October 14, 1886
The Buffalo Reflex reported that, "The Kansas prodigals continue to return to old Dallas (County) thoroughly disgusted with that windy and grasshopper country."
October 12, 1837
The steamboat Chariton—which previously sank at the mouth of the Gasconade and was raised, sank at Independence and was raised, blew her boiler in St. Louis killing twelve and was repaired—sank in Euphrasie Bend near Glasgow on this date.
October 7, 1817
The second steamboat to ever be in St. Louis arrived on this date. It was the steamboat Constitution.
September 20, 1948
Three policemen and one bystander were killed in what came to be known as Kansas City’s Paseo Massacre.
September 17, 2010
Ernest Pullen won a lottery prize of $2 million dollars on "Mega MONOPOLY" lottery ticket. Just a few months earlier, in June, he won $1 million on a "100 Million Dollar Blockbuster" ticket.
August 3, 1839
The Missouri Whig and General Advertiser, a newspaper in Palmyra, was first printed on this day. The newspaper still operates in Palmyra (now known as the Palmyra Spectator) and is the oldest Missouri newspaper in continuous operation.
July 30, 1877
Days after the conclusion of the St. Louis general strike by the St. Louis Workingman's Party, the first general strike in the United States, the St. Louis County Council required all able-bodied males between the ages of twenty-one and fifty to work on the roads for six days each year. That day they also made another change; they raised the drinking age from sixteen to eighteen.