July 16, 1862
Missouri History Today is a regular online feature of Missouri Life magazine to chronicle Show-Me State history.
July 14, 1954
This was the hottest day in Missouri history. The temperature reached 118 degrees Fahrenheit in Warsaw and Union—towns 160 miles apart.
July 12, 1963
The Parkway Theaters in the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in Kansas City was the first known complex to have multiple theaters at one location.
July 10, 1945
Kansas City Royals star Hal McRae was born on this date. He defined the position of designated hitter.
July 8, 1919
On this date in history, Mickey Carroll, one of the most beloved of all the Munchkins in the “Wizard of Oz," was born in St. Louis.
July 7, 1928
A giant step forward in the baking industry put Missouri on the culinary map, as the Chillicothe Baking Company sold sliced bread for the very first time.
July 5, 1879
Dwight Davis was a man who got things done, not just a star tennis player and the namesake of the Davis Cup.
Fifty Years Later, the Legend of Mo Mo Lives On
Are the woodland critters and birds announcing the arrival of a man at the edge of their briar-laden haven? Or is there something else in those woods, perhaps something that resembles the something that set this town on edge and hatched an international news sensation 50 years ago?