July 8, 2000
The Sporting News named St. Louis the best sports city in America. Read the original story here.
July 7, 1879
Missouri lost a great treasure on this day. Artist George Caleb Bingham died in Kansas City.
July 3, 1869
The Burlington Bridge at Kansas City, also called the Hannibal Bridge, was completed. It was the first bridge ever built across the Missouri River.
July 4, 1863
About ten thousand people gathered for an Independence celebration and to see a balloon ascension in St. Louis. Southern sympathizers in the crowd clashed with Union Soldiers and several people were shot, two died.
July 2, 2002
Adventurer, Steve Fossett, traveled non-stop around the world in fourteen days in his hot air balloon.