Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about miscellaneous history.
Janúar 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. Þó, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. Í mars 1897, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an
A 122-ára gamall múrsteinn hús drottnar götu vettvangur á horni Whittier Street og Cook Avenue í St. Louis, Missouri. Smiðirnir reist á 2378 fermetra fæti hús í 1892. Its unique architecture includes a turret balcony on the second floor of the northeast wall. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. Í dag, 4200 Cook is
Á 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. The 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
Á föstudaginn, Október 14, og laugardagur, Október 15, 1904, 42 wrestlers í 7 þyngd flokkar mætt á fyrstu Olympic Games umdeildu í skriðsund Glíma aðferð. Áður Olympic Games voru mótmælt í Greco-Roman stíl glímu. The 1904 Sumarólympíuleikarnir var haldinn í tengslum við að 1904 Heimsins Fair í St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Kate Chopin, dóttir áberandi franska fjölskyldu og á þeim tíma sveitarstjórn, hrundi á St. Louis 1904 Heimsins Fair ágúst 20, 1904. Madame Chopin var aðeins 54 ára og þola heila blæðingar eða aneurism. Hún lést á heimili sínu á McPherson Avenue á ágúst 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Oliver Leonard Kirk has the distinction of being the only Olympic boxer to win a gold medal in two separate weight classes in the same Olympic Games. Oliver Kirk accomplished this feat at his hometown Olympics in 1904. St. Louis hosted the third Olympiad during the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Á 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. Þeir sendu hann á hæli í Washington
Theodore Roosevelt gerði örlagaríka ákvörðun um kjördag 1904. Hann tilkynnti eftir að hafa verið kjörinn til formennsku í eigin rétti sínum eftir stíg upp til skrifstofu á morðið á William McKinley að hann myndi ekki hlaupa fyrir annað orð í 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 “Hakk” í St. Louis during the 1904 Fair heims. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 í Chicago,
Á laugardag, Mars 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 and the detectives