. Louis during the 1904 Weltausstellung. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
Am Samstag,, März 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 und die Detectives