July 30, 1890
Baseball Hall of Famer, Casey Stengel was born in Kansas City. His nickname “Casey” came from the initials of his home town, K. C.
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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.